Samuel Cline (bef. 1765 - 1789)

Born before 1765 in North Carolina

Ancestors

Died 1789 after age 24 in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Samuel CLINE was born between 1760 and 1765 and died before 1789. He is appointed to the grand jury in Lincoln County, North Carolina. No other records are found for Samuel Cline, however, on December 22, 1789, a widow, Rosannah Cline, marries Martin Buff in Lincoln County. Rosannah is presumed to be the widow of Samuel Cline because no other Cline in Lincoln County, or elsewhere in North Carolina, is known who could leave this widow, prior to 1789. Samuel is assumed to have been born about 1760-1765 in order to have married Rosannah about 1780-1785. Samuel presumably dies in 1789, just prior to Rosannah's marriage to Martin Buff which provides anecdotal evidence to his marriage to Rosannah. ^[1]

In July 1794, long time Lincoln County resident Peter Myers' will identifies his daughter Rosannah and his grandchildren, Daniel Cline and Susanna Cline. In January 1796, Peter Myers' widow Margaret Myers leases 300 acres of land to Philip Benick with the condition that after her death he must relinquish it to the heir, Daniel Cline (her grandson).

In the Lincoln county 1790 census Martin Buff has in his household two females and two males under age 16. Martin Buff is found in the Buncombe County 1800 census with a wife born 1756-1774, a male (Daniel) born 1775-1785, a female (Susanna), born 1775-1785, and four other children, one born 1785-1790, and three born after 1790. It appears that Martin Buff was a widower with a child at the time of his marriage to Rosannah Cline in 1789.

Susanna Cline, daughter of Rosannah Buff, marries in July 1814 in Haywood County (formed from Buncombe County in 1808). Susanna is assumed to be born about 1785 and is about age 29 when she marries. Her brother Daniel is probably born a few years earlier.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestors and Descendants of Sebastian Cline of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and North Carolina and Hans Georg Cline of of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and Monroe County, Ohio Derick S. Hartshorn III
2. ↑ Derick S. Hartshorn III, compiler, database, NCGenWeb, Hans Georg Cline of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and Monroe County, Ohio (http://www.ncgenweb.us/catawba/Cline/index.htm), and Descendants of Sebastian Cline of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and North Carolina (http://www.ncgenweb.us/catawba/family/Cline.TXT). Mr. Hartshorn's database is compiled primarily from two sources: 1) Ciscero Cline, “Klein Family History, Biography, and Records about The Ancestors and Descendants of Sebastian and other Kleins (Clines) Pioneers who were born about the years 1700 to 1750 with many notes and records about Allied Families Began April the 10th by Ciscero Cline A Great-Grandson and Tabulated by John McDowell Ballard in 1936” (manuscript donated to the Catawba County Public Library, Newton, North Carolina); and 2) George B. Cline Jr., The Cline Families of North Carolina 1750-1860 And Their European Ancestry, 1580-1750 (Los Altos, California, Feb 2003).