Margaret (Armstrong) Wylly (abt. 1769 - 1850)

Born about 1769 in Province of North Carolina

Wife of Alexander Campbell Wylly — married 1787 in Abaco Islands, Bahamas

Descendants

Died 12 Sep 1850 at about age 81 in Georgia, United States

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Biography

Margaret was born in 1769. She was the daughter of William and Ann Armstrong, a loyalist family who fled to the Bahama Islands from North Carolina during the American Revolution.^[1]

Alexander Campbell Wylly was on the list of Loyalists banned from Georgia in 1783. He fled to the Bahamas where he married Margaret Armstrong on 10 Jan 1787 in Abaco at Spencer’s Bight.^[2] They received land grants there but immigrated back to Georgia about 1803.^[3]

They lived for a few years on Jekyll Island, then purchased The Village Plantation, Glynn County, Georgia.^[4]

They had at least 11 children:^[1]

1. Susannah Cunningham Wylly (1788-1829) never married. She died in Georgia 19 Oct 1829.^[5]
2. Ann Caroline Wylly (1790-1791).
3. William Wylly (1793-1794).
4. Alexander C. Wylly, Jr. (1796-1796) born & died same day.
5. Ann Frances [twin] Wylly (1798-1846) never married.
6. Frances Ann [twin] (Wylly) Fraser (1798-) lived and died on Saint Simons Island.
7. Alexander William Wylly (1801-1876) md. Elizabeth Sarah Spalding of Sapelo.
8. Margaret Matilda Wylly (1804-1863) never married.
9. John Armstrong Wylly (1805-1838) killed by Dr. Hazzard.
10. Heriot Louisa Baillie Wylly (1808-1885) married.
11. Caroline Georgia (Wylly) Couper (1811-)

In the 1850 census the widowed Margaret (age 79) was in Glynn, Georgia, United States.^[6]

Margaret passed away in 1850 at St Simon's Island, Georgia. Burial was in the Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, Saint Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia.^[1]

Margaret's estate passed probate on 11 November 1850.^[7]

Slaves

In the 1850 Slave Schedule census Margaret was in Glynn, Georgia, United States, and had 54 slaves.^[8]

Margaret names a number of slaves in her probated will:^[7]

1. Maratta and her children
2. John
3. Nancy
4. Harriet and her children
5. James
6. Mary and her children

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102254774/margaret-wylly: accessed 29 August 2022), memorial page for Margaret Armstrong Wylly (1769–12 Sep 1850), Find A Grave: Memorial #102254774, citing Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, Saint Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Meredith Drew Trawick (contributor 46908319) .
2. ↑ Marriage: "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900"
   Source number: 1825.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: CTF
   Ancestry Record 7836 #31354 (accessed 29 August 2022)
   Margaret Armstrong marriage to Alexander Campbell Wylly in 1787.
3. ↑ Early Land Grants & Grantees Long Island, Bahamas, Alexander C. Wylly (https://www.longislandbahamashistory.com/loyalists/alexander-c.-wylly)
4. ↑ Coastal Georgia History, The Village Plantation (http://www.jbrucehistory.org/Plantations/The%20Village/The_Village.php)
5. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99CL-BB9?cc=2579610
6. ↑ 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census"
   Year: 1850; Census Place: Glynn, Georgia; Roll: 71; Page: 3b; Line Number: 13
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8054 #18679899 (accessed 29 August 2022)
   Margaret Wylly (79) in Glynn, Georgia, USA. Born in Florida.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Probate: "Georgia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992"
   Estate Records, 1800-1928; Author: Georgia. Court of Ordinary (Glynn County); Probate Place: Glynn, Georgia
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8635 #634830 (accessed 29 August 2022)
   Margaret Wylly probate on 11 Nov 1850.
8. ↑ 1850 Census:"1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules"
   The National Archive in Washington DC; Washington, DC; NARA Microform Publication: M432; Title: Seventh Census Of The United States, 1850; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8055 #92174593 (accessed 29 August 2022)
   Margaret Wylly in Glynn, Georgia, USA.

• http://oatland.org/Plantations/Plantations%20and%20Christ%20Church.pdf
• https://www.timespub.tc/2018/09/casualties-of-war/
• https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/463:3353?tid=19363976&pid=342368471293&queryId=7f62151145dcf90d7f1d30e0e2aa446b&_phsrc=kBu12&_phstart=successSource