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From the South Carolina Archives:
Series Number: S108092 Reel: 0096
Frame: 00301 ignore: 00
Date: 1776 C. OR LATER
Description: MCBEE, SILAS, ACCOUNT AUDITED (FILE NO. 4876) OF CLAIMS GROWING OUT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Names Indexed: MCBEE, SILAS
Other McBees who made claims following the Revolution were: Vardry, Elijah, Matthias, and Matthew McBee.

Series Number: S213190 Volume: 0014
Page: 00108 Item: 00
Date: 1785/05/19
Description: MCBEE, SILAS, PLAT FOR 640 ACRES ON THICKETTY CREEK, NINETY SIX DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY DAVID HOPKINS.
Names Indexed: MCBEE, SILAS/HOPKINS, DAVID/MCBEE, LACY/WADE/MCBEE, VARDRY/
Locations: NINETY SIX DISTRICT/THICKETTY CREEK/SALUDA RIVER

Genealogical Records: Early Tennessee Settlers 1700s-1900s
Cumberland Settlements, 1770-90, Sumner County TN
2 Oct 1790 Bill of Sale Silas McBee to Thomas Hendricks. Wit: Edward Hogin/Hogan, Obediah Terrill
Nov 1790 Silas McBee was a juror in the case NC vs. Phebe McNeely

Silas was in Kentucky before 1794 as evidenced by tax records in Logan Co.

Here are the records of his Kentucky land grants:
Grants South of Green River:
Grantee: McBee, Silas
Acres: 200
Book: 7 Page: 145
Date Survey: 11- 6-1798
County: Christian Watercourse: Crab Orchard Fk

Acres: 200
Book: 7 Page: 403
Date Survey: 12- 4-1798
County: Christian Watercourse: N Fk Tradewater

Acres: 200
Book: 13 Page: 379
Date Survey: 2-20-1807
County: Henderson Watercourse: Musgrove Cr

Acres: 200
Book: 7 Page: 406
Date Survey: 4-16-1807
County: Henderson Watercourse: Musgrove Cr

Acres: 200
Book: 19 Page: 334
Date Survey: 4-16-1807
County: Henderson Watercourse: Musgrove Cr

Acres: 400
Book: 27 Page: 241
Date Survey: 9- 3-1808
County: Hopkins Watercourse: Clear Cr

Acres: 400
Book: 14 Page: 366
Date Survey: 9- 4-1813
County: Christian Watercourse: Little R

Acres: 400
Book: 14 Page: 367
Date Survey: 9- 4-1813
County: Christian Watercourse: Little R

Acres: 400
Book: 17 Page: 28
Date Survey: 8-31-1814
County: Christian Watercourse: W Fk Red R

Acres: 200
Book: 16 Page: 240
Date Survey: 9-16-1814
County: Christian Watercourse: W Fk Red R

Acres: 100
Book: 6 Page: 241
Date Survey: 9-16-1814
County: Christian Watercourse: W Fk Red R

Acres: 46
Book: B Page: 323
Date Survey: 12-26-1816
County: Hopkins Watercourse: Bull Cr

Acres: 31
Book: B Page: 322
Date Survey: 3- 1-1817
County: Christian Watercourse: Little R

Tax Lists Logan Co KY 1792-1800
1794: Mcbee, Silas 1 white male over 16, 3 slaves, 1 slave under 16, 4 horses, 5 head of cattle
1795: Mcbee, Silas 1 white male, 2 slaves, 1 slave under 16, 18 horses, 7 head of cattle
1796: McBee, Silas 1 white male, 2 slaves, 6 horses, 8 head of cattle
1797: McBee, Silas 1 white male, 3 slaves, 5 horses, 2 head of cattle
No land listed for Silas in any of the tax entries.
1797 was the year that Christian Co was formed out of Logan Co and Silas no longer appears - however, Vardry McBee was listed in Logan Co in 1799 and 1800.

Logan Co Deed Book 1A
p.135 5 Nov 1796
James Menees [possibly brother to Ellen Menees who married Wm. Whitsitt] of Davidson County TN to Sanford Gorham of Logan County.....100£ ... 122 a. ...South side of Red River. Witnesses: Silas McBee, Abraham Standby, Joshua Cates, John Baker

Index to Surveys Logan Co KY
Book B, p.324 Elizabeth McBee 120 acres, 20 Feb 1799 [I don't know who???]
Book D, p.337 Hannah McBee 150 acres Green River [Hickory Camp Cr] 9 Nov 1807.


By 1820, Silas McBee was in Mississippi, Monroe Co.
1m 16-18, 2m 16-26, 1m over 45. 3f 10-16, 1f over 45.

