Young McLemore

Notes:

Young followed his brother Atkins westward. After buying 100 acres from Atkins in 1753, then selling 100 acres to Edward Robertson with Atkins in 1755, Young also began operations in Granville County, buying 275 acres there on both sides of Shocco Creek by deed witnessed by his brother.

Sept. 18, 1759 - Littlebury Swinney also White, aged 9 yrs May 15, 1759, bound to Young McLemore "to learn the business of a Planter and to have a years Schooling", said McLemore "at the time of his freedom" agrees to give him "a young Horse Bridle & Saddle & decert suit of Cloaths." (Source: Bastardy Bonds from Granville County, N.C., 1749-1780, as transcribed at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgranvi/other/bas-bond.htm)

Young remained for a time, however, in Northampton County, serving in 1760 in that county's militia as a private in the cavalry troop of Capt. Henry Dawson. He was granted, also in 1760, 640 acres on both sides of Flat Creek in Granville County, and from then on made his home there. He picked up an additional 543 acres at the head of Shocco Creek, near his earlier tract, in February 1762.

Within three months, in May 1762, Young sold 200 acres on the north side of Shocco Creek, adjoining Ward and Macon. He was joined in this deed by his wife, Lucy. Thereafter, his lands seem to share a jurisdictional history similiar to Atkins', being found first in Granville County (where Young witnessed two deeds in 1763), then in Bute County (where he also witnessed a deed in 1766), then in Warren County (where he picked up four extra acres on the South Side of Sandy Creek in 1779), and finally in Franklin County where both he and his son Young Jr. were heads of household in the first U.S. Census of 1790.

On the last day of 1803, Young McLemore signed his will, and it was probated in Williamson County in April 1804. His principal legatees were his daughter Sukey GRAY and her children, though he mentioned another granddaughter as well. He is also known to have had at least two sons, Young Jr. and Nathaniel. His wife, Lucy died shortly before he did in 1803.

(James L. McLemore, III. pp 45-46).

Will Book 1800-1812, pp. 10-11:
April 1804: Young McLEMORE
named:
dtr Sukey GRAY
gson Young A. GRAY
gdtr Polly W. DICKSON
gdtr Sukey M. L. GRAY
gson James McK. [McL.?] GRAY
gdtr Sally S. GRAY
gson Henry K. GRAY
"I desire $1000 to be paid out of my estate toward the payment of the large tract of land that James GRAY bought of Gene ROBERTSON provided that the said GRAY divides the same equally between his two sons James M. K. GRAY and Henry K. GRAY, reserving to his wife" permission to live there until she dies

Family/Spouse: Lucy Nicholson. Lucy was born about 1743; died about 1803 in Williamson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Carleton Bulkin cites tax records as confirming that she died close to 1821 rather than as early as 1807.

Sukey married James Gray after 1783 in North Carolina. James was born before 1765; died on 26 Sep 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert McLemore Butler notes show that a Phillemon McLemore was born in 1796, a Priscilla McLemore was born in 1807, and a Sally McLemore was born in 1809, all to a Young McLemore living in New Hanover, North Carolina.