Re: Agnes Goree d/o Daniel
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Re: Agnes Goree d/o Daniel
Chelle Martin 3/10/04
In the name of God Amen I Daniel Gorre of the State of South Carolina and Newberry District Being in perfect helth in Mind and memory thanks be given to God calling to mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for All men once to Die Do make and ordain this my last will and testament and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life I give and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First of all I give and bequeath to my Daughter Agness Kelly One Shilling and secondly my Daughter Clarase Hogg I give and bequethe one Shilling and thirdly my Daughter Mildred Liles I give and bequethe one Shilling and also my Daughter Molley Kelley I give and bequethe one shilling also my Daughter Sele Parrott I give and bequethe one Shilling also my Daughter Jane Johnson I give and bequethe one Shilling. And to my son William Gorre I give and bequethe the fether bed that I ly on and the furniture and balance of my moveable Estate to be Equally devided between my too Sons namely William Gorre and John Owen Gorre and that I do hearby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all and every other former testaments will or bequest Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hearunto set my hand and Seal this tenth Day of June l800.
Daniel Gorre (LS)
Benjamin Buchanan
? Gorre
The above named William and John Owen Gorre I leave as Executers to my Will.
Having sold in 1743 the property inherited from his father in
Goochland Co., Va., Daniel and his wife Elizabeth Britton soon
relocated to old Lunenburg Co., VA, which became Mecklenburg Co. in
1765. He assisted appraising the inventory of John Pankey in 1750,
who had witnessed the sale of his Goochland property in 1743. His
brother John is shown with him on the tithable list of 1752. He
received a patent for 550 acres of land on both sides of Allens Creek
in 1755, which he sold the next year. His wife's name of Elizabeth
appears relinquishing her dower rights to this property. He bought
and sold property in that county several times until 1767, often with
his brother John appearing as a witness.
He is next found in Mecklenburg, VA , and then is found in
Newberry, SC on a 1779 jury list, on a land deed when he purchased a
300 acre plantation on Kelley's creek, and on the 1790 census., with
two males over 16 and six females. A review of the will book of
Newberry Co. SC in the late 1700's shows his name often as witness or
attending estate sales, in close proximity with the name of Lewis
Hogg, who his daughter later married, Owen names, and the first names
of Claudius, Clarissa, and Britton, repeated in related Goree
families. One of the estate sales was that of his brother John, who
joined in the removal to Newberry Co. Daniel and Elizabeth had the
following children, Agnes Kelly, who was previously married to Thomas
Durrett, grandson of Francis Durrett, another Huguenot emigrant,
Mildred Lyles, Molly Kelly, Selah Parrott, Jane Johnson, William,
John Owen., and [BO:Clarissa Hogg:BO]. His will, probated March 19,
1801, Newberry District SC, Will Book C, p. 356 mentions "Daughter
Clarrissa Hogg, one shikling."