The birthplace needs to say The Colony of Virginia or something to that effect, because it wasn't the United States yet. Her Will was recorded in court in Feb 1831, so I am assuming she died in 1830. She is also on the 1830 census aged 80-89, so a good guess for when she was born would be 1745. She would have been 17 when she had her first child.
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Joseph Scales, Sr. of Rockingham County, N.C', married Mary Jennings, a Widow, ca.1764.
Mary Jennings, who had a son George Jennings also of Rockingham County, N.C.
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Mary was in Halifax County, VA. deeds.
She received a VA. Land Grant.
She was associated with Valentine Allen also of Halifax County, VA. and Rockingham County, N.C.
Source: Early Families of Rockingham and Stokes Counties North Carrolina With Revolutionary Service.
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Some of Mary and Henrys' children were:
1. Joseph, born 28 July 1765, died 1833 in Shelby County, TN.
2. Mary, born 14 June 1767, married Thomas Williams in Rockingham County, N.C. on 26 April 1794
3. Elizabeth Scales, born 6 June 1769 and died 28 Mar 1825, married in 1792 John Dodd, born 28 Mar 1764 Amelia County, VA. and died 11 Sept 1840 Gibson County, TN
4. Lucy, born 10 April 1771, married Robert Wall
5. Anna (Polly) born 12 Sep 1772, married John Nichols
6. Jeremiah, born 6 Apr 1774
7. Richard, born 24 Feb 1776 and died 30 Nov 1798
8. Ellen, born 16 Sep 1778 and died 25 Sep 1856, married Samuel Allen
9. James, born 11 Apr 1780 and died 18 May 1860, married Mary Scales, a cousin, Mrs Elizabeth (Joyce) Deatherage, and Mrs Charlotte (Dalton) Dalton.
10. Henry, born 12 Sep 1783, died 1819/20 Giles County, TN. and married Martha Hansford Edwards 8 Dec 1807.
11. Nathaniel, born 25 Jan 1785 and died by 1839, married Carolina Matilda Joyce
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The above is from "Early Families of the N.C. counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Service
(Volume Two)
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Mary J. Scales wrote her Will in Rockingham County, N.C. in 1823.
It lists:
Sons, James and Nathaniel and Daughter, Elizabeth Dodd.
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Mary Crunk Jennings. She was married to Wm. Jennings, and they had one son, Wm. Crunk Jennings (not Jenkins).
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