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Sarah (Lee) Gordon (abt. 1765 - bef. 1820)

Sarah Gordon formerly Lee
Born about in Fairfield County, Province of South Carolinamap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died before before about age 55 in Robertson, Tennessee, United Statesmap
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Biography

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]

Children

If this is her husband, Alexander Gordon had the following children named in his will written in Tennessee:

  1. John
  2. Greenberry
  3. Alexander George Washington
  4. Mary
  5. Elizabeth
  6. Martha
  7. Robert Boaz
  8. William Wesley
  9. Sarah
  10. Rebecca.

Land Deed

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]

Research Notes

1790 Fairfield, South Carolina, US Federal Census:[5]

Name Alexr Gordon
Home in 1790 Fairfield, South Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over 1
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16 1
Free White Persons - Females 2
Number of Slaves 8
Alexander Gordon census list 171: Ancestry view page 14
Samuel Young; John Cameron: list 166: Ancestry view page 11
Andrew Cameron; Celia Delashmat: list 167: View p 12
Wm Hughs; Wm Scott (Rebecca Scott is "guardian" of John Cameron’s dau Catharine mentioned in John Cameron's will) list 168 view page 12
Andrew Young list 164: View page 10
Link to Ancestry View Page for Fairfield, SC

Sources

  1. Kershaw County, "Lee, John Of Fairfield County, Will Typescript, Kershaw County (Estate Packet: Apt. 39, Pkg. 1436) (3 Frames). Date: 4/20/1787,"; database with images, SC Department of Archives and History (Search: Lee, John; 1787).
  2. Craven County (Chester County) South Carolina; Deed Book F, Pages 60, 61, 62. Aug 18, 1790.
  3. "John Lee - Will, 1786, Fairfield Co SC"; RootsWeb (https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~circuitcourtrecords/genealogy/probate/leejohnwill2.html).
  4. Deed Book F
  5. The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; First Census of the United States, 1790.; Year: 1790; Census Place: Fairfield, South Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 11; Page: 171; Family History Library Film: 0568151

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Acknowledgments

This person was created on 22 September 2010 through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged.





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The Alexander Gordon who married Sarah Lee was the one who lived in Camden (Fairfield Co) SC, served under Capt. John Turner in Col. Richard Winn's Regiment of militia. He had a very distinctive signature. The Alexander Gorden/Gordon who moved to Robertson Co TN was born in VA, marked with an X, and served under Capt. Felix Warley in the 1st Regiment, Gen. Pinckney--a full-time military unit in the Continental Line, recruited solely in the Low Country. These are necessarily different men. Capt. John Turner arrived in SC from Ireland on 31 Dec 1767 on the ship James and Mary. So did James Young (b. 1760), who married Agnes Lee, and so did an Alexander Gordon (b. 1760), who arrived with his mother Mary.
posted by H. Hall
Thank you for posting. I would love to see the sources so that I can research these people further and attach the sources.

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.

posted by Karen Brubaker
edited by Karen Brubaker
The Alexander Gordon who moved to Robertson Co TN used an X when he submitted a pension application in 1829 (see Southern Campaigns of the Revolutionary War, app #20375, spelled "Gorden"). He received £18.4 for his service on the SC line in Jul 1782-Jul 1783 (A.A. record #2970 for 2 different Alexander Gordons). His service in the First Company under Capt. Felix Warley is documented in 2 muster rolls, one dated 11 Dec 1782 and another dated 19 Mar 1783, citing 2 years & 5 months of continual service. The other Alexander Gordon (the one who married Sarah Lee and who signed his name) was paid £28.2.10 1/4 for 197 days militia service under Capt. John Turner from 22 Feb 1781 through 1782.

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.

posted by H. Hall

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