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- Importation given in Wilson Tinkling Spring, p. 426 on 24 July 1740, with James Gilasby, Jennet, Agnes, John, James and William Gilasby O. Bk II, 208.
His father, James, Sr. was an elder at Tinkling Spring Wilson, p. 86
James, Jr. married Elizabeth Finley, daughter of John Finley, Sr. and ..... Thompson daughter of Rev. John Thomson date of marriage bond 5 January 1764, in Prince Edward County Prince Edward Co., VA Marriage Bonds, 1754 1850, LDS film 0033254 her uncle by marriage, Robert Baker was surety, consent witnessed by Baker and John Finley, Jr.
Gillespies property was near Robinson property in Beverley Manor on South River Hildebrand map.
James and Elizabeth Gillespy sold 100 acres adjoining them in Beverly Manor to John Finley on 18 August 1773 Augusta Co., DB 19 414 Probably her brother, John, Jr. who witnessed consent of their marriage.
James and Elizabeth sold 300 acres on South River, where they lived, to Michael Coyner of Cumberland County, PA neighbors included David Vance, McClure, Jno Finley, George Coyner Augusta County DB 26 37 dated 22 August 1787.
On 14 June 1793, John Findley, wheelright, stated his intent to obtain a deposition from James Gilesbpy regarding suit brought by Matthew Gleaves , at his house on Little River, waters of Holstein in the New Territory Augusta County Drawer 449, document dated 1794.
Lived in Rockford, Blount County.
killed by Cherokees in 1792
According to Dorothy D. Gillespie, 717 West Highland Avenue, Malvern, AR 72104, James, along with brothers John and William, went to a sparsely settled wilderness of the Indian Territory of North Carolina State of Franklin in 1787. The State of Franklin existed from 1784 to 1788. It was originally North Carolina territory ceded to the United States to satisfy a debt. This area later became the Tennessee Counties of Caswell, Sevier and Blount Elholm District of State of Franklin South of the French Broad in Indian Territory .
Brother, William, settled on the South side of the Holston River a few miles below where Little River joined the Holston, now in Blount County at the Holston College Cemetery Louisville. James and John settled a few miles to the north. After 1788, William's land was in Greene County, NC. After June 1792 William's land was in Knox County. After 1795 it was in Blount County Holston River was dividing line between Blount and Knox . The Holston in this area became the Tennessee River in the mid 1800s. The area which was Greene County, NC went to Tennessee in 1806.
Was living in Prince Edward County with her aunt and uncle, the Rev. Richard Sankeys, in 1764 when she married James Gillespie of Augusta County. This positively identifies her as a granddaughter of the Rev. John Thomson, through the John Finley who married a daughter of Thomson J.G. Herndon, Some of the Descendants of the Rev. John Thomson,Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 51, 1943, p. 394 404
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