Generation
No. 3
19.William3 McBee (William2, Matthew1) was born in Halifax County, Virginia, and died Abt. 1812 in Rhea County, Virginia. He married Mrs. (Abigail) William McBee.
Notes for William McBee:
I, Danny A. McBee, have
not previously listed William McBee as a child of William and Susannah
Vardry McBee until he was listed as a child in the genealogical work of
William P. Barron, 11475 Holiday Way, Hillsboro, Ohio, that was submitted
to the Personal Ancestral File of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints. (Danny A. McBee). Colonial Records of
N. C.,
Vol. XXII, p. 371. Granville
Co., regimental muster roll, 8 Oct 1754,
shows
William McBee, Corporal,
Thomas Cook, Corporal, John McKissick,
Ensign.
Children
of William McBee and Mrs. McBee are:
| 29 | i. | Selity4 McBee, born Abt. 1755 in Halifax, Virginia. |
| 30 | ii. | William McBee, born Abt. 1756 in Halifax, Virginia. |
| 31 | iii. | James McBee, born Abt. 1757 in Halifax, Virginia. |
| 32 | iv. | Israel McBee, born Abt. 1761 in Halifax, Virginia. |
Children
of Johannah McBee and Robert Walters are:
| 33 | i. | Elijah4 Walters. |
| 34 | ii. | William Walters. |
| 35 | iii. | Samuel Walters. |
| 36 | iv. | Betty Walters. |
| 37 | v. | Susannah Walters. |
| 38 | vi. | Hannah Walters. |
| 39 | vii. | Mary Walters. |
| 40 | viii. | Robert Walters, born Abt. 1754; died July 1827. |
| 41 | ix. | Peter Walters, born Abt. 1755. |
| + | 42 | x. | Moses Walters, born Abt. 1770. |
| 43 | xi. | John Walters, born Abt. 1775. |
Children
of Mary McBee and John Austin are:
| + | 44 | i. | Isiah4 Austin. |
| 45 | ii. | Stephen Austin. |
Notes for Vardry McBee:
Vardry McBee moved to North
Carolina. He was a Constable in Tryon
(Now
Mecklenburg) County, North
Carolina, 1770. Vardry later settled in
Spartanburg District, South
Carolina, but was then considered in N.C.
He
belonged to the Society
of Friends, but renounced this faith when the
Revolution began. He became
a captain of militia and was in active
service.
In the book "Jefferson County,
Tennessee" on page 106, there is an
article
entitled "THE MCBEE FAMILY
OF STRAWBERRY PLAINS, JEFFERSON COUNTY. It
is as
follows:
The McBee family of Strawberry
Plains in Jefferson County, were
descendants of VARDRY McBee,
a revolutionary soldier, of LINCOLN and
TRYON
COUNTIES, in North Carolina,
who probably came to the Watauga Valley
and
settled for a time, before
his death. (I, Danny A. McBee, cannot
accept some
of this because it doesn't
correlate to information I have already
gathered on
the McBee family. Vardry
McBee, for instance died in Kentucky, after
getting
sick from rescuing someone
from drowning. Vardry was old at this
point and
living with his son in Kentucky).
In the records of WASHINGTON
COUNTY Court, on May 27, 1782, it
was
ordered that a deposition
be issued to take the testimony of VARDARY
McBee,
George Underwood, William
Cooper and others in a suit pending between
WILLIAM
SAFFOLD & MATTHEW GALE.
The records of Washington District
(afterwards
Washington County, Tennessee)
show that William McBee was living on
LICK CREEK
about 1781-1782.
LEMUEL McBee, the son of
Vardry McBee, was born, perhaps in the
Watauga
Valley of Tennessee, before
the State of Tennessee came into existence
(I,
Dan McBee, have never heard
of the son Lemuel McBee of Vardry McBee.
This is
confusing to me but it could
have been so). He married perhaps in
what is now
Granger County, but the
name of his wife is unknown. It is estimated
that he
probably married about 1815.
Lemuel McBee in turn had a son LEMUEL
McBee,
born in Jefferson County
about 1816, who married MARY LOVE, daughter
of JOHN
B. LOVE, a native of Western
North Carolina. The second LEMUEL McBee
was the
father of JOHN L. McBee,
whose wife was named LIZZIE by whom he had
several
children.
VARDRY McBee, who came to
the Watauga Valley by 1780, had several
children, whose names are
secured from contemporaneous records,
largely
attributed to him as his
progeny because of the dates and names. They
were:
1. LEMUEL McBee of Jefferson
County.
