Re: Early Easts in SC
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Re: Early Easts in SC
Clovis Byars Herring 3/29/08
A little info on Elizabeth East:
Elizabeth East-Elkins may had died at the birth of her last child James in 1809. James may have been named after Elizabeth's father.
10 Sep 1787 - Henry Co VA (Power of Attorney)
JAMES EAST appoints JAMES EAST, SR my lawful attorney to act to receive a
certain sum of money due me the 1st day of March 1788 from John Watson &
Samuel C. Morris as appears by bonds dated 30 Oct 1785.
Wit: MARY EAST, SARAH BRADBERRY
(Note:These witnesses wereJames Jr's sisters, Mary who later
married Matthew Galloway & Sarah who married Lewis Bradbury.Other
sisters were Elizabeth who married William Elkins & Jean who married
William Finch. All of these sisters also settled in Oglethorpe Co GA.
William Elkins b 1751 d. 8-12-1828 in GA son of William Elkins b. 11-9-1703 d. 1780
Revolutionary patriot, a native of Henry County, Virginia served in the Virginia Militia. About 1791 William and his family moved to Oglethorpe county Georgia. From there several of his children moved to Alabama settling in Lawrence County.
I, JOHN HARDMAN of Henry County do impower my son William Hardman to sell my land on Grassey Creek or trade it to any advantage that suits him to discharge my debt with him.Also to pay him the 20 pounds I owe him.Wit:JAMES EAST, WILLIAM ELKINS
William Elkins , then living in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, paid the $19.00 grant fee and accepted his 202 1/2 acre grant in Land Lot 336 of the 18th District of Henry County on November 1, 1823. ()
William was born in 1760, in the English Colony of Virginia. He was 15 when the Revolutionary War started with the "shot heard around the world" at Lexington. At the age of 17, he signed the Oath of Allegiance in Henry County, Virginia, and served in James Tarrant's Company, Col. Abram Penn's Regiment of the Virginia Militia, until the war ended in October of 1781. William, the boy of 17, joined this fight for the rights of Englishmen in the 13 colonies, and came home to Henry County a man who had played a first-hand part in the creation of an independent nation...The United States of America.
The Treaty of Paris declared November 3, 1783 as the day for the Army to disband. Less than two months later, on December 24, 1783, William married Elizabeth East in Henry County, Virginia. They had a daughter Nancy, born c1784, and a son Thomas, born c1788. Thomas was just two years old when on the second Saturday of October, 1790, William and Elizabeth both requested letters of dismission from the Beaver Creek Church near Martinsville, Virginia.
William and Elizabeth migrated to Georgia in 1791. They established a home in Wilkes County (later to be Oglethorpe when it was formed from Wilkes and Clarke in 1793). Their family grew with the birth of sons, Joseph, born in 1791, and Erwin, born c1795. A daughter Fanny was born c1800, and their last son James, was born c1807. Their oldest daughter Nancy married Alexander Carruth on January 16, 1805, and Thomas married Ann Pope on March 13, 1809.
The records clearly indicate that William and Elizabeth had done very well in their new home in Georgia. William bought and sold numerous tracts of land and at one time he owned 344 acres on the North fork of Cloud Creek, 340 acres and a Corn Mill on Cloud Creek, another 202 1/2 acres, almost a hundred head of cattle, oxen, sheep, horses, and hogs.
After over twenty years of success in Georgia, and countless blessings, tragedy struck this frontier family. The records are not clear why, but Elizabeth East Elkins, the wife of William, the mother of these children, died.
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