Notes:

- He served in the Georgia Militia in the War of 1812 and became a practicing physician in Lowndes County, Mississippi in 1815.

- From August to October of 1813, Gideon fought in the War of 1812. Out of Eatonton, Georgia, he tended sick soldiers. At this time, he was tax collector of Putnam County, Georgia. Somehow, this got him discharged. From Camp Hope, he was discharged from Captain Varner's company in Colonel Freeman's regiment of General Floyd's brigade of dragoons.

- In 1821, Gideon was appointed by the Mississippi legislature commissioner to organize Monroe County. Because of this he was a founder of the Franklin School in Columbus, the oldest free school in Mississippi.

- *See http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/hill-country-place-walls-tan-yard-post.html

- Gideon had an interview with a Choctaw Indian sage or "wisdom keeper" in Mississippi in 1822. Over the course of 4 years he wrote down the customs and traditional history of the Choctaw Indians. The one he interviewed was called Chahta-Immataha... The interviews became a book of "650 closely written pages on large letter paper."

- About 1848, Gideon moved to Texas. From there he went to Tuxpan, Mexico during 1868-1872. He became a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin and other eminent naturalists. He published papers through the Smithsonian Institute and the Essex Institute. The Jardin des Plantes in Paris contains his collection of Texas flora and the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts has his collection of forty-eight families of ants and butterflies. He was elected a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Academy, a rare honor for an ameteur.

- From Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874 by Lois Wood Burkhalter (1965) -- pg. 73:
"On November 9, 1848, M. Austin Bryan for $1,371.00 conveyed to Gideon Lincecum the northeast corner of League No. 5, containing 1,828 acres (Deed Records, Washington County, H, 355-356). The Lincecum land was disposed of, in differing lots and acreages and over a period of time until Gideon's death, to the following (Deed Records, Washington County): ...Leonora Campbell...Mary J. Rutherford...L. J. Lincecum...L. W. Lincecum...E. C. Lincecum...L. W. C. Lincecum...L. L. Lincecum...L. R. Lincecum...Sarah L. Doran...Cassandra Durham...Mary Matson..."

- Gideon's headstone text: "Dr. Gideon Lincecum, a veteran of the War of 1812, internationally famous botanist friend of Charles Darwin, born in Georgia April 22, 1793, died at Long Point, Washington County, Texas November 28, 1873." Erected by the state of Texas 1936.

- The 1850 Washington County, Texas census lists G. Lincecum as a farmer with a real estate value of $9,000, who was born in Georgia.

- Gideon purchased Long Point tract of land, consisting of 1,828 acres. "My settlement developed into a thriving little village." Long Point, Texas is on Farm Road 390 and Old Rocky Creek, 10 miles NW of Brenham and 85 miles east of austin in northwestern Washington County. The name was written Long Point 'til the 20th century. The settlement was founded in 1850 on land originally owned by Stephen F. Austin. Botanist Gideon Lincecum lived there on his plantation, Mount Olympus, from 1848-1874. Lincecum named his plantation for its high ground, overlooking Yegua Creek Valley, which ended in a triangular point formed by a live oak grove. He was attracted to the vicinity by its botanical diversity. On 19 February 1851, Montville postmaster Wayne Bishop changed the post office name to Long Point, but discontinued it 26 July 1852. Gideon re-established it 23 September 1852.
The Long Point community developed into a town. Its Wood Hotel had a culinary reputation throughout Texas. Lincecum and his son Lysander practiced medicine at Long Point. In 1856 Chauncey B. Shepard of Long Point was elected to represent the 20th District in the Texas Senate. Lincecum and fellow War of 1812 veteran, Sam Lauderdale led the Long Point Minute Men's march from Mount Vernon (Washington County) to Brenham in December 1860 to support the county secession movement. In 1863, Long Point blacks organized a Confederate Ball to benefit Texas soldiers.

- Gideon in Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas: Republic Hill, Section 1, Row V, Plot 2.

- Gideon practiced medicine using mostly herbal remedies, much of which he learned from the Choctaw Indians. In 1848, he moved to TX where he practiced medicine, made geological explorations, charted drought cycles, recorded daily activities of insect life, and assembled a plant collection which included 500 species with medicinal properties.

- In 1821, acting as the first postmaster, Gideon opened the first batch of mail that came to Columbus.

