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William married Mary Ann Rickman on 4 May 1838 in Sumner County, Tennessee. Mary was born on 9 Jan 1822 in Sumner County, Tennessee; died on 2 Dec 1901 in Cayce, Fulton, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 1800, Rowan, North Carolina
• Residence: 1820, Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee
• Residence: 1830, Sumner, Tennessee
• Residence: 1840, Sumner, Tennessee
• Residence: 1850, Fulton Co., Kentucky

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William married Susannah Allen on 12 Mar 1801. Susannah (daughter of Capt. Grant Allen and Tabitha Marshall) was born on 19 Jul 1784 in Granville Co., North Carolina; died on 29 Nov 1850 in Fulton Co., Kentucky; was buried in Fulton Co., Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN. Buried on original grant one half mile southeast of Hartsville, Trousdale (formerly Smith) County known as the Gleaves place. Graves marked with upright slabs now falling through, moderately well preserved. Wall which surrounded graves is scattered and removed Bible Records-Tomb Inscriptions. In the year 1775 he enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. William Brandon, whose sister Mary Brandon he had married, "against the common enemy". In 1776 he was appointed by General Griffith Rutherford, Capt. of a company of spies and in an engagement with the Cherokee Indians at Seven Mile Mountain. In Sept. of that year he received a gunshot wound in the right foot which kept him out of the military service until 1781, when he entered the army again as Capt. in Colonel Wade Hampton's regiment of South Carolina troops and participated in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Motte, Granby, Bigger's Church and the Siege of Ninety-Six. In the year 1796, William Alexander came to Tennessee and settled something like half-a-mile southeast of Hartsville then in Sumner Co., at the place known as the Monroe Graves place, where he resided until his death in 1830. He erected, or had erected, the brick residence which still stands there (as of Sept. 18, 1921). He died suddenly of apolexy while sitting on his front porch. His wife survived him four years, and both of them are buried just back of the garden, the inscriptions on their tombstones being yet legible and their names appearing as William Alexander and Mary Alexander. William Alexander was a gallant soldier and a patriot. He is frequently referred to in Wheeler's History of North Carolina and always as William Alexander or Capt. William Alexander. He was a member of the first County Court of Smith Co. (TN) which met at the house of Tilman Dixon, Dec. 16, 1799 and his name appears on the records of the court as William Alexander. He lived and died as William Alexander.
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/fawial.htm (Contributed by Cathey (Alexander) Green)

Lived at Hutchen place across pike North of William Alexander place-operated a tan yard-appeared to be an extensive land dealer. "William the Tanner" ?
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/fawial.htm (Contributed by Cathey (Alexander) Green)

