Person Info
- Name: George McKEMEY
- Sex: M
- Birth: Abt 1714 b
- Death: 10 Oct 1793 in Waxhaws, Lancaster Co, South Carolina d
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Family:
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Bibliography
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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]*].
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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]*].
- date:
- 1714 [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p29]
- abt 1714 [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p8]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p29, Murphy LESLIE p9],
- place:
- [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p9]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret HUTCHINSON
- place:
- [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p8],
- names:
- [Ref: LesslieSB LESSLIE p29]
Research Notes:
emigrated to America, leaving wife to follow later [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p8]
mid 1760s: settled in the Carolinas, on the north side of Waxhaw Creek,
six miles from the Catawba River [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p8]
13 Jan 1766: purchased 220 acres of land from Rependence Townsend,
located on the north side of the Waxhaw Creek, about 1/4 mile northwest
of Samuel and Sarah Lessley in Mecklenburg Co, North Carolina [Ref: LesslieSB
LESSLIE p29]
13 Jan 1766: purchased 220 acres from R. Townsend for 90 pounds [Ref: Murphy
LESLIE p9]
homestead was in South Carolina in 1767; a boundary change in 1771 supposedly
placed it in North Carolina, but jurisdiction remained under South Carolina
for a decade or two, and was not officially shifted until the new boundary was
ratified by the legislatures of both States in 1815. [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p8]
25 Aug 1790: indenture between George McCamy of Mecklenburg Co, North
Carolina, and Elizabeth Crawford, nis niece, of Lancaster Co, South
Carolina, for the transfer of a seven year old negro girl Venus to her on
his death [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p9]
3 Jan 1792: conveyed the 220 acre McCamy place to Thomas Crawford of
Lancaster Co, South Carolina, for 200 pounds. Mecklenburg Co, NC Deed 14-48
[Ref: Murphy LESLIE p9]
d.s.p.s [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p9]
according to one account, his heir was his nephew, George Leslie, who
lived with them for a number of years [Ref: Murphy LESLIE p9]
Pedigree of George McKEMEY
George McKEMEY
Descendants of George McKEMEY