Jeremiah York, I

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Biography

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147638396/jeremiah-york

Jeremiah York I is the first child of five or six children born to Richard York II and Ann Seymour. Jeremiah was christened on 9 September 1683 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Most likely at the St Peter and St Paul Church where the famous John Newton was later the preacher.

It is believed that Jeremiah York I, age 25, first married in 1708 to Sarah Seymour, age 16, perhaps the daughter of John Seymour and his wife Johanna Kennedy. Sarah Seymour is alleged to be a cousin of Jeremiah. Jeremiah York I and his wife Sarah Seymour had two known children. There may have been more children, yet undiscovered or some may have died as infants. Her first born child in 1708 is believed to be John York named after her father John Seymour. Another child is believed to be Richard York IV born in 1715 at Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Sarah Seymour most likely died in 1715 at age 23 perhaps from complications at child birth of Richard York IV. It is suggested shortly after the death of Sarah, that Jeremiah York I, as a devastated widower husband, arranged for himself and his young son John to sail to America in about 1717. Jeremiah may have received some money from the Seymour family to pay for the voyage to America at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to start a new life. Jeremiah and his young son John are believed to have settled in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. There Jeremiah York is found in the Chester County, West Nottingham tax lists period from 1718 to 1729.

Widower Jeremiah York I, age 38 with a young son John York from his first marriage, most likely married a second time in 1721 in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Sarah Ann Wilson, age 23. Sarah was the daughter of John Wilson and Ruth Childs of adjacent Ceil County, Maryland.

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Another source says Jeremiah was born in Yorkshire, England.

The following excerpts were found on the internet, titled "Ratliff - Smith Genealogy" by (I believe) Lydia York.

"Jeremiah appears on the tax records of West Nottingham Township, Chester Co, PA between the years 1718-1729.

In 1722 Jeremiah was devised personal property in the will of John Wilson of Cecil Co, MD which borders West Nottingham Township, Chester Co, PA.

It appears that Jeremiah and his family moved from Chester Co, PA to the Pipe Creek area of Prince George Co, MD (later Frederick County, MD) in about 1729-1730. It is believed that he moved on to Jefferson Co, West Virginia ( "old" Frederick County, VA) before 1733.

Jeremiah was certainly living in "old" Frederick County, on part of a 1200 acre tract of land called "Terrapin Neck", by 25 October 1736. The "Terrapin Neck tract had been purchased by John Browning from Jost Hite who had James Wood make a survey on 10 November 1735. Hite, one of the Palatine Germans, had moved into this area of "old" Frederick county, VA sometime between 21 October 1731 and 28 November 1732 and acquired large tracts on condition that he induces settlers to come and take up land there. It is not unlikely that Yorke was one such settler. Most probably, Jeremiah Yorke moved into this area in late 1732 or early 1733. After the death of Browning, this 1200 acre tract was cut into three parts and conveyed to the following men - Jeremiah Yorke Sr, Vachel Medcalfe and Van Swearingen.

Later Jeremiah received a Fairfax grant for 323 acres of the NE most part of the Browning tract. This was on 7 June 1751. Called "Jeremiah Yorke Sr", he sold this 323 acres to William Chapline on 4 July 1753. The chain carriers on the survey were Thomas Yorke and Davis Yorke who were almost certainly Jeremiah's sons. The name John Yorke also appears in the records of "old" Frederick County, VA when he and Thomas Yorke were chain carriers in a survey of a tract on Opeckon Creek made in 1763. His son, Jeremiah York Jr was living on an adjacent tract on 13 July 1773 when Joseph Mitchell received a Fairfax grant "on Great Cacepehon" which is a river in what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia. It is possible that Jeremiah Sr moved to NC about the time he sold his land to William Chapline. It is possible Jeremiah Sr was in his 60's, possibly older, when he sold his land."

The York's Settle in Randolph County, North Carolina

The York pioneers were among the first settlers to the North Carolina colony. They came to the Piedmont area with other families: Adridges, Allreds, Julians, Lindermans, Pughs, Trogdons, Whites and others. They walked south in the wilderness on the Wagon Road for weeks or months, following their possessions loaded on the wagon and horse. They brought with them animals to stock their new farms. The North Carolina Piedmont area offered safety from Indian attacks, a mild climate, and cheap farm land or land grants to those arriving and seeking a better living for their families. those who came as farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, and tradesmen were self-reliant, independent, and hardworking.

