Family/Spouse: Beneta Rawlings. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: D. Green. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born: March 15, 1762 Died: March 29, 1851 Married: Catherine Collier of Raleigh, NC in 1789 James Douglass was the youngest son of Edward Douglass and Sarah George.
When he was born in 1762, his mother was 48. In 1767 when James was 5, the family moved to NC, near the Guilford Court House. The revolutionary war would have been fought while James was a teenager. By 1788 the family was in Gallatin, TN (Sumner Co.). James built a brick house, in which the county court sessions were held in 1788 and 1790. James Douglass was listed as "Register of the Court" from 1804 to 1836.
He and Catherine lived in Gallatin until their deaths. His will was dated Jan 24, 1851, "in which he completed gifts to each of 11 children amounting to 4300 dollars each or a total of $50,000 in land or cash and slaves".
There is a family cemetary in Gallatin where James is buried along with Catherine.
James and Catherine had 11 children:
Alfred Hire Douglass, married, first Louisa Scurlock; second, Rebecca Louise Fulton Matilda Golden Douglass, married, first Jacob Cook; second, Joel Parrish Edward Lucas Douglass (Uncle Ned), married Delia L. Douglass Isaac Collier Douglass, married Eliza W. Baker James Sewell Douglass, married Lucy Helen Scurlock Harry Clinton Douglass married Elizabeth Wynne Elliott Young Norvel Douglass, married Beneta Rawlings; second, D. Green Robert George Douglass, married Elizabeth Sewell Blythe William Cage Douglass, married Lucy Ann Sewell Thomas Clayborne Douglass, married Frances Ann Cantrell Louisa Frances Douglass, married George Webster Allen
For a link to Roger Moore's web page on the Douglass family click on Descendants of Edward Douglass while online. James Douglass is name #17.

***"There is a picture of the old James Douglass home on the Douglass Pike 4 miles west of Gallatin, Tenn, that was taken by Curtis Douglass. The brick house was built around 1785 on West Station Camp Creek - in what was then still part of the territory of North Carolina. The elder Edward and his wife Sarah & their remaining children followed Edward Jr. & Elmo (who settled on 640 acres of land in 1786 on Station Camp Creek), Reuben and James - to Sumner Co. The house and burying ground were still there in 1920 when Curtis Douglass took the original picture and visited the burying ground. The house was dismantled in the 1930's." (JBT)

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James Douglass and his wife Catherine Collier Douglas, daughter of Isaac and Frances Unk Collier, came to what is now Sumner County, Tennessee, but was then (1790) part of North Carolina. After Isaac Collier and his family moved from Virginia to North Carolina, Catherine Collier and James Douglas were married on 29 Jan 1790, in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. They then moved to Tennessee and settled four miles north of Gallatin on what is now Douglas Pike. They lived more than sixty years in the brick house, which James built. James and Catherine both died there and are buried on the home place in the Douglas Cemetery. The house was built with bricks made in a kiln on the old home place.
Once Indians stole all (30 or 40) of James' horses. As a result, when Catherine milked the cows James stood guard with his gun watching for Indians.
James had a cherry sideboard and several other peices of furniture made for Catherine by a cabinet maker. Vines Lucs Collier, Jr. bought the cherry sideboard that belonged to his Aunt Catherine Douglass.
James Douglas Last Will and Testament is found in Will Book I in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. ~ Sharon C Foster

***In 1850, 15 year old, John, is listed with this family. He is probably a grandchild.

***Find A Grave Information from Tennessee Records: Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts (1933) Memorial #10696599 ~ James Douglass was the son of Edward Douglass and Sarah George. On 29 January 1790, Franklin County, North Carolina, he married Catherine Collier. They had 11 children: Edward L., Alfred H., Matilda G., Isaac C., James S., Harry C., Young Norval, Robert G., William G.,Thomas C.,
and Louisa F. Douglass. James died after 24 January 1851 when a codicil to his will was written. Douglass Cemetery is located on Douglass Pike, north of Gallitin, Sumner County, Tennessee.

(Research):Antoinette (Douglas) Jordan contributes:
James Douglas is my 4th great grandfather, Catherine Collier is my 4th great grandma,my grandfather is Charles Robert Featherston,Dollie Melvina Featherston is my grandma my dad is Holcie Lee Scott/Douglas
my grandfather James Douglas was a slave owner ,I'm a Imulatto Douglass

Buried:
Possibily buried in the Douglass Cemetery which is located on Douglass Pike, north of Gallitin, Sumner County, Tennessee.

