Person:James Espy (3)

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Aspie (Espey, Espy), Mr. James on 2 January 1783, claimed 640 acres north of the Cumberland beginning "200 yards below a Sinking Spring . . . and joyning [sic] a Claim of Daniel Turner now claimed by John Thomas [also a member of the congregation], and running North for Compliment."1 Espy was a signer of the 1780 Cumberland Compact and was listed on the 1787 Davidson County tax roll with one taxable.2 His name appears on the 1787 military payroll.3 In 1792 he bought from Robert Carrothers "a negro fellow named Harkless"4 and, in 1793, from Isaac Pierce, bought "one negro fellow named Ned."5