Their route will be traced south on the Great Wagon Road as they migrated from Pennsylvania, some stopping in Virginia for a while, then forced to flee the Indian massacres and wars to North Carolina. The numerous families of Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotsmen andGermans intermarried. The language barrier was overcome, but they were divided mainly into two groups that had clashing beliefs which led to the Revolutionary war: The Patriots, many of whom were Scotch Irish and favored independence from Great Britain and the Crown; the Loyalists, many of whom were Scotch Highlanders and were loyal to England.

Jeremiah York's sons had settled as early as 1750 on land at Sandy Creek, North Carolina in an area of Orange County that was later split into Randolph County. Jeremiah arrived later, perhaps as early as 1753. Many families of Yorks' descended from this man. Some sons and grandchildren of Jeremiah lived and died in North Carolina while others crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains into Tennessee and Kentucky and others migrated to Illinois and Indiana. Jeremiah, the progenitor of the York line in Randolph County, North Carolina died there after having lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland and west Virginia. Newly uncovered information that he was in West Virginia was found in the well documented book, PIONEERS O OLD FREDERICK County, VIRGINIA (1995). That confirmed the theory that Jeremiah, after living in Pennsylvania and Maryland, was in Great Cacapon, Virginia (now West Virginia) before moving to North Carolina where he lived and died on his son Semore's plantation."

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Jeremiah York I is the first child of five or six children born to Richard York II and Ann Seymour. Jeremiah was christened on 9 September 1683 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Most likely at the St Peter and St Paul Church where the famous John Newton was later the preacher.

It is believed that Jeremiah York I age 25 first married in 1708 to his proposed first cousin Sarah Seymour age 16 the daughter of John Seymour and his wife Johanna Kennedy. Jeremiah York I and his wife Sarah Seymour had perhaps two or more children. Her first born child in 1708 is believed to be John York named after her father John Seymour. Another child is believed to be Richard York IV born in 1715 at Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England before her alleged death in 1715 at age 23 perhaps from complications at child birth of Richard York IV. It is proposed shortly after her death the devastated widower husband Jeremiah York I with his young son John sailed to America about 1717 to the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA to start a new life. Jeremiah settled in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. There Jeremiah York is found in the tax lists period from 1718 to 1729.

Widower Jeremiah York I, age 38 with a young son John York from his first marriage, most likely married a second time in 1721 in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Sarah Ann Wilson, age 23. Sarah was the daughter of John Wilson and Ruth Childs of nearby Ceil County, Maryland.

Jeremiah most likely was a friend and acquaintance of Ruth Childs, the mother of Sarah Ann Wilson born in 1678 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Jeremiah had apparently become good friends with John Wilson as indicated by her father's will who devised a calf from his farm. It is reasonable to believe Jeremiah York I was a very good friend of both John Wilson and his wife Ruth Childs the parents of Sarah Ann Wilson.

We know from the tax lists of West Nottingham, Jeremiah lived in Chester County until about 1729 or 1730. The first seven children of Jeremiah and Sarah were born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Sometime after listing his taxes in 1729; Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson left their home in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania due to the dispute by two different Governors over taxes. The Governor in Pennsylvania and the Governor in Maryland, tried to collect property taxes both claiming the property they lived on. Years later this was settled by the famous survey by Mason & Dixon to establish the boundary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The West Nottingham Tax district became part of Cecil County, Maryland after the Mason and Dixon line settlement.

Jeremiah and Sarah migrated west in about 1729/1730 with seven young children most likely traveling west on the old Monocracy Wagon Road. They arrived in the Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland between the Little and Big Pipe Creeks. It is believed by Genealogist Dennis York this is in the vicinity south of the village of Keymar, Maryland. This area is on the Monocracy Road, an old wagon road from Philadelphia. An extensive tour and an interview with a local historian in this geographical area in 2003 was most convincing as the temporary home where two sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community area was most probably south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland on the Monocracy Road. This is now highway 194 in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N – Longitude 77.242133 W) that fronted on the Monocracy Road on the banks of the Little Pipe Creek west of the Union Bridge Community.

