https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B2-RH77-2 This image courtesy of City of Philadelphia Register of Wills Office and cannot be copied – must go to link to see the original Name: John Buzby Role: Executor Will Date: 11 Jul 1699 Will Proved Date: 8 Oct 1699 Comments: Cox, Sarah. Phila. Widow. 7/11/1699. Estate to sons Abraham and Thomas who are the…

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John Slaughter p5 Book 1 Part 1 p.5 LIEUT. ALBIANO LUPO, 350 acres, Sept. 1, 1624, Page 33. Gent., and ancient planter of Kiccoughtan in the corporation of Elizabeth City. By a small branch dividing this from the land of his wife Elizabeth Lupo, near land of John Bush. For his personal adventure and the…

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Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1800 Book No. 4 and 5 by Nell Marion Nugent 975.5 R2n William Ballance p329 Patent Book 4 William Justice 1,198 acres Charles City County near Flower de hundred Creek 26 April 1646 p. 26 (41) adjoining land of Cheney Boice. Granted Capt. John Frame 1 Sept. 1643…

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With reference to Caswell’s influence in the Halifax Convention, John D. Toomer, speaking at a State Constitutional Convention in Raleigh in November 1835, stated: A Congress was convened in Halifax in 1776 to form a Constitution for our State. The most popular man in the country was Richard Caswell who was President of that Congress…

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Page 68-69 At the same time, a trouble spot had developed in southwestern Dobbs County as is indicated by the following letter to Governor Caswell from Stephen Cobb who resided near where the present town of Goldsboro stands:  26th July 1779  Dear Sir: Mr. John Barefoot informed me yesterday that he saw one Stanly that…

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Probate Records Eli Sparrow Return for the Estate of — Eli Sparrow Deed for 1841April 3 = paid W Lewis for return  1.50Sept 14 = paid W E Pishardrom for cost  8.75 Dec 9 = paid W E hughron for Abigal Sparrow 6.50 1842Jan 29 paid F Joy and Co for Sophroney Sparrow 6.50July 8…

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Click here for PDF Daniel Sparrow Land Deed 000F00138 PLAT BK 000F ____under’s, Routs, Issues and Profits of the 13 same and all the Estate, Right, Title, Interest.  Claim and Demand of him the said John Singleton to the said Plantation Tract or parcel of Land claiming or belonging  ?  The said John Singleton do…

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