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Gilmore of Greene and Oglethorpe Counties



John Gilmore of Virginia married Jane Heard. Their family removed to Georgia. Known issue:
Ogletho rpe County Deeds

Deed Book D, page 35. 9 February 1797. Uriah Gilmore and Margret, his wife, of Oglethorpe County, to Stephen Heard of Greene County, Georgia, for $500, all our rights to 760 acres of land in Oglethorpe County on the waters of the Ogechee and Shearls Creek, beginning at a hickory on William Melton's line at head of Ogechee, adj. John Stroud.

Greene County Deed Book 2

pp. 539-540. 24 April 1802. Samuel Ray of Clarke Co. to Uriah Gilmore of Greene Co. for $250, 250 acres in Clarke County onthe waters of Brushy Creek adj. land originally granted John Darden, 1200 acres, George Mooney and Fordigh.

Sources: LWT of John Heard in Greene County. 11/5/1797:11/10/1797, p. 41-44 Wife: Eleanor. Daughters: Anna, Susanna, Elizabeth. Sons: Jesse, James, John, Joel. Executors: Sons, Jesse and James Heard and son-in-law, Joseph Jones. Witnesses: Humphrey Gilmore, Reuben Edwards, William Tate.