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    22. Susannah4Meadows (John3, Isham2, Daniel1), was born circa 1794, died circa 1825, Taliaferro County, Georgia. She married 16 February 1811, Clarke County, Georgia, Sterling Acree,170 born circa 1784, died after the 1850 census of Baker County, Georgia.171 He was the son of John and Elizabeth Acree.172 Sterling Acree married second, circa 1826, Milly Elizabeth Wilson, born circa 1800.
    Sterling Acree drew land in the 1807 Georgia Land Lottery while living in Moore’s District in Greene County. He drew Lot 271 in the 15th District of Wilkinson County.173
    In Greene County, Georgia, on 6 December 1815, William Stevens of Greene County, sold to Starling Acree, for $1000, 192 acres in Greene County, on Stephens Creek, adjoining Isham Meadows. Witnesses were Nathaniel Acree, Edward Meadows, Ransom Meadows, and Thomas Lyne, J.P.174
    Sterling Acree lived in Taliaferro County, Georgia, in 1830.175 On 1 September 1832 in Taliaferro County, Sterling Acree sold William Meadows, for $523, 195 acres on Sandy Run.176
    Children of Sterling Acree and Susannah Meadows: (all born in Greene County, Georgia)
71. i. William M.5Acree, born circa 1811, married 11 November 1830, Taliaferro County, Georgia, to Mary Thompson,177 daughter of Samuel Thompson and Priscilla ——.178

    170 Faye Stone Poss & Ted O. Brooke, Clarke County, Georgia, Marriage Records 1803–1909 (2001), p. 1. Marriage Book A1, p. 18. Sterling Acree to Susannah Medders, 16 Feb. 1811.
    171 1850 U.S. Census, Baker Co., Ga., p. 80, #64/64. Acree, Starling, age 66, N.C.; Elizabeth, age 50, born Ga.; Caroline W., age 16, born Ga.; Jackson Lafayette, age 13, born Ga.; Starling Ransom, age 11, born Ga.
    172 Greene Co., Ga., Return Book F, p. 121, Return Book G., p. 26.
    173 Lucas, The Second or 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia, p. 1
    174 Greene Co., Ga., Deed Book FF, 1816–1818, p. 35. Recorded 18 March 1816.
    175 1830 U.S. Census, Taliaferro Co., Ga., p. 361. Sterling Acre.
    176 Taliaferro Co., Ga., Deed Book A, p. 279. Both of Taliaferro Co. Wit: John Chapman, Wm. M. Harrison. Rec. 13 Sept. 1832. The same day, William Meadows sold this land to Allen Rhodes.
    177 Taliaferro Co., Ga., Marriage Book A, p. 43.
    178 Taliaferro Co., Ga., Deed Book B, p. 496. 11 Jan. 1839, Taliaferro Co., Wm. M. Acree, Asbury Ogletree, Jesse Evans, James M. Thompson, Daniel Thompson, & Quenia Oneal, legatees of Samuel Thompson, decd., to Priscilla Thompson, widow of said decd., land where Samuel Thompson lived when he died, for her natural life. Wit: Chesley Bristow, A. G. Tyler, J.P. Rec. 12 Jan. 1839.