Martha Jaggers

Martha married Joseph Creighton Abt 1814. Joseph was born 1791 - 1794, South Carolina; died 1 Jun 1850 - Feb 1852. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1790, Chester Co., South Carolina
• Census: 1800, Chester Dist., South Carolina
• Census: 1810, Chester Dist., Chester, South Carolina
• Census: 1820, Fox River Twp., White, Illinois
• Residence: 1783 - 1787, Lancaster Dist., South Carolina
• Residence: 1787 - 1789, Bedford Co., Tennesee
• Residence: 1789 - 1790, Huntsville, Madison, Alabama
• Residence: 1790, Chester Co., South Carolina; With a boy under age 16, a man over age 16, one female and one slave
• Residence: 1800, Chester Dist., South Carolina; With a boy and two girls under age 10, a boy and girl age 10 to 15 and a woman age 26 to 44
• Residence: 1810, Chester Dist., Chester, South Carolina; With a boy and girl under age 10, two girls age 10 to 15, two men and two women age 16 to 25 and a woman age 26 to 44
• Residence: 1820, Fox River Twp., White, Illinois; With a woman over age 45
• Residence: 1820 - 1839, White Co., Illinois
• _MILT: 1775 - 1783; Private, Virginia and South Carolina Regiments, Revolutionary War

Notes:

Does not appear in the available online probate records for White Co., Illinois, which appear complete for the time period (29 Jan 2014)

_MILT:
He enlisted October, 1775, for three months with Capt. Edmund Strange; again in 1779 for three months with Capt. John Nixon, Col. John Winn, in the South Carolina troops. He again enlisted in 1780, serving more than one year with Capts. Thomas Taylor, George Hastin, Shaw and Kirkwood, with Col. Edward Lacy, in the Virginia troops. He again served from February, 1782, for two months under Capt. Neeley and Col. Edward Lacey, and also Col. McDonald in the South Carolina troops. He came to White county, Illinois, where he died August 19, 1839. He was pensioned. ("Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials", 1917)

Buried:
Old Bean's Cemetery

Nathan married Margaret Minnis 1784, Craven Co., South Carolina. Margaret (daughter of James Minnis and Susanna) was born Abt 1763, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Not found in early probate records of Charleston Co., South Carolina
Not found in early probate records of Chester Co., South Carolina
Not found in early probate records of York Co., South Carolina
Not found in early probate records of Lancaster Co., South Carolina
Not found in early probate records of Kershaw Co., South Carolina
Not found in early probate records of Union Co., South Carolina
Not found in early probate records of Abbeville Co., South Carolina (Ninety-Six Dist.)
Not found in early wills of Orange Co., North Carolina
(3 Dec 2015)

Some researchers show his ancestry from New England (Stamford, Connecticut by way of Watertown, Massachusetts) through Long Island, New York; the connection to South Carolina is not established by these researchers, nor are there definite records of this person; that said, the "children" shown here are definitely all siblings of one another

Other Events:

• Occupation: 10 Jun 1761, Prince Frederick Parish, Craven, South Carolina; Appointed Sexton of the parish on this date, an office he held through at least 13 May 1762

Notes:

Not found in index to Chester Co., South Carolina probate records (1787-1950) (4 Feb 2014)
Not found in index to Fairfield Co., South Carolina wills (1785-1865) (4 Feb 2014)
Not found in index to Kershaw Co., South Carolina wills (1782-1868) (4 Feb 2014)
Not found in index to York Co., South Carolina wills & estates (1787- ) (4 Feb 2014)
Not found in Orange Co., North Carolina wills. estates (1752-1920) (4 Dec 2015)

1756 DEED: Craven Co, SC, 16 Oct, admeasured 100 acres of land on NE side of Peedee River bounded on all sides by vacant land that was surveyed on 7 Sep 1756.

Frederick Winyaw, SC; 18 Jun, the Vestry appointed Mr. Minness to clean out the church for which the Vestry was to pay him five pounds. This was the old church on the Black River, about 20 miles SW of the present building (1916) in Plantersville, SC, on the Great Pee Dee River. A two acre graveyard there was well kept and cared for. (Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle, The Register Book for the Parish Prince Frederick Winyaw, The National Society of the Colonial dames of America; Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company, 1916). This was probably the James Minnis who follows.

