Mary Davies McDowell
BIRTH 16 Oct 1709
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 6 Oct 1789 (aged 79)
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
Mary and James were married in Williamsburg, James City, VA, and they were the parents of:
Helen/
Mary/ (Mrs John Martin)
Jane/
Elizabeth/1738 (Mrs Col Samuel Watson)
Abigail/5 Oct 1740 (Mrs Gen Robert McCleary)
Sarah/1742
John/1743 m. Jane Parks
Margaret/1745 in Lancaster, PA
Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol I, p 343, database of On-Line Genealogy Library:
Orphans Court held at Lancaster the Eighth day of August 1751. Before Emanuel Carpenter, James Whithill, James Galbraith, Thomas Foster and James Smith, Esqrs., Justices.
Mary McDowell, Widow and Executrix of James McDowell, Exhibited an Inventory and being about to remove with her Family to the Colony of Carolina and her children desirous she should have the Guardianship over them. It appears the said Mary is a discreet and prudent Woman and fit to be Intrusted with the Guardianship. It is adjudged she have the sole Guardianship over John, Margaret, Helen, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Abigail and Sarah McDowell, children by the said James McDowell, deceased. And that Thomas Black and David Shields discharge her Bail."
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