- Lowndes County has long been known as one of the most prosperous and wealthy sections of the state of Mississippi. As early as 1817, some scattered settlements were made in this region, and in 1818, Dr. Gideon Lincecum built the first house on the present site of Columbus. In 1818, Gideon lived on the Tombigbee River. According to the USGS Mapping Service, it is a stream in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

- "Lincecum, Sarah, and their surviving ten children, a number of grandchildren, and ten slaves arrived in Long Point on his 55th birthday." ["LINCECUM, GIDEON." The Handbook of Texas Online. - Accessed Sun 09 Jul 2000]

- According to the 1860 Washington County, Texas Federal census, G. had real estate valued at $18,250. His personal estate was valued at $12,000.

- "He sought a new frontier in 1868 and, at the age of 76, with a widowed daughter and her seven children, joined a Confederate colony in Tuxpan, Vera Cruz, Mexico. He spent 5 years there working his banana plantation, exploring Indian ruins, and continuing his natural history collection and correspondence." ["LINCECUM, GIDEON." The Handbook of Texas Online. - Accessed Sun 09 Jul 2000]

- Gideon's death was covered in the NY Times, 26 December 1874:
"DEATH OF AN ABLE AND ECCENTRIC MAN
The Texas papers speak in the highest terms of Dr. Lincecum, who died recently near Brenham, Washington County, in that State, in the eighty-third year of his age. He was a native of Georgia, but lived about twenty years at Columbus, Miss., before going to Texas in 1848. After the surrender of the Confederate armies, he went to Tuxpan, Mexico, and spent about four years. The papers from which we taken the above facts says: "Among other studies he spent his idle hours for fourteen years, in Washington County, in studying the habits of the large red ant, common all over the State, and then wrote a pamphlet giving the results. It possesses the interest of a novel. For this production he was awarded costly gold medals by the Academies of Science both in Philadelphia and Paris. His writings on the grasses of Texas - its minerals and its agriculture - have been numerous and valuable. In Mexico, he stated to Hon. John H. Brown that for fifty-eight years, at daylight on each Christmas morning, he had stood in the door, barefoot, in his nightclothes, and played the Scottish air of 'Killie-crankie,' and that on forty-eight of those occasions he had used the violin then in his possession, made to order for him in Paris in 1820, whereupon he repeated the piece in his own hospitable home, opposite the City of Tuxpan. He was then seventy-five, and on his birth-night, a few nights before, had been fire-hunting, killed a deer, and carried it home on his shoulders, a distance of two or three miles. He at the same time said he had reared ten children to be married and settled. He was long the neighbor and friend of such men as Judge R. E. B. Baylor, Chauncey and James Shepard, and others of the like excellence, and was ever distinguished for his benevolence and wisdom as a citizen."

- In the book, WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE SOUTHERN INDIANS 1698 - 1907, by Don Martini, published 1998 the following is given:

LINCECUM, GIDEON- Chickasaw- Choctaw Trader, was born in Warren County, Georgia, on April 22, 1793, the son of Hezekiah Lincecum and Sally Hickman Lincecum. Sally was the sister of James and John Hickman of Tn., and was a second cousin to John Pitchlynn Sr.'s mother. Gideon's father (Hezekiah) was the son of Gideon Lincecum (died in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1783), and Miriam Bowie (died at Eatonton, Georgia in 1813). Miriam was a sister to Jim Bowie's grandfather, James Bowie. Gideon and Miriam lived on the Saluda River in South Carolina for 15 years after their marriage. They then removed to Georgia, where Gideon was murdered. Their children: Hezekiah, Edward, John, Sally, Dolly, and Nancy. Hezekiah first married Sally Strange, then seperated from her and married Sally Hickman. In 1818, Hezekiah and his son, Gideon, moved to Columbus, Mississippi. Hezekiah died in Ponotoc on March 4, 1839 at age 70. Gideon remained at Columbus, was a member of the Masonic Lodge there from 1823 to 1827, and entered into partnership with John Pitchlynn Jr. in the Indian trade. He remained in Mississippi until 1848, when he removed to Texas. He died in Washington County in that state on November 28, 1874.

Sources of info:
1 GIDEON LINCECUM, written by Burkhalter
2 EARLY RECORDS OF WILKES COUNTY GEORGIA pages 40 and 42
3 MISSISSIPPI MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, by Wiltshire
4 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GIDEON LINCECUM, by Burkhalter

- "The Dallas Weekly Herald," 19 December 1874:

DR. GIDEON LINCECUM

"... He...was a member of Captain Varner's company, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Freeman, of General Floyd's brigade of dragoons, in the war of 1812..."

