Notes:

- Kindred's surname may have been spelled Brezeal.

Kindred married Nicia Kelley. Nicia (daughter of Tyre Kelly and Sarah Lincecum) was born about 1803 in Georgia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

- According to an Alabama heritage book, "Tyre...died 1846 Lowndes County, Alabama (an area now in the Highland Home area of Crenshaw County, Alabama)."

Tyre married Sarah Lincecum in 1785 in Georgia, USA. Sarah (daughter of Gideon Lincecum and Miriam Bowie) was born before 1769 in North Carolina, USA; died in 1803 in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

- From Billy Joe Lincecum's The Lincecum Line, dated January 1990:
"Sally was married to Tyre Kelly. There are no records that indicate Tyre as the father of Asa. Records are available to show that he was known throughout his life as "Asa Lincecum".
(Re: Page 14-15, Gideon Lincecum - 1793-1874, a Biography, by: Lois Wood Burkhalter.)
(Re: Cape Girardeau County Court records, 14 May 1832, sworn statements made by Hezekiah, Gideon II, and Sarah Lincecum, confirming that the Asa in the book, is the same Asa that shows up in Missouri (the father of Harmon) in the early 1820's)

- Sally died of a carbuncle on the back of her neck.

Notes:

- Gideon and Miriam eloped and settled on the Saluda River in colony of South Carolina. They remained there fifteen years...

"Pascal thought the Bowies were pretentious and was not pleased with Gideon's engagement. Meanwhile, according to Gideon Lincecum II, Miriam's brother 'could not consent for his beautiful, young and highly accomplished sister to become the wife of a frog-eating Frenchman.' Since both sets of parents objected, Gideon and Miriam eloped." [Judy Jacobson, Alabama & Mississippi Connections]

- Gideon and Miriam went to Warren County, Georgia in 1769. They had been married 15 years earlier in Maryland.

- Gideon fought in the American Revolution; he was killed... Gideon was captain of a company of rangers that had been organized by the government for protection of the frontier against the Muscogee Indians, who had been hire by the British to kill and scalp the people of Georgia. Then came the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. Colonel Few sent an order to Captain Lincecum to collect his rangers and meet his forces. At a point a few miles from (1871's) Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, they came to a bunch of raw hide ropes that had been dropped in the path. They dismounted. The Indians that were concealed in the switch cane rose up and fired into the crowd. Two were killed and Lincecum received a shot in the thigh. The rangers began running with the Indians following. They ran less than half a mile when the bleeding Lincecum turned and faced the approaching savages. The captain fell mortally wounded. He was badly mutilated having had five scalp trophies taken from his head. His widow, Miriam, didn't feel safe and fled to the Edgefield district of South Carolina. She remained til peace was made. Meanwhile, her two sons, Edward and John, were taken prisoner and shot soon after the Battle of Cowpens.

- Source: Wilkes County Misc Records Book B, Folio 13 [http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/wilkes/court/lincecum744gwl.txt]
Written: February 10, 1784

Gideon Lincecum Estate Inventory
Wilkes Co., GA
10 Feb 1784

An Inventory of the Estate of Gideon Linecean Decd. taken this 10 day February
1784.

300 Acres Land ?125 One Negro named Tom ?60
1 Negro woman named Hannah ?50 1 Negro girl named Patt ?50
3 Feather Beads ?6 12 Pewter Plates ?10 6 Plates & 2 Dishes ?1 15sh.
1 axe & kittle 15sh. 1 Pegin(?) 1 Box Iron & Punch Bole(?) 1sh.
1 Candle stick & Snuffer 3 sh.

Appr. James Morgan
William White
Rezan Bowie

April 7th 1784
B. Heard

GA ARCHIVES, Dr. 45/Box 20
Wilkes Co., GA Misc. Estate Records
Book B, 1783-1784, Register Folio (13)
Transcribed by Bob & Linda Ellis, Duluth, GA

Note: This appraisal is believed to have taken place approximately 7 years
after Gideon Lincecum?s death as shortly after the skirmish with Indians in
which Gideon was killed (c. 1777-1778) and then nearby Augusta?s first fall to
the Tories most of the settlers in the area (including the Lincecum family,
according to Gideon?s grandson and namesake, Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874, the
frontier naturalist) removed to the South Carolina side of the Savannah River
until peace was declared (a period of nearly 7 years). According to the
younger Gideon, the Lincecums were in the Edgefield District of SC during this
time period.

- Early Records of GIDEON LINCECUM, tak[en] from the "Early Records of Wilkes County, Georgia, Volume I and II"

Folio 13--LINECEAN (sic), GIDEON, dec'd. Inventory Feb. 18, 1784. Wm. White, James Morgan, Rezan (sic) Bowie, appraisers.

Folio 30--To MILLAY (Miriam) LINCOCEAN (sic), widow, "Whereas Gideon Lincocean (sic) late of this Co. lately died." Dec. 19, 1783. B. Heard, R. P.

Page 53--LINICUM, MERIUM (sic) to Richard Childers 200 acres on Powells creek. Feb. 14, 1785. Thos. Ansley, James Bowie, Burrill Waller, Samuel Braswell, Test.

