Atkins Jefferson McLemore

Notes:

Mark Freeman has the following information posted on his website relating to Atkins Jefferson McLemore:

Williamson County Court Records have numerous entries for land and property transactions for A.J. McLemore. Misc. records Williamson county vol.4: 14 Nov 1823 "Atkins J. McLemore sells to William Dabney for the sum of $1000 a tract of land on the waters of West Harpeth . . ." One dated 1 Jan 1847 reads: "Rec'd of A.J. McLemore three hundred and seventy five dollars in full payment for a certain negro girl name Louisa, said negro we warrant sound body and mind, slave for life, and the right and title of said negro we warrant and defend against the lawful claims of all others this 23rd Dec 1846"

Misc records Williamson county vol 5: "Jesse Taylor, planter, charged with cutting Atkins McLemore, blacksmith, across the abdomen with intent to kill" 17 May 1823

From "Tennessee Tidbits 1778 - 1914, Vol. I" page 256 "McLemore - 14 July 1828 a report was made by Atkins J. McLemore as guardian of John D. McLemore, Polly M. McLemore, Robt. W. McLemore, and Peggy S. McLemore, minor orphans. (Wll TN, Co Ct Min, 10/55)" These would be his half brothers and sisters from his father Robert's marriage to Margaret S. Dabney.

From "The Maury Genealogist" by Jill K. Garrett May 1972 page 57 "State vs J.W. Cheairs, merchant, William Beauford, yeoman, Adkins J. McLemore, yeoman, Anderson McLemore, yeoman, Henry P. Pointer, yeoman, Thomas Pointer, yeoman, riot route and unlawful assembly true bill. On 5 June 1845 in Spring Hill they assaulted Robert C. Giddins". Will on file in Williamson County Will Book 9 page 303 dated Aug 1849.

Atkins married Bethenia Smith Dabney on 7 Sep 1821 in Williamson County, Tennessee. Bethenia was born on 25 Apr 1803 in North Carolina; died on 24 Jul 1857 in Thompson Station, Williamson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Marriages of Williamson County, Tennessee 1804 - 1850, complied by Edythe Rucker Whitley, page 133:
"McLemore, Atkins J. to Bethenia Dabney, Sept. 7, 1821 BM: J. N. Charten.

(Courtesy of Jane A. "Xan" Alexander)

In the book "Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia : with some of their family records" (Chicago: S. D. Childs, 1888, 206 pages), it is noted on p. 180, Record No. 120 supplied by Dr. William Wall Dabney, that "Atkins Jefferson McLemore and Bethinia Dabney, ninth child of John Dabney and Margaret Smith (were married)."

(Courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore)

1. Robert Anderson "Andrew" Jefferson McLemore was born on 28 Jul 1823 in Tennessee; died on 2 May 1891 in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee.
2. Margaret Williams McLemore was born about 1824 in Tennessee; died in May 1889 in Maury County, Tennessee.
3. Barbara Anne McLemore was born on 1 Apr 1826 in Tennessee; died on 11 Feb 1892 in Williamson County, Tennessee.
4. William Sugars McLemore was born on 1 Feb 1830 in Thompson Station, Williamson County, Tennessee; died on 7 Aug 1908 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee; was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee.
5. John Dabney McLemore was born on 12 Apr 1832 in Williamson County, Tennessee; died after 1910 in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas.
6. Dr. Sydney S. McLemore was born on 6 Jun 1837 in Williamson County, Tennessee; died on 20 Jan 1860 in Lamar County, Texas.
7. Bethenia Jefferson McLemore was born after 1837 in Tennessee; died between 1880 and 1900 in Texas.
8. Elizabeth Minor McLemore was born about 1838 in Williamson County, Tennessee; died on 22 Aug 1891 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas.
9. Lemuel P. McLemore was born on 23 Apr 1841 in Maury County, Tennessee; died on 16 Jan 1905 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas; was buried in Ridge Park Cemetery, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas.

Notes:

Sometimes shown as born in Warrren County versus Bute County.

Kevin McLemore mclemorek@charter.net descends from this line and shared information on Robert's descendants with Mark Freeman in March 2005, some of which is copied below.

1790 NC Census Halifax District, Franklin County lists Robert McLemore, 1 free white male 16 years and up and 4 slaves.

1799 Franklin County Tax List has McLemore, Rob. 2wp, 3bp, 450 ac (this is the parcel he inherited from his father)

1800 NC Census Franklin County lists Robert McLemore 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 female 16-26, 9 slaves.

Franklin Co. NC Loose Estates Papers Vol. I has Robert McLemore buyer part of the estate of Benjamin Williams in 1804.