- In January 1835, Gideon joined an exploring exhibition in Texas (leaving from Monroe County, Mississippi). ["The Handbook of Texas Online"]

- Gideon was the first postmaster in Columbus, Mississippi. [A History of Columbus, Mississippi During the 19th Century]

- "Another of the settlers at Tuxpan (Mexico), Gideon Lincecum, restated his reasons for leaving Texas in an April 27, 1871 letter to John Henry Brown, who also had lived at Tuxpan and encouraged others to move there: 'As for myself, I do not, neither can I care one cent for the "United States of America." The victorious Yankee has trampled under foot every principle of justice and equality, and are now encouraging the triumphant negro to put the finishing stroke on the degraded condition of the Southerner by conjugal union with his daughters; While the Southerner, those who are most capable, and best able to do something, for the fear of losing a few dollars have joined the loyal league. No, no, John Henry Brown, I can't care for such a demoralized nation. But I can remain here in this calm, peaceful, clean washed country, where Bowie knives and six shooters are not regarded as the indespensable equipments of a gentleman, and where man shooting is not considered an honorable occupation. Where, as you know, doorlocks are not necessary, and, where indeed there is nothing to fear.'" [Gideon Lincecum to John Henry Brown, 27 April 1871, Gideon Lincecum Papers, The Center for Americam History, University of Texas, Austin]

- 14 November 1872 edition, Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas:
The Brenham Banner says: "By a letter received from Tuxpan, Mexico, from Dr. Gid Lincecum, we learn that Sam Houston, Jr., is a visitor at his house. We wonder what caused Sam to seek a home among a people whom his father has so often thrashed?"

- From presentation by Peggy Redshaw (wife of Jerry Bryan Lincecum):
"An Unconventional Texas Physician of the 19th Century: Dr. Gideon Lincecum"
Peggy A. Redshaw, Austin College [Texas]
Lincecum practiced medicine in both Mississippi (~1830-1848) and Texas (1848-1868). Initially he read and practiced allopathic medicine. In the 1830's, he spent six weeks traveling with a Choctaw Indian Nation doctor, Alikchi chito, who trained him in an Indian/botanical approach. For a time, he carried medicines for allopathic and botanical systems but soon became an agent for Howard Horton (1838) and destroyed his allopathic drugs. With the move to Texas in 1848, he turned his practice over to son Lucullus; however, Gideon continued to treat patients via correspondence. Additionally, he sent letters to the Galveston Tri Weekly News after the Civil War with natural cures the Texan citizens could use to treat themselves and their families. Lincecum felt very strongly that the allopathic appraoch caused the death of some of his patients. He felt just as strongly that his mixture of Indian/Botanic remedies was much more suitable for the illnesses of southerners. Specific examples of his treatments will show his approach. However, when Lincecum expressed his opinion of his profession late in life, he once stated "I practiced medicine for 40 years. It's a humbug and does more harm to humanity than all the wars."

Buried:
Mount Zion Cemetery

Gideon married Sarah Bryan in Oct 1814 in Putnam, Georgia, USA. Sarah was born between 1794 and 1799 in Georgia, USA; died on 2 Feb 1867 in Long Point, Washington, Texas, USA; was buried in Long Point, Washington, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Lycurgus Lincecum was born in 1815 in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; died on 3 Feb 1849 in Long Point, Washington, Texas, USA.
2. Lysander M. Lincecum was born between 1817 and 1818 in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; died in 1832 in Mississippi, USA.
3. Martha Ann Elizabeth Lincecum was born in 1820; died in 1821 in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA.
4. Leonidas L. Lincecum was born between 1821 and 1822 in Mississippi, USA; died in 1870 in Texas, USA.
5. Leander W. C. Lincecum was born between 1822 and 1824 in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; died on 27 Oct 1883; was buried in Temple, Bell, Texas, USA.
6. Mary E. Catherine Lincecum was born between 1825 and 1826 in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; died on 9 Dec 1905; was buried in Hubbard, Hill, Texas, USA.
7. Lachaon Joseph Lincecum was born on 25 Jan 1827 in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA; died on 20 May 1909 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried in Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas, USA.
8. Lucullus Garland Lincecum was born between 1827 and 1834 in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA; died about Aug 1900 in Lampasas, Lampasas, Texas, USA.
9. Lenora Lincecum was born between 1830 and 1832 in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; died after 1895.
10. Cassandra Lincecum was born between 1832 and 1836 in Mississippi, USA; died on 8 Apr 1877; was buried on 9 Apr 1877 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA.
11. Sarah Matilda Lincecum was born between 1833 and 1850 in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA; died on 11 Apr 1919 in Hempstead, Waller, Texas, USA; was buried on 12 Apr 1919 in Hempstead, Waller, Texas, USA.
12. Lysander Rezin Lincecum was born between 1836 and 1839 in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; died in Jan 1875 in Long Point, Washington, Texas, USA; was buried in Washington, Texas, USA.
13. Lucifer Hezekiah Lincecum was born on 18 Oct 1847 in Mississippi, USA; died before 1866.

