Bertie County Plantations - Chowan River
Abstracted from article by Mrs. Ruth Forbes White for 1966 meeting of Bertie
County Historical Association.
With the gradual migration of settlers (1658), overflowing from the Virginia
Colony into the rich and fertile Albemarle region of NC, the lands along the
Chowan Rivers and other waterways were the first to be taken up.
These river highways were the earliest form of transportation, and many of these
river holdings were originally grants from the Lord Proprietors. As these plantations
grew in size, their owners built the plantation houses. Following the Chowan
River down to where it empties into the Albemarle Sound were these plantations.
HARDY PLANTATION
Records tell us the Hardy Family came to Bertie County about 1690. General Douglas
macArthur is a descendant of this family, through his mother, Mary Pinckney
HARDY. Hardy was a Sea Captain who established a trading
post at Colerain for the barter of turpentine tar, pitch, staves, barrels and
other commodities for the exchange of West Indies products. This
successful business had much to do with the starting of the prsent town of Colerain
where it now stands one mile from the River.
Will of Cuthbert Potter, dated 20 June, 1691, "late of the colony of Virginia and now at present arrived and living on the Island of Barbadoes,Gent, being suddenly seized and taken with bodily sickness, tec." Leaves his property to Hon. Ralph Wormeley and Christopher Robinson, frees his servant Richard Baldwin; leaves him 5 pounds and his silver tobacco box, wearing apparel, etc. Three gold rings to his friends Mr. Wiseman, Mr. Skuller and his wife. He went to Barbadoes, he says, "in his own sloop, the Hopewell." Witnesses; John Paramson, Barnaby Browne, William Hersman, John McCulloch. Sealed with a fine impression of wax of the Potter coat-of-arms.
George Hannah of Lunenburg County, VA; born 1700 and his father George Hannah, Provost Marshall of Barbados, 1680.
William Nelson was a merchant operating the sloop "Martha" between Barbadoes and Yorktown, Virginia. He was from Penrith, England and settled in Barbadoes in the early 1700s. He relocated to Yorktown, Virginia.
N.C. Wills
Will of Francis Pugh of Bertie Precinct
05 Jul 1733, probated: 04 Oct 1736
Sons: John ("plantation whereon I now live"), Thomas (land "at the Emperors
Fields which I bought of Christian Hitteburgh"). Lands at Grindale Creek and
lands in Bertie and Edgecombe Precincts divided between two sons; lands in Virginia
ordered to be sold. Negroes divided between wife and children. "It is my will
that my wife have the management of the ferry where Henry Horne lives * * *."
Provision for overplus after payment of debts to be laid out in young negroes.
Wife and Executrix: Pherebe. Executors: Col. Robert West and Cullen Pollock.
Witnesses: Needham Bryan, Henry Horne and Will'm Jones. Clerk of the Court:
John Wynns. Codicil provides for completion of brigantine, and lading and sending
same to Great Britain--cargo, tobacco and black walnut. "It
is my will & desire that after my sloop Carolina return from New England * *
* that my executors purchase a cargo and send the said sloop to the West Indies."
Witnesses: John Chancel, Sam'l Saban Plomer, Peter Britton. Codicil
proven before Gab. Johnston.
This cluster of family surnames appears in the 1680 census of Barbados, are
mostly absent from the 1715 census of Barbados and then all appear in the records
of Brunswick and Lunenburg Counties in Virginia which was a place where many
new settlers were arriving and then relocating to other places.
| Allen/Allyn | Birkett | Adam | ||
| Beard | Brooks | Moore | ||
| Haywood | Cooper | Parsons/Person | ||
| Lett | Satterwhite | Blagdon | ||
| Sullivant | Williams | |||
| Blagrove | Humphries |
Includes:
Thomas Boone (b. Barbados)
John Haywood (b. 1685 Christ Church/St. Michaels, Barbados)
Rockingham County NC Deed Abstracts 1785-1800
A:10 William Byrd of Charles City Co, Virginia to Francis Farley of Island of Antigua. 26,000 ac on both sides of Dann R. in Orange. Nov 8, 1755
CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - Inventories
INVENTORY of the Real & Personal Estate of Richard Blackledge, Esq. Deceased
taken October 20th 1777 Vizt:
15530 Acres of Land or there About 49 Negroes 320 Head of Cattle ....or there
Abouts 1/2 Lott No 108 Lott No.46 Do 36 Do 404 Do 405 Do 406 & Do 238 with Half
a Front Lott held with Mr Neale where the Slaughter House Stands Salt Works
as they now Stand at the Mouth of Cour Creek being 50 Acres of Land with a Salt
Pann Abt 2-3 done 14 by 18 feet Squair about 1700 wt Barr Iron & a Suffciency
of Plates to finish the Pann About 700 wt Lead 8 Kittles fixed for Boyling 3
Yoke of Oxen 2 Carts 1 Set of Smiths tools 3 Boats 2 Cows & Calves & Sundry
Tools Consisting of Axes, Hoes, Spades, Saws &c &C for the use of the Works
with some Little furniture for use of the Works People Beds &c abt 20M Bricks
to put the Pann up with & Abt. 4 m of Lumber to make Resurvoys &c Half the Brigg
Ann with Capt. Stephen Williams now Abt Cadiz or up the Straits & Half her Cargo
out of which Stephen Williams has remitted three Hundred Pounds Sterling 1/4
of 5-16 of a Schooner called the Beaufort on a voyage
to the West Indies Commanded by Capt Annible 1-6 of a Brigg now Building
at Beaufort by Peter Nowe & Robert Walpoole 3-16 of a Schooner Called the Ellinor
now Building at Otter Creek by Mr. Adam Tooley ....