The Alexander Family History 1720s To 1899.submitted by Miles Turpin (Richard Alexander descendant)
The name Alexander is of Greek origin. It means Helper of Men. Alexander Macdonald, second son of Donald, King of the Isles, had two sons who adopted the christian name of their father as their surname. Numerous clans of Alexanders descended from the ancient clan of MacDonald, including nobility and commoners.The chiefs of these clans at first resided in the South of Scotland around Edinburgh and Glasgow. Their chiefs were the Earls of Stirling and Dovan..
In the period following the Irish Rebellion, James I of England, who was also James VI of Scotland, defeated and outlawed certain of the Irish chiefs. James I then took their vast estates and divided them into small tracts and given to the Scottish Protestants on the condition that they should settle permanently in Ireland. James I had a dual object in view in this act, one to replace the Catholics by Protestants, and the other to secure for himself loyal subjects in the place of rebels. A settlement of Scotch Presbyterians in the midst of the Celtic Catholics meant a perpetual and increasing garrison of friends of the home government in the midst of a hostile population..
The distance from Scotland to Ireland at some points is less than twenty miles, so it was quite convenient for thousands of Scots to emigrate to Ireland and take possession of the confiscated lands. The motivation was not greed, but safety. The borderland from which the migrating Scots came was a violent no-mans-land for hundreds and hundreds of years. There would certainly be struggles with the Irish in Ireland, but nothing could match the unending violence that these families had endured along the northern border of England. Among those who availed themselves of this opportunity were many of the Alexanders who settled in Counties Antrim, Armagh, and Down. These families included both the commonalty and the nobility within the family. Our branch of the family left the Glasgow-Ayrshire region of Scotland and settled in Donegal County, Ireland.
James I supported the Scots in Ireland until his death in 1625. His son, Charles I, was not supportive. In 1626, Charles I began a campaign to harrass non-conforming Protestants throughout his kingdom, and that included the Presbyterian Scots of Ireland. So, these loyal subjects were suddenly defenseless in a hostile Irish environment. To make matters worse, the winter of 1639 to 1640 was so severe that it destroyed the Irish potatoe crop and there was great famine in the land. Shortly thereafter the English Parliament rebelled against Charles I. And while that may have seemed like a good thing initially, it ended up being a bad thing. The Scots in Ireland recieved no support from the English Protestants, because Cromwell was too busy fighting the English Civil War to spare anything to help the Protestant Scots. Ultimately, persectution and famine killed thousands of Scots in Ireland, and they began to migrate to America in the 1640s.[2].
William Alexander left Donegal County, Ireland for America in the 1640s. He came to Northampton County, Virginia around 1649, where he became the founder of the Alexander family that populated Somerset Co., Maryland, Cecil Co., Maryland and eventually Mecklenberg Co., North Carolina. William had seven sons and two daughters. Family tradition says that William's sons were William Alexander (b. ca 1646), Andrew Alexander (b. ca 1648), James Alexander (b. ca 1652), Francis Alexander (b. ca 1654), Samuel Alexander (b. ca 1657), Joseph Alexander (b. ca 1660), and John Alexander (b. 1662).
So William Alexander came from Ireland to Northampton County, Virginia in the early 1640s to escape persecution. Around the time William Alexander came to the colony, Virginia got a new royal governor - William Berkeley, a staunch supporter of Charles I and the Anglican Church. Nearly all the population of Northampton County belonged to dissenter religious sects. Governor Berkeley was alarmed at the spread of beliefs contrary to his own. In an attempt to drive these non-conformists out of Virginia, Berkeley prohibited all preaching that was not Anglican, denied the entire County of Northampton representation in the House of Burgesses, and taxed all the inhabitants heavily. Despite protests, Governor Berkeley harassed William Alexander and those like him until 1652. It was in March of that year that an English fleet sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and deposed the Royal Governor William Berkeley on order of Parliament.
For eight years, from 1652 to 1660, Presbyterians and other dissenters in Northampton County, Virginia were able to practice their religion publicly without harassment. They were free to make a living without being taxed unreasonably. Things were finally looking up for William Alexander. But then Charles II was restored as the King of England. Sir William Berkeley returned as Royal Governor. And so did all his policies. This time the situation was even worse, because England began to wage war with the Netherlands. As part of the war effort, direct shipping (formerly in Dutch ships) of tobacco to Europe was banned. In retaliation, the Dutch fleet sailed into the Chesapeake and captured almost all of the English tobacco fleet. The price of tobacco fell sharply, and Virginia was plunged into and economic depression during the 1660s and 1670s. So William Alexander wasn't much better off than when he was in Ireland.
