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Alison Knox (in question)

Male Abt 1744 - Bef 29 May 1848 (?)


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  • Name Alison Knox (in question) 
    Born Abt 1744  Belfast, County of Antrim, Ulster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 29 May 1848 (?)  Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3732  MyTree
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2015 

    Family Mary Smith,   b. 1740, NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Abt 1781  Lincoln Co. or Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Mary Ann Knox,   b. 28 May 1785, Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1855, Selma, Dallas County, AL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 
    Family ID F2384  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • Name: Allison Knox
      Birth Date: 1750
      Birthplace: North Carolina
      Volume: 98
      Page Number: 261
      Reference: Roster of soldiers from N.C. in the Amer. Rev. Comp. By D.A.R. of NC. Durham, NC. 1932. (12,709p.):260, 538

      1790 Census Mecklenburg North Carolina
      Name: Allison Knox
      Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Mecklenburg, North Carolina
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 2
      Free White Persons - Females: 6
      Number of Household Members: 8

      1800 Census for Salisbury, Mecklenburg Co., NC
      Name: Allison Knox
      Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Salisbury, Mecklenburg, North Carolina
      Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 (Allison)
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2 (Mary Ann) (?)
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2 (Jane) (Ruth)
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1 (Mary)
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 6

      1810 Census Mecklenburg, NC (?)
      Name: Allison Knox
      Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Capt B Willsons, Mecklenburg, North Carolina
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 3
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 6

      Minutes of Mecklenburg Co, NC, Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions: Book 2: 1785 December Session, p. 5
      Hannah Knox, and Orphan of Patt. Knox aged 16 years comes into Court and makes Choice of Allison Knox [as] her Guardian who is approved off and bound with James Knox in the Sum of L80.

      Minutes of Mecklenburg Co, NC, Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions: 1780-1800; Herman W. Ferguson, page 47 (?)

      NC Archives - Mecklenburg Original Estate Records Box CR.065.508.146:
      Estate Papers of Patrick Knox
      Oct[?] 27th[?], 1785 - Guardian Bond - "Allison Knox Guardian of the
      aforesaid Hannah Knox " [signed by Allison Knox and James Knox]
      March 1, 1786 - Administrator "Allison Knox now married to relict"
      [signs Alison Knox]



      1790 US Census for Mecklenburg Co., NC, Roll M637-7, pg. 160,
      Ancestry.com Image 0534: Allison Knox with 2 free w males over 16; 6
      free w females. (8 in family: Allison and wife, Mary and 4 children over 16, possibly Allison, John, Mary, Jane, Ruth, Hannah, Mary Ann and Mary's mother.

      March 2, 1795 - Court Proceeding regarding an "error" in the [Jan 31, 1792 ] sale of a Waggon purchased by James Knox (6) from the estate of Patrick Knox "evidently was proved on trial on the 2nd March 1795 before Col. James Johnston (5) & Isaac Alexander as arbitrators by the Oath of Several Creditable Witnesses who were present at the said sales & knew and believed said Admin. & Mary Knox then & there did enter into a special agreement with said James Knox [6] that he should have the waggon at his former bid...and that she and her brother Smith [7] then urged him the said James to bid the said Waggon off to himself and not suffer[?] it _____[?] into the hads of those poor ___[?] persons who were then bidding for it, to the great injury of herself and orphant children, to which agreement the said James complied, bid it off at L36.10.0 gave his said note publicly with the other people...yet the Estate of said James Knox [6] has got relief in the premises to the said amount of L7 hard, by his Executors Hugh Terrence[10] & Jno Sharpe [11] on the said 2 March 1795 before James Johnston & Isaac? Alexander, when there was a full investigation of the whole matter, with evidence ___[?] And Samuel Willson (3) present, who had said note assigned to him, as Guardian of 2 of the Heirs of said Patrick Knox & married to a third therefore he draws now three fourths (8) of the Neat [sic Net] proceeds of said Estate...'

