Johnston County, NC - Letters File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Kay Gunn "Note should be made that in Nov. 1792, Thomas Lee IN Johnston Co. made 7 deeds. There is no record in Johnston Co. Deeds of Thomas's having acquired four of these pieces of land. These four pieces, 724 acres in all, are contiguous, and their descriptions fit lands belonging to John Lee, Esq." A copy of one of Thomas Lee's letters has been preserved in Johnston Co. records, N.C. Archives CR.056.514.3, pp. 225-6. It follows: "Dear Cousin after my best and loving compliments to you and your family these comes to let you know that my family is all in good health at Present thanks be to God for his mercies) But I have what is called the intermiting fever this five or six months and I am not able to come and see you nor to do anything else and God only knows whether I ever shall be able to come over to see you about my business And dear Cousin I have got Cader Lee to come to you to settle my business. And I depend upon you to settle the business and I shall be fully satisfied. And dear Cousin if you are not satisfied I wish you to satisfy yourself for I have always greate confidence in you & have ever been well satisfied but dear Cousin you know there is very few men now a days that can be fully depended upon. Dear Sir please send me by Cader Lee what money you have collected and what ever you can collect from the Creditors and you will much oblige your friend Dear Sir please to write to me in full concerning affairs and whatt (sic) money you send me by Cader Lee And to take a receipt for the same) Dear Sir if you can collect the whole please to write what the balance is) and when you collect it please to send it to me by who ever you shall think a safe hand I have nothing strange or uncommon to write but I remain your loving friend. THOMAS LEE. Please to remember my love to sister Mary Balingr* and all enquiring friends &C. August 19, 1797" To Shadrach Engram Endorsed To Shadrach Engram living in Johnsn County on the waters of Mill Creek there**. Proved by Kedar Lee Received of Shadrach Ingram in full of all accounts debts dues or demands from the begining of the world till this day. I say received by me this 11th day of January 1796. Hopkins Lee Robert Lee THOMAS LEE Rec'd August 31st 1797 of Shadrach Ingram agent for Thomas Lee four hundred and twenty silver dollars it being money collected by the said Shadrach Ingram in part of sundry Debts said Ingram was Impowered to collect for the said Thomas Lee in the state of No. Carolina in the Count of Johnston. Test. Wm. Sasser (Signed) Keder his X mark Lee for Thomas Lee ________________________________________________________________ KG: End of page 60. * KG: For THOMAS LEE'S "sister Mary Balingr," consult the will of John Lee, Esquire, wherein are listed his son Thomas Lee and daughter, Mary Ballanger, who was gifted "rest of Trapnals land (and) negro called Nice," also in same John Lee, Esq. will is named his grandson (per se), "Shadrack Ingram - 200 a. adj. Richard Ingram's line and John Lee's line (and) 300 a. on White Oak Swamp (and) negro called Judah. This letter should satisfy the demands of identification of the writer of the letter of August 19, 1797: THOMAS LEE, son of John Lee, Esq. of Johnston Co. ** KG: John Lee, Esq. and his children lived on Mill Creek in the far S. part of Johnston Co., NC. _________________________________________________________________ P. 61 "Thomas Lee does not appear in any Tax List or Census record of Johnston Co., N.C. He and Nicholas Lee appear on the 1781 Tax List of Washington Co., (Tenn.). The first record of Thomas in Hawkins Co., Tenn., is in Thomas Amis' Record Book (of his store) in 1783." KG: As previously given. That should put an end to the matter of Thomas Lee, his departure from Johnston Co., NC and reemergence in Greene Co., NC, a.k.a. later, Hawkins Co., TN, followed by extensive deeds in Hawkins Co., TN. Kay Gunn KLWRAGEG@aol.com ============================================================== 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. The 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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ==============================================================