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Bradley, John. Notes on William Gurley, One of the First Settlers of Johnston County, North Carolina, & Some of His Descendants, 9/1946.
In Johnston County, North Carolina, Deed Book S, No. 1, pages 352-6, there is recorded a long deed, dated 2 February 1793, wherein Arthur Gurley of said County conveys to William Worley, for 130 pounds, 125 acres situated in Johnston County on the north side of Neuse River and on the north side of Moccasin Swamp, and reciting that the same is:
The upper part of two hundred acres of land granted to William Gurley under the seal of his Excellency Gabriel Johnston, Esquire, Governor, bearing the date of 20th day of April AD 1705, and transferred by deed from William Gurley to John Gurley and descended by heirship from John Gurley to Frederick Gurley and transferred by deed from Frederick Gurley to Nathan Gurley and descended by heirship from Nathan Gurley to Arthur Gurley and transferred by deed from Arthur Gurley to William Worley.
The date of 20 April 1705 is a copyist's error, and has "crossed up" a number of genealogists. In 1940, the writer spent several days at Smithfield, North Carolina, county seat of Johnston County, and employed Rev. James P. Smith of that city to assist him in his search of Gurley records, as Rev. Smith is an excellent genealogist and was 15 February 1941, Rev. Smith wrote to me as
William Overall Born: ca. 1682, Virginia Died: 17 Jan. 1726, St. Paul's Parish, Stafford, VA, this is now in King George County, VA Buried: Unknown Married: ca. 1700 Mary Jones Records: 1723 - Stafford Co., VA - a William Overall appeared on the rent roll. 1726 - Jan. 17 - St. Paul's Parish register - lists William Overall's death. 1726 - Will in Stafford Co., VA - unfortunately, the wills of this period have gone missing from the county courthouse
Clark, Raymond & Sara Clark. Calvert County, Maryland, Wills, 1654-1700, no imprint, 1974.
Calvert County, with St. Mary's and Charles Counties comprises the southernmost part of Maryland, or what is known as southern Maryland. This county suffered the loss of its court house in Prince Frederick in a fire in 1882 when all records were destroyed.
Relatively little has been published of an historical or genealogical nature on Calvert County. The most outstanding volume is Charles Francis Stein's A History of Calvert County, published in cooperation with the Calvert County Historical Society (Baltimore, 1960, 404 p.). In addition to historical topics from 1654 to the 20th century, the book has a genealogy section, pictures of historic houses, and as appendices the Taxables of 1733 and the Tax
(--?--) Tipton Born: ca. 1670 Died: unknown Buried: unknown Married: unknown by 1690 Possibilities: Jonathan Tipton b. 1639, died Jan. 21, 1757 large land holdings; early immigrant from Jamaica to Maryland md. 1) Sarah Pierce, 2) Mary Chilcoat, 3) Elizabeth Edwards, children: William, Jonathan, John, Edward, Sarah, Mollie & Thomas. Maryland Gazette Jan. 27, 1757 - We are informed that the beginning of this month died in Baltimore County Mr. Jonathan Tipton aged 118 years. He was born at Kingston on Jamaica, which place he left while young, and lived almost ever since in this Province and had his perfect senses to the last, especially a remarkable strength of memory. His youngest sons are reconed among the oldest men in Baltimore. See records of St. James Parish on Herring Creek.
