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Scates. but am sending you what information i do have on the
Scates family of the Cherokee,
York District of SC.
Descendants of David
SkatesGeneration No. 1
1. DAVID1
Skates was born
Abt. 1804 in Union District. He married ELIZABETH STEWART1
Abt. 1825 in
York County, SC, daughter of JOHN
STEWART and SARAH
MULLINAX. She was born 1802 in
York District, SC.
Notes for DAVID SKATES:
Charged with trading with a slave, found guilty Spring 1848
More About DAVID SKATES:
Occupation: Laborer
More About ELIZABETH STEWART:
Census: 1850, Children of Elizabeth
STEWART and David
Skates listed from 1850 census
More About DAVID
Skates and ELIZABETH STEWART:
Marriage:
Abt. 1825,
York County, SC
Children of DAVID
Skates and ELIZABETH
STEWART are:
i. NANCY EMELINE2
Skates, b. Abt. 1826,
York District, SC.
ii. ANDREW
JACKSON Skates, b. Abt. 1832,
York District, SC; d. September 20, 1863, Chickamauga, TN, Civil War.
More About ANDREW
JACKSON SKATES:
Military service: Confederate States of
America iii. MARY JANE
Skates, b. Abt. 1835,
York District, SC.
iv. FRANCES
Skates, b. Abt. 1839,
York District, SC.
v. ELIZABETH SKATES2, b. Abt. 1840,
York District, SC; m. (1) ROBERT
MCCLELLEN WILSON; b. May 01, 1834; d. March 28, 1906; m. (2)
ABRAHAM Skates, February 15, 1857; b. NC.
Notes for ELIZABETH SKATES:
South CarolinaYork District
Know all men by these presents that we Elizabeth
Scates, R.M. Wilson, Henry White and George
Wilson are held and firmly bound unto the commissioners of the poor for
York District in the just sum of Six Hundred dollars to be paid to Wm P. Thomason as commissioner of the poor and their successors in office to which payment will and duly to be made and done we jointly and severally bind our selves and we do hereby severally bind our heirs Executors and administrators firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 19th day of December one thousand eight and fifty six
The condition of the above obligations is such that as Elizabeth
Scates a Single woman of
York District has made oath that she was delivered of a male
Bastard Child that is liable to become chargable to the district and hath charged Robert M. W. Wilson within having begotten her with child of said bastard child now If the above bound Elizabeth
Scates Robert M. Wilson Henry P. White or George
Wilson or Either of them shall from time to time and at all times indemnify and save harmless the said commissioners from all cost and charges sales assessment or taxes as also all other inhabitents of the State from all suits or
Demand cost or trouble by reason of the birth maintance and education of said
Bastard Child and so maintain and Educate said child so as to prevent said child from becoming Chargable to the public in any way the the above obligations to be null and void otherwise to
Remain in full force and virtue taken and acknowledged this day and date above written
Elizabeth X
ScatesA. Hardin Robert M X
Wilsonmagistrate Henry P X White
More About ROBERT
MCCLELLEN WILSON:
Burial:
Cannan Church Cemetery,
York County, SC
Notes for
ABRAHAM SKATES:
Charged with assault & battery, Fall 1858
Charged with "retailing liquor with out a license, Fall 1860
More About
ABRAHAM Skates and ELIZABETH SKATES:
Marriage: February 15, 1857
vi. RACHEL
Skates, b. Abt. 1846,
York District, SC.
vii. SOPHIA
Skates, b. Abt. 1847,
York District, SC.
viii. RESE M. SKATES, b. Abt. 1848,
York District, SC; d. Aft. 1900.
More About
RESE M. SKATES:
Census: 1870,
Living in Yorkville District, SC