Nancy (Woods) Devereaux (1743 - 1793)

Born 1743 in Quaker Manhattan Community, Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died 1793 at about age 50 in Columbia County, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Nancy was born in 1743. ^{[citation needed]}

According to oldest son John William Devereux - in his own words

This is a speech Sidney Waits gave for historical societies.

Good Evening friends, my name is John William Devereux.

As most of you may know, I lived much of the early history centered around your first County Site at old Montezuma on the banks of the Conecuh. My family resided near the village for about ten years and those were great times in my life.

I was born March 15, 1769. My parents were Charles and Nancy Woods Devereux. We lived in the Colony of Virginia where my father worked in the lead mines as a smelter and mineralogist. There were eight children in our family. In 1785 my family migrated to the State of Georgia where my father had purchased a plantation. I was the oldest son and my father named me overseer of the plantation. I had no experience in farming and no turn for driving slaves. I simply did not like the work so when I became 16 years of age, I left home and went to work for a Mr. Rhesa Howard who operated a general store in Wrightsboro..."

Charles Devereux married Nancy Wood in Virginia on 7 October 1766.

• DEVEREUX-STEELE BIBLE RECORD: Formerly Owned by Mr. H. E. Davis, Hill City, Georgia. Also held by:

Historical collections of the Georgia chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution. Atlanta, Ga.: C.P. Byrd, state printer, 1926. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/25492/images/dvm_LocHist010589-00666-0?ssrc=pt&treeid=176985866&personid=322298143185&usePUB=true&pId=1324

Nancy passed away in 1798. ^{[citation needed]}

Sources

DEVEREUX-STEELE BIBLE RECORD: Formerly Owned by Mr. H. E. Davis, Hill City, Georgia. Also held by: Historical collections of the Georgia chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution. Atlanta, Ga.: C.P. Byrd, state printer, 1926. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/25492/images/dvm_LocHist010589-00666-0?ssrc=pt&treeid=176985866&personid=322298143185&usePUB=true&pId=1324