GUILFORD COUNTY, NC - HISTORY - Act Establishing the Talbert Family in 1805 --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- At a General Assembly, begun and held in the city of Raleigh, on Monday the eighteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Five, and in the Thirtieth Year of the Independence of the United States of America: It being the first Session of this General Assembly. NATHANIEL ALEXANDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR CHAP. CXVI An Act to alter the names of the Persons therein mentioned, and to legitimate a part thereof. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that "the names of Thomas Bull, Elizabeth Bull, Job Bull, Richard Bull, William Bull, Jonathan Bull, Mary Bull, John Bull, Elizabeth Bull, James Bull, Thomas Bull, Mary Bull, Jean Bull, and Nancy Bull, of the County of Guilford, and Joseph Bull, Rachel Bull, William Bull, Jesse Bull, sen. (Senior) And Margaret Bull of the County of Randolph, be severally altered to those of Thomas Talbert, Elizabeth Talbert, Job Talbert, Richard Talbert, William Talbert, Jonathan Talbert, Mary Talbert, John Talbert, Elizabeth Talbert, James Talbert, Thomas Talbert, Mary Talbert, Jean Talbert, Nancy Talbert, Joseph Talbert, Rachel Talbert, William Talbert, Polly Talbert, Jesse Talbert, William Talbert, Jesse Talbert, sen. And Margaret Talbert:" And be it further enacted that the aforesaid persons shall be called and known by the names as above altered and by such names shall be able to sue, and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity, and shall possess and enjoy the same privileges as if they had been borne the names as above altered from their nativity. Read three times and ratified in the General Assembly the 21st of December 1805. WILL WHITE, Sec. ALEX MARTIN, S. S and S. CABARRUS, S. H. C. [Here is a letter from my 3x great grandfather written shortly before his death]: "Father, William Talbert was born in the southern part of N. Carolina and Mother Miriam Gardner in Guilford County N.C. When father was about grown he went into Guilford to attend school and so they became acquainted and were married early in the year 1806. Father worked for mother's father Eliab Gardner one year for one hundred dollars, and then they with quite a number of relatives moved in wagons to the western part of Ohio. Bought 40 acres of government land in the green woods, on which they made a home where they lived about 7 years when they sold it and moved to Estern (six) Indiana and bought 80 acres of timbered land in what is now Union County on which they made a home and lived several years, when they bought an adjoining 80 acre farm considerably improved, on which they spent the remainder of their lives. They raised ten children, lost the youngest in infancy. Father had three brothers who also came west, and made homes in Ohio and Indiana, Thomas, Joseph, and Jessee. Left one John in N.C., his family also coming with the rest of them. He was a Dr and didn't seem to think enough of his family to leave the south to come with them although I thought Aunt Betsy, as we called her, and her children were pretty nice. When mother first met Father, the family name was Berle (or Besle hard to make out), which she and probably others among them didn't like very well, so they had it changed to Talbert, which I think was Father's mother's maiden name. Her name as I remember her was Beeson, so we called her granny Beeson and Mother's mother, Grandmother Gardner. Eliab was Grand Father Gardner's name, and their children were Lydia Wickersham, Phebe Huddleston, Anna Brattain, Miriam Talbert, William and Richard ner, and Elizabeth Gardner whose husband was of the same name. Aaron Gardner (this name added later in pencil). " ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Donna Rogers ___________________________________________________________________