Other Events:

• Census: 1830, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA

Notes:

- On 13 August 1813, Hezekiah was a prosecutor in Georgia. Ben, a slave belonging to Robert McGough, took an iron mattock and cut a gash in Hezekiah's head, penetrating to the skull. The jury found Ben guilty. Ben was hung [...suspended between the heavens and the earth by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead and the Lord have mercy on your soul.]

- Hezekiah married his first wife, Sally Strange, in 1788 in Georgia. In 1791, in Georgia, he married the mother of his children, Sally Hickman.

- Mississippi Land Record for Hezekiah Lincecum:
Land Office: MT SALUS
Document Number: 6884
Total Acres: 79.37
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 9 Oct 1834
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 W?NE HUNTSVILLE No 17S 18W 31

- According to the book, "Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist", Hezekiah was large (six feet tall, 200 pounds), strong, very handsome, had a beautiful voice, and had a reputation for being able to out drink anyone. He lived in Wilkes County, Georgia 1786-1790 where he married Sally Strange. About 5 years later, after his divorce from Sally, he married Sallie Hickman.

- Hezekiah served as an officer in Andrew Jackson's Forces in 1808. After being discharged, between 1808 and 1830, he lived in 2 states and 5 counties: Washington, Hancock, and Putnam Counties in Georgia; and Monroe and Lowndes Counties in Mississippi. He settled in Lowndes County around 1830.

- Hezekiah died 04 March 1839 in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The "Columbus Democrat" wrote, "Died suddenly at his residence near this town, on the 4th, Mr. Hezekiah Lincecum, aged 70 years. He was a native of Virginia and for several years resided in the state of Georgia. About 20 years since he emigrated to this neighborhood and was one of the first white settlers in the Choctaw Nation. While a resident of Georgia, he fought bravely on several occasions in defending the frontiers against Indians. His corpse was met at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Bryant." After Hezekiah died, Sally moved to Catahoula Parish, Louisiana where her son, Grant, lived. She died there on 28 May 1848.

- Gideon describes his father, Hezekiah, as "a large, powerful man, six feet high and weighed in the prime of life 200 pounds."

- ..."Yankee Schoolmaster in Lincoln Co[unty], GA by name of Whitney, had invented an iron gin... Hezekiah..." took a nine year old Gideon to see it.

- From "Early Records of Georgia, Vols 1 & 2": Lincecum, Hezekiah to Wm. West, 121 acres on water of Ogeechee on a creek or fork, agreeable to a plat annexed to a grant 1784 to said Lincecum. Nov 17, 1790. Jonathan McCrary, John Nugent, Andrew Burns, J. P. test.

- Hezekiah died in 1839. There are land records for a Hezekiah Lincecum in Mississippi (Columbus Land Office) in 1841. (?)

- He had property Wilkes County, Georgia, 1 December 1788. Linniecom, Hezekiah and wife Sarah, to Matthew McCravey, 179 Acres on Long Creek part of orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Dec. 1, 1788. Henry Townsend, Jona. Mc Cravy, James Wadsworth, Test.

- On 17 February 1788, Hezekiah was excommunicated from the Long Creek Church of Christ in Warren County, Georgia... "The Church of Christ on Long Creek of Ogechee being met in conference, pursued to take into consideration the irreligious conduct of Hezekiah Lensecom and unanimously agreed that he should be excommunicated. First for riding a race on the Sabbath day. Secondly for refusing the hear the Church when called on. Thirdly for offering to commit a rape on M. Jonegen."

