((One of My 5th Great grandfathers))..Revolutionary War Captain William Causey, Senior, born July 17, 1744 at Giants Causeway, Ireland (family legend),died July 03, 1828 at Causey Plantation, Berwick, Amite Co., Mississippi. //William Causey apparently arrived at Charles Town, South Carolina aboard the Brigantine St. Peter from London on February 10, 1768. This may not have been his first crossing. ____He lived in Maryland at the start of the Revolutionary War, and served in the 14th Maryland Battalion under General Francis The Swamp Fox Marion. He enlisted as a Private and was elected as Ensign before the wars end. After the war he moved his wife and family to near Beaufort, South Carolina and remained there until his children were all grown. ____William married first to Amelia Farrar and raised a family of eleven children. Amelia died in 1804 in South Carolina and he married secondly to Susannah Jackson on September 02, 1805 in Wilkinson/Amite Co.,Mississippi and raised a second family of eight children. ____For his Patriotic Revolutionary War service he was alloted 640 acres of land in Amite Co., Mississippi on the west fork of the Amite River between Liberty and Centerville, one-half mile north of Berwick, Amite Co., Mississippi. Given the springs on the property, it became known as Causey Springs. William Causey was born in July, 1744 in Ireland, the son of Thomas Causey. He was 23 years old when he left Grants Causeway, County Galway, Ireland in 1767. A brother, Solomon, either came with him or came shortly after William came to the colonies. After his arrival in the colonies at Charles Town in 1768 he lived in Maryland, married there and at the outbreak of the American Revolution joined the patriots as a private, was made an Ensign and later raised to a Captain in the Maryland Militia. William was joined in his Revolutionary War service by an unnamed brother, perhaps Solomon, who had come to the colonies about the same time that William had arrived. He had other siblings; some later went to North Carolina, some to Georgia and some to South Carolina. At the end of the Revolution, he was in South Carolina and had fought under General Francis Marion, known as the legendary Swamp Fox.He stayed in South Carolina after the war and raised his family of eleven children to maturity, and was active in the Baptist church. About1801-1803 his first wife (name unknown) died and all of his children were grown. Some of his children were born in Maryland, some in Virginia,some in North Carolina and some in South Carolina, reflecting his movements in the Revolutionary War from Maryland ultimately to South Carolina. The William Causey family in South Carolina was known to be a prosperous family, owning a number of slaves and active in Protestant Churches, particularly in the Pipe Creek Baptist Church near Allendale. Following the Revolutionary War, he was either ceded, alloted, or granted 640 acres in South Carolina by the government as a reward for his Patriotic service. William reportedly gave one-half, 320 acres, of his original government grant to an unknown daughter in South Carolina. He was later given land in Mississippi for his patriotic service. General Francis Marion interceded on his behalf in obtaining this land.This land was located in Mississippi in what would become Wilkinson and later, Amite County, Mississippi, and was situated near the Amite River. About 1804 William Causey left South Carolina with some of his sons and daughters and went to Mississippi. Not all of his children came with him to Mississippi, some having died and some remaining in South Carolina; at least one son is said to have returned to Maryland. William Causey joined with other former Revolutionary Patriots and several families came to Mississippi together, among them were the Causeys, the Whittingtons and the Jacksons. All of these men had served in the Continental Army and/or in the Patriot militias. According to Jackson family legend, whereas the Jacksons came to Mississippi overland via the Three Chopped Way, the Causeys, being more financially able, had come to Mississippi by sailing vessel, having sailed around Florida and arriving on the Gulf Coast before making their way north to Mississippi. The Jackson legend also tells that the small Amite County town of Berwick got its name from that town that the Jacksons had stayed in Georgia while on the journey west to Mississippi. Today, Berwick, Georgia is a downtown surburb of Atlanta. Upon his arrival in Mississippi, the widowed William Causey then remarried to the sixteen year-old daughter of a friend and compatriot, ISAAC JACKON Susannah, called Sukey, or Susan in William Causeys later Will, was the mother to eight additional children of William Causey. Shortly after his arrival, he purchased an additional 2000 acres at fifty-cents per acre and built a prosperous plantation near the Amite River on the road between Liberty and Centreville, Mississippi. Because of his service in the Revolutionary War, he was known as Captain Causey. He was widely respected in the county and known to be a Christian man of good standing. His plantation was known as Causey Springs because of the fresh water spring ponds in front of the house. He built a five room house atop the hill, east of the springs, and a large barn. There was a garden, slave quarters and a cemetery on the property. He cleared the land and used timber and brick fired on the property to build the house and the barn. When his father died, he returned to the eastern seaboard to attend the settlement of his fathers estate. Just where that was and the date of his trip is unknown, but William obviously had relations on the Eastern Seaboard at the time. Williams Will indicates he owned at least 25 slaves as mentioned in his will, all was left to his children and his wife, Susan. He was very active in, and supportive of, the Baptist Church, having served as a delegate for a number of years to the annual state conventions, and was the Treasurer for the Baptist State Convention for several years. When the War of 1812 came, the sixty-eight year old William volunteered to serve in a reserve unit known as the Silver Greys. This unit, comprised largely of Revolutionary War veterans, was honorary.At the age of eighty-four, his home and barn built, his last eight children born, William wrote his Will. In the Will he recognized children of both of his marriages. Not all of his first eleven children were named in the Will, giving some indication that they had died or were out of the area, perhaps having been compensated on their departure long before. In the Will, William made a bequeath to his child yet unborn.This child was born just two months before Williams death at age eighty-four and named James Malcolm Causey. Also in the Will was a bequeath to his grandson, John M. Daniels, a son by a deceased William Causey daughter whose name is unknown. On the day of his death, eighty-four year old William Causey came in from his fields having done a full days work, dismounted his horse and remarked about the day and his good fortune. His crops were good, his wife had given birth to a new son, he was right with GOD and all things seemed to have been made good, What more could a man wish for? He then signed his Will and died later that evening. William Causey is buried in the Causey Family Cemtery at the Causey Springs Plantation, very near the home he built for his family.
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