In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge Lester, there is a record that states that Jeremiah's son Henry York was born on Pipe Creek on 6 Aug 1732. This Pipe Creek community was then in Monocracy Hundreds of Prince Georges County, Maryland for which a 1733 tax list exists. However, Jeremiah York is not listed on this tax list suggesting he had moved west into colonial Frederick County, Virginia before 1733 into an area that is today in Jefferson County, West Virginia.

By 1732/1733 the Jeremiah York I family with nine young children migrated further west to a new homestead on the beautiful "Terrapin Neck" peninsular. The Jeremiah York family was certainly living in Frederick County, Virginia Colony on part of a 2,300 acre tract of land called "Terrapin Neck”, high plateau south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736. This was his home as shown on surveys by both Benjamin Winslow and William Mayo maps.

The "Terrapin Neck" tract had been purchased by John Browning from Jost Hite who had James Wood make a survey on 10 Nov 1735. Jost Hite was one of the affluent Palatine Germans who settled in Virginia as a land promoter, a colonial real estate agent.

This Hite family was most likely known by Jeremiah York I because both families had lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania before arriving in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. It is not unlikely that Jeremiah York was one of the first settlers. More probably, Jeremiah York moved into 323 acres of land on “Terrapin Neck” in late 1732 or early 1733 from the Pipe Creek settlement and positively we know by 1736. The Jeremiah York I family was part of this early land development of the Northern Neck of colonial Virginia.

Two more children were added to the Jeremiah York I family at Terrapin Neck; Joseph York in 1734 and Sarah 'Elizabeth' York in 1735. There were two older sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Elijah and Jesse York according to the research of Dr. Ron York descendant of Jeremiah York II.

Jeremiah York I was age 70, when he sold his 323 ares of land to William Chapline on 4 Jul 1753. The chain bearers on the survey were Thomas York and David York, who were two of Jeremiah's sons. Thereafter perhaps Jeremiah lived temporarily with one of his sons likely as a widower on the “Great Cacepehon River” to the west of “Terrapin Neck”. Or he may have had an agreement with Chapline to stay in his home on Terrapin Neck for a while since Chapline had his own home on adjoining land or he could have stayed on his son Thomas’ land that adjoined Terrapin Neck. It is possible that Jeremiah York’s wife Sara Wilson perhaps died at “Terrapin Neck” about 1752. This may have been the event that led to the sale of his 323 acre “Terrapin Neck” property on the beautiful high bluffs of the Potomac River in 1753.

Jeremiah York I and his family of five sons and two daughters along with their minister Rev Elder Shubal Stearns migrated in wagon trains down the "Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia" through the Shenandoah Valley. They broke through the Appalachian Mountains at Roanoke, Virginia then continued into Colonial Orange County, North Carolina by the fall of 1755 into the Sandy Creek Settlement. This was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755. The York family is believed to have migrated into Colonial Orange (Now Randolph)County, North Carolina in the late summer of 1755. The eldest son, Semore York, secured 640 acres on Sandy Creek with a Granville Land grant in 1756. Semore provided 120 acres on the north side of his land grant for his father Jeremiah York I to live on. Semore York also donated two acres of land from his land grant for his pastor Rev Elder Shubal Stearns to created the historic Sandy Creek Baptist Church.

The name "David York" also appears on the land records of old Frederick County, Virginia when he and Thomas York were chain carriers in a land survey on a tract on Opequon Creek made in 1763. It is believed that these two brothers David and Thomas York had returned to Frederick County, Virginia from their new log cabins in the colonial North Carolina to settle the land they had left behind. This scenario is supported by the evidence the York family had already migrated into central North Carolina by 1755. John York (half brother) and his son John David York, Semore York and Henry York are listed on the Colonial Orange County, North Carolina 1755 Tax List. These four plus the remaining sons were on the first 1779 Tax List of Randolph County, North Carolina. Elijah & Jesse York, most likely continued living with or near Jeremiah York II at the Forks of Opequon in Virginia since they did not go south to North Carolina with the senior Jeremiah York I and other brothers.