- Mississippi Land Record for Hezekiah Lincecum:
Land Office: MT SALUS
Document Number: 3709
Total Acres: 78.31
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 1 Dec 1830
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 E?SE HUNTSVILLE No 17S 18W 3

- Hezekiah is at least mentioned in each of the following books:
BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER: A TEXAS FOLKLORE SAMPLER by Francis Edward Abernethy
EARLY TEXAS PHYSICIANS, 1830 - 1915: INNOVATIVE, INTREPID, INDEPENDENT by Texas Surgical Society
THE FIRST WEST: WRITING FROM THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, 1776 - 1860 by Edward Watts

- Hezekiah "lived on a farm on the bank of the river near Champagne and Brandywine springs, four miles above Columbus. [Ancestry.com. A history of Columbus, Mississippi during the 19th century. Provo, UT. MyFamily.com, Inc. 2004. Original title by W. L. Lipscomb, Columbus, Miss. S. D. Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. 1909. Pg 39.]

- "Hezekiah married Sally Hickman. Their first and most famous child was Gideon II (1793 - 1874)." [B. J. Lincecum, Lincecum Genealogy; Stephanie Lincecum, Perry, GA, 2015. Featuring "The Lincecum Line" genealogy report dated January 1990.]

Hezekiah married Sarah Hickman on 2 Mar 1791 in Warren, Georgia, USA. Sarah was born on 4 Mar 1777 in Anson, North Carolina, USA; died on 28 May 1848 in Catahoula, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Aimwell, Catahoula, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

- Gideon describes his mother, Sarah Hickman, "...there was nothing remarkable except that she could outrun anybody; was handsome, healthy, energetic, ingenious, industrious, frugal; but entirely illiterate."

Notes:

- Gideon and Miriam eloped and settled on the Saluda River in colony of South Carolina. They remained there fifteen years...

"Pascal thought the Bowies were pretentious and was not pleased with Gideon's engagement. Meanwhile, according to Gideon Lincecum II, Miriam's brother 'could not consent for his beautiful, young and highly accomplished sister to become the wife of a frog-eating Frenchman.' Since both sets of parents objected, Gideon and Miriam eloped." [Judy Jacobson, Alabama & Mississippi Connections]

- Gideon and Miriam went to Warren County, Georgia in 1769. They had been married 15 years earlier in Maryland.

- Gideon fought in the American Revolution; he was killed... Gideon was captain of a company of rangers that had been organized by the government for protection of the frontier against the Muscogee Indians, who had been hire by the British to kill and scalp the people of Georgia. Then came the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. Colonel Few sent an order to Captain Lincecum to collect his rangers and meet his forces. At a point a few miles from (1871's) Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, they came to a bunch of raw hide ropes that had been dropped in the path. They dismounted. The Indians that were concealed in the switch cane rose up and fired into the crowd. Two were killed and Lincecum received a shot in the thigh. The rangers began running with the Indians following. They ran less than half a mile when the bleeding Lincecum turned and faced the approaching savages. The captain fell mortally wounded. He was badly mutilated having had five scalp trophies taken from his head. His widow, Miriam, didn't feel safe and fled to the Edgefield district of South Carolina. She remained til peace was made. Meanwhile, her two sons, Edward and John, were taken prisoner and shot soon after the Battle of Cowpens.

- Source: Wilkes County Misc Records Book B, Folio 13 [http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/wilkes/court/lincecum744gwl.txt]
Written: February 10, 1784

Gideon Lincecum Estate Inventory
Wilkes Co., GA
10 Feb 1784

An Inventory of the Estate of Gideon Linecean Decd. taken this 10 day February
1784.

300 Acres Land ?125 One Negro named Tom ?60
1 Negro woman named Hannah ?50 1 Negro girl named Patt ?50
3 Feather Beads ?6 12 Pewter Plates ?10 6 Plates & 2 Dishes ?1 15sh.
1 axe & kittle 15sh. 1 Pegin(?) 1 Box Iron & Punch Bole(?) 1sh.
1 Candle stick & Snuffer 3 sh.

Appr. James Morgan
William White
Rezan Bowie

April 7th 1784
B. Heard

GA ARCHIVES, Dr. 45/Box 20
Wilkes Co., GA Misc. Estate Records
Book B, 1783-1784, Register Folio (13)
Transcribed by Bob & Linda Ellis, Duluth, GA

Note: This appraisal is believed to have taken place approximately 7 years
after Gideon Lincecum?s death as shortly after the skirmish with Indians in
which Gideon was killed (c. 1777-1778) and then nearby Augusta?s first fall to
the Tories most of the settlers in the area (including the Lincecum family,
according to Gideon?s grandson and namesake, Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874, the
frontier naturalist) removed to the South Carolina side of the Savannah River
until peace was declared (a period of nearly 7 years). According to the
younger Gideon, the Lincecums were in the Edgefield District of SC during this
time period.