But life improved again for William Alexander. Lord Baltimore offered land, freedom of religion and representation in his assembly to any of the Northampton County Virginians who would cross over into neighboring Maryland. Lord Baltimore did this to form a buffer zone between his colony, Maryland, and the more powerful and populated colony of Virginia.
The roll of buffer population was not new to the Scots. They had been buffers against the English in southern Scotland, they had been buffers against the Irish in northern Ireland. They had been buffers against the Indians in Virginia. As a people, they were good buffers. Over the centuries of living as human shields to one country or another, the Scots had developed a culture that helped them survive these precarious living conditions. The culture of these border Scots was extremely violent, rigidly organized by family bonds, and fiercely proud. The assignment in Maryland was one of the best offers these Scots had received in hundreds of years. And so they moved to Maryland, families and all. William Alexander moved his family to Somerset County on the eastern shore of Maryland in the 1670s.
After ten years of living in Somerset County, the Alexanders began to plan their next move. Around 1680, Lord Baltimore had opened up land for settlement in Cecil County, Maryland. Not only was Cecil County land more fertile than that of Somerset County, Cecil County's location was at a major crossroad of colonial trade. Cecil County was up in the northeast corner of Maryland near the border of Pennsylvania and Delaware. To the south was Annapolis, Maryland's capitol and key seaport, Wilmington (capitol) and New Castle (seaport) in Delaware were to the east, and just a bit farther was colonial Americas largest city and seaport, Philadelphia. So this land in Cecil County allowed the Alexanders to grow more tobacco, get it to market more easily, and profit by trading other goods along the trade roots that went through their county. Many Alexanders took out 30 year warrants on land in Cecil County, Maryland in the 1680s, but didn't move to the area until around 1700 when their children were old enough to help them clear the land. [10] It was in Cecil County, Maryland on Christmas day in 1746, that our ancestor William Alexander, Sr. and his wife had a son named William, Jr. (who would one day be known as Captain William Rowan Bill Alexander).
William Alexander, Sr. (father of Rowan Bill) was a direct descendant of the original William Alexander who came to Northampton Co., Virginia from Donegal County, Ireland. Scottish families were extremely clanish. They adheared to the ancient Scottish code of Thanistry which structured extended family groups like tribes - with an ultimate chieftan and all. They emigrated to this country in family groups, as opposed to individuals. They settled close together and intermarried. When one family member moved to another county or state, the rest of the family moved as well. Sometimes it took a few years, but the whole extended family ended up together in that new area. So when several Alexander families were living in the same area, it was not a coincidence - the families were related to eachother.[12] Our ancestor, William Alexander, Sr. lived in Cecil County Maryland, and then ultimately ended up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. That means that he is related to that band of Alexanders which moved from Northumberland County, Virginia to Somerset County, Maryland, then to Cecil County, Maryland and ultimately ended up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. What William Alexander, Sr.s exact lineage is within that group of Alexanders, I dont yet know..
Cecil County, Maryland was such a wonderful place that it attracted a large number of new settlers. By 1735, the land prices had risen so much that it was difficult for the children of the original settlers to afford property of their own. So many families moved to Penssylvanias Cumberland Valley around 1750. People like the Alexanders were encouraged by the Pennsylvania authorities because the people of Pennsylvania wanted a human buffer between themselves and the Delaware and Shawnee Indians.[13] Families like the Alexanders were interested because the land was good and it was cheap enough for their children to buy as they came of age. Unfortunately, the ensuing violence between the settlers and the Indians escalated until it started the French and Indian War in 1754. It was a war that didnt initially go very well for the English. And so by 1756, most families had fled the Cumberland Valley and returned to Cecil County..
Cecil County had not changed since the Alexanders left. The land was still too expensive for their children to buy their own farms. Between 1755 and 1764 many of the Alexander family moved to North Carolina. They settled in an area between the Yadkin and Catawba Rivers. The land was good and inexpensive. In 1765, the French and Indian War ended and North Carolina was suddenly very safe. That year over a thousand wagons passed through the area. The Alexanders quickly became involved in land speculation as well as farming.[14].
