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THE FAMILY OF ABSALOM AUTREY AND MARY LUCY

(NAOMI CAMP)

There is no pride like the pride of ancestry.

                            Disraeli

    Absalom Autrey, the oldest child of Cornelius Autry, Immigrant, of Edgecombe County, North Carolina was b. Ca. 1731 or 1733 m. before 1770 Mary Lucy Naomi Camp. Absalom died in 1806 in St. Clair Co., Alabama. Absalom Autrey was our only Autry ancestor who was a Tory. On Page 196, Vol. 22 of The Colonial Records of North Carolina he was listed as a Tory Officer. There is no proof that Absalom Autreys wife was "Mary Lucy Naomi Camp". Her given name was Lucy, but her maiden name is unknown, although most of the Absalom Autrey descendants say her name was Mary Lucy Naomi Camp. This theory may have come from a book by Orlando Autrey on The First Hundred Years of Cobb County. Georgia Thanks goes to Meryl Sherwood for this information. V.M.B. According to Jeanne, two other Absalom Autrys served in the American Revolution.

    There were three Absalom Autreys in the American Revolution from North Carolina. One Absalom Autrey, born in 1750, was in the American Army. He entered the army in the spring of 1782 in North Carolina and served under Captain McClain. He served three months defending the frontier of North Carolina. He was drafted again and hired a man to take his place for $75.00. He then moved to Sparta, South Carolina and was drafted again. He lived in Henry County, Tennessee in 1832 when he applied for a pension. In 1793 and 1794 another Absalom Autrey served as a scout and spy in the Wilkes County Militia under Brigadier General John Clark. The third Absalom Autrey served as a First Lieutenant in the British Army in Colonel David Fannings Regiment from March 1, 1781 to 30 September 1782. This regimen was determined to be sent to St. Augustine, Florida.9

I have no idea who the parents of the two Absalom Autreys who fought in the American Revolution were. Absalom Autrey was in Moore, Buncombe, Rutherford Counties before he moved to Alabama where he died. They could have been the children of Isham (Isom) Autrey or children of the Alex Autray who received 110 acres of land in Beaufort County, on June 5, 1740 from "His Excellency the Governor.

This was 16 years before we have a record for Cornelius, Immigrant. I found no record in N.C. census, colonial records of three Absaloms in N.C. except Absalom, the Tory Officer. Jeanne  lists the following children for Absalom, the Tory Officer.

    Although there were undoubtedly daughters, only sons of Absalom and Lucy Autrey are known: Alexander, Cornelius (born in 1770), Hiram (born about 1771), Elijah, Isaac, William, James John, George and Enoch.0