James married Catherine Collier in 1789. Catherine (daughter of Isaac Collier and Frances Sewell) was born in 1771; died in 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Douglass family took a prominent part in the early day affairs of Sumner County. Edward Douglass, Sr. was a man of education and said to have been a lawyer, though he never practiced law. He was one of the first magistrates of Sumner County. Prior to July, 1796, the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions were held in different places, at Edward Douglass' place in 1788 and 1790, and at the Ezekial Douglass place in 1793-1796. The first term of court held under the organization of the State of Tennessee was in July, 1796, and Edward Douglass, (Jr.) and James Douglass were among those commissioned as justices by John Sevier, the first Governor of the State. Both James and Edward (Jr.) served terms as Sheriff of Sumner County. Edward (Jr.) also served a term as a State Senator. Edward Douglass, Sr. died 2 Feb. 1795, Cage's Bend, Sumner Co., TN.

Peggy Bone Colella writes: History books say Edward Douglass was a Colonel during the Revolution. Some researchers, however, say he was not a Colonel but only a Private. The confusion may come from the fact that there was an Edward Douglass in Northampton Co., VA, referred to in the will of Ann Southey Harmar Littleton, in 1656, as Lt. Col. Edward Douglass. This Edward and his wife Isabella had a son Edward who is believed to have be either the father or grandfather of the Edward Douglass b. 1713. There is also a conflict of information on where Edward (b.1713) was born. Most likely correct is that he was born 10 Mar. 1713 in Virginia. In a "SKETCH OF THE DOUGLASS FAMILY", written in 1839 by James Douglass, son of Edward and Sarah (George) Douglass, James says that his father had said "he had but one own brother, John Douglass" and that their father died when they were young. Nothing has been found on this John Douglass, but he is said to have had 8 sons.

Edward Douglass married Sarah George, probably in 1740 or 1741. There is another conflict here. That Sarah was a George appears definite since the sketch by her son James, says she was a George, that she was born in 1711 and that he believed she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Researchers have had that she was the daughter of John George, b. 1704 VA d. 1784 VA, and his wife Mary/Millicent Jordan. This is definitely not correct for a couple of reasons, the main one being John could not have had a child at the age of 7 years. Also John George's family is well documented and he had 5 daughters and 3 sons. It is possible Sarah was the daughter of an earlier John George, but which one?!. (I'm working on this and would appreciate any input.)

Thomas Claybourne Douglass, a grandson of Edward, relates in his biography of the Douglass family that, "Shortly after my papa and mother moved, Grandpa Douglass and Grandma, with all their children, followed ... and settled the place that we all knew as the Uncle Reuben Douglass place on West Station Camp Creek." The same biography says, "that father (James Douglass) and mother moved to Tennessee in the year 1788 or '89." Thus, we see that, at least the sons Reuben and James preceded their father and mother to Sumner County, which was then a part of the territory of North Carolina, later to become the county of the State of Tennessee.

William Blount was Territorial Governor of the United States of America south of the River Ohio. He called a Constitutional Convention to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 11 Jan. 1796. It is recorded that among other delegates present, there was Andrew Jackson from Davidson Co. and Edward Douglass, Jr. and W. Douglass from Sumner Co.

Birth:
Grampion Hills, Scotland??? Grampian??

Edward married Sarah Elizabeth George in 1740 in Virginia, USA. Sarah was born in 1714 in Virginia, USA; died on 2 Jan 1795 in Sumner County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Cage Family Cemetery, Sumner County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah George married Edward Douglass in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1740. They removed from Virginia and settled in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1785. The portrait was painted soon after their arrival in Sumner County.. The portrait descended in the Douglass family for many generations to the current owner.

The sketch by her son James (1762-1837), says she was a George, that she was born in 1711 and that he believed she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Researchers have had that she was the daughter of John George, b. 1704 VA d. 1784 VA, and his wife Mary/Millicent Jordan. This is definitely not correct for a couple of reasons, the main one being John could not have had a child at the age of 7 years. Also John George's family is well documented and he had 5 daughters and 3 sons. It is possible Sarah was the daughter of an earlier John George, but which one?!. (I'm working on this and would appreciate any input.)

A subscriber says ' have Sarah Elizabeth George being born 1726 and Death 02 January 1797'


Buried:
Her daughter, Elizabeth Douglass b. 1754 d. 1792 age 38 m. 1768 Maj. William Cage

Isaac married Frances Sewell on 29 Jan 1790 in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, USA. Frances was born before 1771; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]