William Christmas

Abt 1760 - 1811  (~ 51 years)

• Name	William Christmas  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1760	Orange County, North Carolina   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Dec 1811	Jefferson, Williamson County, Tennessee
  Notes	According to Ginger Christmas, Captain William Christmas, Sergeant Richard Christmas and young Robert Christmas were in the battle near Guilford Courthouse under the Leadership of Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Greene. First Major William Christmas was busy with his new wife, Abigail McLemore. He surveyed the new lands in Tennessee, Kentucky and the Mississippi Territory. In 1791 he was one of the men working on the First map of North Carolina with Price and Strothers, served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and the Senate. He resigned his post as a Colonel and then took a party of settlers into the Tennessee area in 1800. Nathaniel and Richard Christmas joined him and opened a land office in the Knoxville area in 1801. Mark Freeman instead shows him as a son of Thomas and Temperance Christmas. 866. Smith and Owsley, eds., "The Papers of Andrew Jackson" , vol. I: 1770-1803, p..125. .. (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler) William Christmas was employed as surveyor by the Commissioners who laid off the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1792. Later he was appointed Surveyor-General of Tennessee and in this capacity made surveys of the Military Reservation on which the North Carolina land grants were based. With his office located in Nashville, he also laid off ranges and sections for presumably the First, Second, and Third Surveyor's Districts in 1807. It was decided these maps were inaccurate and subsequently John Drake, among others, corrected them.
  Person ID	I2053	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2015

  
  

  Father	John Christmas, Sr.,   b. Abt 1720, Hanover County, Virginia d. Bef Aug 1783, Orange County, North Carolina (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Mary Graves,   b. Abt 1725, Virginia d. 1810, Orange County, North Carolina (Age ~ 85 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1748	Hanover County, Virginia   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F1345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail McLemore,   b. Between 1760 and 1768, Granville County, North Carolina d. Jun 1828, Williamson County, Tennessee (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	28 Aug 1780	Warren County, North Carolina   [4]
  	William and Abigail were said to have had four daughters. They are included on the roster of Pioneer Families of WIlliamson County, Tennessee. http://lib.williamson-tn.org/Special_Collections/Pioneer_Families/p_main.htm
  Family ID	F1344	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2011

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1760 - Orange County, North Carolina Marriage - 28 Aug 1780 - Warren County, North Carolina Death - 16 Dec 1811 - Jefferson, Williamson County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S206] McLemore, James L. III ("The Early History of the McLemore Family of Virginia and the Carolinas"). [S1287] Hughes, LoRetta F. "Treeclimber's Family Treehouse - Roots & Branches" ver. 2009-06-21 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=treeclimber. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.). [S321] Freeman, Mark (mwfgenealogy@verizon.net) "Mostly Southern" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=markfreeman ; Ver. 2008-09-19 17:51:13.