Equity Bond Docket, 1789-1817, Hillborough District and Orange County, N.C. number 264 lists Robert McLemore place of abode on 19 Apr 1803 as Tennessee.

Williamson County Deed Abstracts 1799-1811 Deed Book A2 page 91 "Page 378 Indenture 18 Oct 1806 John Spencer and Robert McLemore, $2750 paid, 1 tract on water of Harpeth, 220 acres, tr adj N T Perkins corner"

1807 Williamson County Tax Book lists McLemore, Robt. 220 acres W. Harp. 1 white 5 blacks.

"The Reconstructed 1810 Census of Tennessee, 33,000 Long-Lost Records" by Charles A. Sherrill lists:

McLemore, Robert Williamson County, 1810 Tax List

From "Maury County Tennessee Newspaper Abstracts 1810-1844" by Jill Knight Jarrett 1965: The Western Chronicle Sat 28 Mar 1812 "Whiskey - The High Bred Stallion will stand the ensuing season. Signed P.R. Booker. Affadavit of R.P. Curras and Robert McLemore of Williamson County".

Williamson County Deed Book E page 174 Thomas Shute conveyed to Robert McLemore 39 acres of land between Big & West Harpeth Rivers Registered 27th August 1817.

1820 Tennessee Census: Robert McLemore Williamson County: 2 males under 10, 2 males 10 to 16, 2 males 18 to 26, 1 male 45 and up. 1 female under 10, 1 female 10 to 16, 1 female 26 to 45. 24 slaves.

There were a couple challenges to Robert's will. One by his widow and her second husband wanting 1/3 of the estate, another by his son John D. McLemore for 1/4 of the slaves.

Will probated April 1823 Williamson County Will Book 3 page 625.

Williamson County, Tennessee County Court Minutes, May 1806-April 1812, by Carol Wells, Heritage Books, Inc., p. 176: [Book1, p. 577] "Monday 13th January 1812. Order Nicholas Perkins Senr Daniel Perkins Edward Warren & Robert McLemore any three settle with Hendley Stone gdn of Peter Pryor & Green Pryor orphans of John Pryor decd & report thereof to our ensuing County Court." [Book 1, p. 608] "Tuesday 14th April 1812.Settlement with Hendley Stone guardian of Peter & Green Pryor orphans of John Pryor decd returned."

Jane A. "Xan" Alexander emailed, in November 2011, that Robert McLemore wrote his will 14 Apr 1822. In his will and the probate file in Williamson County, Tennessee, we find: "beloved wife Peggy and our four children John Dabney McLemore, Polly Minor McLemore, Robert Weakly McLemore, and Peggy Smith McLemore"; "son Atkins J McLemore", "my daughter Bethenia Anne Greene McLemore" In the will he also says "I desire that my worthy friend Daniel Perkins should be guardian to my daughter Bethenia (who is also his granddaughter)". Thus we see that Atkins Jefferson McLemore and Bethenia Anne Greene McLemore were not children of Robert McLemore's last wife Peggy. Jane added that the current wife at the time of his death was Margaret "Peggy" S Dabney, daughter of John Dabney and Peggy Smith and sister to Bethenia Dabney who later married Atkins Jefferson McLemore.

(Medical):DNA R1b1

A direct male descendant of Robert McLEMORE is an exact 12 marker Y DNA match to descendants of both John McLEMORE, born 1822 in North Carolina and Keton Jones McLEMORE, born 1809 in Kentucky. This means there is an 80% probability that they share a common ancestor within the last 16 generations, and over a 90% probability that this ancestor occurred within 24 generations.

For more information see:

http://www.geneticousins.com/morrison/

Look for Group O. More about John McLemore and Keton Jones McLemore can be found in the index of this file.

The members of R1b are believed to be the descendants of the first modern humans who entered Europe about 35,000-40,000 years ago. Those R1b forebearers were the people who painted the beautiful art in the caves in Spain and France. They were the contemporaries (and perhaps exterminators) of the European Neanderthals. R1b is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe - more than half of men of European descent belong to R1b. Fourteen of the 30 most common haplotypes in the YSTR.org database are typical of R1b.

Robert married Barbara Williams on 16 Jan 1800 in Franklin County, North Carolina. Barbara was born on 2 Jun 1781 in Franklin County, North Carolina; died on 10 Oct 1803 in Davidson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Betty Pritchett writes that " Her father was John Williams of Davidson County, Tennessee. She had one son before she died. His name was Atkins Jefferson McLemore (1801-1849)"

Notes:

Married:
Abstracts of Vital Records from Raleigh NC Newspapers 1799- 1819, compiled by Lois Smathers Neal, page 325, "M. on the 16th ult., Mr. Robert M'LEMORE to Miss Barbara Williams, both of Franklin County. RR 4 Feb 1800 3:5."

