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- - 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.
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