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- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: James Knox
Gender: male
Birth Place: NC
Birth Year: 1752
Spouse Name: Lydia Gillespie
Spouse
Birth Place: NC
Spouse Birth Year: 1754
Marriage
Year: 1772
Marriage State: NC
Thomas Gillespie, b. 1719 in Cecil Co., MD, d. 12 December 1797 in
Rowan County and is burried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church. The
Augusta Co., VA Court Minutes for Sept. 1747 show that he was about to leave that colony. He can be identified in the Rowan County area on
Sills Creek adjoining the Catheys prior to 1752 and was probably there
earilier. His will, written 15 Nov. 1796, prb. Court 1797 recorded in
Will Book G:2 names his wife Naomi, sons James, Isaac, Robert, George,
Thomas, David, and Alexander. Daughters Martha Allison, Lydia Knox, as
well as several grandsons. Naomi Gillespie died at 2 P.M. on Tuesday
the 13th of December, aged 69. A notice printed in The North Carolina
Journal said that they were the first settlers on the West side of the
Yadkin River. They were buried in the same grave in the same coffin,
survived by sixty-five descendents, of whom six sons carried them to the place of internment. See Raymond Parker Fouts, "Abstracts from the
North Carolina Journal", pp137-8. The tombstone says they both died on
the 12th, Thomas aged 78, Naomi, 69. The Gillespie tombstone is within ten feet of the graves of the immigrants John Knox and his wife Jean
Gracy, all of whom were great grandparents of the eleventh president
of the United States, James Knox Polk, Thomas and Naomi's daughter
Lydia Gillespie having married Capt. James Knox, the Rowan County
Marriage Bond dated 4 November 1772-see KNOX below
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