BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC - Land Division - Benjamin Peyton, 1804. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gerry Seymour Feb. 1999 ======================================================================== From the Partitions and Divisions Book 1, pages 41-42, Beaufort County, NC - a copy made from the microfilm in the NC Department of Archives, Raleigh, NC [Notes: The wife of John Kewell was Rose or Rosa Stewart, the daughter of Elizabeth Peyton, widow of John Peyton Porter, and second wife of Rev. Alexander Stewart, St. Thomas Parish, Bath, NC. (This is my direct line on my mother's side of the family and the connection with the Kewells. Mary Ann Kewell was Rose Stewart's daughter-in-law.) --GS] Beaufort County, NC September Term 1804 The petition of John Bonner by Ben Fulford his guardian and next friend, Jno. Kewell and wife, Thos. Ellison and wife, Edward Griffeth & wife, and Thos. Bowen-Sheweth unto your worships that Benjamin Peyton departed this life about the year 1760 possessed of a piece of land situate and lying in the county of Beaufort on the So. side of the So. dividing creek, Beg. at John Turners line 60 po. from the mouth of Bailey's Creek, running along John Turners line So. 7 W. 245 to a white oak in Turners line So. 80 W. 660 po to a cypress swamp. No. 10 W. 415 po to a red oak in the Swamp, No. 80 E. 420 po to Wm. Wallaces corner, So. 16 E 280 po to the bridge, No. 50 E. 320 po along Wm. Wallace's line to the mouth of a little creek, So 40 E. to the mouth of Baileys Creek, then to the Beg. Containing one thousand six hundred acres leaving five daughters (to wit) Mary Peyton who marryed Henry Snoad and died without issue, Sarah who married Thomas Bonner who died leaving your petitioner Jno. Bonner his heir at law, Elizabeth who married John Porter and left the wife of John Kewell your petitioner, Ellinor who married Wm. Tripp and had issue Harriett and Julia & who married Thos. Ellison and Edward Griffith your petitioners and Grace who married Bazil Smith by whom she had issue Benj'n R. Smith who has conveyed his interest in the same to Thomas Bowen your petitioner. That at the death of Mary Peyton alias Mary Snowd she was possessed of a piece of land on the So. side of Pamptico River on the West. side of the So. Dividing Creek, Beginning at a branch joining Ben Peyton's land & running thence So. Up the Creek 640 poto a chesnut oak by the side of cypress Swamp, West 160 po to the pocosin along the pocosin side 640 po. Thence to the first station contg. Six hundred and forty acres, That your pititioners are the only legal representatives of Mary Snowd she having died without issue. They therefore pray you to appoint five commissioners to lay off and divide the same among them & when having done so to make their return to this Worshipful Court & as in duty ound they will ever pray. Thos. H. Blount For Petitioners Rich'd Cogdell ) Wm. Vines ) Batson Whitehurst ) Commissioners Hillary Whithurst ) Wm. Smaw )