Agness Craig (1766 - 1767)

Born 28 May 1766 in New Hope, Orange, North Carolina

Ancestors

Died 28 Jul 1767 at age 1 in Orange, North Carolina

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Biography

2 Agness - this one seems to have been a child who died at a year and two months old.

3 Agness - Until recently I was under the impression that these names were "Nancy". I think my Grandfather thought so, and so informed his children - It may have been "Nancy Agness". I always heard there were two of the same name. This woman married Joseph Mallette - or "Marlatt", as it was often spelled. He was a "Hatter" by trade, and came from the "North". He was not a native of N. C. I have been told that the old man James, her father, was bitterly opposed to the match, while her mother, "Rebecca", favored it. The result was an elopement. She left the house by way of a window, and it was the second house described on page 56. Joseph Mallette lived and died a few hundred yards to the southeast from the base of the "Scarlett Mountains", and about a half mile to the north of where I was born. A few piles of rock and the old spring are the only marks, at present, of the old settlement. I do not know how many children they had, but I never heard of but three daughters and one son. The son - Isaac Mallette - went away as a young man, and have no knowledge of him whatever. The names of the daughters were Nancy and Rebecca. Nancy married a man by the name of Tinnin in the Hawfields, and had a family. I never knew them, but some of the family still live in the Hawfields, I suppose. Rebecca married Thomas Jacobs, and afterwards, Charles Freeland. By Mr. Jacobs she had two children - daughters, Nancy and Harriett. Nancy married Isaac Craig, her great Uncle, in his old age, and afterwards, Wm McCauley. She had no children. Harriett married Cameron Craig (son of Alex, son of John, son of William) by whom she had a large family - Nancy, Sandy, Johnston, Sarah (wife of Geo. Freeland), Rebecca who is Mrs. Hayse with a family, and William. All these Craig's descendants of Agnes Mallette, have children except Nancy. Sandy and Johnston live in Chatham County.

Sources

• Journal of Rev. David Irving Craig