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| 6. Isham2Meadows (Daniel1), was born 16 February 1740/1 and baptized 3 January 1741/2 in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia.37 He died 4 April 1829 in Harris County, Georgia, aged 89.38
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| | Isham married circa 1762 in Granville County, North Carolina; his wife’s name hasn’t been proven. He was probably married twice and it is likely that his second wife was the daughter of John Coggin. Isham’s son, Daniel Meadows, named a son, John Coggin Meadows. Six of Isham’s children have been identified. His sons, John, Isham, and James Meadows, were born between 1763 and 1770, and his sons, William, Daniel, and Edward Meadows were born between 1778 and 1783.
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| | On 4 June 1755 in Granville County, North Carolina, Isham Meadows, orphan of Daniel Meadows, aged 15 years on February 16, 1755, was bound to Colonel William Person to learn the cooper’s trade (barrel–maker) and to give him two years schooling.39
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| | Daniel Meadows and Isham Meadows were sworn chain carriers and Thomas Person was surveyor for a North Carolina plat to Thomas Ownsbey, 6 July 1761, for 680 acres in Granville County, on the south side of Ready Creek, adjoining Daniel’s corner, Mangum’s line, Acock’s line, Walker’s line, and Green’s line.40
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| 37 Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia 1720–1798 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980), p. 67. Isham, son of Daniel and Jane Meadows, born Feby 16th 1740/1, baptized Janry. 3d 1741/2.
| | 38 Mary Bondurant Warren and Sarah Fleming White, Marriages and Deaths 1820 to 1830, Abstracted from Extant Georgia Newspapers (Danielsville, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1972), p. 86. Meadows, Mr. Isham, 98y, d. 4–4–1829 at his residence in Harris Co., Ga., Athens Gazette, Athens, Ga. 5–5–1829. Also: Faye Stone Poss, Clarke Co. (Athens) Ga. Newspaper Abstracts 1826–1829, Vol. 2 (Snellville, Ga., 1999), p. 223. The Athenian, Vol. III, No. 18, Tuesday, May 5, 1829. Died at his residence in Harris Co., Ga., on the 4th ult., Mr. Isham Meadows, aged 98 years. Isham was actually 89 years old and not 98; the newspaper made a mistake.
| | 39 Thomas Owens, Histories and Genealogies of Old Granville Co., N.C. 1746–1800, p. 190.
| | 40 Margaret M. Hofmann, Vol. 4, #3366, N.C. Land Office Papers
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