- Early Records of GIDEON LINCECUM, tak[en] from the "Early Records of Wilkes County, Georgia, Volume I and II"

Folio 13--LINECEAN (sic), GIDEON, dec'd. Inventory Feb. 18, 1784. Wm. White, James Morgan, Rezan (sic) Bowie, appraisers.

Folio 30--To MILLAY (Miriam) LINCOCEAN (sic), widow, "Whereas Gideon Lincocean (sic) late of this Co. lately died." Dec. 19, 1783. B. Heard, R. P.

Page 53--LINICUM, MERIUM (sic) to Richard Childers 200 acres on Powells creek. Feb. 14, 1785. Thos. Ansley, James Bowie, Burrill Waller, Samuel Braswell, Test.

Page 221--LINNIECOM (sic), HEZEKIAH and wife Sarah, to Matthew McCravey, 179 acres on Long creek part of orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Dec. 1, 1788. Henry Townsend, Jona. McCravy, James Wadsworth, Test.

Page 101--LINDSACUM (sic), HEZEKIAH to Wm. West both of Wilkes Co., 120 acres on Ogeechee orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Oct. 27, 1788. Benj. Moore, Wm. Smith, Test.

Volume II

Page 180--LINCECUM, HEZEKIAH to Wm. West, 121 acres on water of Ogeechee on a creek or fork, agreeable to a plat annexed to a grant 1784 to said Linecum. Nov. 17, 1790. Jonathan McCrary, John Nugent, Andrew Burns, J. P. test.

Gideon married Miriam Bowie about 1760 in Maryland, USA. Miriam (daughter of John Bowie, Jr. and Elizabeth Pottinger) was born between 1725 and 1749 in Maryland, USA; died in 1813 in Eatonton, Putnam, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Miriam was the Scotch aunt of James Bowie, the originator of the Bowie knife.

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From Judy Jacobson's Alabama & Mississippi Connections
"Then later during the war, Tories who had overrun the area, severely beat Gideon's widow with an iron ramrod in an attempt to get her to reveal where her money was. Her slaves fled and feeling alone and unsafe in her own home, Miriam joined a group of Georgians going into Edgefield District of South Carolina. She remained there until peace came in 1783 and then returned to Wilkes County where she found her home and crops had been burned and livestock stolen by Tories."

From "Georgians in the Revolution":
[The following deposition from the Telamon Cuyler Collection, Special Collections, University of Georgia Libraries, reflects the type of decision that many families of Burke County and other areas of Georgia had to make in the last days of the Revolution.]

State of Georgia This Day appeared before me one of the Justices
Richd. County appointed for said County Meriam Lincecum and after
begin Duely sworn doth say that about ye 25th of
Feby. Last Past that she was at the House of John McDaniel, and she heard
said McDaniel say he was going away she asked him if his family was going
he said no. he should take what he wanted of his living with him and
the remainder he should leave with his wife to keep her children on and
she his said wife made answer that she chose to stay or go with the Liberty,
said Mcdaniel said the King's people had possession now but he expected
the Liberty would be here again, and he would not stay here but would
go Down Below as she the said Miriam Lencecium heard the said McDaniel's
wife say that she would not go with the King's people, but would stay
with the Liberty or words to that Effect sworn before me

14th Feby 1782 her
Jas. Bowie JP Miriam Lincecum
Mark

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From "Greene County, Georgia - Land Records"

Page 48: GREENE COUNTY, STATE OF GEORGIA. Miriam
Linnecone (?) of Washington County, on 31 May 1793, for love
and affection for my grandson, Giddeon Berry, I give one negro girl named
Patt. The first child of Patt will go to my granddaughter, Linna Linnecone,
but all other children to Giddeon. Wit.: Charles Medlock and P. Boyle, J.P.
Recorded 13 April 1795.

