~Brief History of Rose Hill Plantation in New Hanover Cmmty

by Wilson Angley •

A Brief History of Rose Hill Plantation in New Hanover COl.IDty

by

Wilson Angley • 29 July 1988

Research Branch Division of Archives and History • Depart:Irent of Cultural Resources • Rose Hill Plantation was located on the Northeast ca:pe Fear

River approximately six miles north of Wilmington, North carolina. At

its fullest extent, it encanpassed a vast area along the east side of

the river as far upstream as Prince George Creek near Castle Hayne.

Already by the end of the eighteenth century, the lands associated with

Rose Hill included the fonner plantation known as Red Banks. Indeed,

the original Rose Hill and Red Banks plantation houses seem to have

been situated in cl ose proximity to each other and near the site of the

recently discovered shi,PWreck. Although the doctnrentary sources shed

no light on the question, it is quite possible that the tv.u plantations

shared a carm::>n landing at or near the shi,PWreck site•

The lands along the eastern side of the Northeast ca:pe Fear River • in the general vicinity of the shi_pwreck were originally included in 1 grants to William Gray in 1736. An early settler in the area, Gray had

figured praninantly in establishing the town of Wilmington. It was he

who had laid out the town in 1733 when its projected narre was New

Liverpool. Clearly, he was closely associated with James Wirnble and

other founding fathers of Wilmington, who all had extensive merchant and

maritima interests. 2 Gray served as deputy surveyor of New Hanover

County under Mathew Rowan in the late 1730s; and in 1737 he was one of

those charged with surveying the controversial boundary line between the 3 tv.u Carolinas. Certainly, Gray had an extensive familiarity with the

1~ ca:pe Fear area. In addition to his holdings along the Northeast • ca:pe Fear, he also acquired lands in present-day Bladen County and along 2

4 the lOM:rr reaches of the below Brunswick Town. • With landholdings below Bnmswick Town and along both branches of the Cape Fear, there can be no doubt that Gray was exporting large quanitities

of naval stores, lumber, and various agricultural products. There is no

evidence that Gray established a residence on the future Rose Hill

Plantation, but he may VAell have used the landing there in connection with

his export activities. It is of interest to note that the James Wimble

map of 1738 indicates the presence of a Carter residence only a short

distance downstream fran the future Rose Hill. This same Carter was ap-

parently William Gray' s business partner and, in fact, Gray was co-owner

of the tract upon which Carter lived. The upper comer of the Gray and

Carter tract was a point on the river bank which marked comers of the

Red Banks tract and future Rose Hill Plantation as VAell. Indeed, it was

alrcost precisely at the point of the juncture of the three tracts on the 5 • river bank that the shipwreck was recently discovered. By 174 2 William Gray had died and his contiguous tracts along the

Northeast cape Fear were conveyed by his brother and administrator, John 6 Gray, to cape Fear m=rchant and mariner 1 Captain William Lithgow.

Lithgow was a resident of Wilinington, but his landholdings in the lOM:rr

cape Fear region were fairly extensive. In addition to the lands pur­

chased fran John Gray, he acquired at least four other tracts in New 7 Hanover County totaling approximately 2,500 acres.

It was in connection with his lands on the Northeast Cape Fear that

Lithgow ran afoul of "King" Roger M:x>re , builder of Orton. M:>reover 1

there is a distinct possibility that the controversy with M:Jore involved • the Red Banks and Rose Hill areas - perhaps the Rose Hill landing itself • 3

It ap~s that just before Lithgow' s purchase of the Gray lands, f.h:>re had • made extensive use of t.han for the production of ti.rrber and naval stores. Discovering f.b:>re ' s activities, Lithgow then attempted to prevent him fran

shipping the products downstream for eJq;XJrt. These events were later

surrrnarized in a deFQsition concerning certain miscarriages of justice under

Governor Gabriel Johnston:

[the deFQnent] acquainted us that one Mr. Lithgow a gentleman of credit in that Country [North carol ina] had purchased a Plantation fran one Mr. Grey on which plantation Mr. Roger f.h:>re one of the Council was at the tirre of such sale cutting down timber & l::>urn.ing ligh~ to make tar[ . ] Mr. Lithgow would not suffer Mr. f.b:>re after he had made the purchase to can:y off the tar UfXll1 which Mr. f.b:>re did it by force and threatened to sue Mr. Lithgow for Barretry. 8

Eventually, f.h:>re had poor Lithgow seized and thrown in jail as he was 9 preparing to take ship for Boston.

Following the death of William Lithgow, sanetirre after the events • related above, the contiguous tracts originally granted to Wj) 1 iam Gray passed into the hands of Lithgow' s daughter and son- in- law. In 1767 they,

in turn, conveyed them to the prosperous merchant and planter, Richard Quince.

A native of Ramsgate, England, Quince had becane involved in the cape Fear

trade during the 1730s; and by the early 1740s he had established his

residence and base of operations at Brunswick Town. During the years to

cane he served as town ccmnissioner, church warden of St. Philips, chainnan

of the county court, and vice-admiralty judge. In the years just preceding

his purchase of the Northeast cape Fear lands, he had also figured prani­

nently in the Stamp Act resistance and related activities. By the late

1760s he had also aCX3:Uired extensive landOOldings throughout the 1~ cape • Fear, including Orton Plantation, and was the owner of several merchant 4

vessels as well. Fran Brunswick Town these vessels traded with numerous • ports along the Atlantic seaboard, in Great Bri tain, and especially the 10 We st Indies .

