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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1704 - 1779 (74 years)
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| Name |
Yancey, James [1] |
| Birth |
5 Nov 1704 |
Hanover County, Virginia  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
2619 |
| Death |
1779 |
Granville County, North Carolina [1] |
| Person ID |
I2587 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
| Family |
[Yancey], Elizabeth Unknown, b. 1716, Hanover County, Virginia d. 1777, Prince William County, Virginia (Age 61 years) |
| Reference Number |
20020 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Yancey, Bartlett, b. Abt 1736, Hanover County, Virginia d. Oct 1784, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age ~ 48 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 2. Yancey, Mary, b. Abt 1737, Hanover County, Virginia d. Bef 1777, North Carolina (Age ~ 39 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Yancey, Major Thornton, b. Abt 1740, Hanover County, Virginia d. 1799 (Age ~ 59 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 4. Yancey, Thomas, b. Abt 1742, Hanover County, Virginia [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 5. Yancey, James, b. Abt 1745, Hanover County, Virginia d. Abt 1797, Granville County, North Carolina (Age ~ 52 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 6. Yancey, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1745, Hanover County, Virginia [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 7. Yancey, Ann, b. Abt 1748, Hanover County, Virginia [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 8. Yancey, Lewis, b. Abt 1750, Virginia d. Abt 1819, Granville County, North Carolina (Age ~ 69 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 9. Yancey, Phillip, b. Abt 1751, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 10. Yancey, Jane, b. Abt 1754, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F1374 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
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| Notes |
- James Yancey (1704-1779)
Note that many state that Ann Thornton was the wife of James Yancey, but no evidence has been produced. Also, the birth date of James Yancey is an estimate.
For more information go to The Yancey Family Surname Resource Center; and Yancey Cousins United.
Also note the following from At the Foot of the Lake: The Pattillo-Patillo Family and Allied Lines, Millard Quentin Plumblee (1987) at 177:
"James Yancey was br. 1712 in Hanover Co., Va. and was the son of ______________ Yancey and Ann Bartlett. James Yancey m. Ann Thornton who d. 1735. Both were buried in Granville Co., N. C. James Yancey wrote his will in Granville Co., N. C. on 30 December 1777 and it was proved in Nov. Court 1779. Therein he named the following children":
Thornton Yancey
Bartlett Yancey
Phillip Yancey
Thomas Yancey
Lewis Yancey
Jenny Yancey Saunders (married Edward Saunders)
Also mentioned in will of James Yancey:
Son-in-law Jesse Saunders (married James Yancey's daughter Ann Yancey; possibly Nancy Yancey).
Nancy Baynes (granddaughter of James Yancey and daughter of Mary Yancey Baynes).
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Will of James Yancey
Note: James Yancey
Identity: Son of Charles Yancey and (Mary Bartlett?)
State: North Carolina
County: Granville
Dated: 1777
Proved: 1779
Recorded: Will Book 1, Page 252
In the name of God, Amen, I James Yancey, being very sick and weak, but of perfect mind and memory -thanks be to God, calling unto mind the mortality of the body - and knowing it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament. I give and recommend my soul into the hand of almighty God, that gave it, and my body unto the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors - Nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again, by the mighty power of God - and as touching such worldly estate, wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, demise and dispose in the following manner:
Item 1 - I give to my son Bartlett Yancey, my tract of land lying on Lawson's Fork - a branch of the pacelot in South Carolina - containing three hundred acres.
Item 2 - I give my son-in-law Jesse Saunders, forty pounds proc. money.
Item 3 - I give my son Phillip Yancey two hundred acres of land I now live on, when cleared out of the office at the expense my estate, to run parallel with his upper line South, beginning at the County line.
Item 4 - I give the remaining tract of land, I now live on to my son Thomas Yancey, to be cleared out of the office agreeable to an entry made by me with Robert Jones in the year 1763 - at the expense of the estate -also the best bed, I have, and the furniture thereunto belonging.
Item 5 - I give unto my daughter, Jenny Saunders, one bay horse that I bought from the Edward Saunders estate.
Item 6 - I give unto my grand-daughter, Nancy Baynes, ten pounds proc. money.
Item 7 - I give to my son, Thornton Yancey, a negroe woman, named Kate, provided he pay unto my estate the sum of twenty pounds.
All negroes I have now in my possession to be sold to highest bidder among my children. (No other person to be bidder).
The most valuable negroes to be set up and sold, first, then the next and so on until all are sold, all children to have equal parts. The residue of my other estate to be set up to public at twelve months credit with bond and approved security, with interest, to be applied to my just debts - the residue to be divided equally among my children.
It is my desire that the expense of my burial be allowed my executors out of my estate.
I constitute and appoint my sons Lewis and Phillip my whole and sole executors to my estate. I witness and hereunto set my seal this 30th day of December, 1777.
James Yancey (Seal)
Granville County, Nov. Court A.D. 1779
This will duly approved by oath of Hayden Pryor - and ordered to be recorded.
Phillip and Lewis Yancey qualified as executors of said will.
Reuben Searcy Sec.
Copy of above will certified as true, perfect and correct will of James Yancey as it appears on will record
book I, Page 252.
Charles Aeston, Clerk Granville Co., N.C
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In his 1777 Granville County will James Yancey (1704-1779), grandfather of Caswell County's Bartlett Yancey, Jr., included the following provision:
"Item 6 - I give unto my grand-daughter, Nancy Baynes, ten pounds proc. money."
What is "proc. money"?
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Proclamation Money
To get around the shortage of money, colonial governments printed paper money, and colonists used whatever foreign currency they could get their hands on - Spanish dollars, for example. Today, global trading in currency sets exchange rates, but there were no international banks to set exchange rates in the 1700s. Instead, each colony set an official value in pounds, shillings, and pence on paper money and foreign coin. Because their value was set by proclamation, these currencies were called proclamation money.
People could also simply barter or trade goods back and forth. But someone who wanted to buy a bushel of corn, for example, might not have anything the seller wanted in trade. To get around this problem, certain commodities like tobacco were used as a kind of currency. Everyone would take tobacco in exchange for other goods, because it could be easily sold again. Barter made accounting difficult, though. To manage a plantation or business, people needed to keep track of their sales, purchases, and debts.
To make accounting possible, proclamation money also set a value on "rated commodities" that were commonly used as currency. These official prices meant that exchanges conducted in tobacco could be accounted in pounds, shillings, and pence. Turning commodities into “proclamation money” also enabled cash-poor colonists to pay their taxes in goods they had available to them.
Source: Walbert, David. "The Value of Money in Colonial America." Learn NC [http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-colonial/1646; accessed 17 June 2016].
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