We know Jeremiah York I lived in Colonial Orange County, North Carolina most likely until around 1765 or longer on 120 acres of land belonging to his son Semore York I. In the 1782 will of Semore York is a declaration that: "It is my will that my executors do make a deed for one hundred and twenty acres of land to my son in law John Welborn (husband of my daughter Sarah York) that my father formerly lived on and likewise a claim of land containing about eighty acres adjoining to the aforesaid land". This is found in the Randolph County, North Carolina Will Book 1, pages 8,9,&10.

The above time line was developed by the joint combined research of Dr. Ron York and Dennis York in ©2013 descendants of Jeremiah York I.

The son John York is from the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour. John York would need to be age 21 or more to be listing taxes in 1755, So he is believed to be the John York listed in the 1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List and the 1779 Randolph County, North Carolina Tax List.

The two surviving children of Sarah Seymour and Jeremiah York I are:

1. John York, b. 1708 England; d. 1781 NC

__1.1. John David "Davie" York, b. 1725 PA; d. 1792 NC

2. Richard York II, b. 1715 England; d. 1767 England

__2.1. John William York, b. 1740 England; d. 1829 SC

The ten children of Sarah Ann Wilson and Jeremiah York I are:

1. Hannah Jane York, b. 1722 PA; d. 1787 NC

2. Elijah York, b. 1723 PA; d. 1779 PA, killed by Indians while hunting and trapping.

3. Jesse York, b. 1724 PA; d. 1810 KY

4. Elizabeth "Betty" Ann York, b. 1726 PA; d. 1790 NC

5. Semore York I, b. 1727 PA; d. 1783 NC

6. Thomas York I, b. 1729 PA; d. 1790 NC

7. Jeremiah York II, b. 1730 MD; d. 1797 KY

8. Henry York, b. 1732 MD; d. 1817 NC

9. Joseph York, b. 1734 VA; d. 1809 MS/AL

10. Sarah 'Elizabeth' York, b. 1735 VA; d. 1777 NC

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jul 18 2018, 2:58:18 UTC

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowl...
and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/York-464
Show son Aaron 1738- ??

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wilson-39371
Shows son David ??

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Jeremiah York I is the first child of five or six children born to Richard York II and Ann Seymour. Jeremiah was christened on 9 September 1683 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Most likely at the St Peter and St Paul Church where the famous John Newton was later the preacher.

It is believed that Jeremiah York I, age 25, first married in 1708 to Sarah Seymour, age 16, perhaps the daughter of John Seymour and his wife Johanna Kennedy. Sarah Seymour is alleged to be a cousin of Jeremiah. Jeremiah York I and his wife Sarah Seymour had two known children. There may have been more children, yet undiscovered or some may have died as infants. Her first born child in 1708 is believed to be John York named after her father John Seymour. Another child is believed to be Richard York IV born in 1714 at Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Sarah Seymour most likely died in 1714 at age 22 perhaps from complications at child birth of Richard York IV. It is suggested shortly after the death of Sarah, that Jeremiah York I, as a devastated widower husband, arranged for himself and his young son John to sail to America in about 1717 with the family of his newly married sister, Ann Elizabeth YORK ALLRED. In addition, Jeremiah may have received some money from the Seymour family to pay for the voyage to America at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to start a new life.

Without any conflict, some Allred researchers including Dennis York are convinced of a significant timeline scenario that Solomon ALLRED I, age 30, is believed to have married in 1710 in Olney, Nottingham, England to 'Ann' Elizabeth YORK, age 22, daughter of Richard YORK II and Ann SEYMOUR. Their first child Solomon ALLRED II was born in Olney, Nottinghamshire, England on 1712. Likewise their second child Elizabeth ALLRED was born in Olney, Nottinghamshire, England on 1713. This my explain the five year birth gap between the second and third child born in 1718 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a likely window when they immigrated to America in about 1717. Ann Elizabeth YORK is the sister of Jeremiah YORK and their families were very close friends first in England. Most likely Jeremiah YORK I having just lost his first wife in England on 1714 had a new opportunity to voyage to America with his young son John YORK along with his younger married sister Ann Elizabeth YORK ALLRED and her two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED plus his new brother-in-law Solomon ALLRED I. The two month ocean voyage in about 1715 -1717 to America of Solomon ALLRED I, Ann Elizabeth YORK, his new wife with their two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED, Jeremiah YORK I with his young son John YORK created a bond between these two families that has endured for the centuries.

