Teresa (Scarbrough) Medler
Page 10 - ca. 1778
Tuesday, 11 May 1779 - Ordered copy oath & certificate for Joseph Cloud, Junr. to act as Deputy Surveyor in this county be recorded.
Wednesday, 12 May 1779
Lathrop Family
Map Town 5 South, Range 13W 2nd PM
Map Town 16 North, Range 4W 2nd PM Meridian:
Parrish, David. Granville Co., £5.18.1. 30 Nov. 1776 - Died in the year 1792 possessed of considerable property which was divided among his widow and children . . . was solvent at the Peace and until his death
Parrish, Johnston. Granville Co. £3.6.4 1/4. 25 Dec. 1772
Editor's Introduction: During the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of North Carolinians migrated to new territories west or south. Their experiences on the road were generally unrecorded, unlik those of the Harding family which were related in a rare family record. In an article which offers a vivid sense of the challenges and rewards of migration, a Harding descendant illustrates how a researcher may evaluate a document, how a family record can be used, and how such a record can be frustrating as well as informative. Mrs. Casstevens expresses particular gratitude to the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill.
As a child, I often heard the story of how my grandfather, Dr. Thomas R. Harding, had fallen out of the back of the wagon as it crossed a stream and then moved up a steep hill on the Harding family's way to the West . . .
. . . Only recently did I learn that a diary existed which had been kept on that journey by my grandfather's sister, Keziah Ann. . . .
[Editor's Introduction: The last seventy-five pages of Land Grant Record Book 9 (1735-1745) in the Land Grant Office, Department of the Secretary of State, Raleigh, contain a miscellaneous grouping of wills, letters of administration powers of attorney, bonds, deeds, land inquisitions, depositions, affidavits, and other items. Many of these records concern North Carolina property owned by persons outside the province. Thanks are due Mrs. Martha Paskewich of the Land Grant Office for her assistance in the preparation of this material.]
p. 414 Will of Michael Beezley, of City of New York, Mariner, 12 September 1747. Mother; Mary Humphys, wife of William Humphrys of Baptist Mils in Bristol in Great Brittain - 100 pounds sterling to be paid from Cape Fear in North Carolina out of effects in hands of Richard Quince, Merchant. Friend: James Mills of City of New York, peruke maker - 50 pounds of current money of New York as executor. Helena Mills, daughter of the said James Mills - 10 pounds New York. Wife: Mary Beezley formerly Mary Stathams - remainder. Executors: Wife & Friend James Mills. Witnesses: Edmund Knight, Jonathen Fitch, Lawrence Green.
From the original record in the Harrison County Court House, Corydon, Indiana . . . At this early date, Harrison included parts of what now are Crawford, Floyd, Orange and Washington Counties.
Harris, Daniel x, Abbe Sanders, 21 Apr. 1801 bond David Durall. wit. Wm. Dickson, CC
Adams, Garner, Goodnight, Hinkle
[74] Will of Jacob Fox. March 22, 1807. Executors to sell as much of stock as needed to pay debts. To son Robert Fox the negroes Mary, Ned Burkly. To son Isham Fox negroes Adam, Nat, Noah. To son Richard Fox negroes Pat, Cyrus, Reuben. To son Arthur Fox negroes John, Peter Kere. To daughter Nancy Smith negroes Hannah, Gooden. Lend to wife Elizabeth Fox the use during her life of all lands, all household and kitchen furniture; the use of the negroes Mark, Tom, Lucy, Easter and her child; the use of all livestock (after debts paid). After her death to son Richard Fox all my lands; to Nancy Smith Tom and Lucy; remainder of estate be divided equally among Robert Fox, Isham Fox, Arthur
Book 1A - p. 190 - William O'Daniel to Samuel Tanner, both of Dupln Co., 3 Feb. 1785, for 24 pds. specie money 100 acres on the north side of the Northeast Cape Fear on the upper side of Smith's Branch lying between Theophilus Williams' line & joining the sd. branch, being part of 200 acres taken up by Jesse Barfield joining Kornegay's line & Stephen Barefield's line. Wit: Thomas Tanner, John Durrell, Oct. Ct. 1785.
Book 3A - p. 278 - John Durall, planter, to his son David Dural both of Duplin Co., 9 Sept. 1797, for "love & affection" 100 acres on the north side of the Northeast Swamp, it being par of a survey granted to Stephen Barfield & by him conveyed to sd. John Dural, beg. at a red oak & runs along the patented line. Wit: John Whitehead, Jos. Whitfield. Jan. Ct. 1798.
The McDowell family is legion and it is not strange that in the extreme emphasis placed on Colonel Joseph McDowell, of Quaker Meadows (1756-1801) and his nephew Captain Joseph, of Pleasant Gardens (1758-1795), that another Joseph McDowell living in Guilford county should have been overlooked. The United States census of 1790 for North Carolina records two Josephs as "Heads of Families" in Burke county and the Joseph McDowell of Guilford county, who is thus registered:
Salisbury District - 1 free white male over 16; 2 free white males under 16; 3 free white females.
The first land record so far discovered shows that this Joseph McDowell held:
A tract of land containing two hundred and fifty acres lying and being in our county of Guilford on the waters of the south side Reedy Fork of Haw River beginning at a Black Gum in William Scotts line . . . near a branch running thence west crossing two branches one hundred sixty poles to a post oak thence north crossing a branch to Abraham Whitesides corner black oak thence . . . in John Whites line . . . to his corner stake thence . . . in William Scotts line. . . Record of deeds, Guilford county, NC Vol. 2, page 118.
There is also the following purchase of land:
This indenture made this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four between Thos. Morgan of the county of Guilford and State of North Carolina of the one part and Joseph McDowell of the state and county afore of the other part witnesseth that the sd. Thos. Morgan for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifteen pounds
Mavity, N.B. & Myrtle Mavity. First Marriage Records of Orange County
The book in which the marriage records for 1816 to 1826 printed below were entered was lost so long ago that no one in the Orange County Court House at Paoli, Indiana, knew of its existence until it was brought to light last March in the furnace room of the building. A pile of papers brought down from the attic about three years ago included the records.
Page 1086, Patoka Twp., 21 July 1860
61/3/613 - Fitzgerald, Johnson, 69 farmer, 3600 Real estate 600 Personal estate Va
Fitzgerald, Wiley Ann, 45, Ky
Smith, America 12 Ind
Alsop, Mary J. 16 Ind.
Wright, Denny
1790 Census - North CarolinaPerquimans County, Edenton District
Gurley, Frederick 1 wm 16+, 2 wm -16, 3 wf
Anson County, Fayette District
Gurley, William 2 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 4 wf, 3 slaves
Girley, Jacob 1 wm 16+, 4 wm -16, 3 wf
Moore County, Fayette District - Richmond County between Anson and Moore County.
Cagle, David 1 wm 16+, 2 wf
Cagle, Leonard 1 wm 16+, 7 wm -16, 3 wf
Cagle, Christian 1 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 1 wf
Cagle, John 2 wm 16+, 2 wm -16, 3 wf
Cagle, Roger, 1 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 2 wf
Cagle, George, 1 wm 16+, 2 wf
Cagle, George, 1 wm 16+, 2 wm -16, 2 wf
Maulding, Richard, 1 wm 16+, 1 wf
Cagle, Jacob , 1 wm 16+, 3 wm -16, 3 wf
Cagle, William, 1 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 2 wf
Morehead, Turner, 1 wm 16+
Information on Drapers, Harberts and Lathrops, includes some Breedings and Tiptons that may be worth following up on.