William Alexander, Sr. and his son, Captain William Rowan Bill Alexander were among the first Alexanders who moved to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.[15] William Sr. settled Sugar Creek Church Community, near Charlotte around 1750 to 1755. Eventually, William Sr.s son, Rowan Bill Alexander, owned a farm at the junction of Panther Run and Grants Creek in Rowan County (which borders Mecklenburg County). [16].
The Alexanders were the most numerous group in the Mecklenberg County area of North Carolina. There were so many of them, its hard to keep track of the exact relations. Our ancestor, Captain William, Rowan Bill, Alexanders nickname was used to distinguish him from the two other Captain William Alexanders. [17] The nickname refers to the fact that at the outbreak of the Revolution he was living in Rowan county, North Carolina..
William, Rowan Bill, Alexander was known as Capt. William Alexander because of his service in the Revolutionary War. He initially enlisted as a private in his brother-in-laws regiment (Captain William Brandon) in 1775. In 1776, General Griffith Rutherford named Rowan Bill Alexander Captain of a company of spies sent to fight the Indians. These were both North Carolina regiments. In an engagement with the Indians at Seven Mile Mountain on September 8, 1776, he was wounded so badly he was partially crippled for the rest of his life and not able to fight again until 1781. At that point he was commissioned Captain in Colonel Wade Hamptons Cavalry Regiment (South Carolina), taking part in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Marte, Grosby, Biggnes Church, and the siege of 96.He is a lineal descendant of (James McNutt Alexander who signed the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
Captain William (Rowan Bill) Alexander married Mary Brandon and had four kids: Mary Brandon Alexander, who married Gov. William Hall, Jane Alexander who was so beautiful that she was called the Cumberland Beauty married Dr. Redmond Dillon Barry (a native of Ireland, educated at the University of Dublin and a surgeon for the British Navy, he gave up his post to fight with the colonists during the Revolution), William Locke Alexander, who married Susan Allen, daughter of Capt. Grant Allen, and the oldest child, Richard Alexander, who is our ancestor..
Captain William (Rowan Bill) and his wife Mary Brandon Alexander lived in Rowan County, NC up until 1796. The Census of 1790 shows he had 11 slaves; so he must have been fairly successful. The family finally moved to Sumner County Tennessee to claim a 400 acre Revolutionary War grant.
Rowan Bill Alexanders son, Richard Brandon Alexander, was born in Rowan County , North Carolina on November 11, 1769. He came with his father,Captain Rowan Bill Alexander, and his mother to Sumner County, Tennessee in 1796. On February 28, 1808, Richard married Nancy Cunningham Saunders (Sanders), the widow of Lt. William Saunders (Sanders) who had died in 1803. Richards new wife Nancy Cunningham Saunders (Sanders) was the daughter of Major William Cunningham, who served as an Aide de Camp to General George Washington in the Revolution).
Lt. Sanders had been the recipient of a Revolutionary land grant of 2560 acres located at the mouth of Dixon Creek and after coming to Tennessee, Sanders had bought the triangle of land on which Dixon Springs now stands from a Captain Dixon. There were no buildings there at the time. .
After their marriage, Richard and Nancy Alexander bought all the land then held by the Sanders heirs and thereby came into possession of the Dixon Springs area. However they established their residence in the William Sanders house near the Cumberland River, at the mouth of Dry Branch, the site of Bledsoborough..
The first child of Richard and Nancy Alexander was a son, born in 1809. His name was William Sanders Alexander, after Nancys first husband. William Sanders Alexander married Susan Black (b. 1818) of Wilson County, Tennessee. They were married on December 21, 1844. William was deeded 295 acres by his father and he and his wife Susan built a large house on the hill overlooking the village of Dixon Springs. Later he added 205 more acres to his holdings..
William was the postmaster for Dixon Springs for a period of time. He built and operated a general store in connection with the post office. The store was built with bricks(made from clay from the Alexander farm). This building was destroyed by fire in 1985..
Although the Alexander family were Southern sympathizers, their home was used as a Headquarters for Union Officers for a time during the Civil War.
William and Susan Black Alexander had seven children: Nancy A.(b 7/28/1843 who married George Madison Allen), Mary A. (b. 1846 who married William Field - a Union Officer from Pennsylvania), William Sanders Alexander, Jr. (b 1847, a Confederate soldier , killed at the Battle of Shiloh at age 16 - his body was never recovered, but his man-servant, Wall Alexander, later managed to bring home his horse and a few belongings), Elizabeth A. (b 1848, married Walter Guild of Sumner County), Lewis Cass Alexander (b 1849 married Mary Barksdale and came into the possession of the family home - which by the way is still owned by family members, the Beasleys, and is listed in the registry of Tennessee Century Farms), Susan A. (b 1853 married a Mr. Downs and moved to Connecticut), and the youngest, Lucy Harris Alexander (b. 1855 married Henry L. Werne of Louisville, Kentucky).

