Sarah Ainsworth

Evidence needed to support as daughter of Edward Finch & Martha Finch . His daughter Sarah married JAMES BAUGH EPPES (see DAR Record).

This branch of family has Native American lineage from both of Sarah's parents. Family tradition has always held that Sarah (Finch) Ainsworth was Cherokee. While the Cherokee affiliation isn't proven, DNA matches among Finch descendants with matching Native American DNA validate descendants sharing Native American lineage.
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John Emilius Daniel Edward Finch-Hatton (19 May 1755-10 Jan 1841) was a barrister-at-law and senior bencher of the Inner Temple.[1] Research Notes The Peerage cites facts from an e-mail which have him living and dying in Mississippi (which would have made things very difficult as a barrister of the Inner Temple). The John Finch, father of Sarah has been disconnected. Her father was Edward Finch, not John.

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Name: Sarah Finch Sex: F Birth: 1775 in South Carolina, USA Death: 1850 in Smith, Mississippi, USA Death: 1850 in Smith,MS

Marriage 1 Thomas P Ainsworth b: 1775 in South Carolina, USA Married: 1795 in S Children Ailsey Canzada Ainsworth b: 1810 in Spartanburg, South Carolina Caswell Ainsworth b: 1798 in South Carolina, USA Eliza A Ainsworth b: 1795 Elizabeth Ainsworth b: 1808 James S Ainsworth b: JAN 1818 in Alabama, USA Joab A Ainsworth b: 1796 in South Carolina, USA Levan Ainsworth b: 1800 in South Carolina, USA Richard Nathaniel Ainsworth b: 1818 in Alabama, USA Samson Jefferson Ainsworth b: 1807 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA Sarah Ainsworth b: 1812 William Thomas Ainsworth b: 1823 in Al Most, Washington, USA

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Notes for SARAH FINCH:

LDS files identifies her parents as Edward and Martha Finch both born about 1755 in SC.

https://www.ancestry.mx/boards/surnames.ainsworth/773.3

Thomas Hainesworth served in the War of 1812 in 4th Regiment (Booth's), Georgia Militia. He applied for bounty land from Smith Co., MS in 1855, but was denied because no record of service was found. He had applied in the name of Thomas Ainsworth.

Some of his descendents say that he was half Choctaw and was made a chief of the tribe called Philemahaya. This is disputed by other descendents who say that Philemahaya was the father of George Redmond who married Thomas's daughter, Ainsley.

Thomas served in the War of 1812 for 6 months and 29 days. His pay was $47.49. He served in place of Boller Moon in Martin Boon's Company of Infantry, 4 Reg't Georgia Militia.

The book, SPARTANBURG COUNTY/DISTRICT S. C. DEED ABSTRACTS A-Z 1785- 1827 by Albert Bruce Pruitt lists the following account:

p.297 Oct. 18, 1815 Charles McAbee to A. Benson; swears he was present at a fight at Spartanburg Court House in 1814 between John Thomason and Thomas Ainsworth; and part of Thomas's ear was bit off and he believes it was Thomas's left ear. Witness A. Benson JQ. Signed Charles McAbee. Rec. Oct. 18, 1815 (sic). Oct 12, 1815 Elisha James to Danl White; swears that on Dec. 25, 1810 he took off a piece of Thomas Haynesworth's right ear in a fight. Witness Danl White JQ. Signed Elisha James.

Statement Certified in Circuit Court 1953

Phillemahaya Ainsworth was half Choctaw Indian, was the father of Ailsey Ainsworth, who was the wife of George Redmond who was half Choctaw Indian and was the father of Eliza Redmond who was the wife of Josephus Bond, and she was mother of William Davis Bond who was the father of I, Hezekiah Bond.

Notes for SARAH FINCH:

LDS files identifies her parents as Edward and Martha Finch both born about 1755 in SC. She is not the Sarah that was the daughter of Edward Finch and Martha Ballard. That Sarah was born at least 15 years earlier and is well documented as marrying James Baugh Eppes. A great grandson of the other Sarah Finch did marry into the Ainsworth family when he married Sarah Elizabeth Ainsworth, daughter of James Richard Ainsworth and Martha Ann Brown.

Children of THOMAS HAINSWORTH and SARAH FINCH are:

• 2. i. SAMPSON JEFFERSON2 AINSWORTH, b. 1799, SC; d. 1896, Smith Co., MS.
• 3. ii. SARAH AINSWORTH, b. 1802, Spartenburg Co., SC; d. AR.
• iii. ELIZABETH AINSWORTH, b. 1808; m. DAVID STRENGTH; b. 1805. Notes for ELIZABETH AINSWORTH: She is listed in the family tree of one of Thomas's descendants but I have not found her in any other source.
• 4. iv. AILSEY CANZADA AINSWORTH, b. Abt. 1810, Spartenburg Co., SC; d. Bef. 1860, Harrison Co., MS.
• 5. v. JAMES S. AINSWORTH, b. January 1816, AL; d. January 25, 1896, Jasper Co., MS.
• 6. vi. WILLIAM THOMAS AINSWORTH, b. 1823, AL; d. Limestone Co., TX.

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References

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53153885/sarah_s_ainsworth cites
   1. South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol 5, # 4
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Finch-610
3. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1558106/sarah-finch-ainsworth