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* (1)   NICHOLAS LEEPER, FIRST NAMED IN THE IMPORTATION RECORDS, AUGUSTA
  COUNTY, VIRGINIA.  HE WAS THE OLDEST AND HEIR-AT-LAW OF HIS FATHER'S
  ESTATE.  HE WAS ENROLLED 1742 IN CAPT. JOHN CHRISTIAN'S COMPANY MILITIA.
  HIS NAME ALSO APPEARS IN CAPT JAMES CATHEY'S COMPANY, FOR TAX PURPOSES,
  POSSIBLY BECAUSE HE OWNED LAND ON NAKED CREEK.  HE IS ALSO LISTED IN CAPT.
  JOHN SMITH'S COMPANY.

        NICHOLAS WIFE WAS NAMED MARY.  BY EARLY 1760 HE WAS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
  HE SETTLED IN GASTON COUNTY NEAR HIS UNCLE ROBERT LEEPER AND BROTHER JAMES
  LEEPER JR. WHERE WITH OTHERS BUILT THE OLD FORT AT THE SOUTH FORK ON THE
  CATAWBA RIVER.
        IN 1761 HE BOUGHT LAND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CATAWBA FROM ROBERT
  LEEPER  0PP: ANDREW CATHEY'S SURVEY.  RECORDS SHOW HE RECEIVED A LAND GRANT
  FOR 190 ACRES OF LAND ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE CATAWBA RIVER JOINING HIS OWN,
  ALEXANDER McLEAN'S AND JAMES CARTER'S LINES,  APRIL 23, 1762.  IN 1763 HE
  BOUGHT LAND ON THE BROAD RIVER AND RICHLAND CREEK FROM FRANCIS BEATY AND
  ROBERT LEEPER.

        IN 1763 HE GAVE POWER OF ATTORNEY TO HIS SON JAMES LEEPER AND GEORGE
  SEAWRIGHT TO SETTLE HIS FATHER'S ESTATE IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA
        SON JOHN LEEPER WAS ADMINISTRATOR OF NICHOLAS ESTATE, APRIL 4, 1786.

	THERE IS A MARY LEEPER BORN IN 1728 AND DIED OCTOBER 20, 1784, WHO IS
  BURIED IN SMITH'S CEMETERY, BELMONT, GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.  SINCE
  THERE IS NO MENTION OF A WIFE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF NICHOLAS ESTATE-JANUARY
  1, 1791, WE MAY ASSUME THAT COULD BE HIS WIFE MARY.

  CHILDREN:
  1- JAMES LEEPER WAS MARRIED TO  JANE	   ?  WHO MARRIED A SCOTT AFTER THE
     DEATH OF HER HUSBAND.
      CHILDREN: MARY LEEPER
	        JAMES LEEPER
	        ELIZABETH LEEPER


  2- MATTHEW LEEPER WAS MARRIED TO AMYTIAH   ?


  3- MARGARET LEEPER WAS MARRIED ON OCTOBER 2, 1786 TO JOHN NEAGLE


  4- ROBERT LEEPER


* 5- JOHN LEEPER BORN IN 1757 AND DIED APRIL 8, 1804 WAS MARRIED TO ELIZABETH ?
	  WHO WAS BORN IN 1761 AND DIED FEBRUARY 6, 1835.
     CHILDREN: ANDREW LEEPER
		WILLIAM LEEPER
	       JAMES LEEPER
	       ESTHER LEEPER
	       JOHN DAMERON LEEPER
	       NANCY E. LEEPER


Information as of 1968 and 1969
Re-typed 1980