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Subject: Samuel Cross, Jr. of Iredell Co., NC
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:27:43 EST

I am looking for descendents of Samuel Cross and Margaret Leach. Anyone
descended from these two? Info below:

Thanks,
Martha Mordecai

>>Court Minutes, 9 Aug 1786: Samuel Cross orphan of Samuel Cross, deceased,
age 15 yrs. 6 mo., bound to Robert Bogle to learn the trade of a taylor
(tailor). He married Margaret Leach, daughter of John Leach and Margaret Courtney. He
joined his brothers-in-law, Alexander Witherspoon and William Leach for
clearing title to 50 acres on W side of Station on said DeLoach's land, leasing
said land for 5 years. on 28 Dec 1795 in Sumner County, Tennessee. He sold 120
acres on Smith's Fork to William Leach on 16 Apr 1805 in Wilson County,
Tennessee. 15 Feb 1809:Iredell Co., North Carolina; William Leach, Thomas Leach,
Alexander Witherspoon, Samuel Cross, John Boyd Sr., Joseph Bogle, and John Boyd
Jr., legatees of John Leich, to William Hines of Iredell Co., part of a tract
originally granted to Samuel Woods, both sides of Muddy Fork of the Lower Little
River, 640 acres, bearing the date 29 Oct 1782. Wits. William Reed, Thomas
Mordak, William Smith. On 20 Nov 1812 in Iredell County, North Carolina, 20 Nov
1812, Iredell Co., North Carolina: William Leach, Thomas Leach, Alexander &
Martha Witherspoon, Samuel & Margaret Cross, John & Elizabeth Boyd, and John Boyd
Jr. all of the State of Tennessee, Wilson County, of one part, to Edward
Barnes of Iredell Co. of the other part, the remaining 320 acres of the land of
John Leach. Wit. George Bogle, James Bogle, Jurat, Robt. Erwin. He sold 100
acres on a branch of Smith's Fork on the Caney Fork to William Leach on 14 Nov
1814 in Wilson County, Tennessee. He was listed in the 1820 Edwards County
Illinois census.

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