Places Mentioned:
Reedy Branch
Great Rockey Branch
Baptist Meeting House
Adjoining land to Joseph Green in the Bute Baptist
District:
1765 Francis Acock, John Bobbitt, Joseph Green,meeting house,William Mangrum,Henry
Chambles,Reedy Branch,great Rockey Branch,meeting
house land
1767 Francis Acock, John Bobbitt, Joseph Green, Thomas Daniel, Peter Smart,
John Bobbitt Sr.,Baptist Meeting
House
1768 Wililam Davis, William Arnold, Green,
Mangum, ss Reedy Creek
1768 Charles Blackard I witnessed above deed
adj. Joseph Green
1769 Francis Acock, Thomas House, Joseph Green, Thomas Daniel, Peter Smart,
Chamberlain Hudson, Mangum, Weldon, Baptist
Meeting House
1770 Francis Acock, Thomas House, Daniel Sledge, Joseph Green, Thomas Daniel,
Charles Bartholomew
1777 Charles Blackard II on same Bute Tax List
as Joseph Green
1749 Granville Tax List
Joseph Green
John Green
Richard Houckaby
Daniel Weldon
John Smart
Richard Acock
John Hudson
Peter Green
William Mangum
West Harris
Joseph Harris
Edmund Daniel
Francis Acock
Lewis Bobbit
1754 Granville Militia (selected names)
Peter Green
Thomas Green
William House
Samuel Green
Edward Green
Lewis Bobbitt
Charles Bartholomew
John Green
Joseph Person
William Mangum Sr/Jr
James Mangum
Eustace Daniel
William Walker
Richard Acock
Francis Acock
Samuel Mangum
Thomas Blancet
John Williams
John Hudson
Chamberlain Hudson
Henry Hudson
Isaac Hudson
Major Walker
Peter Smart
Thomas Daniel
* Sheriff's Sale. Bute County, North Carolina in Warren County records.
Deed Book 1, page 61 [31 January 1765] JOHN BOBBITT 295 acres adjoining ACOCK
on Reedy Branch and great Rocky Branch. JOHN BOBBITT, highest bidder at a sheriff's
sale
DB-1, page 61. 20 March 1765. William Johnson, Sheriff, to John Bobbit, Planter, both of Bute Co. John Bobbit highest bidder, of 60 Pds. Procl. money, at Sheriff's Sale at County Court, 31 Jan. 1765, for 295 A. of land of Henry Chambles, sold by Court Order of Superior Court of Halifax, in name of KING GEORGE III, order dated 1 Sept. 1764, Allan Jones, Esq., Clerk. Land sold to satisfy debt of Henry Chambles & Henry Temple to Peter Davis, with interest from 4 June 1764, plus costs & fees. Land in Bute Co., called the meeting house land whereon William Mangrum formerly lived and sold to Henry Chambles, on Reedy Branch & great Rockey Branch, adj. Jos. Green & Acock. Debt to Peter Davis paid & overplush (sic) applied to debts of Henry Chambles. Court Order was pursuant to Act of Parliament of Great Britain, in fifth year of reign of his late Majesty KING GEORGE II, for recovery of debts in his Majesty's Plantations & Colonies in America. Wit: John Golightly, Sugan Johnson. Receipt of 60 Pds. from John Bobbit, dated 25 March 1765. Ack: by William Johnson, Esq., late Sheriff, Bute January Court 1766,Ben McCulloch, C.C. Reg: 1 November 1766, by Willm. Johnson, P.R.
