Nancy (Carter) Creasy (1765 - aft. 1836)

Born 1765 in Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of William Creasey — married 26 Sep 1784 in Cumberland County, Virginia, United States

Died after Jun 1836 after age 71 in Giles County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Nancy Carter was born about 1765. She is the daughter of John Carter and Mary Fleming.

"William Creasy and Nancy Carter were married 26 September 26, 1784 [in Cumberland County, Virginia].^[1] The signers were William Creasy and Peter Montague. In the early 1800's William Creasy Sr. (Creesy-Creecy-Creasy, the name is spelled 3 or 4 different ways in as many different census records), and his wife Nancy (Carter) Creasy moved from Virginia to Giles County, Tennessee." ^[2] William's father, John Creasey's, land bounded on John Carter's land in 1788.^[3]

Mary Carter of Cumberland County, Virginia set her hand and seal to her Last Will and Testament on the 11th day of October 1794 making a special bequest to her daughter Nancy Creasy to receive one colt.^[4]

The 1820 Census for Giles County, Tennessee enumerated the household of William "Crecy" with:

one male age10-16, one male age 16-18, two males age 16-26, one male over age 45, :one female age 16-26, one female age 26-45, one female over 45^[5]

On the 22nd day of June 1836, William "Creecy" Senior sold two parcels of land, one containing 49-1/2 acres to John Creecy and one containing 121-1/2 acres to Jesse Creecey, with the stipulation on each that the said William Creecy hereby reserves to himself and his wife Nancy Creecy a life Estate of and to the same.^[6][7] It should be noted that William signed with his mark deeds containing various spellings of his last name.

Nancy died after the 22nd day of June 1836.

Children

"Their known children were:

1. William Creasy Jr. born 1794 in Virginia;
2. Jessie Creasy born March 8, 1800 in Virginia;
3. John Creasy born 1817 in Tennessee."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Bentley, Elizabeth Petty, indexer. Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. Baltimore, MD: Genealogy Publishing Co., Inc., 1984. Page 169, entry 11, William Creasy & Nancy Carter. Digital images: Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1850 [database on-line], image 180 of 804.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} freepages.rootsweb.com. Contributors. Porter Spivey Creasey family, Chapter 10, citing William Creasy and Nancy Carter. Digital images: freepages.rootsweb.com.
3. ↑ Cumberland County, Virginia, Deed Book 6, 1779-1790, Page 455, citing John Creasy to John Woodson. Digital images: Familysearch.org [database with images] Film #007893766 image 513 of 581.
4. ↑ Cumberland County, Virginia, Will book, Book 3, Page 40-41 citing Nancy Creasy in will of Mary Carter. Digital images: Familysearch.org [database with images] Film #007675921, image 30 of 591.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (16 July 2015), Tennessee > Giles > Pulaski > page 12, line 7, citing household of William Crecy, image 19 of 31; citing NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Giles County, Tennessee, Deed Book M, Page 207, citing William Creecy Sr. to John Creecy. Digital images: Familysearch.org [database with images] Film #008478682, image 130 of 531.
7. ↑ Giles County, Tennessee, Deed Book M, Page 208, citing Jesse Creecy from William Creecy, Sr. Digital images: Familysearch.org [database with images] Film #008478682, image 131 of 531.

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