      July 12, 1799 Mecklenburg Co, NC Will of Benjamin Wilson,
      (son of Samuel Wilson Sr. and Mary Winslow) mentions:
      ... "I will to Benjamin W. Davidson, youngest son of my sister Violet, the part of my plantation west of the spring branch adj Allison Knox and the wagon road...

      Deed reads:
      July 12, 1799 Mecklenburg Co, NC Will of Benjamin Wilson [see Mecklenburg WB-F, page 232; and Mecklenburg Co, NC Deed Book 21; p 107 20 Jan 1803
      Hugh Terrance [Torrance] & Wm. Henderson, exrs of the will of Benjamin Willson, decd & Wm B. Alexander as guardian of Benjamin W. Davidson to Benjamin Wilson, son of David Wilson, 135 A on a branch of McDowell Cr. adj the Great Wagon Road, Allison Knox, & Saml Wilsons being part of 340 owned by the testator.
      Wit: John Sharpe & Jonathan Potts.

      June 7, 1800 - "Admin. for Schooling the Orphans of Decd Patrick Knox"
      [Alison Knox accounting of money paid for schooling of children]: 1782
      - Hannah & Matthew "9 months each"...1785, 1786, 1787 - "three years
      in the whole" for Ruth John & Jean [Jane?]Knox "at different
      times"..."note Hannah & Matthew went to school some in the above three
      years".

      July Session 1800 - Settlement of Patrick Knoxes Estate by Alison Knox:
      "Accounts Current & Settlement of Estate of Patrick Knox Dec'd who was
      killed in June 1780, Mary Knox, Relict as Administratrux" The Full
      Amount of Sales as Returned to Court in 1782 amounting to... ...to an
      additional return by her Husband Alison Knox in 1786....

      1800 US Census for Salsbury, Mecklenburg Co., NC, Roll M32_33, pg 562,
      Ancestry.com Image 105: Allison Knox with 1 m. 26-44; 2 f. 10-16, 2 f .16-25, 1 f. 45 - over.
      1 m Allison, 2 f. 10 - 16, Mary Ann, ? (Jane 28), 2 f 16 - 25 (Ruth 31), (Hannah 33).

      1800 US Census, KNOX ALLISON, Mecklenburg County, NC:
      562 00010-02201-00
      1 WM 26-44 (b. 1756-1774) Allison abt 1756?
      2 WF 10-15 (b. 1785-1790) Mary Ann, b. 1785 & who?
      2 WF 16-25 (b. 1775-1784) Jane, 1778-1800 & who? John, b. 1777?
      1 WF 45+ (b. before 1755) Mary?
      0 Slaves
      (Missing:
      Matthew b. 1770-1772?; d. bef 1795?
      John, b. 1777? m. 1813, Polly B. (where is John?)
      Hannah b.1769, d. 1830-1840; m. bef 1787, Samuel Wilson Jr.
      Ruth b. 1773-1775?, d. bef 1795?

      Also, on 1800 Census of Mecklenburg Co, NC, page 562:
      Lewis Jetton (22101-11101-02) Note: this is grandfather of Martha Nantz Jetton who m. 1845 in Mecklenburg Co, NC, Robert J Wilson Knox, son of John Knox
      ... Patrick Johnston - Ruling Elder at Gilead and Bethel - who is buried at Gilead.)

      1810 US Census for Capt. B. Wilson's, Mecklenburg Co., NC, Roll
      M252-42, pg 516, Ancestry.com Image 98: Allison Knox with 1 m. under
      10, 1 m. 45 - over; 3 f. 16-25, 1 f. 45 and over.
      David, James, John and Samuel listed in Capt Porter, Mecklenburg Co., NC.

