Wills and Inventory, Wayne County, North Carolina – Willis Peale

4983 NC W4a Pt. 4 Vol. 6 p. 471  1 February 1832 Willis Peele of Wayne County Wife: Mary Sons: Owen Robert Bryant John Grandaughter: Harriet Peele Daughter: Mildred Peele, arrive to age 19 Daughters: Penninah Christian Pike Sally Coleman Pharby Coleman My son – Willis Peele – executor Witnesses: Joseph Parke Tho. Ham Nov […]

John Egerton 1705, Norfolk, Virginia

47. John EGERTON was born about 1705 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a High Sheriff Of Edgecombe Co., NC. orrest King’s documentation DOCUMENTATION: Edgecombe Co., N. C. Deeds Book 1 p. 35 LAND-WITNESS: Edgecombe Co., N. C. Deeds Book 1 p. 35, from WILL IAM FISH to JOHN FISH, 150 acres on the south side […]

The Genesis of the United States v. 2 (Edgertons) by Alexander Brown

p. 884 – Egerton, Sir Thomas, an illegitimate son of Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley ; was born in Cheshire, 1540; entered Brasenose College, Oxford, 1556 ; Lincoln’s Inn, October 31, 1560 ; called to the bar, February 2, 1572 ; solicitor-general, June 28, 1581 ; Lent reader, 1582 ; attorney- general, June 2, 1592 […]

Meet the Edgertons: Stephens and the Saint Family p 151, 152, 153

Robert Stephens and his wife Elizabeth were Irish Quakers.  They, with their children, Isaac, Robert, James, Henry, Sarah and Mary migrated from Ireland to Gloucester County, New Jersey about 1730. Sarah Stephens, of Newton Township, Gloucester County, New Jerysey married 20th 10th month 1733, Thomas Edgerson at Haddonfield Friends Meeting.  She died before 1738.  Thomas […]