1776 Bute Co NC - Turkey Creek

Neighborhood of Charles Blackard I

Early Blackard Neighborhoods

Places named: < Map of 1762 Granville Tax Districts >
Turkey Creek
Macon Branch
Melton's Creek [10]
Reedy Creek
Fishing Creek
Little Fishing Creek

People named:
Charles Black
Phil Hawkins
Roland Wilson
Powell
Rivers
John Short
Williams
Samuel Morris

1761

1761 Peter Smart Granville on Melton's Creek
adj Macon's line, byrds' line

DB-31 page 523. 27 September 1771. JOS. KING to his son RANSOM KING, "Aminer", both of Bute Co. For affection, etc., Gift of 300 A. in Bute Co. adJoihing JEREMIAH NEAL, ISAAC HUDSON & JOS. JNO. WILLIAMS, to Macons Branch.Wit: DANIEL GOULD, Jos. JNO. WILLIAMS. Proved by JOS. JOHN WILLIAMS, Bute August Court 1772, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 4 Nov. 1772, by JAS. JOHNSON, P.R.

1769

DB-3, page 210. 2 NOvember 1769. LODWICK ALFORD, JR., Planter, to GOODRICK ALFORD, both of Bmte Co. 25 Pds. Procl. money for 230 A. in Bute Co. on BS Turkey Creek adj. ODOM, part of a grant, 24 June 1761, from THOMAS CHILES, Esq., Chief Agent to EARL GRANVILLE- of 460 A. Wit: JAMES ALFORD, LODW. ALFORD. Proved by JAMES ALFORD, Bute February Court 1771, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: ll May 1771, by WILLIAM JOHNSON, P.R.Marginal notation: 14th. Novr. 1771 Deld. to J. A.

1773

DB-5. page 120. 9 October 1773. ARTHUR BOWEN, of Southampton Co., Va., to HARRY TAYLOR, of Edgecomb Co. 20 Pds. Procl. money for 319 A. in Bute Co. on BS Turkey Creek, a grant dated 25 February 1761. Wit: WILLIAM ANDREWS,SR.,WM. ANDREWS,JR., JONATHAN BOWING. Proved by WILLIAM ANDREWS,JR., Bute November Court 1774, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 12 March 1775, by JAMES JOHNSON, P.R.

DB-4, page 190. 8 June 1773. JAMES ALSTON, of Orrange Co., to JOSEPH JOHN WILLIAMS, of Halifax Co. 180 Pds. Procl. money (& payment of Qt.rents) for700 A. in Bute & Halifax Cos., land willed to him by his father JAMES ALSTON, from SS Reedy Creek in Bute Co. to Meltons Creek, Macons Branch, Little Fishing Creek & Fishing Creek, adj. SAMUEL WILLIAMS, all of the land except for 300 A. now owned by CAPT. JOHN ALSTON & 640 A. already in possession of sd. JOSEPH JOHN WILLIAMS. Wit. JAMES ALSTON, REUBEN ALLEN. Proved by JAMES ALSTON, Bute May Court 1774, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg. 17 January 1775, by JAS. JOHNSON, P.R.

1774

DB-5, page 227. 20 December 1774. LODWICK ALFORD,JR., of Bute Co., to WILLIAM ROSS, of Edgecomb Co. 80 Pds. Procl. money for 230 A. in Bute Co. on BS Turkey Creek, part of a grant from JOHN EARL GRANVILLE CARTERET (sic). Wit: LODK. ALFORD,SR., WILLIAM TRUELOVE, DREWR! ALFORD. Proved by LODWICKALFORD,SR., Bute May Court 1775, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 19 May 1775, JAMES JOHNSON, P.R.

1776

1776 Land where Charles Blackard lived on Turkey Crk. and Macon Br is sold

In 1777 a new law reorganized the land entry system as the state took over granting the vacant land in NC.

"Bute Co #55 Entry March 16, 1776 Jno Short enters 540 acres due to a former entry made in Earl Granville's office by Phil Hawkins border: Roland Wilson, Powell, Rivers adj Williams. on Macon Branch and Turkey Creek.

Includes some improvements volentarily made on said land by Chas. Black and now in the possession of Samuel Morris.
Caveated May 7, 1778 by Samuel Morris.
Land got by Morriss."