      1810 KNOX ALLISON Mecklenburg County NC
      053 No Township (Capt B. Wilson District) (10001-00301-0-0)
      1 WM 0-9 (b. 1801-1810) Who?
      1 WM 45+ (b. before 1765) Allison
      3 WF 16-26 (b. 1784-1794) Who? and Who?
      1 WF 45+ (b. before 1765) Mary? Jane?
      0 Other Free Persons
      0 Slaves
      Notes: Family would have been configured (estimated birth years):
      Matthew b. 1770-1772?; d. bef 1795?
      John, b. 1777? m. 1813, Polly B.
      Hannah b.1769, d. 1830-1840; m. bef 1787, Samuel Wilson Jr.
      Ruth b. 1773-1775?, d. bef 1795?
      Jane b. 1778-1780 d. after 1795
      Mary Ann b. 1785 m. 1807-1810, Moses Shelby
      Mary (Smith) Knox, b. 1750-1754; d. 1800-1830; m. 1782-1784, Allison Knox

      1820 US Census, KNOX ALLISER, Mecklenburg County, NC, 182 No Township Listed:
      1 WM 10 to 15 (b. 1805-1810) Who?
      1 WM 45 + (b. before 1775) Allison
      2 WF 26 to 45 (b. 1776-1794) Who & Who?
      1 WF 45 + (b. before 1775) Who?
      0 Foreign Born, not Naturalized
      1 Agriculture
      0 Commerce
      0 Manfacture
      1 Males Slaves (to 14)
      0 Female Slaves

      1820 US Census Mecklenburg Co., NC (Ancestry.com pg 10)
      Samuel and James Knox living close by.

      1830 KNOX ALLISON Mecklenburg County NC, 357 No Township:
      1 WM 21-30 (b. between 1800-1809) Who?
      1 WM 71-80 (b. between 1750-1759) Alison
      1 WF 31-40 (b. between 1790-1799) Who?
      1 WF 41-50 (b. between 1780-1789) Who?

      1840 No Record found in NC

      Tax Lists of Mecklenburg Co., NC, Capt. Cathey's Co
      .,
      pg 48: (year ?) Capt. Cathey's Co: Knox, Allison, 148 acres, wp 1;
      Knox, John 344 acres, wp 1.
      pg. 72, (1799) Capt. Cathey's Co: Knox, Allison, 147 acres, wp 1;
      Knox, John 344 acres, wp 1.
      pg. 106 (1806), Capt. Wilson's Co: Knox, Allison, 147 acres; Knox,
      John, 463 acres, wp 1.

      Mecklenburg Co, NC Deeds, Book 3, page 136
      26 Jan 1850
      . P. J. Wilson & H. F. McKnight, executors of the estate of Sam. Wilson, decd., to John F. Pettus, for $265, 135a on McDowell Creek adj the Great Road & Alison Knox.
      Wit. J. C. Wilson, Jurat & Jas H. Kerns.
      Proven at Oct Term 1850;
      [see WB-H/123; and HWF 856]
      [HWF - Mecklenburg Deed Books 24-28 & 1-3, abstract 4768, page 233]

      July 24, 1852 Mecklenburg Co, NC Will of Robert Davidson mentions:
      ..I will to my nephew David A. Caldwell the plantation bought from Frances Baidy [sic Beaty] of some 325 A, the 80-acre Allison Knox tract, and half of the Waddell, Kinmore, and Martin tracts to be divided as directed hereinafter...
      (PeggyBruckner Note: Hmmm...Alison Knox still owned land in 1850 -- or was this a landmark reference?)

