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- Some family trees have Jesse Pugh's death recorded as 1811 this is not correct as explained below.
Jesse Pugh married Elizabeth Stewart in 1757 in Berks Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Stewart was disowned for this marriage because Jesse was not of the faith, he was not a Quaker. Ironically Jesse Pugh is accepted by request 2 Feb 1760 into the Quaker faith when he and Elizabeth move to North Carolina, there is however no record found of Jesse's wife Elizabeth ever being accepted back into the faith. Jesse is later disowned again for his involvement in the regulator rebellion, and in 1789 Jesse accepted back into the Quaker faith in Georgia.
Jesse's Death
Jesse Pugh is the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Pugh, he is not however named in Thomas Pugh's Will dated 10 August 1794. This could be because Jesse died before his father made his will in 1794.
There is a land deed dated 1798 stating Jesse as deceased. If this deed is correct, Jesse was dead before March 1798.
"On March 1798, John Howell and his mother Elizabeth, sold 255 acres to Elijah Pugh. This land is identified as half of the tract granted to James Howell. It is listed as adjoining Jessy Pugh, deceased. The transaction is witnessed by Alexander Pugh, Jesse's son. (Wilkes Deed Book TT, page 70.)"
If Jesse died as early as 1798, then it is possible that he died even earlier before his father Thomas Pugh's will was made in 1794.
Jesse's children and the Land Lottery:
Jesse's orphans drew a land lot 88, 6th District of Wilkinson Co., Ga. The grant consisted of 100 acres on North Side of Little River below Macklemurray’s old place. This is now part of Taliaferro.
EXPLANATORY
The land given out in this lottery was obtained from the Creek Nation, in a treaty concluded at the city of Washington, Nov. 14, 1805, and was added to the counties of Baldwin and Wilkinson. The lots consisted of 202 1/2 acres each.
Those entitled to draw were every free white male twenty-one years of age and upwards a citizen of the United States and an inhabitant of this state three years immediately preceding the passage of this act and who had paid tax, entitled to one draw; every free white male of like description having a wife and legitimate child or children under twenty-one years of age, entitled to two draws; all widows with like residence, all free white females, all families of orphans, under twenty-one years, whose father is dead, one draw; those having neither father or mother living, two draws, provided the persons did not draw a prize in the late land lottery. (see land lottery image posted in this memorial)
Book: The Early Records of Georgia, Volume I, Wilkes County
Jesse and Elizabeth had these known children
1. John Pugh
2. Anne Pugh
3. Elijah Pugh
4. Alexander Pugh
5. Jehu Pugh
6. William Pugh
7. Robert Pugh
All named children were born before 1772. In order for Jesse to have orphans who would qualify for the land lottery draw, these children would have to be under the age of 21 in 1805/6 which would mean that Jesse would have to have had children born after 1784/5 which begs the question, did Jesse and Elizabeth have more children we do not know about born after 1785? The couple would have been in their fifty's.
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