Micajah Peacock (1775 - 1845)

Born 1775 in Wayne County, North Carolina

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Died 1845 at about age 70 in Wilson County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Micajah Peacock was born about 1775 in Wayne County, North Carolina, son of John Peacock (about 1740–1829) and Mary Thompson (1760–1836).

He was married by 1800 and had two children. His first wife likely died before 1820, since the only female over 10 on that census is on aged 16–25 who is likely to be his daughter Nancy who married in 1825. He may have had seven children: A boy and girl, both under ten in 1800, a boy under 10 and three girls under ten in 1820, plus Nancy, born about 1805. Some of the younger children on the 1820 census may be grandchildren and there may have been other children besides Nancy born between 1800 and 1810.

He was named in his father's 1828 will (probated in Wayne County, NC in 1829). Micajah had moved to Tennessee by 1820, which explains why his father left most of his property to Micajah's younger brothers who were still in Wayne County.

In 1837 he remarried Rose Smith in Wilson County, Tennessee.

Micajah died in 1845 in Wilson County, Tennessee, United States, aged 70.

Sources

• 1800 United States Census, Johnston County, North Carolina, 1800, page 752, entry for Micajah Peacock, FHL DGS#004956032, image 707 of 762, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R8C-2X6, National Archives and Records Administration.
• 1820 United States Census, Wilson County, Tennessee, 1820, page 392, entry for Micajah Pecock, FHL DGS #005156985, image 354 of 386, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYB8-FWG, National Archives and Records Administration.
• Will of John Peacock, Lame, signed 29 April 1828, proved February 1829, Wayne County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Wayne County, North Carolina, Wayne County Record Book Vol. 6, 1828–1834, Wills, inventories, and settlements of estates, page 3–4, FHL DGS #4772492, image 296 & 297 of 562, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:2:77TG-PSVB, Wayne County Court, Goldsboro, North Carolina.
• Marriage certificate of Micajah Peacock and Roses Smith, 03 Jan 1837, Wilson County, Tennessee, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950", https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH3-7DGG
• Spessard2B Family Tree: Ancestry.
• Peacock Family Association of the South. www.peacockfamily.org