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Marriage: Children:
  1. John Garland Meriwether: Birth: NOV 1785 in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: ABT SEP 1836 in Lowndes County, Alabama

  2. William Meriwether: Birth: 1787 or 8 Jan 1790 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 14 NOV 1825 in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia

  3. James Meriwether: Birth: 22 JUN 1788 in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 13 JUL 1852 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee

  4. George Washington Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1789 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 29 SEP 1847 in Dyer County, Tennessee

  5. Judith Burnley Meriwether: Birth: 11 NOV 1791 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 5 NOV 1847 in Madison County, Tennessee

  6. Thomas Jefferson Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1793. Death: 7 SEP 1828 in Powelton, Hancock County, Georgia

  7. Francis Meriwether: Birth: 7 NOV 1794 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 31 MAR 1857 in Denmark, Madison County, Tennessee

  8. David Meriwether: Birth: 3 DEC 1800 in Clarke County, Georgia. Death: 20 SEP 1859 in Huntersville, Madison County, Tennessee


Notes
a. Note:   N4095 Revolutionary War Service
  David Meriwether entered the army as a private and except while in captivity was in active service during the entire war. He fought at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. He was lieutenant in the Virginia Continental Line at the sieges of Savannah and Charleston.
b. Note:   N4098 The Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia), 22 October 1822
  Died, at his residence in Clarke county on the 13th ult., General DAVID MERIWETHER, in the 68th year of his age, after a long and distressing illness. With an ardor peculiar to the revolution, he entered the army and zealously espoused the cause of his country in 1775, and continued in active service (except while in captivity) until the close of the war. In the battle of Monmouth, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and at the sieges of Savannah and Charleston he aided in the achievement of American independence. Since that time, he has filled many important public offices with ability and integrity. Mild and conciliating in his manners, he was a christian by profession and in practice, with a clarity as intended as his acquaintance, he was truly a good citizen. His family, to which he was most extremely attached, and a large circle of acquaintances will long mourn the loss of a father and friend, and his country of a useful and honest man. —COMMUNICATED.
c. Note:   N4102 Charleston Courier (South Carolina), 30 October 1822, Wednesday
  DIED—In Clark co. (Geo.) on the 13th ult. Gen. David Meriweather, in the 68th year of his age—one of the heroes of the Revolution.
d. Note:   N4100 David Meriwether
 The Meriwethers and Their Connections
  He is the man for whom Meriwether County, Ga. is named. He was a first lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and was commissioned Brigadier General of the Third Division, Georgia State Militia by Gov. Irwin, May 15, 1797. In June 1785 he was on the Board of Commissioners with Stephen Heard, Zachariah Lamar, Micajah Williamson and General George Mathews which founded the Academy of Mercer Hill. His political career included membership in the State house of representatives where he served as Speaker 1797-1800; elected as a Democrat to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin Taliaferro; re-elected to the Eight and Ninth Congresses, serving from 1802 to March 3, 1807, voluntarily retiring from active political life. He was appointed a Commissioner to the Creek Indians and was repeatedly reappointed to treat with them and other tribes, and was a presidential elector in 1816 and 1820 on the Democratic ticket of Monroe and Tompkins.
e. Note:   N4106 New-York Herald, (New York, NY), 19 May 1802, Issue 40, Wednesday
  Election to House
 General DAVID MERIWETHER is elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, from the state of Georgia, in the room of the Hon. Benjamin Taliaferro, Esq. resigned.
f. Note:   N4107 The Star and North Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, NC), 11 November 1816
  Indian Treaty
 Nashville, Oct. 25—It gives us much satisfaction to be enabled to state the boundary that the southern Indians have agreed to observe in future. To General Jackson and Gen. Meriwether there cannot be too much praise given for the zeal with which they have served their country in procuring this negotiation on the part of the Indians; their work has been successful thus far, and we are truly pleased in being able to state that other objects connected with the southern tribe are in a train of advancement that will probably lead to the most unexpected and glorious termination, a termination that will be of incalculable benefit to the republic; we must for the present forbear entering into particulars…
g. Note:   N4108 Southern Patriot (Charleston, SC), 29 March 1821, Thursday
  David Meriwether, of Georgia, to be a Commissioner to treat with the Creek Indians, vice Thomas Flournoy, resigned.
h. Note:   N4109 Richmond Enquirer, Friday, 30 Mar 1821, p. 3 (PPP File 130)
  Court Proceedings
 Sup. Ct. of Chancery for Richmond District. Rules 21 Mar 1821. Horatio Gates Winston, admr., de bonis non with will annexed of James Mereweather, dec'd vs. David Mereweather, Wm. Mereweather (non-res.), Thos.. Mereweather (non-res.), & John Mereweather (non-res.), [;] & Wm. Mereweather, David Mereweather, James Mereweather, __________ Booker & Elizabeth his wife (non-res.) & Sally Mereweather, children of James Mereweather, dec'd., who was a legatee of James Mereweather, dec'd., [;] and Wm. B. Winston & Ann his wife (formerly) Ann Mereweather), [;] Wm. Mereweather, James Mereweather, & Elizabeth Mereweather, children of Robt. Mereweather, dec'd.,[;] & Andrew Keene, John Poindexter, Wm. Pollard, Edmund Pendleton, & John Taylor."


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