Jeremiah and his young son John are believed to have settled in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. There Jeremiah York is found in the Chester County, West Nottingham tax lists period from 1718 to 1729.

Widower Jeremiah York I, age 38 with a young son John York from his first marriage, most likely married a second time in 1721 in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Sarah Ann Wilson, age 23. Sarah was the daughter of John Wilson and Ruth Childs of adjacent Ceil County, Maryland.

Jeremiah most likely was a friend and acquaintance of Ruth Childs, the mother of Sarah Ann Wilson born in 1678 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Jeremiah had apparently become good friends with John Wilson as indicated by her father's will who devised a calf from his farm. It is reasonable to believe Jeremiah York I had become a very good friend of both John Wilson and his wife Ruth Childs, the parents of Sarah Ann Wilson.

We know from the tax lists of West Nottingham, Jeremiah lived in Chester County until about 1730. The first seven children of Jeremiah and Sarah were born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Sometime after listing his taxes in 1729; Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson left their home in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania due to the dispute by two different Governors over taxes. The Governor in Pennsylvania and the Governor in Maryland, tried to collect property taxes both claiming the property they lived on. Years later this was settled by the famous survey by Mason & Dixon to establish the boundary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The West Nottingham Tax district became part of Cecil County, Maryland after the Mason and Dixon line settlement.

Jeremiah and Sarah migrated west in about 1730 with seven young children most likely traveling west on the old Monocracy Wagon Road. They arrived in the Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland between the Little and Big Pipe Creeks. It is believed by Genealogist Dennis York this is in the vicinity south of the village of Keymar, Maryland. This area is on the Monocracy Road, an old wagon road from Philadelphia. An extensive tour and an interview with a local historian in this geographical area in 2003 was most convincing as the temporary home where two sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community area was most probably somewhere south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland on the Monocracy Road near little Pipe Creek. This is now highway 194 in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N – Longitude 77.242133 W) that fronted on the Monocracy Road on the banks of the Little Pipe Creek west of the Union Bridge Community. Union Bridge Community on Little Pipe Creek was not established until 1795 more than 50 years later than erroneously reported.

In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge Lester, there is a record that states that Jeremiah's son Henry York was born on Pipe Creek on 6 Aug 1732. This Pipe Creek community was then in Monocracy Hundreds of Prince Georges County, Maryland for which a 1733 tax list exists. However, Jeremiah York is not listed on this tax list suggesting he had moved west into colonial Frederick County, Virginia before 1733 into an area that is today in Jefferson County, West Virginia.

By 1732/1733 the Jeremiah York I family with nine young children migrated further west to a new homestead on the beautiful "Terrapin Neck" peninsular. The Jeremiah York family was certainly living in Frederick County, Virginia Colony on part of a 2,300 acre tract of land called "Terrapin Neck”, high plateau south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736. This was his home as shown on surveys by both Benjamin Winslow and William Mayo maps.

The "Terrapin Neck" tract had been purchased by John Browning from Jost Hite who had James Wood make a survey on 10 Nov 1735. Jost Hite was one of the affluent Palatine Germans who settled in Virginia as a land promoter, a colonial real estate agent.

This Hite family was most likely known by Jeremiah York I because both families had lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania before arriving in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. It is not unlikely that Jeremiah York was one of the first settlers. More probably, Jeremiah York moved into 323 acres of land on “Terrapin Neck” in late 1732 or early 1733 from the Pipe Creek settlement and positively we know by 1736. The Jeremiah York I family was part of this early land development of the Northern Neck of colonial Virginia.

Two more children were added to the Jeremiah York I family at Terrapin Neck; Joseph York in 1734 and Sarah 'Elizabeth' York in 1735. There were two older sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Elijah and Jesse York according to the research of Dr. Ron York descendant of Jeremiah York II.

