James Roach

James Roach BIRTH 1745 Virginia, USA DEATH Apr 1792 (aged 46–47) Saxapahaw, Alamance County, North Carolina, USA BURIAL Thompson Family Cemetery Alamance County, North Carolina, USA MEMORIAL ID 99586249 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 16 IF YOU COPY THIS MEMORIAL PLEASE LEAVE MY NAME ON IT, For relatives to contact Me James Roach was perhaps born in Virginia, He came to Orange County NC, by 1774 w/wife Ann and son Absolum... NOTE: This James Roach was NOT in the Rev War ~~~~~*~~~~~~~*~~~~~ James was of English Ancestry. Ann's maiden name is still unproven,they had at least eight children, It is "NOT" known when/where Ann Roach died, Ann had re-married in 1798 to Jno Redding ~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~ NOTE: Autosomal and Y-DNA shows 0 Native American Blood in this line

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James Roach was an educated man and owned a small plantation of 182 acres on the Haw River, He may have grown Tobacco,near the area of Saxapahaw (now in Alamance Co.) His land bordered the Thomas Thompson land, Thompson'had a Grist Mill on the river

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James Roach may have been buried in a family cemetery on his own land (that may no longer exist)possibly even in the Thompson Cemetery as they were at the least neighbors & friends, if not relatives ~~~~~~*~~~~~*~~~~~ NOTE:Y-DNA of 8 Roach men has disproved any link to tested descendants of Henry & Catherine Roach of New Kent Co VA. or to Littleberry Roach of NC & SC. they do not match James Roach'descendants

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James Roach wrote his Will: 11 Feb 1792-Estate proven May Term 1792

Family Members Spouse Ann Roach Redding 1747–1810 (m. 1778)

Children Photo Absalom Roach 1770–1840

Photo Drury Roach 1789–1876

Photo John Green Roach 1790–1867

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Created by: Shar R. Added: 25 Oct 2012 Find a Grave Memorial 99586249 Source citation