2. WILLIAM McBee of LICK
CREEK.
3. VARDRY
McBee m. JANE ALEXANDER.
4. GANNUM C. McBee, owner
of the famous McBee Ferry.
1. LEMUEL McBee (wife's name
unknown) is believed to have had:
(1) JAMES A. McBee.
(2) CATHERINE McBee m. M.
J. Parrot.
(3) ELIZA McBee m. JOHN
M. Saylor.
(4) SAMUEL McBee
Perhaps others.
4. GANUM or GAMMON C. McBee
lived in KNOX COUNTY and was an extensive
land
owner and also the owner
of the famous McBee ferry, near Strawberry
Plains
on the Holston river. The
ferry was established about 1790 and was
located
about where the present
highway bridge stands today, and is on the
line of
Knox and Jefferson Counties.
In 1836 McBee was authorized by the
County Court
of Knox County to erect
a toll bridge at the same place.
GANNUM C. McBee (No. 4),
son of VARDRY McBee, had the following
children: His
wife was named SARAH.
(1) WILLIAM McBee (born
1826).
(2) ROBERT McBee (born 1829).
(3) ALBERT McBee (born 1835).
(4) LOUISA McBee (born 1838).
(5) GANNUM McBee (born 1842).
(6) AMANDA McBee (born 1843).
Among others, SAMUEL McBee
(son of LEMUEL) in 1842, was embarrassed by
the
fact that his farm lay in
both Knox and Grainger Counties. In reply
to his
petition the Legislature
enacted "that the county line between Knox
and
Grainger, be so altered
as to include in Grainger County that portion
of the
farm on which SAMUEL McBee
lives, lying in Knox County".
MILO McBee, brother of SAMUEL
and a son of LEMUEL, married CALLOWAY
who was
born in 1838. In 1850, according
to Miss Laura Luttrell's 1850 Census
of Knox
County, he had two daughters,
Sarah and Elnora.
VARDRY McBee (son of the
first VARDRY, who came to the Watauga Valley)
lived
in LINCOLN COUNTY, North
Carolina, where he married JANE ALEXANDER,
one of the
members of the famous family
of that name in Mecklenburg County.
VARDRY
McBee and his wife JANE ALEXANDER
had five sons, of which one was VARDRY ALEXANDER
McBee, who married in 1847, MARY ELIZABETH
SUMNER who was the daughter of BENJAMIN
SUMNER and his wife SARAH DUKE HUNT,
the daughter of Dr. THOMAS HUNT (son
of MEMUGAN HUNT) and his wife ELIZABETH
DUKE.
BENJAMIN
SUMNER was of the family
of JETHRO HUNT, revolutionary patriot of
North
Carolina. VARDRY McBee and
Jane Alexander had: JOSEPH, MALINDA
PENELOPE,
SILAS L., LUTHER MARTIN,
HANNAH ECHOLS, MARTHA ADALINE, VARDRY A.,
WILLIAM
PINKNEY and ALEXANDER McBee.
Some went to GREENVILLE, South Carolina.
Somewhere, I, Danny A. McBee,
believe the families got entangled
somehow.
The addition of LEMUEL,
GANNUM C., and WILLIAM McBee (of Lick Creek)
to the
known family of VARDRY and
HANNAH ECHOLS McBee seems unlikely.
Probably
they were the children of
one of VARDRY'S brothers; either MATTHEW,
JAMES,
OR MATHIAS McBee. Certainly,
these McBees should be listed in our
genealogy.
We are all a part of the
original MCBEE blood line. (I, Danny A.
McBee, hope
that someone someday might
pursue this more. I won't at the present
time).
The following is excerpted
from the South Carolina Roster of
Revolutionary
Soldiers, page 592: Vardry
McBee: He enlisted in the Fifth Regiment
on 26
March 1776. He was a captain
under Colonel Roebuck from 10 June 1780
to
10 January 1782. At sometime,
he supplied provisions for militia use.
(Adair, Joseph); A.A.4877;
X845; X1072; X3607; N.A.853.
Sept. 28, 1789 Vardry McBee
(Thickety, Spartanburgh) to William
Wofford
(Turkey Cove, Burke County,
N. C.); for 100 lire sterling sold 1,224
acres in
three tracts: (1) 579 acres
on both sides North Pacolate River
including
part of Walnut Mountain;
survey May 26, 1787 for Robert Evans; (2) 205
acres
on North fork of Trall Creek
of North fork Saluda River; survey May
28, 1787
for Robert Evans; and (3)
440 acres on Trall Creek of North Pacolate
River
including part of Walnut
Mountain; survey May 26, (year not given);
all were
replated and returned to
the SC Office of Granting Lands in Vardry
McBee's
name and it is expected
that all have been granted to Vardry McBee.