      (Possible usable information for identifying Allison Knox):
      W. E. KNOX BIBLE RECORD W. E. Knox Bible records copied by Rebekah
      Jetton. Jane Knox, born June 11 (or 13), 1770; died May 25, 1842.[md
      Samuel POLK] Samuel W. Knox, born Oct., 1814.[Samuel is the son of
      Joseph KNOX md Magdelene ALLISON(KNOX)] Eliza Knox, born Oct. 17,
      1817; died Sept. 13, 1840. Samuel W. Knox and Eliza Dill, married Feb.
      22, 1838. Samuel W. Knox and Mary A. Mabry, married Dec. 13, 1842.
      Thomas Allison Knox, born April 14, 1722, and departed this life May
      5, 1794. Magdalene [Neil] Allison, born Aug. 31, 1725, and departed
      this life May 17, 1794.[wife of Thomas Allison KNOX - apparently their
      children did not assume the surname of KNOX] Theophilus Allison, born
      Feb. 1, 1740. Alexander Allison, born Nov. 27, 1749, and departed this
      life May, 176-. Magdalene Allison, born Dec 20, 1751.[d. 27 Dec 1802,
      Rutherford, TN -md Joseph KNOX, 2 Mar 1773, Rowen, North Carolina, son
      of John KNOX md Jeane GRACY. Theophilus Allison, born May 30, 1754.
      Margaret Allison, born Aug. 29, 1756, and departed this life Sept. 24,
      1779. Thomas Allison, Jr., born Jan. 10, 1759. Magdalene Knox, born
      Dec. 28, 1751, and departed this life Nov. 27, 1802. Elizabeth Knox
      departed this life April 7, 1807.

      William D. Knox m. Elizabeth Bell, dau. of Susan Bell, went to SC. Pitt Co, NC DB PP, p. 96, Jan. 16, 1858, William D. Knox of Dist. of Charleston at St. John Parish, SC to Ashley Knox of Pitt, 1/5 part of undivided land, S. side Tar River, 417A., same conveyed by William Eastwood to David Knox, descended to his heirs, Allison Knox, Robert Knox, Orman Knox, Susan Knox, Joshua Nobles and Penelope, wife
      Robert Knox. Pitt Co NC DB T, p. 225, May 6, 1813, James Knox, Allison Knox, Robert Knox and Susan Knox to Orman Knox, part of tract of David Knox and by death of David Knox, descended to parties herein. Pitt Co NC DB MM, p. 155, May 29, 1848, Robert Knox of Harrison Co., Texas appoints Isaac Joyner of Pitt, attorney to receive part as heir of estate of Allison Knox, dec.

      The following is from Notes of Peggy Bruckner:
      Consistently signed his name as Alison (one l), but also appeared in Court and Estate Records as Allison Knox.
      Alison is a very elusive character. He owned land in Mecklenburg, which is referenced in other deeds, but never appears in a deed as either Grantor or Grantee.
      He married Capt Patrick Knox's widow, Mary who is believed to have been a Smith. After their marriage, Alison became the Administrator of Patrick's Estate. Some researchers believe he was Patrick's brother, but I find nothing that supports that speculation. He almost certainly is near-kin, so may also be a cousin.
      There is some confusion among researchers as to who and when he married...and who his children might be... Other than the documented marriage to Mary Knox, the widow of Patrick, I find no evidence of any other marriage. If Mary Ann Knox, b. 1785 was the daughter of Alison, then she has to be the daughter of Mary, since Patrick’s Estate Papers say Alison was married to Mary before 1785… Mary is still alive in July 1800 when Patrick’s Estate is settled and a deed specifically states she has “lifetime” dower rights. Alison Knox closes out Patrick’s Estate in July 1800, so it is unlikely he was married to anyone else.
      Alison totally disappeared from Mecklenburg between 1830 and 1840, leaving no trace. No LWT, no Estate Papers, no Court Records…nothing. This looks more like a move than a death. It seems possible that he moved to Alabama with his assumed daughter, Mary Ann (Knox) Shelby, who married Moses A. Shelby – but this is speculation on my part. (not Moses A. Shelby - MCM - 2005)

      Peggy Bruckner's Notes: This Benjamin W. Davidson is Benjamin Wilson Davidson, son of Violet Winslow (Wilson) Davidson and Major John Davidson, Sr, Signer of Mecklenburg Declaration. Benjamin Wilson Davidson married Elizabeth Latta, daughter of James and Jane (Knox) Latta, dau. of Robert and Mary (Ewart) Knox.