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  1. Minor Wilkes: Birth: 1777 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. Death: AUG 1829 in Maury County, Tennessee

  2. John Wilkes: Birth: 25 OCT 1790. Death: 20 NOV 1857

  3. Edmund Wilkes: Birth: 5 FEB 1797. Death: 16 APR 1869

  4. Martha Wilkes: Birth: 23 JUL 1800. Death: NOV 1880 in Green County, Missouri

  5. Nancy Wilkes: Birth: 1802. Death: 1867

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1. Title:   John Wilks Tree.FTW

Notes
a. Note:   John was living on Camp Branch in Henry County in 1773 on land owned by his father. This was still his home when he left to serve in the Revolutionary War. It is not known who ALL of John's children were, although it is known he had a large family and some moved to Missouri while others moved to Tennessee. In a deed dated October 23, 1786 John Wilkes purchased from his father Minor Wilkes, 334 acres of land on the south fork of Dittor Creek, a branch of Snow Creek, in Lunenburg County. John was very active in the affairs of the area and represented some of his neighbors as their attorney. John and Elizabeth sold land in Franklin County in 1794, 1796 and 1803. John evidently began to buy and sell land in Pittsylvania County, Virginia perhaps in anticipation of moving there. He made a purchase in 1803 and then, later in 1808, sold some land in Franklin County to his son-in-law John Dearing. That same year he bought some more Pittsylvania County land. It is not known when Elizabeth died, but she was not named in the 1803 land sale transaction. John's second wife Jane Stone, is shown on the deed of these last two transactions which suggests that John married her sometime between 1803 and 1808. In 1810 John moved to Mooresville, Tennessee. His children John, Jr., and Polly and her husband, John Dearing, were already living there. In 1816 John and Jane sold their remaining Pittsylvania County land. John died in 1829 and in his will dated November 24, 1829 he left a life estate to his wife, Jane. Jane passed away in Maury County, Tennessee in February 1837. Her estate was settled in Marshall County, Tennessee. From the Marshall County Historical Society: "He is thought to be the John Wilkes who fought in the Battle of Guilford Court House with the Henry County, Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War. Their family is listed in a previous edition of the quarterly, but at that time it had not been proven that Minor Wilkes was their oldest son, so he was not included with the family."


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