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Notes

• A Margaret Crabtree is proposed as a second wife for Captain William York by several genealogies.  This seems to be a folk idea, and is not supported by documentation in any of the genealogies I have seen.  Margaret Crabtree was the wife of a different William York, according to research by an accomplished family researcher, working with a troop of other Captain York descendant-researchers.
  
  These family researchers have reported that DNA research has confirmed what they have found in historical information, that their William York was not married to Margaret Crabtree.  Records have been found for Margaret, and confirm her marriage to a different William York.
  
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  Captain William YORK b. abt 1755 prob. Colony of Virginia d. 14 Jul 1837 Carroll Co., GA
  married abt 1778
  Ailsey (surname unknown)
  
  We have NO idea who were the parents of William and our DNA absolutely proves that he was NOT a member of the Jeremiah YORK family, nor the son of Joseph. We are not even sure if his true name was YORK or was he perhaps the son of a widow who married into the family? Therefore his line ends with him - period.
  
  I have proven that he was the captain of the 'troop of horse' of mounted volunteers from Randolph Co., NC - perhaps because he was literate - a pre-requisite to 'command' - you had to be able to read and write orders, apply for pay, etc. I did find this data in the Library of Congress records and can send it to you if you want it.
  --  Source name withheld by request, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 17 October 2013
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  York William, Born abt 1755, Died 17 Jul 1837
  Wife Ailsey <no last name>, Born abt 1760, Died 7 Jul 1839
  Children:
  York Susan, Born  Abt 1780  North Carolina
  York Martha
  Born 31 Jul 1781  North Carolina
  Died 18 May 1844  Washington, Tennessee
  York Thomas, Born  1790, Died  Bef 1850
  Born 15 Oct 1799  Washington, Tennessee
  Died 1879  Van Wert, Polk, Georgia
  York William, Born  Aft 1799
  York Mary Polly, Born 1800  Washington, Tennessee
  York Elizabeth
  Born 10 May 1802  Washington, Tennessee
  Died 19 Jul 1884  Buchanan, Haralson, Georgia
  Buried First Methodist Church Cemetery, Yorkville, Paulding, GA
  York Delilah
  Born 1804  Washington, Tennessee
  Died Abt 1884  Pontotoc, Mississippi
  York Allen
  Born  Abt 1806  Washington, Tennessee
  Died  Bef 1860
  York Lettie
  York Margaret
  --  Routon and Riddle, http://routonandriddle.org/familygroup.php?familyID=F07267&tree=routonandriddle
  
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  As coordinator of The Descendants of Captain William York, a loosely formed organization who worked together to find and combine information about our ancestor ... His only marriage was to Ailsey ? (unknown) who died AFTER William. Another William York's 2nd marriage was to the widow Crabtree and I worked extensively and closely with the chairman of the Crabtree Org and he could not find anyone by that name married to anyone, so we both concluded she must have been a widow and Crabtree was not her birth name, and we did find another William York married to this woman but it was NOT our Captain William York who was the ONLY York who was a captain.
  
  Ailsey and William had 11 children; William; Susan; Martha; Thomas; Josiah Cowan (the only one of their children with a 2nd name); Mary; Elizabeth; Delilah; Allen; Lettie and Margaret (the latter two were picked up in his pension award). I have worked with many of their descendants and with ALL of Josiah's descendants - it was our choice to place a memorial marker for him beside the grave of Josiah so others could use this marker to prove his Rev War Service. I was the one who found the records in a book of records from The Library of Congress and there are about 9 other records that pertain to his service.
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  Captain York was in the area of Washington County NC (or VA) that later became TN by 1790 when his 2nd son, Thomas, was born.  DNA has proven that we are not related to ANY other York family and that William was the ONLY York male who was a captain in the Rev War. At this point we have NO idea who his parents were and perhaps he was the son of a widow who married Joseph since two of his wives are not known and most other York wives are known, however, someone cared enough about him as a boy that he was taught to read and write and one of the very few York men who were and perhaps this is why he was elected Captain.
  
  Diane S
  
  Diane Stark McConnell Sanfilippo
  Coordinator Captain William York
  Board Member York Association
  --  Diane Stark McConnell Sanfilippo, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 08 April 2018
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Sources

• 1. Private Genealogies
• 2. Email Sources
• 3. Name Withheld York Researcher, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 28 August 2013
• 4. Ancestry Trees
  • Shipp, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/9589767/person/-358568956
• 5. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
  • Memorial #54781278, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54781278
• 6. Ancestry Trees
• 7. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 8. Ancestry Trees
  • York, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/25940194/person/1855251941?ssrc=&ml_rpos=2&ftm=1
• 9. Geneanet Messaging
• 10. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
  • Memorial #21208376, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21208376
• 11. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
  • Memorial #82097612
• 12. Ancestry Comments