Person:Patrick Connelly (3)

Name	Capt. Patrick Connelly, of Jefferson Co., GA
Alt Name	Patrick Connolly
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	21 Nov 1754	Killashandra, Ireland
Marriage	Est 1777	to Unknown
Marriage	Bef 1794	Georgia[listed in father-in-law's will written 17 Aug 1794] to Mary S. Margaret "Polly" Cavannah
Death`^?`	11 Dec 1800	Louisville, Jefferson County, Georgia

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About Patrick Connelly

Capt. Patrick Connelly according to some sources was born 21 November 1754 in Killashandra, Ireland [parentage unknown]. Sgt. Patrick Connelly is listed as serving in the No. 518 Burke County (Georgia) Rangers in Capt. James McKay's Regiment from Oct. 1. 1781 - Jan. 16, 1782.

For his military service, Patrick Connelly received the following Bounty Land Grants: [Note that Washington and Burke Counties adjoin Jefferson County, Georgia on the west and east sides]

#405: 287½ acres [of Oak, Hickory & Pine] in Washington County, Georgia [adjoining Branch of Buffelow Creek [a tributary of the Oconee River] to the north*, Beckham's Land to the south and vacant land on east and west] on 17 May 1784 and recorded on 16 August 1787.
#395: 700 acres in Burke County, Georgia on 6 March 1787 adjoining lands of Wm. Hutching & David Cavenah on the Waters of Bark Camp on his headrights.

The Buffalo Creek watershed is located in the Oconee River basin in central Georgia, Washington County.

He was also listed on the 1799 Georgia Tax Index in Tarver District, Jefferson County, Georgia.

Estate Records in Jefferson County, Georgia in 1801 show that Patrick Connelly was married twice. Guardianship records show that his children Nicholas Connelly, Catherine Connelly and Polly Connelly, all "by his first wife" [unnamed], were "all under the age of 14 years" [born 1788 or later], and Michael Shelman Esquire was named their guardian. There may likely be older children from his first marriage; perhaps some that were listed in the 1790 York County, South Carolina Census [assuming that was the same Patrick Connelly], but their names have not yet been proven.

Patrick's second marriage was to Mary "Margaret/Polly" Cavannah, daughter of Nicholas Cavannah (abt. 1740-1823) of Jefferson County, Georgia. In the will of Nicholas Cavannah, written 17 Aug 1794, he named his "daughter Margaret, wife of Patrick Connelly" and gave her 350 acres of land "where Patrick Connelly now lives" [as of the writing of his will in 1794]. Patrick and his second wife Margaret Cavannah likely had several children, but the one positively located as yet is Patrick B. Connelly, who appears to have been born in 1801. likely after the death of Capt. Connelly on 11 December 1800. Patrick B. Connelly was named in the will and was Executor of his step-father, Thomas Street [written 1 Oct 1846, proven 1 Sept. 1848 in Jefferson County, Georgia], who married Margaret Cavannah [Connelly] in 1829, and was Patrick B. Connolly's step-father.

Additional research is needed to determine the identity of his other children.

The death of Capt. Patrick Connolly was announced in the Louisville Gazette and Republican Trumpet in its issue of December 17, 1800, as follows:

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Estate Records

31 Jan 1801, Jefferson County, Georgia Court of Ordinary

Ordered that Letters of Administration be granted to Polly Connelly, on the Estate of Patrick Connelly, Ordered.

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Guardianship Records

31 Jan 1801, Jefferson County, Georgia Court of Ordinary

It having been represented in the Court that Nicholas Connelly, Catherine Connelly and Polly Connelly, Children of Patrick Connelly dec'd by his first wife are under the age of fourteen years, It is ordered that Michael Shelman Esquire be and he is hereby appointed Guardian to the said Nicholas Connelly, Catherine Connelly and Polly Connelly.

Court Adjourned till the first Tuesday in March next.

Jas. Bozeman Clk.

[Signed] Josiah M. Sterrett, Walter Robinson.

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