Elizabeth "Betsey" Wilkins

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 2 2020, 19:24:55 UTC

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• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 7 2020, 20:09:50 UTC

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Wikipedia's "Northampton County, Virginia" article does not mention a community named Yadkin. Note that the Yadkin River passes through counties that are immediately east of Cherokee County, South Carolina. Further research is warranted.

NOTES FROM JASON: Genealogists have often mistaken Elizabeth Terrell (1756-1820), whose daughter Jane Wilkins married William Austell Jr., with Amelia, wife of William Austell Sr. Elizabeth was a daughter of Timothy Terrell, not Amelia Austell. Timothy Terrell did have a daughter named Milly but she is largely believed to have married a Crutchfield and died in Chatham Co., NC in 1828. No evidence she is Milly Austell.

Here is Elizabeth Terrell Wilkins from Terrell genealogists: http://www.terrellsociety.com/genealogy/documents/TerrellExcerpt_Ki...

Elizabeth Terrell Wilkins died in 1820. Amelia Austell died in 1808. Notice how none of the names in the Terrell family ended up in the Austell family. No Jemimah, Ruth, Solomon, Micajah, Keziah, Daniel, Richard, Timothy, Nimrod, Simon, Moses or Aaron. The families were not related in this generation.

Amelia Austell was more likely a daughter of Samuel Duncan of Newberry Co., SC. See findagrave.com memorial. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203674578/amelia-austell

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NOTE FROM JASON: This is not erroneous! Aug. 7, 1808 is from the earliest source of her death date: a transcript by Mary Shields Shore (died 1988) of William Austell Jr's family bible which dated to the early 1800s. You can find Mrs. Shore's work in the book section of Familysearch.org. Note: there is no mention of a birth date or parents in the family bible. The date April 7, 1747 is a fabrication.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203674578/amelia-austell

Amelia Duncan Austell BIRTH 1746 Fairfax County, Virginia, USA DEATH 7 Aug 1808 (aged 61–62) Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA BURIAL Burial Details Unknown, Specifically: Likely buried in a private family burial ground in the vicinity of Thicketty, South Carolina that has since been lost. MEMORIAL ID 203674578 · View Source

Amelia Austell's likely father, Samuel Duncan, was born near Dundee, Scotland, according to a biography of his grandson, and fled the turmoil created by the Jacobin Rebellion of August 1745 - April 1746. Having married, and possibly fathered his eldest daughter in Scotland, he and his small family settled in Fairfax County, Virginia, where he bought land in the Quaker settlement of Goose Creek on July 18, 1748. He evidently had a brother or cousin named Richard Duncan, who bought land there just four days earlier and settled near him much later in South Carolina.

Between 1758 and 1762, Samuel Duncan was enumerated in the tithable lists of Cameron Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia, where the Austells also lived. The Duncans and Austells were both "lapsed" or non-practicing Quakers who did not attend meetings but preferring living within Quaker communities. Hannah Austell witnessed a Quaker marriage in Goose Creek Parish in January 1762, and Isaac Austell had property on Goose Creek neighboring several known Quakers.

In 1765, preparing for a big move, Samuel Duncan had 400 acres surveyed for him on Bush River adjacent Mathias Elmore and William Hilbourn in old Craven County, South Carolina, granted in 1769 (Land plat 11-41, Royal Land Grant 16&18-541, Memorial 8-535).

After 18 years in Virginia, the Duncans sold their land in Loudoun County, Virginia (formed from Fairfax in 1757) on October 11, 1766 and moved to another Quaker colony, the Bush River Friends Community of Berkeley County (later to become Newberry County), South Carolina. The Austells had sold their own land in Virginia just five months earlier. In South Carolina, Samuel Duncan had property surveyed adjacent to land laid out for William Austell in February 1767, and when Duncan died in 1770, Austell bought up a large section of his property from his widow.

Perhaps most tellingly, the given names of Samuel Duncan's children and grandchildren include Sarah (Sally), Amelia, Amos, and Samuel, names that were carried on in the Austell family. Given that the name Amelia appears in the families of two of Samuel's children that had a tendency to name their own children after their siblings, there seems to be an undocumented Amelia among the children of Samuel and Sarah Duncan. The evidence clicks together very well with Amelia Austell.

According to a lost Austell family bible transcribed by Mary Shields Shore (1910-1982), Amelia "Milly" Austell died August 7, 1808.

(Bio and research by Jason M. Farrell)

Family Members Spouse William Austell 1745–1781

Children Sally Austell Stacy 1767–1828

Photo Nancy Austell Atkinson 1771–1850

Photo William Austell 1777–1842