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John? |
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Mary ("Polly") Guthrie m. Jan 26, 1792 Rockingham NC b. 1777? |
Elizabeth (Betsy) Gardner b. Dec 15, 1792 ?Lincoln Co. NC d. Sep 25, 1846 Burke Co. NC |
Martha (Patsy) |
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Richard was a skilled iron worker. |
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He may have had a previous wife and a son by the recorded name John "Mabury" who
married in Tryon County in 1814. |
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Tryon County (see Map of NC in 1775)
became Lincoln County in 1779 (see
Map of NC in 1780). In 1814, Richard's daughter Betsey married a grandson of
John Kincaid Sr. (1710-1811).
John Kincaid had moved his family from Charlottsville VA to Tryon Co. by 1765,
purchasing 850 acres of land along the Catawba. |
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Richard drowned at Cowan's Ford in the Catawba River, on the Lincoln-Mecklenburg
county line. Widow Polly remarried Aug 11, 1798 at Lincoln NC Bartholomew "Bat"
Thompson, a Revolutionary War veteran. He was made guardian of the two little girls
Betsy and Patsy. |
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Sources: Kincaid, Clyde E., et al., Kincaid: The Family of John Kincaid, Sr. (1710-1811)..., Asheville NC, 1983, p.191ff. Lincoln Co. (NC) Ct. of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, vol.3, 1796-1805, p.19. Thompson, Mrs. S. L., letter, Spartanburg, SC, Mar 3, 1993, to L.M.Holloway. |
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