Wright McLemore, Jr.

Notes:

James McLemore, III writes that he did not appear to have any family.,

I have in my notes, unsourced, a reference to a deed between MACLEMORE, Wright Grantee p 413 of Book 4 Anthony RITCHIE to Wright MACLAMORE 19 Feb 1770 50 pounds for 150 acres. Later in the year, he sold land to James TINKER, as detailed below.

Abstract of Deed Sampson County Deed Books Book 4, Page 422

WRIGHT McLAMORE to James TINKER 150 acres

Wright MACLAMORE of Duplin County a province of North Carolina for and in consideration of the sum of One Hundred Pounds by James TINKER of the County and province aforesaid....do convey....unto the said James TINKER...one certain tract of land and plantation lying and being in the county and province aforesaid on the west side of great Cohary...containing one hundred and fifty acres of land by estimation....being apart of a tract of land granted to William MAGU...

In witness whereof I the said Wright MACLAMORE...hereunto set my hand and fixed my seal this seventeenth day of July in the year of Our Lord Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy 1770

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Nathan HALL and Richard CASWELL

Wright (his mark) McLAMORE, North Carolina

Duplin County registered at the Registers Office of the aforesaid County in....Folio 432 and 433 this twenty eight day of November anno domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy one 1771....Thomas BLAKE Register in and for the said County

(Abstracted from the original by Melinda McLemore Strong on 26 May 2005)

This deed is ASSUMED to involve Wright McLemore, Jr, as Mark Freeman indicates that his father, Wright, died in 1766, prior to the execution of the above referenced deed

Is this the Wright (unmarried) who was listed in the Salisbury District of Surry County, NC at the time of the 1790 census? The listing was for 1 male, over 16.

Robert McLemore Butler states that a Wright McLemore married a Sarah RANSOME on 17 May 1795 in Sampson County, North Carolina. It is not known with certainty which of the several Wright McLemore's that were contempories was the groom. If this is his marriage record, he would have been in his 60's. However this marriage is also listed, on Ancestry.com as "McLemore, Wright & Sarah Ransome, 16 May 1795, George HUDSPETH, bondsman. The book MARRIAGES SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 1779-1868 is the source of this information. The marriage therefore appears to be for another Wright McLemore, and not the Wright of Sampson County.

(Research):In a letter dated October 29, 1986, written by James L. McLemore, III to Rudy Leverett, it is noted that by deed dated December 30, 1809, and recorded in July, 1811, in Southampton Deed Book 12, page 354, Joel WESTBROOK and his first wife Rebecca [Nicholson] conveyed to her kinsman John NICHOLSON 43 3/4 acres, being 1/4 of a tract of 175 acres, "Beginning at a maple by the side of poplar swamp a corner tree of WRIGHT McLEMORE's thence by said McLemore's line to a red oak, thence N. East course to lightwood post in Adam IVEY's thence along said IVEY's to a maple by the side of the northwest prong of the Mery? branch, thence down the various courses of said branch (to) poplar swamp, thence down the said Swamp to the beginning."

IT IS NOT KNOWN, however, which of the several contemporaneous Wright McLemore's this deed description relates to. James McLemore also notes that it is not unusual for an old description to be copied and recopied into subsequent deeds without making any attempt to correct adjoining land owners after their death or after the sale to a new owner. However, he states that his experience with deeds of that era seems to indicate that the draftsmen of those conveyences tried to keep up with who was the current adjoining land owner. Hence he believes that a Wright McLemore owned land adjoining Joel Westbrook and Adam Ivey on Poplar Swamp in 1809.