(Courtesy of Jane A. "Xan" Alexander)

Betty Pritchett shows the marriage date as 16 January 1800.

Notes:

Info below provided by sources cited, as well as from James L. McLemore III, Mark Freeman, C.L. Hammond and other descendants. Primary sources should be examined to verify.

Bought 320 acres on Lyons Creek, on Roanoke River, from William EATON, by deed dated March 16, 1749/1750, and recorded in the August term of court, 1750 (Northhampton Deed Book 1, p. 443). Later sold this on Edward ROBERTSON on October 24, 1753 with deed recorded November Term, 1753. (Northhampton Deed Book 2, p 130).

Sold 100 acres of his inheritance from his father to his brother Young by deed (witnessed by his cousin James Macklemore, Jr.) dated May 7, 1753 and recorded the May Term, 1753 (Northampton Deed Book 2, p 115).

Sold, along with his brother Young, 100 additional acres to Edward ROBERTSON of Brunswick County, Virginia, who had previously bought land from Atkins.

Bought 610 acres of land on the east side of Lee's Branch in Granville County, North Carolina in 1754. Also joined the Granville County Militia, commanded by Col William EATON (from whom he had bought land) and served in the company commanded by Capt. Sugar JONES. Atkins served as executor of Sugar JONES estate in 1761, and in 1765 he married Sarah JONES, his captain's daughter.

Bought 685 acres in Granville adjoining Linches Creek, Joseph BRANTLEY and Samuel WILLIAMS.

In 1769, BUTE COUNTY cut from Granville, and at least some of Atkins holdings fell within Bute, as he was listed as a gentleman and planter when he signed the Bute County Oath of Allegience on July 8, 1775. In 1779, WARREN County was split off from Bute and Atkin's is found there, acquiring another 18 1/2 acres on Lee's Branch.

1790 Federal Census Warren County, NC Halifax District Atkins McLemore 1 male +16, 3 females, 16 slaves

He died in Warren County in May, 1791, and his will, dated 15 September 1788, named his wife Sarah as executrix and left bequests to children Martha, Abigail, Young, Abraham, Robert, Atkins Jr, Sarah Jane and Priscilla. He devised land on Lynch's Creek in Warren and Franklin Counties, North Carolina. Also named were his brother, Young, and his son-in-law Nathaniel CHRISTMAS (Abigail's husband), and William CHRISTMAS. (James L. McLemore, III, pp 44, 45).

The History of Carroll County, Tennessee, p. 257 notes that "in 4-1776 Atkins was appointed by the Provincial Congress of NC to "receive, procure and purchase fire arms for the use of troops" in preparation for the Revolutionary War. He served in the NC State House of Commons 1778-1779, and was one of six commissioners appointed in 1779 by the NC General Assembly "to lay off and establish a town in Warren Co., NC for the setting the Court House of said County."

Robert McLemore Butler provided this extract from "North Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots & Descendants" Vol II

Akins McLemore, Sr. (R-PAT-NC) c 1735 - W/P 1791 (will probated) M. Sarah ? (very possible last name was Young) Children: Abraham, Young, Robert, Akins, Sarah

Martha Hunt, in October 2914, shared the following additional details about the family of Atkins and Sarah McLemore:

The family came from Granville, Warren and Franklin Counties in N.C. They moved to Tennessee in the early 1800's after Tennessee was cut off from N.C. and became a state. Atkins McLemore, Sr. had a large blacksmith's shop in Franklin County, NC, a foundry, where he was paid to make guns and ammunition during the Revolutionary War. He died in Warren County, NC around 1792. His will distributes slaves to his children.

Some of Atkin McLemore's children, especially my 4th great grandfather - Abraham McLemore, moved their households to Tennessee. Following is a list from the will of Atkins McLemore.

Daughter, Martha Nicholson received 2 Negroes - Linda, Joe.
Daughter Abigail Christmas received 2 Negroes - Ollie and Plum. (In 1789 Abigail was married to William Christmas. Later on she married his brother).
Son, Young McLemore received 3 Negroes - Isham, Bott and young Butler.
Son, Nathaniel McLemore received 2 Negroes - Kigh and Dinah.
Son, Abraham received 4 Negroes - Frank, Sarah, Hannah and Judey.
Son, Robert McLemore received 2 Negroes - Essia and Cherry. (Might be Isaiah and Cherry)
Son, Atkins McLemore received 3 Negroes - Stephen, Milley and Hunneyball.
Daughter, Sarah Jones McLemore, 3 Negroes - Poll, Hardy and Green.
Daughter, Priscilla McLemore received 3 Negroes - Winney, Tom and Mingo.
To his wife Sarah, the following Negroes - Butler, Jim, George, Peter, Scot, Sal, Lydde, Sue, Aggy, and Vina.