Court Minutes 1752-1761, Book 1, p 136. Abstraction from Book 1-245 reads: A Deed of sale from John JOHNSON to James MINNES for 346 acres of Land was proved in open Court by the oath of James Watson and was ordered to be registered. This tract was originally granted to James Dickie, planter, on 11 May 1757 (See Granville Proprietary Deeds and Surveys,Bennett Vol V, p 69) and the plat shows it straddling Seven Mile Creek. Dickey conveyed to John Johnson as registered Dec 1758 and title was cleared as a Granville deed of sale to Dickey which was registered Jun 1759. (See Haun, Book I, pp 96 and 104).

Records, Vol I, p 46. Raleigh, NC: By the Editor, 1987. A Warrant for James A. MCGOWEN for 700 acres on McGowen's Cr., waters of Eno River), adjoins MINNIS & MITCHELL.

Vestry of Parish Church of Prince Frederick: James Minzes paid as Sexton on 13 May 1762. By 4 Apr 1763, these duties had been taken over by others.

30 Dec 1761 of James McGown for 360 acres on waters of Eno adjoining Minnis and Mitchel.
1761 of Robert Witty for 700 acres on Seven Mile Cr waters of Eno adjoining Minnis and Churton.

Records, Vol III, DB-3, p 124 (618). Raleigh, NC: By the Editor, 1990. John McGowen sold the 360 acres adjoining Minnis & Mitchel to Thomas Wilson, weaver.

Book 57, p 101, entry for survey on 4 Nov in Orange Co, NC, No. 994. Land to be surveyed lies on the Seven Mile Branch of Eno bounded on the north by his own land and adjoining that of William Johnston running for complement.

Records, Vol III, DB-3, p 13 (59). Raleigh, NC: By the Editor, 1990. James Minnis of Orange sold to William Tapp of Caswell for 350 pounds, two tracts of 346 acres and 154 acres. These are the same as the above. James Minnis signed but with no wife mentioned. The larger tract has its approximate center one mile south of Efland on the road to Buckhorn. The smaller tract is to the southeast and can be reached (in 1981) from a building in the center on the Efland road to an unimproved road past one building and on to a second near its center.

Bill of Sale: James Minnis of Chester CO., SC, to Nathan Jaggers one negro woman named Juda, one Sorrel horse named Ball, one Bay Mare named Bonney, Gabriel Brown's note, bed & household furniture & plantation tools & my chest;

Sale from James Menniss to Nathan Jaggers was acknowledged in Open Court & Ordered to be Recorded.

(Holcomb's page 225) Court date ?, James Minnis, Plaintiff against Gabriel Brown, Defendant: Debt. Came the Defendant into Open Court and Confessed a Judgement according to Mote and costs of suit which is Ordered accordingly. Ordered that James Minnis pay John Roney fifty Shillings for twenty days attendance as a witness for him against Brown, also the sum of thirty shillings for Mileage. Ordered that James Minnis pay Nathan Jaggers forty shillings for his attendance as a witness for him against Brown also the sum of Thirty Shillings for mileage. NB:Union County was adjacent to Chester County on the west at this time(1791-1799).

Jaggers. It seems that Margaret was a daughter of James Minnis; that James came to Chester Co, SC, after selling his land holdings in Orange Co., NC; and then he sold his personal belongings on which he had paid tax in 1781 in Orange to his son-in-law. The notes for his sons, James and William, indicate that they came from NC with him. At this time there was a George Minnis family in Chester with son James among others. This family was only recently from Ireland and not the same James as that one was a minor while the other was appearing in court as an adult. There may have been some relationship but not in this country.

...who says he came to Orange at the age of eight in 1763. That John named his first son James suggests that James was his father. The birth place in VA of John in 1755 is essential to resolving this question.

James — Susanna. Susanna was born Abt 1730. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Appears in the baptism record of daughter Catherine