Our relative is Lucy Harris Alexander, the youngest of the family. She married Henry L. Werne. He was a jeweller. Lucy ,according to her granddaughter Mary Gist Bryan Steele, had blue eyes with beautiful light colored hair. Lucy and Henry were happily married, but she died very young, leaving her oldest daughter, Willie Alexander Werne, to mother the children. Henry, the father, went on the road to make a living. I could never figure out why. Maybe he had ceased being a jeweller. Willie did a marvellous job raising that family. Her uncle, Joseph Werne would stop by from time to time and give them some money. Apparently, had it not been for that, they might have all starved.The experience took its toll. She later had a family of her own, but she always had a very nervous disposition. She married Miles Turpin, son of Jackson Turpin.Willie and Miles had one child, MIles Alexander Turpin, my grandfather.

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Cage Family Cemetery

Capt. married Mary Brandon on 21 Jan 1769 in Rowan Co., North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Richard Brandon and Margaret Locke) was born on 11 Nov 1749 in Rowan Co., North Carolina; died on 24 Sep 1834 in Sumner Co., Tennessee; was buried in 1834 in Sumner Co., Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 1784, Granville, North Carolina
• Residence: 1790, Granville, North Carolina
• Residence: 1820, Smith, Tennessee
• Residence: 1830, Smith, Tennessee
• Residence: 1840, Smith, Tennessee

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When North Carolina opened up lands for it’s revolutionary soldiers, practically all of what is now Smith, Sumner and adjoining counties, save the pre-empted tracts, were included. A great flock of revolutionary patriots from North Carolina and East Tennessee poured in, and among them were the following, some of whom may have lived in Smith County, but some in Trousdale and adjoining areas that for a while was part of Smith, and perhaps before that their original settlement had been actually in Sumner, from which Smith had been taken. The following list of revolutionary soldiers, however, are believed to have been buried within the original boundaries of Smith County, after much of its territory had been given to make up the larger counties taken from it: We “borrowed” this fine list from Mrs. Garrett’s, published in Mrs. Acklens’s Bible records p. 465, and have added information, where we had it, about some of them: All are numbered, so that they may be referred to in later notes: ... 2. Capt. Grant Allen was born in Granville Co, North Carolina and was the son of William Hunt Allen and his second wife, who was Mary (Hunt) Minge, the widow of Robert Minge (incorrect; second wife was Frances Grant). Grant Allen, revolutionary soldier, of Smith Co, Tennessee ...Grant Allen married Tabitha Marshall of the Marshalls of Henrico, one of whom married into either the Burtons or Allens.
- Smith County Revolutionary War Soldiers From "Tennessee Cousins" by Worth S. Ray Originally published 1950. Last reprint Genealogy Publishing Co, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog #68-24689-5.

When North Carolina opened up lands for it’s revolutionary soldiers, practically all of what is now Smith, Sumner and adjoining counties, save the pre-empted tracts, were included. A great flock of revolutionary patriots from North Carolina and East Tennessee poured in, and among them were the following, some of whom may have lived in Smith County, but some in Trousdale and adjoining areas that for a while was part of Smith, and perhaps before that their original settlement had been actually in Sumner, from which Smith had been taken. The following list of revolutionary soldiers, however, are believed to have been buried within the original boundaries of Smith County, after much of its territory had been given to make up the larger counties taken from it: We “borrowed” this fine list from Mrs. Garrett’s, published in Mrs. Acklens’s Bible records p. 465, and have added information, where we had it, about some of them: All are numbered, so that they may be referred to in later notes: ... 2. Capt. Grant Allen was born in Granville Co, North Carolina and was the son of William Hunt Allen and his second wife, who was Mary (Hunt) Minge, the widow of Robert Minge (incorrect; second wife was Frances Grant). Grant Allen, revolutionary soldier, of Smith Co, Tennessee ...Grant Allen married Tabitha Marshall of the Marshalls of Henrico, one of whom married into either the Burtons or Allens.
- Smith County Revolutionary War Soldiers From "Tennessee Cousins" by Worth S. Ray Originally published 1950. Last reprint Genealogy Publishing Co, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog #68-24689-5.

Grant married Tabitha Marshall on 29 Jan 1783 in Warren, North Carolina. Tabitha (daughter of John Marshall, Jr. and Tabitha Dixon) was born on 26 Aug 1764 in Warren Co., North Carolina; died on 31 Jul 1827. [Group Sheet]

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Richard married Margaret Locke in 1747 in Rowan Co., North Carolina. Margaret was born in 1731 in Bloomsbury, London, England; died on 1 Feb 1789 in Rowan Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

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William Allen moved to Granville County, North Carolina, purchasing a farm from William Gowan on June 19,1758. On the same day, additional land was purchased from the said Gowan by Drury Allen, the brother of William and between them they arranged joint farming operations, Drury Allen having removed to this locality from Lunenburg County, Va.