Abraham, Abigail, Young and Robert Mclemore moved to TN. Abraham lived in Gibson Co.,TN. His sons Sugars and Young Atkins moved to Tennessee also. They purchased slaves, And the women who they married had slaves.

Atkins married Sarah Jones after 1750 in Granville County, North Carolina. Sarah was born after 1735 in Virginia; died on 10 Mar 1808 in Warren County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to be the daughter of Sugar JONES. (James L. McLemore, III, p 44). Mark Freeman instead shows her as the daughter of Edward JONES and Abigail SUGARS.

Jack White emailed, in September 2016, that: Sarah Jones received a very large land grant on Lee's Branch in Granville Co in 1762 (700 acres). Atkins McLemore (as Adkins McKlemore) received a grant on Lee'a Branch, a tributary of Shocco Creek in that same year, showing Sarah Jones as the adjacent property owner. He believes this Sarah Jones was nee Sarah Franklin, the widow of Capt. Shugan "Sugar" Jones, who had died in 1761, and that it was this "Sarah Jones" who married Atkins McLemore around 1762. He also noted that he had "also located the 1761 will of Sugar Jones and a 1774 division of his estate. There is no mention in either of a daughter, Sarah. Atkins McLemore was one of the executors of that will, along with Sugar's unnamed wife. That, together with the fact that Sarah Jones and Atkins McLemore in 1761 were listed as neighbors in their respective land grants, leads me to believe that McLemore married the widow of his neighbor, Sugar Jones. I've attached the will transcript and the division records." He later added that "she might well have been Sugar's sister, as many researchers believe. The will and estate papers of Sugar Jones, however, make it pretty clear that he did not have a daughter named Sarah, so I think that possibility can be dismissed."

(Research):
Transcript of Sugar JONES will, courtesy of Jack White

Jones, Sugar of Gr. Co Will, date July 15, 1761; prob. Aug 11, 1761

"Unto my son Edmund JONES all my lands that lies on the West Side of Linches Creek', stock there, and Negro woman Lucy and her 5 children;

(2) 'all the remainder of my lands not before given' to be div. Bet. 3 son, Drewry (JONES), Samuel (JONES) and James (JONES)

(3) to daughter. Nanny, Negro girl 'Rose'

(4) to daughter. Molly, Negro girl 'Sall'

(5) to son, Drewry, Negro boy 'Bob"

(6) To son Samuel, Negro boy 'Tony'

(7) to son James, Negro girl 'Fillis'

(8) to the child my wife is now big with 'Negro girl' not exceeding 16 years of age to be bought out of the income of his est., and if this child should be a boy then a piece of land is to be bought for him; and

(9) rest of est. to wife (name not given), for life.

Exs: wife, Gideon MACON and Adkin MC LEMORE, Wit: Solomon ALSTON, JR, James JONES, Edward JONES. Id. P. 31.

Notes:

Abraham Macklemore (was) settled on the banks of the Roanoke River, just across the Virginia-North Carolina line following its establishment by the Byrd Commission in 1728. (James L. McLemore, III, p 36). He appeared to have married first the daughter of Abraham EVANS, who owned land near Richard WASHINGTON and who devised land to Abraham Macklemore, presumably his son-in-law. However, EVANS' daughter apparently died childless not too long after her father, leaving Macklemore disinherited of his 70 acre devise, but free to marry, about 1720, his second wife Mary YOUNG. (James L. McLemore, III pp. 37 - 38).

There are some deed records in Bertie County, North Carolina (from which Northampton County was formed in 1741) for Abraham. This is further evidence that their (Abraham and James) earlier deed records may have been in Prince George and thus may not have survived. Besides all of James' lands, Abraham may have already owned some of his lands as well (perhaps acquired while it was still part of Virginia) by the time the first North Carolina deed involving him was recorded. This deed, dated August 11, 1730, was from Abraham Macklemore to William Person for two acres on Stonehouse (or Beaver Dam) Creek in Northwest Parish of Bertie Precinct (Bertie Deed Book C, p 354). This land was probably cut from land he already owned, but he shortly thereafter acquired a sizeable tract of 625 acres from Barnebee MACKINNE, a former Isle of Wight County, Virginia resident. This plantation was located in Northwest Parish of Bertie County (where both men claimed residence), on the North side of the old Morratock River, on the old COUNTRY (not county) line, which formed the northern boundary line of the property. This was obviously a reference to the old colonial boundry before the 1728 survey moved it northward. Five years later, he purchased 100 acres on "Pigeons Ruste Creek" on Morratock River, at "old country line", from Anthony GANT of Edgecombe, by deed dated May 8, 1734 (Bertie Deed Book D, p, 155). (James L. McLemore, III, pp 40-41).

