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• Name: Samuel LESLIE
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1734 ^b
• Death: Nov 1786 ^d
• Burial: Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• (Unk) LESSLIE

Family:
Marriage:

• Sarah HUTCHINSON on Abt 1756 at Co Antrim, Northern Ireland .^m1
  
• Sarah HUTCHINSON Birth: Abt 1737 in Antrim, North Ireland Death: 1811

Children:

1. James LESLIE Birth: 1
2. Sarah LESLIE Birth: Abt 1760 in Pennsylvania Death: Abt 1825
3. John LESLIE Birth: Abt 1765 Death: 1840 in Carroll Co, Tennessee
4. Samuel Jr LESLIE Birth: Abt 1765 Death: 1805
5. Robert LESLIE Birth: 1769 in Lancaster Co, South Carolina Death: 4 Apr 1813
6. Mary LESLIE Birth: Abt 1772
7. George LESLIE

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

abt 1734 [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p29, LesslieSB LESSLIE p31]

abt 1735 [Ref: Murphy LESLIE pv],

brother:

George LESLIE [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p11]

John LESLIE [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p27, Murphy LESLIE p7]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p31]

1786 [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p29]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p55]

Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah HUTCHINSON

date:

abt 1756 [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p31]

before emigration from North Ireland [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p7],

place:

[Ref: Murphy LESLIE p7],

names:

[Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p26, LesslieSB LESSLIE p29]

possibly Samuel LESLIE & Sarah HUTCHINSON [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p56],

child:

[Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p34, LesslieSB LESSLIE p48, LesslieSB LESSLIE p54, LesslieSB LESSLIE p55, LesslieSB LESSLIE p56, Murphy LESLIE p15, Murphy LESLIE p15a, Murphy LESLIE p15b, Murphy LESLIE pv]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

child:

Jane (#117972) wife of John McELWEE [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p15a]

Research Notes:
one of four men names Lessley in the latter part of the eighteenth century in the Carolinas [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p23]

1760s: moved south from Pennsylvania; settled on the north side of Waxhaw Creek, near George McKemey [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p11]

1767: purchased 175 acres of land on north side of Waxhaw Creek [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p48]

1767: purchased 175 acres of land from Robert Caldwell and wife Margaret; land was located on the north side of the Waxhaw Creek and being about two miles northeast of James Crawford, but just across the line in Mecklenburg Co, North Carolina [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p29]

purchased land on the north side of the Waxhaw Creek, in Mecklenburg Co, North Carolina, just across the boundary line of Lancaster Co, South Carolina [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p26]

1774-5: Constable [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p42]

Sep 1774: fined by Court of Common Pleas for non-attendance at court [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p42]

Jan 1775: fined by Court of Common Pleas for non-attendance at court as constable [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p42]

Jul 1775: Ordered by the court that Samuel Lashley and Noble Osborn go from house to house within their several districts and warn every master and mistress of families and overseers of every plantation within the same districts to appear before John Gordon and there give upon oath a true list of taxable persons within her, her or their families for the present year [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p42]

1779-81: received payment of 15 pounds 13 shillings for wheat and beef, provisions in support of the war effort [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p14]

Oct 1779: received a sum of money as allowed by the committee of claims at halifax, North Carolina, for sundries (wheat and beef) furnished to Colonial troops during the war [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p42]

Dec 1786: Ordered that letters of administration of the estate of Samuel Lasley, deceased, issue to james Lasley and Sarah lasley, who took the oath of administration and entered into security with Andrew Walker and Elias Alexander in the sum of --- [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p43]

Apr 1787: inventory of estate presented in court, 457 pounds and 4 shillings [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p43]



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