Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John LESLIE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1765 b
  • Death: 1840 in Carroll Co, Tennessee d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Samuel LESLIE Birth: Abt 1734 Death: Nov 1786
    • Mother:
  • Sarah HUTCHINSON Birth: Abt 1737 in Antrim, North Ireland Death: 1811

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. George LESSLIE Birth: Abt 1793 in York Co, South Carolina Death: 9 Jun 1853 in Carroll Co, Tennessee
  2. Mary M LESSLIE Birth: Abt 1794
  3. Elizabeth LESSLIE Birth: Abt 1795 in South Carolina Death: 25 Nov 1875 in Leslie, Arkansas
  4. William LESSLIE Birth: 1796 in York Co, South Carolina Death: 1871
  5. Margaret LESSLIE Birth: 11 Jul 1799 in York Co, South Carolina Death: 10 Jan 1870 in Moniteau Co, Missouri
  6. John LESSLIE Birth: Abt 1801
  7. Jane LESSLIE Birth: Abt 1804
  8. Grace LESSLIE Birth: 13 Aug 1806 in York Co, South Carolina Death: 6 Aug 1887 in Clarksburg, Tennessee
  9. Samuel LESSLIE Birth: 25 Oct 1809 in Barren Co, Kentucky Death: 31 Aug 1896 in Lesslie, Arkansas
  10. Andrew Jackson LESSLIE Birth: Abt 1814 in Humphreys Co, Tennessee Death: 5 Feb 1885 in Near San Antonio, Texas

Bibliography
  1. Jones, June, Stapleton-DeLong-Mowery families, private email, 12/1/2002. Author address: JonesJuneM at aol dot com Information from this source tagged as [Ref: June Jones 12/1/2002].
  2. Lesslie, Samuel B, Lessley Family Records - Samuel Lesslie of the Carolina Waxhaws and Descendants. Claremore, OK: author, 1983. NYPL APV (Lessley) 84-2870. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p[0-9]*].
  3. Murphy, Marion F, Early Leslies in York County, South Carolina: their rmigrations to Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas, their ancestry and descendants. San Diego, CA: author, 1976. NYPL APV (Leslie) 77-13. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p[v0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt 1764 [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p378]
abt 1765 [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p20, Murphy LESLIE pv]
between 1760 and 1770 [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p15],
parents:
[Ref: Murphy LESLIE p15, Murphy LESLIE pv]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p380, Murphy LESLIE pv]
abt 1840 [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p20],
place:
[Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p380]
Sources with Information about marriage to Jane MCELWEE
date:
abt 1791 [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p15]
abt 1792 [Ref: June Jones 12/1/2002],
names:
[Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p378, Murphy LESLIE p20],
child:
[Ref: June Jones 12/1/2002, LesslieSB LESSLIE p380, LesslieSB LESSLIE p381, Murphy LESLIE pv]
Research Notes:
one account of his birth has it in a wagon train en route from Pennsylvania [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p15]

some circumstantial evidence suggests he was a son of George LESSLIE & Mary ___; he named his first son George, custom was to name him after the father's father [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p378]

served in Revolutionary War [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p15]

11 Jul 1786: witness to a deed from malcolm Henry to John Gordon [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p378]

1793: living near Samuel Lesslie, son of George Sr; they both had land adjoining land purchased by William Burns, lying on Bullock's Creek [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p378]

1807: moved from York Co, South Carolina, to Barren Co, Kentucky [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p380, Murphy LESLIE p20]

abt 1811: moved to Humphreys Co, Tennessee [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p380, Murphy LESLIE p20]

early 1820s: moved to Carroll Co, Tennessee [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p20]



Pedigree of John LESLIE
          /-----(Unk) LESSLIE
 /-----Samuel LESLIE
John LESLIE
|         /-----(Unk) HUTCHINSON
 \-----Sarah HUTCHINSON
          \-----(Unk) LESLIE



Descendants of John LESLIE
1. John LESLIE m. Jane MCELWEE
m. Jane MCELWEE father: William II McELWEE mother: Janet BLACK