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William Christmas

Male Abt 1760 - 1811  (~ 51 years)


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  • Name William Christmas  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1760  Orange County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Dec 1811  Jefferson, Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Aug 1783, Orange County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Mother Mary Graves,   b. Abt 1725, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1810, Orange County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 85 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1748  Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Family ID F1345  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abigail McLemore,   b. Between 1760 and 1768, Granville County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1828, Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Marriage 28 Aug 1780  Warren County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F1344  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2011 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1760 - Orange County, North Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 28 Aug 1780 - Warren County, North Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 16 Dec 1811 - Jefferson, Williamson County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S206] McLemore, James L. III ("The Early History of the McLemore Family of Virginia and the Carolinas").

    2. [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.

    3. [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.).

    4. [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.