↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8QF-RNT : 12 April 2016), Sampson Cates, Edgefield county, part of, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States; citing family 308, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Probate/estate records of his father-in-law John Feaster, Edgefield County, SC, 1839. Box 11 Package 378. Sampson Cates, Admr. (attached)
US Federal Census - 1840
US Federal Census - 1850
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