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Zachariah Maddux (1745 - 1825)

Zachariah Maddux
Born in Somerset, Marylandmap
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Husband of — married 1786 [location unknown]
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Died at about age 80 in Gwinnett, Georgia, United Statesmap
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Biography

Zachariah was born in 1745. Zachariah Maddux ...

He sold property in 1784, perhaps preparing to move to Georgia.

One Zachariah Maddox was enumerated on the 1784 Tax List for Little Creek, Sussex County, Delaware along with Zepheniah Maddox and William Maddox.[1]

The family removed to Georgia by 1789. They were first documented in Greene County in 1789,[2] and Jackson County by 1802.[3]

According to a court record concerning a mare stolen in March of 1802, Leonard Maddox swore that he had a mare stolen in previous March by the Creek Indians from the Appelachie River. He had trailed the mare toward the Creek Nation. His father Zachariah and Uncle Alexander swore to the accuracy of the claim filed in Jackson County. [4]

He passed away in 1825.

Sources

  1. Sussex County, Delaware, Tax lists, #31-75 before 1767-1801. Little Creek, Year- 1784, [Page 38-39], citing Maddox. Digital images: Familysearch.org [database with images] Film 007834364. image 394 of 1030.
  2. Greene County, Georgia Tax record books and docket, 1788-1890. Items 3-4, Tax records, Year - 1789. Page 29, citing line 15, Zachariah Maddux. Digital images: Familysearch.org [database with images] , image 396 of 600. Accessed 13 Sept 2020.
  3. Jackson County, Georgia Deeds. Book D, page 150, page 538-539, citing Zachariah Maddox.
  4. Georgia USGenWeb Arichives. Flynn, Rhonda. Jasper Baldwin Gwinnett County, citing additional comments, Leonard Maddox. Digital images: USGenweb.
  • Jeffery, Alice. Georgia Tax Index, 1789-1799 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998.
  • 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Gwinnett, Georgia; Page: 272; NARA Roll: M33_8; Image: 208
  • Georgia Marriages, 1699-1944 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  • National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served from 1784 to 1811; Record Group: 94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984; Series Number: M905; Roll Number: 9
  • Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original source: Delaware, Land Records, 1677–1947. Recorder of Deeds, Sussex County, RG 4555, Subgroup 000, Series 030. Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware.
Sussex county: Roll 006: Image 61 [1]
Purchaser: Ralph Low
Seller: Zachariah Maddox, of Little Creek hundred
Sale: 28 September 1784
Price: £50; Property: 30 acres part of tract “Parish”
Tract ‘Parish’ originally granted to Thomas Waller




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