William McGhee [16768]

  General Notes:

Sold land (on the James River?) to William Denton April 5, 1776. Patented 200 acres on Henderson's Branch near Secretary's Road, not far from Colle. At a ford in the river, William McGhee named it McGhee's Ford. The family eventually settled near Woodbridge. William McGhee signed the Albemarle County Declaration of Independence in 1779 along with Thomas Jefferson.

March 3, 1800.
Agreement recording the conveyance from William McGhee and Elizabeth (70 and 68 years of age), his wife, of life estate rights in 75 acres to James Monroe in exchange for 60 pounds consideration. The old Indenture stated: Witnesseth that whereas by an indenture of bargain and lease bearing date of September 7, 1791 from Edward Carter to the said William McGhee and Elizabeth his wife thereby conveying unto them during their lives one certain tract of land containing by estimation 75 acres and bounded; beginning at a red oak on the west side of the road thence along a line marked by the parties without a compass . . . to a chestnut in the old field thence north 36 E 56 poles to a white oak in Thomas Jefferson's line thence along his line south 58 E 142 poles to the above mentioned . . .

This indenture was signed and sealed by William McGhee and Elizabeth McGhee placing their marks. It was produced and acknowledged by William McGhee (son) and recorded November 23, 1815, Deed book 19, page 497.

William and Elizabeth had died and their "life estate" had ended. This is a conveyance back to James Monroe who was about to become President of the United States.

From the "History of Albemarle County, Virginia": Published by The Michie Company, 1901.

" . . . The family (McGehee) seems to have settled near the present Woodbridge, as the forks of the roads at that place went for a long period by the name of McGehee's Old Field. William died in 1815. He and his wife Elizabeth had eight children, William, Elizabeth, Joseph, Nancy, the wife of William Adcock, Sarah, the wife of William Campbell, Mary, the wife of James Martin, Lively and Charles. After the death of the father, most of the family removed, some to Franklin County, Virginia, and some to Kentucky."

William married Elizabeth Lively [16770] [MRIN: 5603], daughter of Mark Lively [1] and Mary McGhee [2], in 1750 in Albemarle County, Virginia. (Elizabeth Lively [16770] was born about 1732 in Virginia and died in 1815 in Albemarle County, Virginia.)