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From Rootsweb BOWIE-L mailing list archives:

"From:
Subject: Bowies of Maryland, LA/VA connection?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:03:45 -0800

In the Texas State Library, a pair of spectacles that Belonged to James Bowie were found with the following documentation: "These spectacles were the property of James Bowie who came from Scotland, and settled in Maryland Ano Domini 1742. He was the oldest of eight brothers and sisters. He died soon after his arrival in America leaving the spectacles to his youngest sister, Miriam Lincecum. She at her death left them to Sarah Lincecum, the wife of her youngest child, Hezekiah Lincecum. And Sarah Lincecum gave them to her oldest son Gideon Lincecum, who is the writer of this in the year 1847. (Jennings, 1997 p. 4)*.

In her book, Jennings traces the line down to James Bowie of the Alamo. The year 1742 has a familar ring in the VA Bowie history as well....

Miriam Bowie died in 1813 at age 88, making her birth about 1725, since she was the younger sister, then James was born before 1725, and if above is correct, in Scotland. What is even more interesting, is at the death of Miriam's Husband, Gideon Lincecum, during the Revolutionary war, she went to live in Abbeville, South Carolina, assumably with relatives.

Since in this period, the Major John Bowie is in Abbeville, SC, this may imply that the line out of Dumbartonshire, and further back into Stirlingshire is this Bowie line. Since he is eldest, his grandfather should be James Bowie as well.

This would actually make sense. With so many James and John Bowies, it makes this part hard to sort out, but I reccomend other Bowie researchers get the Jennings book and let me know what you think. She has documentation, translations etc. on all of this.

Best Regards,
Cameron, Lori and Bob Bowie of Maine
PO Box 3751
Brewer, Maine 04412
deemi@juno.com"

*Book cited is The Rezin Bowie family of Louisiana: Documents supporting corrections and additions concerning the Rezin Bowie family of Louisiana and suggestions for further research by Virginia L. Jennings

Notes:

- Paschal and his family came to America and settled in Maryland. [B. J. Lincecum, Lincecum Genealogy; Stephanie Lincecum, Perry, GA, 2015. Featuring "The Lincecum Line" genealogy report dated January 1990.]

- According to "Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist", Paschal's FATHER (he was a LINSEYCOMB who was left in France as an unexchanged war prisoner) married a French woman and had Paschal. Paschal had Gideon LINCECUM (born in France and raised in Maryland). They were Hugenot at the time they left France so religiuos reasons caused them to leave the country.

- It is believed that Paschal and his wife had 3 daughters, as well as Gideon. ["Alabama & Mississippi Connections: Historical & Biographical Sketches of Families Who Settled on Both Sides of the Tombigbee River" by Judy Jacobson]

- From Grandpa's genealogy research report, The Lincecum Line, prepared January 1990:

LINSEYCOMB to LINCECUM

The desire for freedom was an old Lincecum tradition which began when Paschal, the son of a French mother and a British father, fled his native France for America. He brought with him his French wife and infant son, Gideon, and in the new country changed the spelling of the family name from LINSEYCOMB to LINCECUM......

Re: Chapter one (Page 7), Gideon Lincecum 1793-1874, a Biography, By: Lois Wood Burkhalter.

DEFINITIONS FROM THE DICTIONARY

Linseywoolsey.......A coarse fabric woven from linenwarp and coarse wool filling...

Comb...............Any comb like instrument, a toothed piece of bone, metal, etc., a card for dressing wool.

Linseycomb..........An instrument for combing linsey, one who combs linsey....

Paschal married A French Woman in France. A was born about 1720. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John was born at "Brookewood", the home of his parents, in Nottingham District, Prince George's County, Maryland.

In 1730, his father entailed upon him the plantation called "Thorpland," lying on Collington Branch, 3 miles north of Upper Marlborough.

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In 1737 Dr. Pottinger deeded to his son-in-law, John Bowie, "on account of my love and affection for him," a large plantation in Queen Anne's Parish. In 1747 he increased his real estate by the purchase of a plantation called "The Hermitage," owned by Thomas Harris, situated 12 miles north of the present city of Washington, and lying in Frederick County, now Montgomery County. ["The Bowies and Their Kindred," page 27]

Birth:
"Brookewood"

Died:
"Thorpland"

John married Elizabeth Pottinger on 18 Dec 1735 in Queen Anne, Prince George's, Maryland, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Pottenger and Anne Evans) was born in 1717 in Maryland, USA; died on 14 Mar 1775 in Maryland, USA; was buried in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In Memory of
Eliezabeth Cramphin
w/o Thomas Cramphin
Who departed this life the 14th
of March 1775, aged 54 years

Buried:
Rock Creek Cemetery