Mary (Hutchinson) Lesslie (abt. 1736 - 1785)

Born about 1736 in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland

Wife of John Lesslie I — married 1751 in Cormick Fergus, County Antrim, Ireland

Descendants

Died 1785 at about age 49 in North Camp Creek District, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Research Notes

NOTE 1

This daughter might be identical with Martha.

03/03/09

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NOTE 2

Does not appear in #S716.

04/11/09

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NOTE 3

Source #S736 has:

"Mary (Molly) Hutchinson (H4) married John Leslie (L2), Samuel's brother, either in County Antrim, North Ireland or in Pennsylvania. (It is probable that John Leslie was older than his brother Samuel, since John's daughter Sarah seems to have married before 1778). One of the affidavits in the Walkup Papers states that John Leslie and family came to the Waxhaws and settled on Camp Creek. There two Camp Creeks, one north of Lancaster, S.C., and one south. The Camp Creek in question was the north one. There is a South Carolina record which states that John Lesley's land was ordered surveyed Oct. 7, 1766 by S.C. authorities -- judged to be the same John Leslie. Leslie was spelled in various ways: Lessley, Lesslie, Lashley, Lassly, Lesley and many others -- people were indifferent to spelling in those days. John Leslie does not appear in the 1790 census records, and on page 192 of the first and second editions of this book there is a notation that no Leslies or Lesleys appear in the 1800 census of Lancaster Co., S.C. However, the latter is incorrect. More recent findings by Nancy Crockett, show the following in this 1800 census: "Lasly, John - 1 male between 26-45 years, also Lasley, Robert - 1 male under 10, 1 male and 1 female between 16 and 26 years". The identity of "Lasley, Robert" is not clear, but "Lasley, John" was surely John Leslie Jr., son of John Leslie (L2).

Nancy Crockett also reports on three legal documents which deal with the sale of land belonging to John Leslie Sr. and John Leslie Jr., both deceased, and the settlement of their estates. These documents appear in Deed Book I (Old Series), Lancaster Co. S.C., as follows: one document is on page 3, dated 12/2/1811, recorded 2/21/1817, by Robert Montgomery; one document on page 2, dated 7/13/1816 by Gilbert and Sarah Kennedy; and the third on pages 3 and 4, dated 11/14/1816, by Isiah Thompson, John Montgomery (attorney) and Elizabeth Ormand. The property was stated as being on the north side of Camp Creek and comprising 260 or 270 acres. It appears from these documents and other known facts that John Leslie Sr. had a son and five daughters, at the minimum. The son was John Leslie Jr., born between 1755 and 1774, and the daughters were: (1) Jennet Lessley who married James Lessley; (2) Margaret Lessley who married first a Carroll, then Robert Montgomery, and who lived in 1816 in Adams Co., Miss.; (3) Sarah Lessley who married Gilbert Kennedy and they are recorded as having sold on 12/28/1778 100 acres of land on the east side of the Catawba River, Waxhaws to Amos Richards, and they moved to Lincoln Co., N.C. where they lived in 1816; Elizabeth Lessley who married an Ormand and in 1816 lived in Mecklenburg Co. N.C.; and (5) a daughter (whose name might have been Ann) who married Isaiah Thompson and lived in Lancaster Co. N.C. The ages of the sisters were not revealed. It can be inferred that John Leslie Sr. is John Leslie (L2) and that when he died, year of death not known, his son John Leslie Jr. lived on the farm for a number of years. It seems that John Jr. died without issue (some time before 1811) because the papers indicate that his five sisters each had a one-fifth interest in his property. Also the 1800 census does not mention anyone else in John Jr.'s household. The above mentioned legal papers dealt with the sale of the land to one William Robinson for $250 and the identity of the five remaining heirs. The land in question comprised: 150 acres on Molly Moore's Branch of Camp Creek, precept dated 7 Oct. 1776, certified by Wm Glascook DS 16 Oct.. 1766, ord. 3 Feb. 1768; and 120 adjoining acres on Waters of Camp Creek (Molly Moore's Branch crosses the plat), certified for John Lasley, surveyed for Andrew Gable 7 Feb. 1792, Henry Massey DS 18 Oct. 1792."

On pp. 5-6 and 790-797 (an extended footnote about the controversy over whether Andrew Jackson was born in North or South Carolina) are several mentions of the Leslie brothers, John and Samuel, who married Mary and Sarah Hutchinson, sisters of Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, President Andrew Jackson's mother.

Note: Has Sarah Lesslie as child of John and Mary Hutchison, In contrast to other sources.

94/10/09

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Source S714

Hutchinsons of Waxhaw, SC, late 1700s

Author: MacKie, Brownie

Note: The information provided here is dubious. See discussion of Hutchinson (Hutchinson-249)

05/27/09

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Source S716

Descendants of Lesslie

Author: Odom, Robert O.

Source S736

Murphy, Marion Emerson, Early Leslies in York County, South Carolina, their migrations to Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas, their ancestry and descendants 3rd Ed, privately published, 1976

Sources

A compilation of the Orignal list of protestant immigrants to south Carolina, 1763-1773, lists Sarah, Mary, Jane, Ann, Thomas, William, Samuel, John, Samuel and etec are listed on this entry for petitions for land, 1763-1773. www.ancestry.com /interactive/48270/protestantImmigrantsSC-007064-48#?imageID=ProtestantImmigrantsSC-007064-48 on page 48 of this record

Source S701

Marquis, James, The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York, New York: Bobs Merrill, 1938

Acknowledgements

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