Dear Marsha,
I am a descendant of Elizabeth Causey Dawson through her dau Nancy Dawson
who married Thomas Saxton in Guilford County, NC in 1790. THEIR dau,
Parthena Gray Dawson Saxton, married Joseph M. Welborn, the grandson of
Mattie McFarlane McGee Bell, a heroine of the American Revolution. Her
daughter, Elizabeth Ellen Welborn Hinshaw, was my great grandmother. She
married James Madison Hinshaw June 7, 1857, in Guilford County.
I would be interested in any additional information your can extract about
this family. What was the source of the will? Many thanks for your
interesting note.
William Hinshaw
----- Original Message -----
From: Marsha McWilliams <rmmcw(a)effingham.net>
To: <CAUSEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 6:02 PM
Subject: [CAUSEY-L] 2 CAUSEY wills
Hi Everyone,
In yesterday's snailmail I received copies of 2 original CAUSEY wills.
One
was that of a William CAUSEY which was written Feb. 13, 1781,
Caroline
Co.,
MD, names daughter Priscilla, Elizabeth Dawson (wife of Daniel),
Sarah
Fisher (wife of John Fisher) and a daughter's name I cannot make out:
____tia POLK, wife of Zeporiah Polk, sons William and Isaac. There is
another son whose given name goes off the right hand margin. Does anyone
know what his name may have been?
I also received Frederick CAUSEY's will, dated Apr., 1787, prob. June,
1787
in which he names his son, Peter Taylor CAUSEY and wife, Ann. I
believe
she
was Ann CAUSEY who married William ANDERSON (a Nicolite marriage) on
Aug.
31, 1791. Does anyone happen to know what her maiden name might have
been?
Possibly TAYLOR?
These wills are hard to read and I have very little experience in doing
so.
But, if there's further interest in them I'll try my best,
just let me
know.
Marsha McWilliams
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