James Beaty (1741 - 1826)

Born 1741 in Augusta County, Colony of Virginia

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Died 1826 at about age 85 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States

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James Beaty was a North Carolina colonist.

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When James Beaty was born in 1741 in Augusta County in the Colony of Virginia, his father, Francis Beaty, was 30 and his mother, Martha (Mitchell) Beaty, was 30. He moved from the Colony of Virginia to the Province of North Carolina between 1756 and 1771 (possibly before he married Mary Hunter in 1769). He is named in his father's will^[1] and in the will of his father-in-law, John Hunter.^[2] The family lived in Iredell County, North Carolina in 1790^[3] and in Lincoln County for the remainder of their lives.^[4][5] He died in 1826 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, having lived a long life of 85 years.

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1. ↑ Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Abstracts of Early Wills 1763-1790 (1749-1790) by Brent H. Holcomb, C. A. L. S. Copyright 1980 p. 7 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/49012/FLHG_AbstsWillsMecklenburgCntyNC-0011/4295?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=FLHG_AbstsWillsMecklenburgCntyNC-0011)
2. ↑ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997J-XHTQ?cc=1911121&wc=Q6WB-G2X%3A183210601%2C183304101%2C197499501 : 20 November 2015), Mecklenburg County > H > Hunter, John (1794) > image 1 of 23; State Archives, Raleigh.
3. ↑ U.S. Federal Census, Year: 1790; Census Place: Iredell, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 396; Image: 556; Family History Library Film: 0568147 (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1790usfedcen&h=175306)
4. ↑ U.S. Federal Census, Year: 1800; Census Place: Lincoln, North Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 29; Page: 894; Image: 443; Family History Library Film: 337905 (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1800usfedcenancestry&h=304965)
5. ↑ U.S. Federal Census, Year: 1810; Census Place: Capt Gonojles District, Lincoln, North Carolina; Roll: 40; Page: 480; Image: 00695; Family History Library Film: 0337913 (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1810usfedcenancestry&h=385733)

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• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served from 1784 to 1811 was considered as a possible source document; however, it is not likely that he would have been a soldier at the age of 71 in 1812.