Will of William AllenThe Will was dated 4 May, 1781 and proved in Court August, 1786.
I, William Allin, of Granville County and the state of North Carolina. Lend to my beloved wife Frances during her natural life the land and plantation whereon I now live together with all my other estate either real or personal with this provision, that in case my wife should marry after my death it is my will and desire that she shall no longer enjoy or possess teh following negroes; Viz, Pompey, Sam and Rusend, the former two of them to go the use of the children of my former wife and the latter to my three sons as shall be herein after directed.
It is also my will and desire that in case my wife should marry after my death a man who be extravagance or any other bad conduct should waste or destroy the estate it shall then be in the power of my executors to divide my negroes among my children in the manner I shall hereafter direct, as also any other part of my estate that may be abused as above mentioned.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughters Ursly Johnson, Susannah Burton, Elizabeth Morgan, Mary Allin and Sarah Walker, the children of my former wife, to be divided amonst them the valuation of my negroes Sam and Pompey as shall be herein directed, together with an equal part of all other movable estate with the children of my latter wife.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hannah Howard the negro Winne and her increase to her and her heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto the children of my daughter Ann Howard the valuation of my negro Sarah and her increase, the said valuation to be divided amonst them equally also an equal proporation of all my movable estate with the rest of my living children in the manner my executors may direct.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Isabell Owen my negro Sarah and her increase for her and her heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Frances Allin my negro Hannah and her increase for her and her heirs.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mildred Allin my negro Moses to her and her heirs forver with this provision that if negro Aggy should have any more increase after this date she may have choice of either of the same by placing the above mentioned Moses in the stead of the same.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son William Allin, all my land lying on the north side of Grassy Creek to him and his heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Allin all my land lying on spewmarrow Creek above a line run by Thomas Grant for a dividing line betwixt my son Thomas and Grant to him and his heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Grant Allen my land whereon I now live lying on Spewmarrow Creek and betwixt Grassy Creek and the above said dividing line to him and his heirs forever.
Tis my desire that Pompey and Rusena shall be sold to the highest bidder amonst the children of my present wife, both to be sold together, the one half of the said price to be divided amonst the children of my former wife, the other to my three sons, Viz; William, Thomas and Grant to be equally divided amonst.
Tis my will also that if negro Aggy should have any more increase after this date the said increase shall be sold to the highest bidder amonst the children of my present wife and the said amount to be equally divided amonst the same. Tis also my desire that my negro man Sam for the benefit of my former children to sold to the higest bidder of the whole of my children and as the manner of the sale of the balance of my movable estate, tis my desire that it may be sold to the higest bidder and five thirteenths of the said amount to be equally divided amonst the children of my former wife and the balance after adjusting all debts and lawful demands against my estate to be equally divided amonst the children of my present wife. Tis my will also that if either of my children should die without issue the the proportation to them allowed shall fall to the survivors of the children of my present wife by an equal distribution.
And I do now constitue and appoint my beloved wife Frances and my three sons, William, Thomas and Grant executors to this my last will and testament as witness my hand and seal this the fourth day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty one A.D. William Allin
Signed and sealed in the presence of Henry Groves and Joshua Coffee. Granville County, NC., August Court 1786. This will was duly proved by the oath of Henry Groves and ordered to be recorded. Then Grant Allin qualified to the said will.

William Allen moved to Granville County, North Carolina, purchasing a farm from William Gowan on June 19,1758. On the same day, additional land was purchased from the said Gowan by Drury Allen, the brother of William and between them they arranged joint farming operations, Drury Allen having removed to this locality from Lunenburg County, Va.