1765 DB 1 p 61 ____________where WM MANGUM formerly lived and sold to HENRY CHAMBERS on Reedy Cr and great Rockey Br, adj: JOSEPH GREEN & ACOCK (Francis Acock) See 1767 deed . .Bobbit to Smart (John and Abraham Green in Weather’s District 1774 – Oath of Allegiance)
1767 Bute
1767 DB 2 p 42 JOHN BOBBIT to PETER SMART 110 pds VA money for 295 acres on Reed Branch & Rockey Branch adj: JOSEPH GREEN, (Thos) DANIEL, & FRANCIS ACOCK (Peter Smart in Capt Matthew Thomas’s Dist 1774 – Oath of Allegiance)
DB-2, page 42. 16 July 1767. JOHN BOB(B)ITT,SR. to PETER SMART, both of Bute Co. llO Pds. Va. money for 295 A. in Bute Co. on Reedy Branch & Rocky Branch, adj. JOSEPH GREEN, DANIEL, & FRANCIS ACOCK, exclusive of 2 A. about the Baptist Meeting House & Spring which is laid off & a line Round it, beginning at the mouth of sd. Spring Gutt & up the same, including sd. Spring house &Bridge across the Reedy Branch. Wit: JOSEPH GREEN, DRURY BOBBITT. Proved by DRURY BOBBIT, Bute February Court 1768, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 21 June 1768, by WILLIAM JOHNSON, P.R. 1769 Joseph Green Deed
DB-2, page 163. 14 March 1768. WILLIAM DAVIS(S) to WILLIAM ARNOLD, both of Bute Co. 54 Pds. Va. money for 237 A. in Bute Co. on SS the Reedy Creek adj. GREEN & MANGUM. Wit: JAME EATES, WM. COOPER, CHARLES BLACKER, DAVID ROSE, Ack: by WILLIAM DAVIS, Bute February Court 1769, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 28 June 1769, by WILLIAM JOHNSON, P.R. Marginal notation: Delivered the i day of Decemer. 1772 to THOS. RODGERS.
DB-2, page 352. 3 November 1769. PETER SMART to THOMAS HOUSE, both of Bute Co. 120 Pds. Va. money for 295 A. in Bute Co. adj. JOSEPH GREEN on ye Reedy Branch, down Rocky Branch by line of THOMAS DANIEL & FRANCIS ACOK, along a small branch & up ye Reedy Branch, exclusive of 2 A. about the Baptist Meeting House & Spring which is lade(sic) off & a line Round it, beginning at ye mouth of ye afsd. Spring guts & up ye same including ye sd. Spring House & Bridge across ye Reedy Branch. Wit: FRANCIS CAPPS, RICHARD BENET. Proved by FRANCIS CAPPS, Bute November Court 1769, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 13 February 1770, by WILLIAM JOHNSON, P.R.
5/1770 DB 3 p 56 THOS HOUSE to DANIEL SLEDGE 295 acres adj: JOSEPH GREEN on Reedy Creek Br line of THOS DANIEL and down the Rockey Br to line of FRANCIS ACOCK & up Reedy Branch
DB-3, page 56. 9 May 1770. THOMAS HOUSE to DANIEL SLEDGE, both of Bute Co.200 Pds. Va. money for 295 A. in Bute Co. adj. JOSEPH GREEN on the Reedy Branch, to line of THOMAS DANIEL & down the Rockey Branch to line of FRANCIS ACOCK & up Reedy Branch. Wit: ISAAC ACREE, WILLIAM REDDOCK. Ack: by THOMAS HOUSE,Bute May Court 1770, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 21 October 1770, by WILLIAM JOHNSON, P.R. Marginal notation: Deld. to DANIEL SLEDGE Feby. 1771
DB-3, page 329. 7 November 1770. JESSE ROWLAND to JOSIAE GREEN, both of Bute Co. l0 Sh: Sterling money of Great Britain for 64 A. in Bute Co. adj. sd. GREEN - to Brinkleys Road, part of a survey of WILLIAM MANGUM. Wit: JESSE PERSON, WILLOUGHBY SELF. Ack.: by JESSE ROWLAND, Bute November Court 1771, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 29 January 1772, by JAMES JOHNSON, P.R.
1777 Bute NC Tax List, Thomas Turner Distict
Charles Bartholomew
Spencer Snow 102pd
Charles Blackard 77pd
Willam Weldon not sworn 550 acres 600pd
Henry Persons
John Acock
Richard Acock
Abner Acock
Samuel Morris
Josiah Green
Bute County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
1767-1779
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13 November 1777 - Ordered that John Jones be Overseer of the road from the
foot of Person's road at a place called the Meadows to Joseph Greens Ordinary,
and Ordered that he keep the same in repair with his own hands, the hands of
Edmond Kearney, Joseph Green, John Thompson, John Acock, William Acock,
Charles Black, Jordan Roland, Joseph John
Williams, Jeremiah Neale, Thomas Standard and Abner Acock.