ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - COURT - Deposition concerning John Starkey
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TITUS OGDEN, Case # 2.
                
Deposition, Ref: Adoption of John Starkey's daughter Phebe, 27 March 1797:
Onslow County, NC. 

        22 Mar. 1797.  Deposition of KIRBY JONES in GEO. HINSON & wife vs. WM.
JONES.  Sd. KIRBY stated that he heard THOMAS ODGEN a few days before his 
death say that he had adopted JNO STARKEY'S child named PHEBY OGDEN STARKEY 
(the wife of GEO HINSON) & had given her the negroes which he the sd. THOS. 
OGDEN had received with his wife from JNO STARKEY her father; that JNO. 
STARKEY in his lifetime had sued for a few of the negroes & if JOHN recovered 
they would belong to his daughter PHEBE; that he heard WILLIAM JONES say that 
negro SYLVIA was 1 of the negroes JNO STARKEY had given to THOS. OGDEN.