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William Maynard 1745 - about 1837
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This William is not the son of William Maynard [II] who died in 1816 in Wake, NC
CAUTION: There were two families named Maynard living in North Carolina during the 1700-1800s. One was in Wake County, NC, and the other was in Wilkes County, NC. These two families have been frequently conflated.
The family who lived in Wake, NC, was headed by William Maynard [II] (LYZS-RJ9) who wrote a will in 1816, naming his 14 children. One son was Gibson Maynard (L1CZ-3CG) who lived and died after 1830 in Wake, NC, where his father resided, according to sources attached to that profile. A second son, James Maynard (GS1T-24N) married in 1802 in Johnston County, NC, from which Wake County was formed. That James Maynard wrote a will in Wake, NC, in 1826, so he also lived where William Maynard [II] resided. A third son was William Maynard [III] (P9J6-C6N) who married in Wake, NC, and was living there as of 1804 when he was about 60 years old.
Conversely, there was a family with similarly named men in Wilkes, NC, about 160 miles west of Wake, NC, during this same time period, and they have been frequently comingled with the Wake clan. One brother, Gibson Maynard (KZCC-Z86) was in Surry, NC, in 1771, and then after a portion of Surry County became Wilkes County, census records show that Gibson Maynard in Wilkes, NC, from 1784 through 1800. That Gibson Maynard died in Wilkes County in 1802. Therefore, the Gibson Maynard of Wilkes is NOT the son of William Maynard [II].
A second brother was James Maynard (L81K-KMG) who was living in Wilkes, NC (not Wake), in 1790, and he appeared in the Roaring River Baptist Church records of Wilkes, NC, along with his brothers Gibson Maynard and Christopher Maynard during 1790-1795.
A third brother was William Maynard (GS3R-YVS) born about the same year as William Maynard [III], but sources show him in Wilkes, NC, in 1799 - during the timeframe that William [III] was in Wake NC - and then in Pike, Kentucky, from 1810 to 1830.
A fourth brother was Christopher Columbus Maynard (1750 - 1820) (LYZ9-Y76) who was living in Surry County, NC, in 1771. That land became a part of Wilkes County in 1778 when it was formed from Surry County. Christopher Maynard was in Wilkes, NC, in 1790 on the census, and he appeared with his brothers Gibson and James in the Roaring River Baptist Church in Wilkes County, NC from 1790 to 1795. William Maynard [II] of Wake, NC, did NOT name a son Christopher in his will.
We do not have the name of the father of Gibson, James, William and Christopher Maynard of Wilkes, NC, but we can assuredly state that they are a different family from the one living in Wake, NC, headed by William Maynard [II].
Census Records:
1800 - William Maynard in Wilkes, NC, age 45+, wife, age 26-44, 3 male & 2 female children
1810 - William Maynard in Pike, KY, age 45+, wife age 26-44, 4 male & 4 female children
1820 - William Maynard in Floyd, KY, age 45+, wife age 45+, 3 male & 5 female children
1830 - William Maynard in Pike, KY, age 70-80, wife age 50-60, 1 female child
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