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    1. Re: [NCWARREN-L] Sugars Jones/Clinch/Yeargain
    2. If anyone on the List is a descendant of Sugar/Sugars Jones and does not know his wife's surname it can be found in the will of Samuel Yeargain who d. in 1785 in Warren Co. He was m. 3 times. 1. Ann Booth in Chesterfield Co., Va. in 1752, had dau. Ann, only child, who later m. Lt. Col. William Alston (under Col. Jethro Sumner), son of Joseph John Alston and Betsy Chancey of Halifax Co., NC. Issue. 2. Samuel then moved to Nothampton Co., NC, (the wedge above the Roanoke River, Pidgeon Roost Creek, as well as just below, Little Stone House Creek, all of which later became part of new Warren Co.) He had over 1,000 acres (Northampton deeds) and also built the first Methodist chapel in America. He m. Mary (Gray) Clinch, wid. of Christopher Clinch of Brunswick Co., Va. Mary and Christ. had had a child, Elizabeth Clinch, who was therefore stepdau. of Samuel Yeargain and named in his will as wf. of Sugars Jones. Issue. Mary's Gray line harks back to the early Va. well to do Gray family. 3. Samuel m. Sarah Yancey, dau. of Jaconias Yancey and Hannah (Kimbrough) Alston of Halifax Co., NC. They had one child, Sarah Yancey Yeargain, who was only a baby when her mother died and a toddler when her father died. Sarah later m. Thomas Alston, no issue. Bebe Fox

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