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From: "Ellen C. Ward" <>
Subject: Re: [MDCECIL] David John b 1712 Delaware, d 1764 Burke Co Ga
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:58:51 -0400
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Hi Carol,

I looked through my Cecil County books and found some information on a David John but it is probably a different man than the one who died in Georgia. These facts place *this* David John in Cecil County between 1748 and 1768.

This David John, planter, wrote a will on 12 August 1768.
To Mary Chambers - best bed and furniture and remainder of personal estate. Also, during her lifetime, one house and garden on my land and cow pasture.
To nephew Jonas [? or James or? Jones] Chambers (son of my sister Mary) - all lands and tenements
To nephew John Ricketts - 60 pounds to be paid to him by the said Jonas Chambers within 12 months of my decease
To nephew William Chambers - 50 pounds to be paid to him by the said Jonas
To niece Agness Black - 50 pounds to be paid to her by the said Jonas
Executor: Jonas Chambers and Joseph Gilpin Esq.
Witness: Tobias Rudulph, John Rudolph, John Mitchell
1 October 1768 Then came Tobias Rudolph, John Rudolph
Cecil County Wills 1753-1772 MSA CM 363 Liber BB Folio 128-360. Abstracted by Leslie & Neil Keddie.

In Inhabitants of Cecil County, Maryland 1649-1774 by Henry C. Peden
p. 38: Batchelor Tax List in St. Mary Ann's P.E. Parish, July 12, 1763:
Name: David Johns, Residence: North Milford, Value: 100 lbs, Tax: 5 sh.

p. 39: Batchelor Tax List in St. Mary Ann's P.E. Parish, July 11, 1765.
Name: David Johns, Residence: North Milford; Value: 100 lbs

p39: Batchelor Tax List in St. Mary Ann's P.E. Parish, August 7, 1765
Name: David Johns; Residence: North Milford Hundred; Value: 200 lbs.

Mary Canady
22 April 1748
To son Edward Canady - half of my estate
To youngest daughters Jane and Elener - other half of estate
Executor: Thomas Coock
Witness: David John, Rachel Williams
10 May 1748 Then came the witnesses

Ellen
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From: [] On Behalf Of Carol Miller []
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 11:37 AM
To: ; ; ; 'Marilyn and Rob Lear'
Subject: [MDCECIL] David John b 1712 Delaware, d 1764 Burke Co Ga

While on the John surname, this David John (or Jones) was in Burke Co Ga by
1754 and died there in Nov 1764, about 25 years before my Jonas Chambers of
Cecil Co Md moved to Burke Co Ga with his family in 1789. This David John
was born abt 1723 in Pencader Hundred, New Castle, Del. Ever since I
learned that Jonas Chambers' mother was Mary John, sister of a David John of
Cecil Md, I have wondered if this John family of early Burke Co Ga might
have been related.

This information is from Alan Lerwick's gedcom at Rootsweb Worldconnect:
History of the Welsh Baptists, p 125 FHLbook & FHLfilm # 994097, item 7 also
the Welsh Neck Bapt Ch Records compiled by Glenn Pearson: John Jones & Wife,
Girffith Jones and wife, David Jones and wife and Thomas Jonea and wife in
1737 went from the Welsh Tract settlement in Delaware to the Welsh
Neck/PeeDee River settlement in SC.

Records of the Welsh Tract Bapt Meeting, Pencader Hundred, New Castle De,
item 2 Thomas & Elinor Jones (incorrectly listed as Thomas & Elinor James)
and David and Elizabeth Jones {incorrectly listed as David and Elizabeth
James) were recommended to Pee Dee in SC by letter dated 4 Nov 1737

Colony of NC 1735-1764FHL book
17 May 1754 David John
210 acres in Anson NC on a branch of Mountain Crk being Alexander McCarel's
corner (land now in Mecklenburg NC)

The Families of Burke Co Ga 1755-1855 FHL book
David John
100 acres surveyed on 12 May 1759, granted on 2 Apr 1765
Land bounded on NE by David Lewis and located in the fork or Briar Ck abt 1
mi from land of William Champ

The Johns Connections FHL book
3Apr 1764 David John was made a Captain in the Ga Militia, Co of Foot
Militia at Briar Ck, Augusta Div.

>From Abstracts of Colonial Wills of State of GA 1733-1777, Will of David
John was probated 5 Mar 1765 Burke Ga

He was a blacksmith by trade.

First wife Elizabeth unkn b New Castle Delaware, one child, ukn.

Second wife Mor "Mary" ukn, of Craven SC
Chrildren: Joseph John b 1744, David b 1746, Daniel b 1748, Zephaniah b
1750, Benjamin b 1752, and Roger b 1754.


So, any help with this family would be greatly appreciated.

Carol B. Miller



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