Page 221--LINNIECOM (sic), HEZEKIAH and wife Sarah, to Matthew McCravey, 179 acres on Long creek part of orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Dec. 1, 1788. Henry Townsend, Jona. McCravy, James Wadsworth, Test.

Page 101--LINDSACUM (sic), HEZEKIAH to Wm. West both of Wilkes Co., 120 acres on Ogeechee orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Oct. 27, 1788. Benj. Moore, Wm. Smith, Test.

Volume II

Page 180--LINCECUM, HEZEKIAH to Wm. West, 121 acres on water of Ogeechee on a creek or fork, agreeable to a plat annexed to a grant 1784 to said Linecum. Nov. 17, 1790. Jonathan McCrary, John Nugent, Andrew Burns, J. P. test.

Gideon married Miriam Bowie about 1760 in Maryland, USA. Miriam (daughter of John Bowie, Jr. and Elizabeth Pottinger) was born between 1725 and 1749 in Maryland, USA; died in 1813 in Eatonton, Putnam, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Miriam was the Scotch aunt of James Bowie, the originator of the Bowie knife.

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From Judy Jacobson's Alabama & Mississippi Connections
"Then later during the war, Tories who had overrun the area, severely beat Gideon's widow with an iron ramrod in an attempt to get her to reveal where her money was. Her slaves fled and feeling alone and unsafe in her own home, Miriam joined a group of Georgians going into Edgefield District of South Carolina. She remained there until peace came in 1783 and then returned to Wilkes County where she found her home and crops had been burned and livestock stolen by Tories."

From "Georgians in the Revolution":
[The following deposition from the Telamon Cuyler Collection, Special Collections, University of Georgia Libraries, reflects the type of decision that many families of Burke County and other areas of Georgia had to make in the last days of the Revolution.]

State of Georgia This Day appeared before me one of the Justices
Richd. County appointed for said County Meriam Lincecum and after
begin Duely sworn doth say that about ye 25th of
Feby. Last Past that she was at the House of John McDaniel, and she heard
said McDaniel say he was going away she asked him if his family was going
he said no. he should take what he wanted of his living with him and
the remainder he should leave with his wife to keep her children on and
she his said wife made answer that she chose to stay or go with the Liberty,
said Mcdaniel said the King's people had possession now but he expected
the Liberty would be here again, and he would not stay here but would
go Down Below as she the said Miriam Lencecium heard the said McDaniel's
wife say that she would not go with the King's people, but would stay
with the Liberty or words to that Effect sworn before me

14th Feby 1782 her
Jas. Bowie JP Miriam Lincecum
Mark

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From "Greene County, Georgia - Land Records"

Page 48: GREENE COUNTY, STATE OF GEORGIA. Miriam
Linnecone (?) of Washington County, on 31 May 1793, for love
and affection for my grandson, Giddeon Berry, I give one negro girl named
Patt. The first child of Patt will go to my granddaughter, Linna Linnecone,
but all other children to Giddeon. Wit.: Charles Medlock and P. Boyle, J.P.
Recorded 13 April 1795.

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From Rootsweb BOWIE-L mailing list archives:

"From:
Subject: Bowies of Maryland, LA/VA connection?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:03:45 -0800

In the Texas State Library, a pair of spectacles that Belonged to James Bowie were found with the following documentation: "These spectacles were the property of James Bowie who came from Scotland, and settled in Maryland Ano Domini 1742. He was the oldest of eight brothers and sisters. He died soon after his arrival in America leaving the spectacles to his youngest sister, Miriam Lincecum. She at her death left them to Sarah Lincecum, the wife of her youngest child, Hezekiah Lincecum. And Sarah Lincecum gave them to her oldest son Gideon Lincecum, who is the writer of this in the year 1847. (Jennings, 1997 p. 4)*.

In her book, Jennings traces the line down to James Bowie of the Alamo. The year 1742 has a familar ring in the VA Bowie history as well....

Miriam Bowie died in 1813 at age 88, making her birth about 1725, since she was the younger sister, then James was born before 1725, and if above is correct, in Scotland. What is even more interesting, is at the death of Miriam's Husband, Gideon Lincecum, during the Revolutionary war, she went to live in Abbeville, South Carolina, assumably with relatives.

Since in this period, the Major John Bowie is in Abbeville, SC, this may imply that the line out of Dumbartonshire, and further back into Stirlingshire is this Bowie line. Since he is eldest, his grandfather should be James Bowie as well.

This would actually make sense. With so many James and John Bowies, it makes this part hard to sort out, but I reccomend other Bowie researchers get the Jennings book and let me know what you think. She has documentation, translations etc. on all of this.

Best Regards,
Cameron, Lori and Bob Bowie of Maine
PO Box 3751
Brewer, Maine 04412
deemi@juno.com"

*Book cited is The Rezin Bowie family of Louisiana: Documents supporting corrections and additions concerning the Rezin Bowie family of Louisiana and suggestions for further research by Virginia L. Jennings