1830 Census. Loundes Co MS
Silas McBee: 1m age 60-70. 1f 20-30, 1f 50-60.

1840 Census. Pontotoc Co MS
Silas Magbee: 1m 20-30, 1m 40-50, 1m 70-80. 1f 60-70, 1f 90-100
He was not listed as a Pensioner

1850 Census: Pontotoc Co MS
Hh 69. Dicey Magbee, age 76, b. NC
Elizabeth Moore, age 22, b. NC
Archibald McClarty, age 21, laborer, b. NC

Silas McBee did apply for his Revolutionary Pension. File S 7202.
A letter in the file states that the widow of Silas McBee has been paid from 4 Sep 1842 to 6 Jan 1845. He had been entered on the Roll of Mississippi for $20 per annum on 6 Mar 1831. He was paid in arrears after his application.
Silas McBee made application in Loundes Co MS on 18 Feb 1833 and stated he was a resident of that county, age 68 years [b. 1765]. He entered the service as a Volunteer soldier in July 1781, near Tates Ferry in South Carolina, under the command of Col. Thomas Brandon, in the company of Capt. John Thompson and Lt. Josiah Tanner. [Josiah Tanner was listed as a neighbor on some of the plats of Vardry McBee in Ninety-Six District, SC] They marched to Ft. Anderson and then to the Catawby River and united with Gen. Thomas Sumter's army; he was then attached to Gen. Williams Brigade or Division and marched to King's Mountain. They reached King's Mountain on 17 Oct 1781 and the battle was fought. He was discharged after that time but had served upwards of three months. He returned home to Spartanburg District where he had been raised from the age of one year. His father had emigrated from Virginia where he was born. November, 1781, he again volunteered under Capt. Fields Padue near the Adkins River which company was attached to Gen. Andrew Pickings army of volunteers. He continued with that company until March or April 1782 when he was again discharged. He has no documentary evidence nor does he know of anyone who can testify to his service.

Silas' daughter Eustacia married Thomas H. Williams:
WILLIAMS, Thomas Hickman, (1801 - 1851)
Senate Years of Service: 1838-1839
Party: Democrat
WILLIAMS, Thomas Hickman, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Williamson County, Tenn., January 20, 1801; attended the common schools; moved to Mississippi and settled in Pontotoc County; engaged in planting; appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Trotter and served from November 12, 1838, to March 3, 1839; secretary and treasurer of the University of Mississippi at Oxford 1845-1851; known as ‘Father of the State University,’ being the first to propose it and also aiding to secure it; died on his plantation south of Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, Miss., May 3, 1851; interment in the private cemetery on the family estate

Daughter Sarah Ford McBee married Tilghman Tucker:
TUCKER, Tilghman Mayfield, (1802 - 1859)
TUCKER, Tilghman Mayfield, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Lime Stone Springs, N.C., February 5, 1802; completed preparatory studies; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Hamilton, Miss.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Columbus, Miss.; member of the State house of representatives 1831-1835; served in the State senate 1838-1841; Governor of Mississippi 1841-1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); retired to his plantation home, “Cottonwood,” in Louisiana; died at the home of his father near Bexar, Marion County, Ala., April 3, 1859.
Tilghman M. Tucker
Thirteenth Governor of Mississippi: 1842-1844
by David G. Sansing
Governor Tilghman Tucker and his wife, Sarah F. McBee, were the first residents of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion and because of the formal opening of the mansion, his inauguration on January 10, 1842, was especially festive. But Governor Tucker was a plain man of simple tastes. He did not enjoy the ceremonial and social trappings of public office, and, to the great disappointment of Jackson residents, Governor Tucker and Mississippi’s First Lady rarely entertained at the mansion.
Like many of his contemporaries, Tucker migrated to Mississippi, by way of Alabama, from North Carolina where he was born February 2, 1802. As a young man Tucker was a blacksmith, but he gave up that trade to read law under Judge Daniel W. Wright in Hamilton, the original county seat of old Monroe County. After his admission to the bar, Tucker opened a law office at Columbus, the county seat of recently established Lowndes County.
Tucker was elected as Lowndes County’s first representative in the state legislature in 1831. Tucker was a Democrat and served in the House of Representatives until 1836, when he was elected to the state senate. In 1841 the Mississippi Democratic Party was bitterly divided over the issue of whether the state should honor the bonds from the failed Planters Bank and Union Bank. Both banks had failed during the Panic of 1833. Some Democrats announced that they would support David Shattuck, the Whig candidate for governor, who favored the redemption of the bonds. When Tucker was offered the Democratic nomination for governor, he at first declined to run, but was eventually persuaded to make what appeared to be a hopeless race. But in a very close election, Tucker won.
During Governor Tucker’s administration the bond issue kept the Democratic Party divided, and his term in office was an unhappy time for him. Governor Tucker also came under attack from his political opponents after it was learned that the state treasurer, Richard S. Graves, had embezzled $44,000 and had escaped to Canada while under the guard of a local militia group. Although he had removed the treasurer from office and ordered his arrest, Governor Tucker was criticized for not reacting sooner to the rumors and speculation that something was amiss in the treasurer’s office.
After leaving the governor’s office, Tucker served one term in the United States Congress. Following his congressional term, Tucker retired from public life and moved to Cottonwood, his plantation home in Louisiana. While visiting his father in Marion County, Alabama, Tucker died April 3, 1859.

Birth	1765	Virginia
Death	Abt 1842	Pontotoc County, Mississippi

Father	Vardry McBee (1734 - 1800)
Mother	Hannah Echols (1740 - )
Sibling	Vardry McBee (1775 - 1864)