Miriam Ann 'Mary Ann' York

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Miriam Beck born 1780 in VA daughter of Jeffrey Beck and Mary Molly McDaniel

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Miriam Beck died 1859 in Rabun county, GA

"Sketches of Rabun County History" by Andrew Jackson Ritchie (see note in Miriam's Father's file regarding her inheritance). "On January 1, 1860, the mother, Miriam York, widow of Seymour York, agreed with her three sons, Jeremiah, Jeffry and John, on a division of the Seymour York estate. Jeffry was allotted some of the land on Scott's Creek. The balance went mostly to John York."

List of Slave Owners in Rabun County in 1862 includes Jeremiah York with 1 slave and his mother Miriam owned 4.

Beck is an English topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream. Also an English (Norman) habitation name form any of the various places in Northern France, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure.