Elizabeth Gwin

Information from Lloyd D. Ellis:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dubart&id...

ID: I955

• Name: Elizabeth GWIN
• RFN: 955
• Change Date: 15 AUG 2000
• Sex: F
• Birth: Note: Maiden name unknown.
• Marriage 1 Mordecai GWIN b: 1736 in Ireland or Wales
  • Married: 1752 in SC ?
  • Note: IGI shows married in SC, but could have been NC, and if so, the marriage probably took place in the Granville/Orange County area.

Children:

• 1. John b ca 1753
• 2. Alexander b ca 1755
• 3. James b ca 1757
• 4. Margaret b ca 1759
• 5. Jane b ca 1761

Children

• 1. Margaret GWIN b: 28 MAR 1760 in Orange Co.,, NC
• 2. Rev. James A. GWIN b: 1768 in Orange Co.,, NC
• 3. Jane GWIN b: 16 FEB 1762 in Orange Co.,, NC

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On the birth and death location:

http://www.gwingenealogy.net/GENEALOGY/SURNAMES/Gwin/GwinMordecai.h...

In a paper written by a grandson he states that his grandfather Mordecai died before he was born, so he did not know him, but his grandmother Elizabeth Gwin lived with them at Hamilton Station in TN were he was born. Elizabeth (he forgot her last name) was born on shipboard.

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On the location of Hamilton's Station:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/early30.htm

During the year (1788) Capt. John CARR and others built a fort on top of the ridge in the western portion of Sumner County. It was called the Ridge, or Hamilton's Station. This was located six miles north of Shackle Island and near what is now known as Cummings' Gap.