James Meredith, Jr.

James Meredith

• Birth: ca 1747
• Death: ca 1845 Age: 98
• Father: James Meredith (ca1715-1790)
• Mother: Mildred Bagby (ca1725-1796)

DAR Ancestor #: A077576

From http://heathcock.org/genealogy/ps02/ps02_154.html

Notes for James (Spouse 1)

James MEREDITH, Jr. born about 1747, Louisa or Hanover County, Virginia, occupation farmer/weaver, married 1769, in Bedford County, Virginia, to Mary CREWS, born 1752, (daughter of Hardy CREWS and Phoebe DOOCHEE). Mary died in.1823 in Stokes County, North Carolina. James death has been given as between 1820-30; however, in the Draper Papers a letter from John Meredith (grandson of James, Jr.) to Lyman Draper says that "my grandfather was 98 years and 14 days old when he died" which would make the death date later than previously estimated.

James Meredith served 24 days in the Light Horse & Independent Co of Foot under Capt. Thomas Wade on "an expedition to Cross Creek against the Insurgents" February 1776 and also was a patriot, furnishing supplies to the militia of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia as shown by records of the NC Historical Society and Army Accounts of the Revolutionary War in NC.

In the Draper Manuscripts a letter to Lyman Draper from John Meredith (son of David who was son of James, Jr) says "I wrote my father after I came from Wayne Co. this State to this county to know the date of my grandfather's birth and death and his own birth and he sent me the date of his own birth and that my grandfather [note: James Meredith, Jr] was 98 years and 14 days old when he died and that is all I know about it. My father was born the 19th of Dec 1769 in Virginia. My grandfather was in the Guilford battle at Martinsville(?) (note: three words not legible]___ ___ ___ of Mar 1781. After peace was made we went to NC and buy land near the battle ground. At the time they moved my father was 16 yrs old. He remained in NC until his death, My grandfather lived in Hanover Co., VA [note: 2 words not legible___ ___] previous to his moving to NC....."

James Meredith married Mary Crews who was half Cherokee and a Quaker. All sources agree that Mary Crews was half Indian; however, the efforts of many of her descendants to receive Cherokee citizenship were denied by the Dawes Commission. Mary was educated at New Garden Quaker Seminary, North Carolina.

References

1. Joseph Tabbi's Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis, was published by Northwestern University Press in May 2015. < GoogleBooks >
2. https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/james-meredith_4756458