Will of William AllenThe Will was dated 4 May, 1781 and proved in Court August, 1786.
I, William Allin, of Granville County and the state of North Carolina. Lend to my beloved wife Frances during her natural life the land and plantation whereon I now live together with all my other estate either real or personal with this provision, that in case my wife should marry after my death it is my will and desire that she shall no longer enjoy or possess teh following negroes; Viz, Pompey, Sam and Rusend, the former two of them to go the use of the children of my former wife and the latter to my three sons as shall be herein after directed.
It is also my will and desire that in case my wife should marry after my death a man who be extravagance or any other bad conduct should waste or destroy the estate it shall then be in the power of my executors to divide my negroes among my children in the manner I shall hereafter direct, as also any other part of my estate that may be abused as above mentioned.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughters Ursly Johnson, Susannah Burton, Elizabeth Morgan, Mary Allin and Sarah Walker, the children of my former wife, to be divided amonst them the valuation of my negroes Sam and Pompey as shall be herein directed, together with an equal part of all other movable estate with the children of my latter wife.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hannah Howard the negro Winne and her increase to her and her heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto the children of my daughter Ann Howard the valuation of my negro Sarah and her increase, the said valuation to be divided amonst them equally also an equal proporation of all my movable estate with the rest of my living children in the manner my executors may direct.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Isabell Owen my negro Sarah and her increase for her and her heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Frances Allin my negro Hannah and her increase for her and her heirs.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mildred Allin my negro Moses to her and her heirs forver with this provision that if negro Aggy should have any more increase after this date she may have choice of either of the same by placing the above mentioned Moses in the stead of the same.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son William Allin, all my land lying on the north side of Grassy Creek to him and his heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Allin all my land lying on spewmarrow Creek above a line run by Thomas Grant for a dividing line betwixt my son Thomas and Grant to him and his heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Grant Allen my land whereon I now live lying on Spewmarrow Creek and betwixt Grassy Creek and the above said dividing line to him and his heirs forever.
Tis my desire that Pompey and Rusena shall be sold to the highest bidder amonst the children of my present wife, both to be sold together, the one half of the said price to be divided amonst the children of my former wife, the other to my three sons, Viz; William, Thomas and Grant to be equally divided amonst.
Tis my will also that if negro Aggy should have any more increase after this date the said increase shall be sold to the highest bidder amonst the children of my present wife and the said amount to be equally divided amonst the same. Tis also my desire that my negro man Sam for the benefit of my former children to sold to the higest bidder of the whole of my children and as the manner of the sale of the balance of my movable estate, tis my desire that it may be sold to the higest bidder and five thirteenths of the said amount to be equally divided amonst the children of my former wife and the balance after adjusting all debts and lawful demands against my estate to be equally divided amonst the children of my present wife. Tis my will also that if either of my children should die without issue the the proportation to them allowed shall fall to the survivors of the children of my present wife by an equal distribution.
And I do now constitue and appoint my beloved wife Frances and my three sons, William, Thomas and Grant executors to this my last will and testament as witness my hand and seal this the fourth day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty one A.D. William Allin
Signed and sealed in the presence of Henry Groves and Joshua Coffee. Granville County, NC., August Court 1786. This will was duly proved by the oath of Henry Groves and ordered to be recorded. Then Grant Allin qualified to the said will.

William married Frances Grant in 1740. Frances was born on 14 Oct 1716 in New Kent Co., Virginia; and died. [Group Sheet]

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Warren County, North Carolina Minutes to the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1780-1786, 14 Feb 1782, p.93
~Administration of the Estate of John Marshall, deceased, granted to Tabitha Marshall, relict of said deceased, who with John Willis and James Johnson, her securities, entered into and executed a bond for that purpose.
~Tabitha Marshall returned, on oath, an Inventory of the Estate of John Marshall, deceased, and on motion the same is ordered to be recorded.
~John Marshall, Tabitha Marshall, and William Marshall came into Court and made choice of Tabitha Marshall, their mother, their Guardian, who with William White, John Wortham, and Dixon Marshall, her securities, executed a bond for that purpose, also the Court doth appoint the said Tabitha Marshall Guardian to Charles Marshall, Matthew Marshall, and Peggy Marshall, orphans of John Marshall, deceased, who with the aforesaid securities executed a bond for that purpose.
~Ordered that Philemon Hawkins, Esquire, William Johnson, Esquire, and William Duke, appraise and divide the Estate of John Marshall, deceased, agreeable to law, also that wherein such division cannot be equally made then it be sold agreeable to law.

John married Tabitha Dixon in Aug 1756 in Brunswick, Virginia. Tabitha (daughter of Henry Dixon and Elizabeth Abernathy) was born in 1734 in Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia; died on 12 Mar 1821 in Warren Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 1800, Hallifax, Warren, North Carolina