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| 16. John3Meadows (Isham2, Daniel1), was born circa 1763, Granville County, North Carolina, died circa 1806, about aged 43, Greene County, Georgia. He married circa 1792, Warren County, North Carolina, to Lydia ——, born circa 1769, died after 1830, Warren County, Georgia.55 John Meadows’s estate was proved 6 January 1808, Greene County, Georgia.56 Lydia married second, before 6 January 1808, Isaac Rowley (Rolly).
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| | Lydia Meadows drew land in the 1807 Georgia Land Lottery while living in Moore’s District in Greene County. She drew Lot 129 in the 24th District of Wilkinson County57 (now Twiggs County).
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| | Isaac and Lydia Rolly’s children were: Sarah Rolly married 10 August 1830, Warren County, Georgia, to Miles Joiner, and Winny Rolly married 30 August 1832, Warren County, to James Rhodes.
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| | John Meadows moved from Warren County, North Carolina, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1798 with his father Isham Meadows. John Meaddows paid taxes in 1799 in Capt. John Bethune’s District RR, on 100 acres in Wilkes County, on Stephens Creek, adjoining Spencer Thomas, granted to Jacob Parkerson.58
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| 55 1830 U.S. Census, Warren Co., Ga., p. 230. Isaac Roley.
| | 56 Greene Co., Ga., Record Book F, p. 121; Book G, p. 26; Book H, p. 48 and 103 and 202. Inventories and Appraisements and Sales of Estates Book F, p. 144 and 163. Vol. F., p. 163: James Meadows, admr. 22 Jan. 1808, Sale of the estate of John Meadows. Inventory dated 6 Jan. 1808. Purchasers: Isaac Rolley, Susannah Meadows, Isham Meadows, Ransom Meadows, James Meadows, Benjamin Meadows, Simon Morris, John Kent, V. Nunnery. Ordinary Minutes, Vol. F., p. 121, 2 May 1815. John Meadows orphans: Jincy Meadows, Jesse Meadows, Tempey Meadows chose Sterling Acree their guardian. Returns and Divisions Vol. H., p. 6, 48, 103 and Vol. I, p. 202. Legatees of John Meadows: Isaac & Lydia Rolley, Sterling Acree, Jincy, Jesse, and Tempey Meadows. Wriley Meadows in final division, William Meadows in final division. John Meadows’ admr., James Meadows, had died by 1815. Elijah Stephens became his admr. In 1817, Greene Co., Elijah Stephens petitioned the court for leave to sell the real estate of John Meadows’ estate for the benefit of the orphans. The land adj. William and Isham Meadows.
| | 57 The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., The Second or 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia (Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1986), p. 99.
| | 58 Hudson, Wilkes County, Georgia, Tax Records 1785–1805, p. 846.
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