CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Abstracts of Deed Books 8-10 ==================================================================== 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Marble mmarble@erols.com ==================================================================== SOME GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM CRAVEN COUNTY DEEDS - Continued - abstracted by Martha Mewborn Marble BOOK 8 - This book has been typed and the original should be read. The book is mostly estate accounts and sales and has numerous list of neighbors. p l32 - 8 Oct l763 - Estate of Jeremiah Parsons presented by Thos Parsons estate to be divided between the children of Jeremiah - Esther, Sarah, Thos., Jeremiah, Hillary, John, and Jane p l60 - 2l Aug l756 - estate of William Bryant submitted by James Skine and William Carraway - widow (not named) - son William Bryant, Lewis, John Bryan, Jesse Bryan, son-in-law Francis Dawson, brother John Bryan, daughter Anna NOTE: Some places written Bryan and some places written Bryant p 2l2 - Estate of Frederick Jones - delivered to his mother Mary Moore l758 p 22l - Will of Harding Jones - ll April l759 - Mary Jones daughter; FO my father Frederick Jones; wife Mary; mentions brother Frederick Jones; legatees children of uncle Jeremiah Vail esq; children of uncle Thomas Jones of Cape Fear; children of uncle John and Edward Vailes; mentions family pictures and family coat of arms. Signed this Will in Meddletown, Rhode Island A codiall written on ll April l759 - wife Mary be with child - proved 4 August l759 p 226 - WIll of Abiah Bangs - 3 June l755 - cousin Elizabeth Hobbs; daughter Betty Bangs; sisters Elizabeth Carruthers, Mary Carruthers; brother john Carruthers p 227 - WILL of William Peters - l0 July l760 - daughter Elizabeth Peters; son Joseph Peters p 233 - 15 Oct 1763 - William Dunn, William Spaight, Isaac Barrington - Bond for guardians of Numan, John, and Mary Dunn orphans of Newman Dunn Book 9/l0 p l7 - l3 May l755 - Abraham Warren (or) William Fulcher (ee) - 28 lbs 68 3/4 Ac NS Neuse WS Pearces Creek - FO by 275 Ac patent in June l706 to Edmund Pearce then to Beuedeck Hosington (?) then by Will of Hosington of it to Warren - William Fulcher to have land except house which is to be retained for use of Warren's mother-in-law Dinah Gourly for her life - Mary Warren signed p 26 - l9 May l755 - John Snead and Jane his wife (or) James Davis (ee) of New Bern - lot purchased by Snead of John Rutherford esq and Frances his wife, sole executor of Will of Gabriel Johnson p 4l - see also Book 8 p 226 - l8 Dec l754 - William Carruthers (or) to granddaughter Elizabeth Hobbs (under l6) (ee) if Elizabeth has no heirs then to my daughter Prudence Davis and if she has no heirs then to my son John Carruthers - WIT Jos Rew, Jos Black p 48 - ll Aug l755 - John Rashen (or) of Johnson Co - Elizabeth Armstrong (ee) daughter of Eleanor Welch - lot in New Bern - WIT Edw Bau, Honora Doneau p 53 - Andrew Bass (or) love and affection for my son-in-law Richard Blackledge (ee) - 225 Ac NS Neuse part of a patent in l737 - mentions Bass's sons Richard and Andrew - signed with Mark - WIT John Carmack, James Smith p 82 - ll Aug l755 - Charles Shevewolf (or) love and affection for my brother and sister Benjamin Gutterie and his wife Annavy (?) - 90 Ac NS Dawson's Creek Adj Bussett's line p 95 - 20 June l755 - William Carruthers (or) fatherly affection for daughter Sarah Rew (ee) - a Negro p 97 - l5 Nov l755 - John Starkey executor of Will of Joseph Black (or) John Clitternal (ee) Joseph Black's Will left to his widow Susannah Black and her two daughters Phebe and Mary Iester (could be Lester) and his nephew Josh Black - lot in New Bern sold at auction - WIT Susannah Black, John Snead p 2l4 - ---l756 - Charles Odeon of Beaufort County (or) to Joseph Jackson (ee) - NS Neuse, NS Contentnea Creek - l8 lbs for 200 A - part of 627 Ac patented by Simon Allerson on l7 Feb l737 - Allerson left to daughter Elizabeth and from her to me by marriage Adj to Mr. Carlton WIT Wm Tollinson and Jacob Blount NOTE: - it has been thought Elizabeth Allerson was the wife of Joseph Jackson and the mother of his children but this may not be the case p 426 - l Sept l755 - John Herry ? and James Carraway gdn for Thomas and John Nelson - division of estate of John Nelson dec to John and Thomas - Negros and property p 428 - ll Sept l756 - Joseph Womall of Township of Upper Providence in County of Clustic (?) Penn and Margaret his wife and Henry Huddleston and Mary his wife of Bucks Co Penn (or) Joseph Leech ? (ee) 300 Ac SS Neuse above Swift Creek on Bachelors Creek Margaret and Mary were daughters of William Wilkinson of Plurstead Township ? who received a patent for the land 29 March l72l in Bath County WIT Jos Donaldson, ? Leigh Jr., Benj Luch p 476 - 27 Oct l756 - Marriage contract between Richard Spaight and Elizabeth Wilson daughter of William Wilson late of Craven, dec and Mary Moor - widow of Roger Moor, but formerly widow of William Wilson - Mary Moor mother and guardian of Eliz Wilson and Edward Griffith of New Bern - William Wilson had a Will l6 Feb l744 - Richard Spaight assures Mary Moor and Edward Griffith the marriage will take place NOTE: Edward Griffith appears to be a guardian of Elizabeth. A transcription of the Will of William Wilson appears in the N. C. Journal Vol XX #l p 2933. Mary d l766 was the daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Lillington Swann Vail. She married first Frederick Jones, 2nd William Wilson, and 3rd Roger Moore. The Will gives her issue by Jones.