Gen James B. Wellborn
BIRTH 29 Nov 1767
Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 4 Dec 1854 (aged 87)
Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
BURIAL Wellborn Cemetery
Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
James Wellborn, army officer and legislator, was born in that part of Rowan County that first became Surry County and then Wilkes County in 1778. Here he made his home during a long life, holding public office and operating a large plantation on land that his wife had inherited some two miles from the county seat town of Wilkesboro. In 1800 Wellborn owned 12,321 acres of land and seventy-five slaves. Willie P. Mangum, who visited Wellborn in the spring of 1820, praised the beauty of the Wilkes County area. He further commented: "I have seen in one stock at Col. Welbourns [sic ] 340 Cattle, & 70 or 80 of them that are fattening are in better order than I ever saw any animal of that description. They are raised without expense by sending them into the inexhaustible range of the mountains in the warm season of the year."
Wellborn married Rebecca Montgomery, the daughter of Colonel Hugh Montgomery, of Salisbury, a native of England. Her twin sister, Rachel, married Governor Montfort Stokes. The two sisters inherited large tracts of land from their father and, with their husbands, donated land for the town of Wilkesborough. Wellborn and his wife were the parents of several children, but his eighteen-year-old son, James, Jr., died in November 1827.
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