Jeremiah James (1762 - 1805)

Born 11 Mar 1762 in Bertie County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca Ann (Willis) James — married 9 Dec 1783 (to 1805) in Craven, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 1 Oct 1805 at age 43 in Northampton, North Carolina, United States

Biography

Jeremiah James is a part of US Black heritage.

When Jeremiah (Punch) James was born on March 11, 1762, in Bertie, North Carolina, his father, Andrew, was 52 and his mother, Ann, was 42. He married Rebecca Ann Willis on December 9, 1783, in Craven, North Carolina. They had three children in 15 years. He died on October 1, 1805, in North Carolina at the age of 43.^[1]

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Research Notes

10. Jeremiah2 James, born about 1758, the "orphan of Nann James aged about Six years," was bound by the Bertie County court to John Norwood to be a weaver on 1 June 1764 [CR 10.101.7]. He was a "free Mulatto" taxable in John Norwood's household in the undated (1772?) list of Humphrey Nichols [CR 10.702.1, box 13]. He was counted in the 1787 state census for Bertie County in H. H. Hardy's list, head of a household of 4 males and 3 females. He leased land in Northampton County on the east side of Urahaw Swamp on 1 January 1798 [DB 10:372] and was head of a Northampton County household of 3 "other free" in 1790 [NC:73] and 6 in 1800 [NC:453]. His estate, administered in Northampton County on 3 December 1805, named Rebecca James. She was his wife who provided the following information when she applied for and was granted his Revolutionary War pension from Maury County, Tennessee:

He entered the service in Bertie County in Captain Blount's Company of the 10th Regiment for 9 months on 20 July 1778 and again as a private in Captain Raiford's Company from 17 May 1781 to 15 April 1782. She was born in Virginia in May 1758 and married Jeremiah in Northampton County about February or March 1790. Jeremiah died on 1 October 1805. He owed Mike Walden $1.12 when he died. James Keemer, Micajah Walden, Batt Chavis, William Pettiford, Henry Dempsey, Noah Franklin, Jesse Bird and Rebecca James were buyers at the sale of his estate [Ancestry.com, North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 (database on-line)]. She married Isham Scott about a year later. After Scott died, she moved to Maury County, Tennessee. She named her children in her pension application and gave evidence of their birth and her marriage to Jeremiah in a book published in 1792, entitled, Baxter's Call to the Unconverted:

Jeremiah James Son of Ann James was born March 11, 1762

" " " " his book 1793

Axom James Son of Jeremiah & Rebecca James born Nov. 27, 1790

Uriah James " " " " " Aug. 25, 1794

Asa James " " " " " Feb. 22, 1805

Rebecca was living in the household of her son Exum in the 1850 census for District 19 of Maury County, Tennessee: a 93-year-old woman born in Virginia, all counted as white [TN:220]. She named the following children in her application [NARA, M804, roll 1404, frame 605 of 781]:

i. Exum, born 27 November 1790 according to the family "bible." He married Nancy Hawkins, 18 January 1826 Halifax County bond. She was named in the Halifax County will of her father Solomon Hawkins, proved August 1816 [WB 3:589]. Exum was head of a Halifax County household of 4 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:306]. He and Nancy were living in Williamson County, Tennessee, on 3 December 1832 when they gave power of attorney to Jeremiah James to sell 50 acres of land that she received by the divison of the estate of Solomon Hawkins in Halifax County to Randall Carter on 20 January 1831 [DB 29:6-7]. They were counted with their children in District 19 of Maury County, Tennessee, in 1850 [TN:220].

ii. Delilah.

iii. Uriah, born 25 August 1794.

iv. Jeremiah4, born about 1800, counted in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1850.

v. Trusty.

vi. Kesiah, married James Keemer, 21 November 1817 Halifax County bond.

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Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LD72-WFH

• Year: 1790; Census Place: Northampton, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 572; Image: 333; Family History Library Film: 0568147

• Year: 1800; Census Place: Hallifax, Northampton, North Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 34; Page: 453; Image: 98; Family History Library Film: 337910

• North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890; Year 1787, Record Type State or colonial census, Page 002

• North Carolina, Marriage Index, 1741-2004; Spouse Ann Willis, Source County Court Records at New Bern, NC & Family Hist

• North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011; Marriage Place Craven, North Carolina, USA, Spouse Ann Willis

• North Carolina, State Census, 1784-1787; 1784 • Bertie, North Carolina, United States

• North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998. North Carolina, Northampton County, Estate Records; Author: Northampton County (North Carolina). Clerk of the Superior Court; Probate Place: Northampton, North Carolina

• The National Archives; Washington, D.C.; Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury; Record Group Title: Records of the Accounting Officers of the Depar

• profile owner's personal ref link, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/36407284/person/262023135789/facts