Abraham's Will was signed 4 Jan 1735 and lists three children Atkins, Young and William in addition to his wife Mary. Original Will on file in NC State Archives.

Dated 4 Jan 1735, Nov Ct 1736

"... being weak in body ..."

Son Atkin macklemore - Negro Judey, to possess said Negro at the age of twenty-one and not before. Sons Young Macklemore and William - Negro Joan, but if either of my two youngest sons dies before the age of twenty-one the other will inherit his share. Son Atkin - 200 acres belonging to my upper plantation. Son Young - my manner plantation after my wife's decease. Rest of estate to my wife (unnamed).

Ex. Wife

Wit: William Gillim, William Clanton, Joseph Brady

(Probate indicates Mary Macklemore was the executrix named in the will).

(Extract courtesy of Mark Freeman)

The following information about Abraham was posted to the McLemore GenForum by Gayle Zent in January, 1999:

The second son was Abraham, his will was written in 1736, 3 yrs after his brother's will was written. He left 200 acres of upper plantation , a manor plantation, helped lay out Warren Co NC & became a wealthy landowner. We have records in 1778 that enters 500 & then 200 acres in Biredie Co to Abraham. He was a commisioner in the county of Warrenton in 1779 & he had a gun factory during the Revolutionary War.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/mclemore/messages/87.html

And this was posted at http://www.unsolvedancestry.com/awards.asp:

Abraham could have been married to an Evans, daughter of Abraham Evans and Elizabeth Lucas before 1719. "Abraham Evans wrote his will in 1708, died (and his will was probated) in 1712, in which he willed 70 acres to Abraham Macklemore, and the heirs of his body (meaning on condition that he have children [implied by his wife, Evans' daughter]). Abraham had no children by her, so he lost the land, and instead moved to NC with his brother, and either after or more likely before doing so he married as his second wife Mary Young, mother of his three sons." - Mary Young (Abraham's wife) may be related to an earlier Mary (Cary) Young, daughter of John Cary of Surry Co. VA.

(Medical):Two descendants of Abraham, both men still bearing the McLemore surname, participated in the MORRISON DNA Study.

http://www.geneticcousins.com/morrison/

The main purpose of this study was to prove that the immigrant founders of this family in America, James Macklemore and Abraham Macklemore, were brothers. If brothers, then the y-DNA of the direct male descendants of both men would match. However, Instead of proving that all McLemore men? at least those that can trace their ancestry back to an early southern McLemore forebearer---share the same DNA, it appears that we have AT LEAST two distinct yDNA groups, with three more potential distinct yDNA McLemore lines. The first group of McLemore DNA is the largest, with ten members, in the R1b1a2 haplogroup. Two of the nine can trace their lines back to Abraham Macklemore, the husband of Mary Young and probable brother of James Macklemore. Another member (m268) can trace himself back to Moses McLemore b. ca. 1738 who is thought to be a son of Wright McLemore, grandson of William Macklemore, and great-grandson of immigrant James McLemore, thought to be the brother of Abraham. If both these members are correct in their paper trails, and if Amos can be indeed be proven to be a great-grandson of James Macklemore, then the assumption that James and Abraham have a common paternal ancestor is likely correct as descendants of both men share the same yDNA. The R1b1 DNA haplogroup, is the most common in Western Europe.

Abraham married Mary Young about 1720. Mary was born before 1702; died after Feb 1737 in Northhampton County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The last record of Mary Macklemore is a deed dated February 8, 1736/7, in which she conveyed to son ATKINS (then about age 13) a feather bed and furniture, two pewter dishes and three plates, one iron pot, one young horse, nine heads of cattle, one-half of the total stock of "hoggs", and "one survey of land above the Pigeon Roost." To her son YOUNG she gave a negro girl named "Feeby", a feather bed and furniture, one iron pot, three pewter dishes, three plates, eight heads of cattle, the other half of the hog stock, and a "survey of land below William GILLUM" and the next colt or filly to come from her mare. This deed was admitted to record at the February Court, 1738/9 (Bertie Deed Book 4, p. 413). (James L. McLemore, III, p 43).