Witness:
Lacyannie McBee and Elizabeth
McBee. Signed Vardry McBee. Rec. Jan.
30,
1798.
Sept. 26, 1789 Vardry McBee
to William Wofford; William is security
for a
"suit of debt" for Vardry
and, by a "misconduct" judgment Col. Odlina
(?)
Osborn vs William Wofford,
William has to pay 400 lire SC money;
Vardry can't
pay William a like sum,
so Vardry mortgages the following land to
William:
(1) 300 acres on branch
of Thickety Creek; including place called
Sline (sic)
Kilns and where "subscriber"
now lives; (2) 400 acres on Fall Creek of
Pacolate River in Greenville
County called copper mines; (3) 300 acres
in
Camden District on branch
of Buffalo Creek near mouth of it; border:
Peper
Quin and John Bridges; (4)
three other grants for 2900 acres on both
sides
Doolittle's Creek on East
side of Broad River; including three places
of iron
ore and some slime (sic)
stone; and (5) 1,120 acres in three tracts at
head of
Pacolate River in Greenville
County; bought to Vardry McBee from Jabez
Evans
and Robert Evans. Witness
Z Taliferro and Henry McCray. Signed
Vardry McBee.
Rec. Jan. 30, 1798. Jan.
5, 1794 William Wofford assigns rights to
above
mortgage to James Wofford
for 100 lire sterling. Witness: Thos.
Baker.
Signed W. Wofford.
March 17, 1787. Vardry McBee
(Spartanburgh) to William Wilkins
(same); for 10
lire sterling sold 400 acres
on both sides Gotes Creek of Thickety
Creek;
grant April 26, 1767 Gov.
William Tryon (NC) to William Sims and
William
Marchbanks. Witness Wm Thomson,
Rhoda McBee and Joshua Preslidge.
Signed
Vardry and Hannah McBee.
The 1790 Anson County, North
Carolina Census list Vardry Magby as head
of
household, with wife, one
daughter, and four sons under the age of
sixteen.
Right beside Vardry Magby
there was a head of household listing for
Rachel
Magby by herself. I am not
sure that this is our Vardry McBee or not.
There
seems to be a coincidence
if it is. Vardry McBee is selling land in
Spartanburg at this time.
This could be the son of one of Vardry
McBee's
brothers. I don't presume
to know who Rachel Magby is. Hopefully
someday
a better genealogist will
figure it out for us.
The Battle of King's Mountain
that Vardry and his son Silas
participated in
only lasted one hour and
five minutes. It took place October 7, 1780.
Not
one man escaped from the
battlefield.
I, Danny A. McBee, received
a letter from a distant cousin Clare F.
Magbee, 840 Stovall Place
Atlanta, Georgia, 30342,
that states that Vardry S. Magbee (McBee,
Mockbee) was born circa
1834 in Lunenburg County,
Virginia. [Danny A. McBee].
Children
of Vardry McBee and Hannah
Echols are:
| 46 | i. | Elizabeth4 McBee. |
| 47 | ii. | Lucy McBee. |
| 48 | iii. | Rebecca McBee. |
| 49 | iv. | Rhoda McBee, born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina. |
| 50 | v. | Samuel McBee, born Abt. 1759 in Halifax County, Virginia. |
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Notes for Samuel McBee: According to the South Carolina Roster of Revolutionary War Soldier, page 592, Samuel McBee served in the militia under Colonel McDonald and General Marion. A.A.4875.C. Samuel apparently settled in Horry County, South Carolina as he shows up in the 1810, 1820, and 1830 S. C. Census. He shows up in the 1800 Waccamaw County, South Carolina Census. Samuel is always listed as Samuel Magby. I, Danny A. McBee, rule out Samuel as the father of Thomas B. McBee, as Thomas was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina along the Pacolet. |
| + | 51 | vi. | Matthew McBee, born Abt. 1761 in Halifax County, Virginia; died October 25, 1817 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. |
| 52 | vii. | Mathias McBee, born Abt. 1763 in Halifax County, Virginia. |
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Notes for Mathias McBee: Mathias served in the Revolution according to the S.C. Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers, page 592. It states the following: He served in the militia under Colonel Roebuck before and after the fall of Charleston. A.A.4875A; X1120; X3605. There is a possibility that Mathias could be the father/or grandfather (more likely) of Thomas B. McBee. However, Mathias moved from Spartanburg to middle Tennessee because he doesn't show up in any Census of 1790/1800/10/20. Mathias went with Rebecca
(his sister) and John Clarke to Franklin
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| + | 53 | viii. | Silas McBee, born November 24, 1765 in Halifax County, Virginia; died January 06, 1845 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. |
| 54 | ix. | Mary McBee, born Abt. 1767 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina; died April 10, 1825 in Lincolnton, North Carolina. |
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Notes for Mary McBee: The following land deed sent to me, Danny A. McBee, by Charles Hite (Duncan descendant) of Gastonia: H-1: 18 March 1801, William Hammett to John Duncan, $100, 100a except 5 acres reserved for Mary McBee where she now lives, part of a grant to Hammett, on Pter? Creek, a branch of Pasotale River. Wit. Wm. Reid and Rachel (x) McAbee. (Danny A. McBee). |
| + | 55 | x. | Vardry Echols McBee, born June 19, 1775 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina; died January 23, 1864 in Greenville, South Carolina. |
Notes for James McBee:
James McBee, file no.2554;
Gr. no 565;Bk.23,p.312 - 200 Acres on south
side
of Packolet River ... on
the Reedy branch including an Improvement he
bought
of Charles Park ... 29 April
1768, Wm Tryon. James McBee, file no.
