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William Wiseman

Male Abt 1724 - Bef 1823  (~ 99 years)


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  1. 1.  William Wiseman was born about 1724 in London, England; died before Mar 1823 in Burke Co, North Carolina.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: May 1763, Culpeper Co, Virginia
    • Other-Begin: 19 Jan 1764, Culpeper Co, Virginia
    • Residence: 1765, South Carolina
    • Residence: 1776, Burke Co, North Carolina

    Notes:

    Residence:
    William Wiseman is on the Jury, May 1763 in Culpeper County, Virginia for case John Tackett v Richard Price, so the first child Thomas Wiseman is born in Culpeper County, Virginia


    Other-Begin:
    Culpeper Co., VA, William Brown v.William Wiseman, Judgement for Plaintiff

    This probably helped William Wiseman and Mary Davneport decide to travel down to South Carolina, where her sister Sophia Davenport and her husband William White had gone to be near William White's father and mother James Taylor White and Elizabeth Poe/Powe.


    Residence:
    Dorothy Wiseman, 2nd child of William Wiseman, states in the 1850 of Yancey Co., NC as the wife of David Baker that she was born in 1765 in South Carolina.

    Sept. 18,1766 they probate Robert Covington's will in Culpeper Co., VA. "Exhibited to the Court by John Strother, John Claton swore that the said decedent did sign seal and publish this his last will and that he say William Wiseman subscibe the same "I get from this that William Wiseman was not present, giving more evidence that William and Mary had indeed gone down to South Carolina


    Residence:
    The Davenports move to Burke, now Caldwell Co. NC on the JOHN'S RIVER, along with William Wiseman and others.

    William married Mary Davenport about 1762 in Culpeper Co, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Thomas Davenport and Mrs. Dorothy (M.?) (..) Davenport) was born on 17 Jun 1741 in Hanover Co, Virginia; died on 17 Jun 1796 in Burke Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]