Charles DUKE

Male 1765 - 1850  (~ 85 years)


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  • Name Charles DUKE 
    Born ca 1765  Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 22 Jan 1850  Floyd Co. GA Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    • CENSUS RECORDS

      1820 Federal Census
      Name: Charles Duke
      Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Walton, Georgia
      Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
      Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 4
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
      Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25: 1
      Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 5
      Free White Persons - Under 16: 9
      Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
      Total Free White Persons: 12
      Total Slaves: 1
      Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 13

      1830 Federal Census
      Name: Charles Duke
      Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Newton, Georgia
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
      Slaves - Males - Under 10: 1
      Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
      Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
      Total Free White Persons: 8
      Total Slaves: 1
      Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9

      1840 Federal Census
      Name: Charles Duke
      Home in 1840 (City, County, State): District 729, Carroll, Georgia
      Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 80 thru 89: 1
      Persons Employed in Agriculture: 3
      No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 2
      Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
      Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
      Total Free White Persons: 7
      Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7

      LAND RECORDS

      Georgia Tax Index, 1789-1799
      Name: Duke, Charles
      County: Oglethorpe
      Year: 1798
      District: DUKE

      Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery, 1832
      Name: Charles Duke, Sen.
      Number: 71
      District: TWELFTH DISTRICT, THIRD SECTION, CHEROKEE
      Residence: Coxe's
      County: Morgan
      Comment: soldier of Indian war.; granted previous to the first day of January, 1838

      HISTORICAL SOURCES

      NOTES ON CHARLES DUKE AND HIS FAMILY by Douglas P. Reid

      Charles had a son by a first marriage who was a small boy in 1800 and witnessed his wedding to Nancy Elliott. Charles lived near the young families of James, Robert, and William Duke in Walton Co., Georgia in the 1820's. These men, as well as men named Thomas Duke and David Duke (son of John P. Duke) were probably all closely related to him; all except Robert appear on land records together with Charles. When Charles bought land from Henry White of Clarke County in 1826 - land adjacent to William Beard - Thomas and James Duke acted as testators. (These men both may be his sons or brothers). In 1830, Charles Duke is shown in Morgan County, while his son James was in Walton County where he had married Minerva Hightower in 1829.

      Charles Duke seems to be related to John P. Duke who died in 1829 in Morgan County. Charles was at the estate sale, and later, drew for the orphans of John P. Duke in a land lottery in 1832. Other Duke relatives at this sale were Edmuond Duke (administrator), Thomas Duke, Sr. (son of John Taylor Duke), Thomas Duke, and John Duke, Sr.

      The commonality of these men show that most of them were descended from the same family of John Taylor Duke, son of Captain Henry Duke and Elizabeth Taylor of Prince George County, Virginia. (The "tobacco Dukes" were also descended from John Taylor Duke). John Taylor Duke and his sons, Henry, Thomas, James, and Edmond moved to Georgia (Wilkes Co.) in the 1770's and 80's. These son were in their forties by then, with families of their own. It is known that Henry and Thomas both had sons named Charles Duke. Our Charles Duke was likely the son of James, Edmond, Thomas, or possibly Henry, and the grandson of John Taylor Duke. (See Evelyn Duke Brandenberger's "The Duke Family" for more on these men and their ancestry).

      The records are silent as to where Charles Duke was in 1840. He was probably in Floyd County. By then his son, David D. Duke, and Thomas Duke, (who may also have been his son) were in Floyd. Thomas and David had married sisters - Mary Ann and Martha White - in Walton County in 1829 and 1835. By the 1850's Charles and Nancy along with James, John, Nancy, and her husband (whom she married in Floyd County in 1842). David, and Green R. were all in Floyd County, along with Thomas Duke. Thomas left soon after 1850. The children of Thomas Duke (born about 1803), and Mary Ann White (born about 1807), who married in Walton County on 2 August 1829, were Martha (b-1830), James R. (b-1833), Mary A. (b-1835), Lousana (b-1837), Charles M. (b-1849), David W. (b-1843), Edmond I. (b-1845), and John T. (b-1849).

      James Duke was appointed Administrator of Charles Duke's estate on 7 April 1856. Charles was remembered as a "big, stout, tall man," and was knwn to his grandchildren as "Grand-Sir."

    Person ID I28411  Master File
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2015 

    Father Thomas DUKE,   b. ca 1734, Brunswick Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1820, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 87 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth 
    Family ID F5166  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Dorothy,   d. Bef 1800, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2015 
    Family ID F12278  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Nancy Elliott,   b. ca 1782, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1860, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 79 years) 
    Children 
     1. Edmund DUKE
     2. Sarah (Sally) DUKE
     3. Liza DUKE
     4. Thomas DUKE
     5. Lucy DUKE
     6. Martha DUKE
    +7. James Lumpkin DUKE,   b. 25 Aug 1805, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1887, Floyd Co. GA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     8. William H. DUKE
     9. John Paul DUKE
     10. Charles E. DUKE
     11. Elizabeth (Liza) DUKE
     12. Nancy DUKE
     13. David D. DUKE
     14. Martha DUKE
     15. Lucy Ann DUKE
    +16. Green Reginald DUKE,   b. 25 Jun 1825, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Feb 1897, Rome, Floyd Co. GA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
    Last Modified 7 Feb 2015 
    Family ID F12206  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart