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Sarah Lee was born about 1765 in South Carolina. She is the daughter of John Lee & Mary Cassels of Fairfield County, South Carolina.
She married Alexander Gordon (1755 - 1831) in South Carolina estimated about 1784.
Sarah Gordon is named in the Will of her father John Lee, executed 16 November 1786, in Fairfield County, South Carolina.[1]
If this is her husband, Alexander Gordon had the following children named in his will written in Tennessee:
By 20 December 1752 father John Lee already owns land on a Branch of Rockey Creek, Wateree River, Craven County (later became Chester County), South Carolina next to Francis Penson who received 50 acres on this date described as being located next to John Lee. Francis Penson sold it to John Lee.[2]
In 1786 said John Lee bequeathed this land containing 50 acres to daughter Sarah Gordon in his last will: I leave and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Gordon my old place on the great wagon road containing 200 acres also 50 acres run by Francis Penson warrant joining said 200 acres at the upper end of the same that is up the Wagon Road.[3]
On 1 July 1797 Alexander Gordon and his wife Sarah Gordon of Fairfield County, Camden District & State of South Carolina sell this land in Craven County now Chester, SC and sign the document with their signatures.[4]
1790 Fairfield, South Carolina, US Federal Census:[5]
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This person was created on 22 September 2010 through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged.
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Alexander Gordon wrote his will in Robertson, Tenn. Alexander Gordon and wife Sarah did not sign with an "X" on their land sale: https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~circuitcourtrecords/genealogy/deeds/scdeedf.html Alexander Gordon arrived in South Carolina with his mother Nancy not MARY. Please refer to primary sources in order to avoid information about different people that may be combined and confused leading to conflated people in profiles.
edited by Karen Brubaker
This Irish-born Alexander Gordon arrived in 1767 with mother Mary, whose name was recorded once (by mistake) as Nancy on the Captain's list for the ship James & Mary (SC Council Meeting of 12 Jan 1768), but as Mary on her land petition for 150 acres (at the same Council meeting). Her plat, grant and Memorial gave her name as Mary Gordon. See Brent H. Holcomb, Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals, Vol. VI: 1766-1770, pp. 151 & 154, to verify that this is the same woman as the one with the land. Her grant was on Bear Creek of the Wateree River in Craven County (later Fairfield). Other sources are far too lengthy, so I will copy to you separately.