James Gentry, Sr.

http://www.gentryjournal.org/tree/James_2-4.pdf

James Gentry Jr, and wife, Sarah, moved in about 1783 from Virginia, probably Louisa County, to Guilford County, North Carolina. (Guilford County was divided in 1785 with the creation of Rockingham County). James was the son of James Gentry Sr. of Louisa and Hanover County, Virginia

The only recorded marriage for James was to Sarah Dickerson (in Louisa County in 1778)<3a>. Sarah was certainly not the mother of his children and this must have been a second marriage for her as well as for James. (She was a beneficiary named in the will of her mother, Sarah Jones in Guilford County, dated 1787<2b>. This latter circumstance suggests that Sarah was considerably younger than James, whose date of birth has been estimated as about 1732.)