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Although many SAXON researchers believed for a long while that Samuel SAXON's wife (mentioned in his 1766 Halifax Co., NC will) was Mary YANCEY, some of us have since come to the conclusion that while Samuel's first wife (and the mother of most of his children) was most likely a YANCEY, the wife mentioned in his will was Mary BROWN, da. of Richard BROWN (who died testate in Brunswick Co., VA ca 1773-1774) and his wife Frances (SEXTON?).
Samuel SAXON's first wife apparently died before 1748. Samuel's will indicates that his son John SAXON was under 20 years of age in 1766, and that his mother was still living (indicating that Mary was his mother): "If John Saxon should die before he is married or before the age of Twenty Years old, My Will is that his Estate should be Equal Devided Between all his Brothers and His sisters after his Mother’s Decease."
Samuel's other six children (Benjamin, Bethiah, Charles, Benajah, Archelaus, and Samuel) seem to have been older than John, and were probably children of Samuel's first wife, who was probably an unidentified sister of Archelaus YANCEY and daughter of Charles and Mary (BARTLETT) YANCEY.
Samuel's widow Mary (BROWN) SAXON married again to John HARDAWAY on 26 Jan 1774 in Brunswick Co., VA, and to Elisha CLARK on 31 Jan 1783, also in Brunswick Co. [On 30 June 1795 in Brunswick Co., one Mary CLARKE married William Thomas PENNINGTON--this may be the same Mary, and her fourth marriage.]
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