Alexander Autrey
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Alexander Autrey (1743 - aft. 1786)

Lieutenant Alexander Autrey
Born in Edgecombe County, Province of North Carolinamap
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[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after after age 43 in Georgia, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Lieutenant Alexander Autrey served with Wilkes County Militia, Georgia Militia during the American Revolution.
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Alexander Autrey was a Georgia colonist.

Alexander Autrey was born in 1743 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. He was a son of Cornelius Autrey, Sr. and Elizabeth Paige Culbreth.[1][2]

Alexander and three of his brothers (Absalom, Jacob, and John) headed "West" and ended up in Georgia.[1] Most of them married while still in North Carolina and settled in Wilkes County, Georgia, prior to 1773, when the first land sales went into effect.[3] Some, if not all, of them enlisted in the Georgia militia.[1] The records indicate that Alexander was given 300 acres on Fishing Creek on 15 Oct 1773.[3]

Alexander settled in Clarke County, Georgia. We do not know his wife's name, but they had at least one son:[1]

  • Alexander, Jr., b. 1780, m. Milly Digans

Alexander served as a Refugee Captain in the Revolutionary War, enlisted in the Wilkes County, Georgia militia, and served under General Elijah Clarke. He fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek, which took place on or near his own property along Kettle Creek.[4][5] For his service, he was granted 500 acres of land, as a bounty, on 25 Mar 1784.[3] Alexander's name was recorded as "Awtry" in his military records and land records. (The spelling and name pronunciation surely must have caused his French grandfather to turn in his grave.)

Also active in the military was Alexander's brother, John, who in 1788 was killed and scalped by Creek Indians near Scull Shoals on the Oconee River. [6][3]

A plat for 400 acres of Alexander Awtry's land in Wilkes County was drawn on 8 Aug 1786.[7] Finding no further records for him, we will assume he died "after 1786."

Research Notes

An 1809 Georgia Property Tax Digest[8] lists Alexander Autrey with 150 acres of land, granted to Jones, Jackson County, Georgia. This is probably not a record for the Alexander in this profile, but rather his son (or the son of his brother, John, who also named a child Alexander).

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Autrey Genealogy (Accessed 3 Nov 2020)
  2. "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QDD4-17Z : accessed 3 November 2020), entry for Alexander Autrey; "Always Growing FTM" file (2:2:2:MMX8-12F), submitted 10 February 2020 by AmyBlythe [identity withheld for privacy].
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Ancestry Record 61157 #1646267 500 years of Wittel and related families, Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
  4. The Battle of Kettle Creek (Accessed 4 Nov 2020)
  5. Stirring Up a Hornet's Nest, The Kettle Creek Battlefield Survey. Shapiro.anthro.uga.edu; UGA Laboratory of Archaeology, Lamar Institute Publication Series, Report Number 131.
  6. Captain John Autry (Accessed 4 Nov 2020)
  7. Plat for Alexander Awtry's Land Georgia Dept of Archives & History, Looseplats
  8. Georgia Property Tax Digest Ancestry.com. Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:Georgia Tax Digests [1890]. 140 volumes. Morrow, Georgia: Georgia Archives.

See also:

  • Davis, Robert Scott, Jr., Georgians in the Revolution: At Kettle Creek (Wilkes Co.) and Burke County (Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1986).
  • Alexander Autry on Geni.com

Acknowledgements

  • Thank you to Cheri Hoffman for creating WikiTree profile Autrey-51 through the import of Hoffman Family Tree.ged on Jun 26, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Cheri and others.




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