JONES COUNTY, GA - BIOS Ruffin, James Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm JAMES RUFFIN James Ruffin was born about 1770 in Bertie Co, North Carolina. He was one of 9 children and the son of a tobacco planter who descended from the Virginia Ruffins. Through the father, William's deed of 10 Feb, 1800, we were able to identify all of the siblings. He married Margaret VEALE, of another Bertie County family. They spent their early married years in Bertie Co, probably raising tobacco on land near his brothers. We think that he and Margaret decided to leave Bertie Co because of the worn out condition of the land from all the tobacco, and take up a new life in Georgia raising cotton around 1819. His sons were old enough to help by this time, and the opening up of the Indian lands in Georgia, probably drew them Unfortunately the financial situation in America was not good, and we know that James lost to a sheriff's sale, several Negro slaves, as well as some land that he had purchased in Jones Co., GA. http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones/deeds/r1500004.txt Indenture between Deputy Sheriff Thomas Levinson and William Lowe for Sale of James Ruffin Property 07 Nov 1820 No 127 in the ELEVENTH DISTRICT He is enumerated on the 1820 census in Jones Co, but after that we assume that he died. Margaret returned to NC with two of her younger sons, Whitmel and James J, to settle her mother's affairs in Bertie Co. They do return to Georgia however, and Margaret lived to be 80 years old where she appears in the Upson Co, GA census living with her son, Thomas. JAMES RUFFIN BORN: Abt 1770 PLACE:Bertie Co, NC (based on 1st listed in 1791 Tax List) DIED: Abt 1820 PLACE: Jones Co GA BUR.: PLACE: Jones Co GA MARR: 22 Dec 1794 PLACE: Bertie Co NC FATHER: William RUFFIN MOTHER: Penelope WINBOURNE?/ Martha Bryan WIFE Margaret VEALE BORN: Abt 1776 PLACE: Bertie Co NC DIED: Abt 1850 PLACE: Talbot GA BUR.: PLACE: FATHER:Thomas VEALE MOTHER:Elizabeth CARNEY CHILDREN 1. NAME: Richard V.C. RUFFIN ----- BORN: Abt 1800 PLACE: Bertie,NC DIED: Mar 1861 PLACE: Villa Rica,Carroll,GA BUR.: Mar 1861 PLACE: New Hope Cem,Carroll ,GA SPOUSE: Elizabeth P. HARRELL MARR: 9 Nov 1823 PLACE:Jones Co, GA DIED: Aft 1870 Villa Rica, Carroll Co, GA 2. NAME: Thomas Veale RUFFIN ---- BORN: Abt 1805 PLACE: Bertie,NC DIED: Aft 1860 PLACE: Marion,GA BUR.: PLACE: SPOUSE: MARR: Mary SMITH PLACE:? Talbot Co 2nd: Frances Bevins (12 Aug 1853) 3. NAME: William Whitmel RUFFIN ---- BORN: Abt 1808 PLACE: Bertie,NC DIED: Abt 1859 PLACE: Talbot,,GA BUR.: PLACE: SPOUSE: Mary AMMONS MARR: 7 Aug 1841 PLACE:Talbot, GA 4. NAME: James Johnson RUFFIN ---- BORN: 14 Nov 1814 PLACE: Bertie Co NC DIED: 21 Feb 1905 PLACE: Reynolds,Taylor,GA BUR: New Hope Primitive,Reynolds,Taylor,GA SPOUSE: Sarah AVERETT MARR: 1 Oct 1837 PLACE: ,Talbot,GA 2nd wife: Carrie Shines Lucas Marr: 1 Aug 1889 Place: Taylor Co. GA There were probably some females, but we have no information on them. See 1820 Census =====1820 Jones County pg 134 Ruffin, James 1 male (0ver 45) {James Sr. 45} 1 male 10-16 {Thomas 15} 1 male under 10 {James J. 6 (1814) 1 female (26-45) {Margaret) 1 female (16-26) (don't know who this is, but probably married Jones County) 1 female (under 10) (???) 1 female slave +++Where were R.V.C. and Wm. Whitmell in this census? R.V. C. married Elizabeth Harrell Nov 9, 1823 BERTIE COUNTY TAX LIST 1824 James Ruffin 494 1/3 acres, one white poll and 8 slaves.