BURGAY, William
Birth Date: 175? Birth Place: North Carolina
Volume: 22 Page Number: 174
Reference: Roster of soldiers from N.C. in the Amer. Rev. Comp. By D.A.R. of NC. Durham, NC. 1932. (12,709p.):209
State of North Carolina Department of Archives, "North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts", Volume IV, (1253) - 101, No. 3241, Wm Burgay, 9 months, C1. We find a man of this name on musters January 79 for 2.5 years Corporal May 79, no date of enlistment. We cannot apply it.
State of North Carolina Department of Archives, manuscript volume titled "Revolutionary Army Accounts", Volume IV, Page 26, Folio 1: No 3241 Wm Burgay 9 months Southward Corporal on Musters January 79 for 2.5 years Corporal May 79, no date of enlistment.
Pierce's Register , APPENDIX , page 513
allCaps>NOTHER BOX Halifax, from 1st Sept. 1784 to the 1st Feb. 1785, and at Warrenton in the year 1786, designating by whom the claims were receipted for respectively. No.">[p.513] 3241.allCaps>NOTHER BOX Name & Rank: >William Burgay>NOTHER BOX By Whom Received: John Marshall
Abstract of the Army Account of the North Carolina Line - settled by the commissioners at Halifax from the 1st September, 1784, to the 1st Feby, 1785 and at Warrenton in the year 1786, designating by whom the claims were receipted for respectively. No. 3241, Name and Rank William Burgay, By Whom Received: John Marshall
1790 Census Newberry County, SC, p 68, William's household consisted of 2 males over 16, 3 males under 16, and 1 female. The Burgays seem to have migrated from SC to Hancock County, GA in the late 1790's. By the second decade of the following century, they are in Jones County, GA. A few years later, they appear in Monroe County, GA. On the Federal Census of 1830 in Monroe County, John Burgay (b. 1785) has 8 children.
Wilkes County, Georgia, Tax Records 1785-1805, compiled Frank Hudson, 1996, p 961: 1800 Capt Isaac Wilborn's District entry # 50, Charles Burga, no other info listed, people above and below entry are listed on Long Ck watercourse, maybe he had no land, could this be a relative of William?
Source: 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, Paul K Graham, 2004, The Genealogy Company: p 224, Wilkinson Co, District 5, 124, William Burgy Hancock County, August 27, 1806 grant date: grant book WiD5GB:239
Source: History of Jones County Georgia for 100 Years, Specifically 1807-1907, Carolyn White Williams, Round Oak, Georgia, p 26
"March 6, 1809 the Inferior Court passed an order which read, 'Ordered that John Bayne, Daniel Lowe, Peter Clower, and James Jones be appointed overseers of the poor in this county, and appropriating $40 to the use of William Burge, Jr. to be paid for the care of James Drawn (min. Inf. court county affairs, 1808-1823, p 30)
p 951 Susannah Burgy is listed as a daughter in Davis Gardiner will written November 27, 1816, proved February 3, 1817
Could this be John's brother?
Georgia
Jones County
Spouse: Burgay, Henry
Davis, Susan Marriage Date: 28 Apr 1816
"The Burgays seem to have migrated from SC to Hancock County, GA in the late 1790's. By the second decade of the following century, they are in Jones County, GA. I do not know all of the siblings of John Burgay (b. 1785); however, he apparently had a brother named Levin, who died young, as an orphan of Levin Burgay is found on the Monroe County tax list in 1827." deloutre@@yahoo.com or deloutre@@shrevenet.com. Your cousin, Max Harrison Williams, March 23, 2002
Jefferson Burgay m Mary Felicia Pulley, November 16, 1866, Halifax Co, NC Marriage Records
