Sturkie Family 2018B - Person Sheet
Sturkie Family 2018B - Person Sheet
NameWEATHERFORD, Charles
FatherWEATHERFORD, Martin (1726-1805)
Mother“HALF BLOOD”, Mary
Spouses
Birthca 1759, Taskigi Town, Upper Creek Nation
Deathca 1811, Little River (present Baldwin CO, AL)
FatherMcPHERSON, Malcolm (1710-)
Marriageca 1779, Alabama River
ChildrenWilliam “Red Eagle” (ca1781-1824)
 Washington
 Rosannah
 Betsy
 Polly
 John Jake David
Census notes for Charles WEATHERFORD
Birth: 
1726
James City County
Virginia, USA
Death: 
1805
Harbour Island, Bahamas

Martin Weatherford was born in James City, VA in 1726. Son of Richard and Susanah Weatherford. Martin married Mary Halfblood who was of Creek Indian ancestry, in 1747. She moved with her family from Virginia to Augusta, Georgia around 1757. They had 5 children; Charles, William, James, John and Catharine. Martins son Charles b. 1752 in Lunenburg, was father of Creek Indian Chief William "Red Eagle" Weatherford, b. 1780 in Alabama and died there in 1824. Source: Description Bio Date 28 Dec. 2006 Location: United Empire Loyalist, Part I-II, pg Item 93 attached to Martin Weatherford (1726-1805) Originally shared by Annjenette 25 May 2007 on Ancestry.com.About 1757, Martin. William and Charles Weatherford headed to Augusta, Georgia. John supposedly stayed in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War, they formed the Augusta Loyalist Militia, which had about 1100 Tories. When Augusta fell in the 1780's, 250 persons from various counties, including Charles, Martin, James and John Weatherford and others were put on trial and ordered out of Augusta, Ga. An act of Confiscation and Banishment in Augusta on 4 May 1782 from the State Archives Ref: cancler, Revolutionary Records of Ga. Vol 1 (1769-1782) page 386. "Be, and they are hereby declared to be banished from this State forever" 60 days in which to go, otherwise, jail or expedition "beyond the Seas to some of the British Kings dominion." Martin went to Florida, then to the Bahamas, where there are a number of Weatherford's. William went to Florida Keys and Charles went to Alabama and then to St. Augustine, FL. John was the odd duck, he was in the War but was in the Continental Army. Martin married, before 1775,Isabella Archer, in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. She also went to the Bahamas. 
 
Burial:
Sir George WK Roberts Memorial Library or
Dunmore Town
Harbour Island, Bahamas
 
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Created by: jt790
Record added: Apr 02, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 107689125
Notes for Sehoy III (Spouse 1)
William Dixon Moniac also had a union with Sehoy III, Alexander's half sister, when she was very young and a child was born of that union, Hannah Moniac. William later married Polly Colbert a mixed Choctaw.
Last Modified 24 Aug 2017Created 17 Mar 2018 Sturkie Family by Mary L. Ward
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