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James Yancey (abt. 1704 - 1779)

Capt. James Yancey
Born about in Hanover, New Kent, Virginiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , , , , , , and
Husband of — married 8 Jan 1735 in Hanover, New Kent, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , , , , , , and
Died at about age 74 in Granville, North Carolina, USAmap
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Biography

Daughters of the American Revolution
James Yancey is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A129364.
1776 Project
James Yancey performed Patriotic Service in the American Revolution.


James was born about 1704. James Yancey ... He passed away in 1779. [1]

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.[2] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Birth

Birth:
Date: 1712
Birth:
Date: 5 NOV 1704
Place: Hanover Co, VA

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1712

Notes

Note N5065
1769 in Granville Co, NC on NC Census Substitute
Will dated 1777, proved 1779 Granville Co, NC Will Book 1, page 252


James Yancey took his oath of allegiance to the American Revolution on May 22, 1778, as an elderly man in County Line District, along with James Yancey, Jr., Lewis Yancey, Philip Yancey, and William Yancey. In 1769, he owned eight black polls. [North Carolina Colonial and State Records, Vol. 5 page 592.][3]

Sources

  1. ↑ Entered by Len Holmes, Dec 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Yancey-460 was created by Susan Graben through the import of WikiTree gedcom 7:18:15.ged on Jul 18, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
  3. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 31 Aug 2023), "Record of James Yancey", Ancestor # A129364.


  • Len Holmes, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Len and others.

Thank you to Kathy Stewart for creating WikiTree profile Yancey-249 through the import of Frost-Gullage.ged on Aug 27, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Kathy and others.






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Walter Turner
Will of James Yancey

My transcription

North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 Granville Wills, Vol 1 1772-1787 pages 252-253 in ledger, images 276-277 of 574 on film at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C956-FS9F-4?i=275&cat=358185

Page 252 Pious introduction “…burial at the discretion of my executors…” “Item. I give to my son Bartlett Yancey my tract of land lying on Lawsons Fork a branch of Paccolate River in South Carolina containing three hundred acres Item. I give to my son in law Jesse Sanders forty pounds proc money Item. I give my son Phillip Yancey two hundred acres of land I now live on. When clear’d out of the office at the expense of my estate to run parallel with his upper line south beginning at the country line. Item. I give the remaining part of the tract I now live on to my son Thomas Yancey to be clear’d out of the office agreeable to an entry made by me with Robert Jones in the year 1763 at the expense of my estate also the best bed I have and the furniture thereunto belonging. Item. I give to my daughter Jenny Sanders one bay mare that I bought of Edward Sanders’s estate. Item. I give to my granddaughter Nancy Baynes ten pounds proc money. Page 253 Item. I give to my son Thornton Yancey a Negro woman named Cate provided the said Thornton pay into my estate the sum of twenty pounds proc money. All the Negros I have now in my possession to be sold to the highest bidder among my children no other person to be a bidder and the most valuablest Negro be set up and sold first and the next valuablest sold next & so on till all are sold also it is my will that they that buys the first Negro shall not buy the second and that they that first purchased shall not have a right to purchase any more and that the first four purchasers shall not have a right to bid for any till the other children have purchased equivalent to the first four if the Negros should hold out and if they do not hold out they shall give bond and security to the other children for their equal part to the rest with interest from the date of the said bonds and that the residue of my other estate be set up to publick sale at twelve months credit with bond & approved security with interest from the date to be applied to the payment of my just debts and the residue equally divided among my children also it is my desire that the expenses of my burial be allowed my executors out of my estate also I constitute and appoint my sons Phillip Yancey and Lewis Yancey my whole and sole executors to this my last will and testament I (sic) witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal. This 30th day of December 1787. James Yancey

James Greenwood, William Cox, Haden Pryor

Granville County ss? November A D court 1779 This will was duly proved by the oath of Haden Pryor and order’d to be recorded & Phillip Yancey & Lewis Yancey qualified as executors to the said will Teste Reuben Searcey CC

posted by Walter Turner
edited by Walter Turner
Walter Turner
Is there any evidence that James Yancey's daughter Ann was also named Jenny? Ann married Jesse Saunders, and her sister Jane married Jesse's brother Edward Saunders.

Can it be that the two daughters have been confused because both were named Saunders?

Yancey marriages in Granville County. Index

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-69BQ-GL2?i=372&cat=352979

Male index to marriage bonds Female index to marriage bonds (with bond number)

Film # 004364061

Female Y-surname Index on image 373

Annie Yancey to Jesse Saunders 19 October 1765 # 7022 (7023)

Jane Yancey to Edward Saunders 22 December 1774 # 7025 (7024)

posted by Walter Turner
edited by Walter Turner
Pieterse-13 Esmé (Pieterse) van der Westhuizen
Yancey-460 and Yancey-123 appear to represent the same person because: Same spouse

Difference in dates to be noted in the biography until a source can be added.

posted by Esmé (Pieterse) van der Westhuizen

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