293; grant
no. 284; Bk. 20, p. 625,
Plat: Nov. 22, 1769, Surveyed for James
McBee, 400
acres on South side North
fork Packlet, adj. Sam Youngs...Zach
Bullock. Jas.
Howard, Alexr Kilpatrick,
C B Granted 24 Dec 1770.
September 13, 1799. James
McBee (Franklin County, Georgia) to Andrew
Colley
(Spartanburgh); for $300
sold 400 acres on McBee's Creek (formerly
Plumtree
Branch) on N Pacolate River
and "on South side of South Pacolate
River;
border: Saml Young; grant
May 24, 1770, Gov. William Tryon (NC) to
James
McBee. Wit. oath Sept. 30,
1799. William Cawley to John Anderson.
Rec.
Apr. 14, 1800. (This proves
that some of the McBee family did go to
Georgia
as did James Alfred McBee.
At least one of James Alfred McBee's
children
was born in Georgia. This
is a definite link in our family). Witness
William
Cawley and Isham McBee.
Signed James McBee. (Danny A. McBee).
Children
of James McBee and Mrs. McBee are:
| 56 | i. | William4 McBee, born 1756 in Halifax County, Virginia. |
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Notes for William McBee: Possible wife of this William McBee is Abigail. (Danny A. McBee). |
| + | 57 | ii. | James McBee, born 1758 in Halifax County, Virginia; died December 1815 in Clark County, Georgia. |
| + | 58 | iii. | Israel McBee, born 1760 in Halifax County, Virginia; died January 1860 in Union County, Tennessee. |
| + | 59 | iv. | Susannah McBee, born September 17, 1762 in Washington Co., N. C. (Now Tennessee); died August 17, 1850 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. |
| + | 60 | v. | Isaac McBee, born February 13, 1764 in Halifax County, Virginia. |
| 61 | vi. | Laban McBee, born 1765 in Halifax County, Virginia. |
| 62 | vii. | Isham McBee, born Abt. 1766 in Pittsylvania, Virginia. He married Susan Wilson in Jackson County, Georgia. |
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Notes for Isham McBee: In the book "1805 Lottery - Franklin County, Georgia- For Land, there are four McBees listed: John McBee, Isham McBee, James and William McBee. I am quite sure that these are the children of James McBee, born 1737 in Halifax, Virginia. There seems to have been a migration of the McBee family from Halifax, Virginia to Spartanburg County, South Carolina and Franklin County, Georgia. There needs to be more research done on both of these McBee families because of our family ties. Until today, October 2, 1997, I never knew who Isham McBee married. The information was sent to me by Clare F. Magbee, 840 Stovall Place, Atlanta, Georgia, 30342. [Danny A. McBee]. Today, October 14, 1997,
I, Danny A. McBee, received e-mail from Jean
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| 63 | viii. | Abigail McBee, born Abt. 1770 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. She married Obediah Walters December 20, 1790 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. |
| + | 64 | ix. | Samuel McBee, born Abt. 1772 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died Abt. 1850 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. |
| + | 65 | x. | Tabitha Ann McBee, born 1774 in Tyro, Davidson, North Carolina; died Abt. 1861 in possibly Miller County, Missouri. |