Rockingham County, N.C. - MISC - Gunter Family Notes

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Compiled by Kay Lee Wrage Gunn 		KLWRAGEG@aol.com

Submitter's Note:  These are paraphrasings of excerpts from my essay, 
John Gunter of Chesterfield Co., VA & Guilford-Rockingham Cos., NC & 
Some of His Descendants, privately published, Raleigh, NC, 1997.

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John Gunter, b. c1730, m. Amy, dau/o John (Sr)/Elizabeth Tillotson of
Chesterfield Co., VA, where John Gunter appeared in John Tillotson's land
records in the 1750's and 1760's.  John Tillotson gifted use of a portion 
of his land to John Gunter & his wife, Amy Gunter "my daughter," in 
Chesterfield Co., 1757.  The land, however, was the legal property of "the 
furst daughter of her body by the said John Gunter...."  Amy Gunter was not 
listed in the will of her father, John Tillotson, written in 1766 
Chesterfield Co.; however, her son Joel Gunter (underaged) was the 
recipient of gifts as John Tillotson's grandson:  gifts under care of 
Thomas, a son of John Tillotson, Sr.  

In 1784 Chesterfield Co., VA, John Gunter and his daughter, Betsy "Guntyr" 
"of the county of Guilford and State of North Carolina," sold the land 
bequeathed to her by her grandfather, John Tillotson, to one Edward Loafman 
of Chesterfield Co., VA.

Several years preceeding the Chesterfield sale of land, John Gunter 
(b. c1730) appeared owning 200 acres of land in Guilford Co., NC (the part 
later Rockingham County), between Wolf Island Creek and Dan River, 1780.  
Joel Gunter (RS) was with his father, John Gunter, in Guilford Co., NC, 
1784, when Joel Gunter's land was mentioned in an entry of Joseph Potter on 
Town Creek, Piney Fork bordering Joel's land.

After a sojourn (1790-1800 Cen.) in SC, Joel Gunter entered TN, first 
decade of the 19th Cen. and after a short interlude in Smith Co., alighted 
in Warren Co., TN with his brothers (John [Jr.], Claiborne, Augustus and 
James Gunter), where in 1818 & 1825 Joel made his Rev. War declarations for 
pension (including a statement of borrowed money of Claiborne Gunter).  
Joel, RS, died in Warren Co., TN in 1829.