Seymore York

1850 Slave Schedule for Rabun Co, GA shows Seamore York owning:

1 black female age 45

1 black male age 37

1 black female age 14

1 black male age 10

1 black male age 7

1 black male age 5

From Deeds and Land Records Rabun Co, GaGenWeb:

Deed Book C, p. 30 (transcribed to Book Q, p. 540) Deed dated 8 Jun. 1841, recorded 15 Jun 1841, from Allen R. Gaines, Administrator, Estate of Benjamin O'Neill, of Rabun Co., GA, to Semore York, Rabun Co., GA, conveyed north part of Lots 8 and 9, Second District, and 25 acres, being the northeast corner of Lots 21, Fifth District, Rabun Co., GA for $355. Witnesses: James Bleckley and John York. Signed: A. R. Gaines (MM1)

Deed Book A, p. 125 (transcribed to Book R, p. 78) Deed dated 10 Jan. 1826, recorded 23 Aug. 1826, from Lazarus Tilley and Sarah Tilley, his wife, Rabun Co., GA, to Semore York, Rabun Co., GA, conveyed 304½ acres, Lots 18, 11, 17, Second District, for $600. Witnesses: George Crawford and Elisha Wellborn, J.P. Signed: Lazarus Tilley and Sarah Tilley. (MM1)

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Excerpted from "Sketches of Rabun County History" (reprinted in 1959) by Andrew Jackson Ritchie:

   "In the back of the old musty volume, Book A, in the record of deeds we find that as early as 1818, a year before Rabun County was created by the Legislature, the old Jeffry Bek on his plantation in the Pickensville district of South Carolina was writing a will which was afterwards recorded as a deed.  In this instrument he says that he has given his lands to his sons and is undertaking to give two of his six negroes to his daughter Miriam and her husband, Seymour York.  Thus Seymour York was a brother in law of the noted Colonel Sam Beck.  He was then married and was living in South Carolina.

The next we see of this man in the records of deeds which show that on June 10, 1826 he purchased from Lazarus Tilley of Rabun County parts of land lots 11, 17 and 18 on Scott's Creek west of Clayton, containing 300 acres, at the price of $600. Here Seymour York made his home and reared his family. He built a corn mill on the creek. The heavy sills of locust timber are still there, and the mill has been in use until recently. This man was thus the patriarch of all the Yorks in Rabun County, so far as we know."
The only children of Seymour York were three sons - Jeremiah, John and Jeffry."
Grand Juror, April term 1829.

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