User:CONNIE ROPER/ROBERT CARTER WILLIS,JR.

ROBERT CARTER WILLIS,JR. WAS BORN 1800 IN WILLISTON,BARNWELL COUNTY,SOUTH CAROLINA AND DIED 1860 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA. ROBERT WILLIS,JR. MARRIED MARGARET KIRKLAND BORN 1810 IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND DIED 1870 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA. THEY HAD CHILDREN 1]NANCY WILLIS BORN 1828 MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA 2]ELIZABETH WILLIS BORN 1830 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA 3]WILSON LUMPKIN WILLIS BORN 1833 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA 4]JACKSON WILLIS BORN 1835 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA 5]MARGARET WILLIS BORN 1837 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA 6]JANE WILLIS BORN 1838 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA 7]HENRY WILLIS BORN 1841 IN MILLEDGEVILLE,GEORGIA ROBERT WILLIS,JR. MOVED TO GEORGIA FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO CLAIM A LAND LOTTERY HIS MOTHER - KESSIAH WATSON WILLIS - HAD RECEIVED IN AN LOTTERY BECAUSE OF HER FATHER'S [CAPTAIN MICHAEL WATSON] DEATH IN THE AMERICAN REVOUTIONARY WAR. ROBERT CARTER WILLIS,JR. WAS ALSO LEFT OUT OF HIS FATHER'S [ROBERT CARTER WILLIS,SR.] WILL BECAUSE OF THIS TRANSACTION. IN FACT, ROBERT WILLIS,SR. LEFT HIS HALF BROTHER - ROBERT MOORE WILLIS - A CHILD'S SHARE IN HIS WILL. I FOUND OUT THROUGH ALL MY DIGGING AND RESEARCHING THERE WAS ALOT MORE TO THIS STORY. ROBERT WILLIS,JR. MARRIED MARGARET KIRKLAND WHO WAS THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF COLONIAL MOSES KIRKLAND. THE COLONIAL WAS A NEIGHBOR OF CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIS - ROBERT WILLIS,JR.'S GRANDFATHER. COLONIAL MOSES KIRKLAND HAD REMAINED LOYAL TO THE BRITISH DURING THE WAR. HE WAS RUMORED TO BE QUITE MEAN. MOSES KIRKLAND WAS SUSPECTED OF BURNING CAPTAIN MICHAEL WATSON'S [KESSIAH WATSON WILLIS'S FATHER AND ROBERT WILLIS,JR.'S GRANDFATHER] HOME THREE DIFFERENT TIMES DURING THE WAR. THOUGH MOSES KIRKLAND WAS MEAN AND BAD - HIS NEIGHBOR CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIS WAS CONSIDERED TO BE MEANER AND BADDER AS MOSES KIRKLAND NEVER ATTEMPTED TO HARM HIS HOME. AFTER THE WAR ENDED, MOSES KIRKLAND WAS EXPELLED TO JAMAICA FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. I BELIEVED KESSIAH WATSON WILLIS GAVE HER SON, ROBERT WILLIS,JR. THE LAND LOTTERY SO HE COULD SETTLE IN GEORGIA AND MARRY THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, MARGARET KIRKLAND, WHO FOLLOWED SHORTLY BEHIND ROBERT WILLIS,JR. TO GEORGIA. THIS SAVED THEIR NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS [AND PROBABLY EVEN SOME RELATIVES] OF KNOWING ROBERT WILLIS,JR. HAD MARRIED MARGARET KIRKLAND - GRANDDAUGHTER OF MOSES KIRKLAND - CONSIDERED TO BE A TRAITOR TO THE NEWLY FORMED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.