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Mary

Female 1780 -


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  • Name Mary  
    Born From 1775 to 1780  of Duncan Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I3769  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family William Jones,   b. Bef 1774, of Duncan Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef Aug 1795  of Duncan Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1853  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina." Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction. [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.]
      "A possible child of James Adair, Sr., cooper and his wife Eleanor is Elizabeth [is this a Brownlee typo for Hannah?], wife of John Jones, blacksmith.
      "Deed Bk. F. p. 10 - 25 Feb. 1784, James Adair, Sr. and wife, Eleanor, to John Jones, blacksmith, 150 a. adj. SW on John Adair, NE on James Montgomery, SE on John McCreary. James Adair [his mark] x, Eleanor Adair [her mark] x. [Witnesses:] James Adair, saddler; James Adair, Jr.; James Miller. Release: survey certified 3 June 1773, granted 200 a. 11 Aug. 1774, memorial entered in the Auditor General's Office, Bk. M, No. 13, p. 230, 7 Jan. 1775.
      "Deed Bk. F, p. 8 - 1 Aug, 1795, Hannah Jones, widow of John Jones, dec'd and her son, William Jones, and his wife Mary, to John Craig, 50 a. on Duncan Creek, part of a 200 a. grant to James Adair, Sr. 11 Aug. 1774, of which 150 a. conveyed by said James Adair and wife, Eleanor, to said John Jones in 1784, adj. John McCreary's spring branch, John Adair, James Montgomery. Wit: John Robertson, Alexander Fillson, John Owens.
      "Deed Bk. F, p, 9 - 1 Aug. 1795, Hannah Jones, widow of John Jones, dec'd, and her son William Jones and his wife Mary, to Alexander Fillson 100 a. of the above mentioned tract. Same witnesses.
      "John Jones, blacksmith, attended and made purchases at the estate sale of another John Jones of the Duncan Creek area on 16 July 1784. He died sometime prior to the census of 1790, Hannah Jones appears as head of household with:
      1 male age 16 and over - (William Jones-married Mary by Aug. 1795)
      3 males under age 16
      5 females
      0 slaves
      "No will or probate records for John Jones, blacksmith, have been located. No further research has been done on this Jones family. The names of the other 3 sons and probably 4 daughters are not known."

      2. Censuses:
      1800 US: Laurens County, South Carolina, p. 18 of 68:
      William Jones, males: 1(under 10)-0-0-1(26-44)-0; females: 0-0-2(16-25)-0-0; 0-0

      BIRTH:
      1. Between 1775 and 1784 per 1800 census. With marriage date of before 1795 per mention of the married couple in land transactions and assuming a marriage age of no earlier than 15 for the bride, the latest birth date would be 1780.