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Dempsey Vaughan (abt. 1740 - abt. 1790)

Dempsey Vaughan
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Died about at about age 50 [location unknown]
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Biography

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Dempsey Vaughan was a North Carolina colonist.

"Sometime around or before the Revolution, four Irish brothers and families left Ireland for America and ended up in the Halifax District of Nash County, North Carolina around 1775. Their names were Dempsey (Demey), Ephraim, Frederick (Fred) and Stephen..."[1]

Name: Dempsey Vaughan
State: NC
County: Nash County
Township: Early Tax List
Year: 1782
Database: NC Early Census Index[2]

1790 Halifax District, Nash County, North Carolina Census[3]

Dempsey Vaughan

1m 16+
1m -16
1m -16

Dempsey (Demey), a widower, died in 1790. All his land and holdings were willed to his son Christopher Vaughan. (Land sold to possible brother, Stephen Vaughan)[4]

14 Jan 1783. John Biggs, Jr. sold to Dempsey Vaun 125 acres on ns Great Sappony Cr. £20. Adj. Thomas Tucker, Mathias Manning, Daniel Devan. Witnesses: George Sutton, John White. Recorded — . [5]

14 Jan 1783. John Biggs, Jr. to Dempsey Vaughan 175 acres on ns Great Sappony Cr. £20. Adj. Thomas Tucker, Mathias Manning, Daniel Dean. Witnesses: George Sutton, John White. Recorded — . [6]

17 Oct 1789, 6 Aug 1790. Will of Demcy Voughan . [7]

Wife Easter Voughn.
Son Christopher Voughan.
Excr. Burrell Rose.
Witnesses: Christopher Voughan, Efram Voughan.

1790 VAUGHAN, DEMPSEY, Esther and Christopher[8]

Sources

  1. ↑ Research of Paul W. Vaughn
  2. ↑ Ancestry Record 3566 #16981254 NC Early Census Index - 1782; Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
  3. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKB-V8Y : accessed 24 August 2020), Dempsey Vaughan, Nash, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 24, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.
  4. ↑ http://genforum.genealogy.com/vaughan/messages/3128.html
  5. ↑ Nash County, North Carolina Deed Book 01.288.
  6. ↑ Nash County, North Carolina Deed Book 01.296.
  7. ↑ Nash County, North Carolina Loose Wills Img 1026.
  8. ↑ Nash County Will Abstracts




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Vaughan-2209 and Vaughan-2208 appear to represent the same person because: rather appears to be same person
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