Jeremiah York I was age 70, when he sold his 323 ares of land to William Chapline on 4 Jul 1753. The chain bearers on the survey were Thomas York and David York, who were two of Jeremiah's sons. Thereafter perhaps Jeremiah lived temporarily with one of his sons likely as a widower on the “Great Cacepehon River” to the west of “Terrapin Neck”. Or he may have had an agreement with Chapline to stay in his home on Terrapin Neck for a while since Chapline had his own home on adjoining land or he could have stayed on his son Thomas’ land that adjoined Terrapin Neck. It is possible that Jeremiah York’s wife Sara Wilson perhaps died at “Terrapin Neck” about 1752. This may have been the event that led to the sale of his 323 acre “Terrapin Neck” property on the beautiful high bluffs of the Potomac River in 1753.

Jeremiah York I and his family of five sons and two daughters along with their minister Rev Elder Shubal Stearns migrated in wagon trains down the "Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia" through the Shenandoah Valley. They broke through the Appalachian Mountains at Roanoke, Virginia then continued into Colonial Orange County, North Carolina by the fall of 1755 into the Sandy Creek Settlement. This was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755. The York family is believed to have migrated into Colonial Orange (Now Randolph)County, North Carolina in the late summer of 1755. The eldest son, Semore York, secured 640 acres on Sandy Creek with a Granville Land grant in 1756. Semore provided 120 acres on the north side of his land grant for his father Jeremiah York I to live on. Semore York also donated two acres of land from his land grant for his pastor Rev Elder Shubal Stearns to created the historic Sandy Creek Baptist Church.

The name "David York" also appears on the land records of old Frederick County, Virginia when he and Thomas York were chain carriers in a land survey on a tract on Opequon Creek made in 1763. It is believed that these two brothers David and Thomas York had returned to Frederick County, Virginia from their new log cabins in the colonial North Carolina to settle the land they had left behind. This scenario is supported by the evidence the York family had already migrated into central North Carolina by 1755. John York (half brother) and his son John David York, Semore York and Henry York are listed on the Colonial Orange County, North Carolina 1755 Tax List. These four plus the remaining sons were on the first 1779 Tax List of Randolph County, North Carolina. Elijah & Jesse York, most likely continued living with or near Jeremiah York II at the Forks of Opequon in Virginia since they did not go south to North Carolina with the senior Jeremiah York I and other brothers.

We know Jeremiah York I lived in Colonial Orange County, North Carolina most likely until around 1765 or longer on 120 acres of land belonging to his son Semore York I. In the 1782 will of Semore York is a declaration that: "It is my will that my executors do make a deed for one hundred and twenty acres of land to my son in law John Welborn (husband of my daughter Sarah York) that my father formerly lived on and likewise a claim of land containing about eighty acres adjoining to the aforesaid land". This is found in the Randolph County, North Carolina Will Book 1, pages 8,9,&10.

The above time line was developed by the joint combined research of Dr. Ron York and Dennis York in ©2013 descendants of Jeremiah York I.

The son John York is from the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour. John York would need to be age 21 or more to be listing taxes in 1755, So he is believed to be the John York listed in the 1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List and the 1779 Randolph County, North Carolina Tax List.

The two surviving children of Sarah Seymour and Jeremiah York I are:

1. John York, b. 1708 England; d. 1781 NC

__1.1. John David "Davie" York, b. 1725 PA; d. 1792 NC

2. Richard York II, b. 1715 England; d. 1767 England

__2.1. John William York, b. 1740 England; d. 1829 SC

The ten children of Sarah Ann Wilson and Jeremiah York I are:

1. Hannah Jane York, b. 1722 PA; d. 1787 NC

2. Elijah York, b. 1723 PA; d. 1779 PA, killed by Indians while hunting and trapping.

3. Jesse York, b. 1724 PA; d. 1810 KY

4. Elizabeth "Betty" Ann York, b. 1726 PA; d. 1790 NC

5. Semore York I, b. 1727 PA; d. 1783 NC

6. Thomas York I, b. 1729 PA; d. 1790 NC

7. Jeremiah York II, b. 1730 MD; d. 1797 KY

8. Henry York, b. 1732 MD; d. 1817 NC

9. Joseph York, b. 1734 VA; d. 1809 MS/AL

10. Sarah 'Elizabeth' York, b. 1735 VA; d. 1777 NC* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 26 2020, 17:19:35 UTC

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Jeremiah's birth and death information are available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147638396/jeremiah-york