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- Mary Miller Neely
BIRTH 1744
Cecil County, Maryland, USA
DEATH 16 Oct 1815 (aged 70–71)
York County, South Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery
York, York County, South Carolina, USA
MEMORIAL ID 49960171
Edited on November 3, 2016
Mary (Miller) Neely was the daughter of Isaac Robert Miller, Sr. and his wife Mary (Alexander) Miller. She was one of the earliest pioneers to settle in the wilderness of the Carolinas.
She was born in Cecil County, MD. The closest town was New Castle, DE.
When she was about 7 years old, she and her family traveled in a large group of colonists, who left from MD around the year 1751. The first leg of the trip, from the Chesapeake Bay to Winchester, VA, was about 250 miles by land. To save travel time, they probably began their trip by taking a ship from MD to the Potomac River of VA. Then they would have headed inland to get as far as Winchester, VA. For the first part of the journey, from the coast of VA to the interior at Winchester, VA, it was possible to travel via wagons. From that point on the trail narrowed, so that travel was only possible by horseback and on foot. From Winchester, VA they journeyed another 250 miles down an Indian footpath called "The Trading Path", to Tyger Creek of Anson County, NC.
Her parents were part of a large Scots-Irish expedition of settlers, who dispersed around the modern day area of Charlotte, NC and Spartanburg, SC. Her parents settled at an 800 acre land grant on Tyger Creek.
About ten years after she moved to her family's farm at Tyger Creek farm, Mary Miller married William Neely around 1761, at about the age of 17.
William Neely (1727-1778) was the son of Henry Neely (1695-1780) and Elizabeth (1694-1785). His father was born on the Ulster Plantation of Northern Ireland, UK. His family of Neelys came from Scotland originally, and the Neely male line was of Viking descent.
Mary (Miller) Neely lived through the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), as well as the War of 1812 (1812-1815).
She passed on in 1815 in York County, SC, at the age of 71.
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