It is quite fX:>Ssible that Richard Quince derived significant quantities

of export cx::moodities fran his laJrls along the Northeast Cape Fear, but his

ownership lasted for only tv.u years. In August of 1769 he sold the five

contiguous tracts, CCIIq?rising sane 2, 805 acres, to Lewis Henry DeRosset.

The recited consideration of hl50 sterling VA:>uld sean to indicate that the 11 land had not been irrproved to any considerable degree.

The tract farthest upstream of the five, CCIIq?rised of 640 acres, was

described at the time of DeRosset' s p..rrchase as being "known by the narre

of ye Red Banks joining ye upper line of a tract of Gray & Carters

beginning at a pine on the river bank." The adjoining tract, just below

the first, also ccrqptised 640 acres and shared the sarre pine tree on the

• river bank as a fX)int of reference. This tract, though as yet~ , WJuld ocme to be known as Rose Hill by the mid- 1780s. Extending downstream

fran the Reel Banks and future Rose Hill properties were three other tracts

oamprising 640, 185, and 700 acres respectively.12

The new owner of the Northeast Cape Fear lands, lewis Henry De Rosset,

was a man of even greater wealth and praninence than Richard Quince. He

had ocme to the lower Cape Fear in the mid- 1730s and, like Quince, had

establi shed hiroself thereafter as a prosperous merchant and planter. He

had served New Hanover County as snerif.f and. justice of the peace, and

had represented Wilmington in the colonial assembly. fust importantly, he

had served as a Il'elli:>er of the royal cx:>m1cil since 1754, and w:JUld continue • to do so until the outbreak of the American Revolution. It is significant 5

to note that strong family and social ties linked DeRosset to Quince prior • to their transaction of 1769. DeRosset and Quince 1 s son Jolm had both 13 marri ed daughters of the late Robert Walker.

It was a..l.lrost certainly Lewis Heru:y DeRosset who built the first

substantial dwelling muse on either the Red Banks or Rose Hill tracts.

M:>reover, there are strong indications that he did so a..l.lrost imnediately

after his purchase fran Quince. When the Jolm Collet map of North Carolina

was published in 1770, the presence of DeRosset' s residence was clearly

recorded near the point of juncture between the Red Banks and lbsa. Bill

tracts and in close proximity to the recently found shipwreck. The

M:>uzon map of 1775 also indicated the presence of DeRosset 1 s plantation lx:m.:. l4

During the course of the Arrerican Revolution, DeRosset was forced at

length to declare his allegiance to either the Patriot cause or to his • sovereign. In the event, he chose the latter, thereby placing all of his property in danger of confiscation. Prior to his banishment fran North

Carolina, DeRosset therefore sold as much of his property as he possibly ( could, though unable to receive full value under the prevailing circum-

stances. Am:mg the properties sold was his Red Banks lx:J:re and plantation,

together with the four adjacent tracts on the Northeast cape Fear. These

he sold to Richard Quince' s son, Parker Quince, on 9 March 1779. The

recited consideration was ~ , 500. 15

Altmugh DeRosset had property holdings in addition to Red Banks and

its adjoining tracts, sane idea of the improvercents on this land is con-

veyed in the papers which DeRosset later sul:mitted to the British • governrrent in requesting canpensation. These stated that he had: 6

had 3000 acres - 2 or 300 acres [of which] were cultivated & a gcxxl House built UIXID it which • cx:>st him hl,SOO St[erling] . He had lost 31 Slaves Y.Qrth EOO each making hl, SOO [and had] left a Wife in that country & left her b2, 000 Sterling consisting of Stock, Negroes, cattle, l-bney' etc.l6

Before departing fran the Cape Fear in the spring of 1779, DeRosset

had purchased and fitted out a brig of about 100 tons, which he filled

with a cargo of tobacco, indigo, and other valuabl e carm:xlities, scme of

which had possibly e<::ITe fran his Red Banks Plantation. The canbined

value of the vessel and cargo was put at 1:18 , 000 sterling. DeRosset had

planned to sell the vessel and cargo upon reaching England. In the

event, mwever, they were taken at sea by a Patriot privateer and

ronfiscated in New England. When DeRosset finally reached England in

1783, he was fifty- nine years old and nearly penniless. He died in

IDndon in 1786, his wife having passed away in the l<:Mer cape Fear region • . the . 17 d urmg prev~ous year.

Parker Quince, the man to wh:m DeRosset had sold his plantation in

1779, was the best known of Richard Quince' s several children. A

prosperous planter and merchant in his own right, he had achieved con-

siderable praninence in public l ife as a justice of the peace, militia

officer, m:mber of the Brunswick Safety Ccmnittee, and representative for

Brunswick Town in the provincial congresses of 1775- 1776. In partnership

with his father, Parker Quince had long engaged in extensive and far- flung

maritime enterprises. When, in 1774, the Port of Boston had been closed

in response to the Boston Tea Party, he had joined with other praninent -. citizens of the l<:Mer cape Fear region in dispatching a relief vessel to the 7

the embargoed city. Parker Quince, h:iroself, furnished the vessel which • carried the provisions northward "freight free." Moreover, he and his 18 cr&N carried out the reli ef mission "without receiving one farthing wages. "

In 1767 Parker Quince had married the suprarely eligible Miss

Susannah Hasell, daughter of Janes Hasell Jr. and granddaughter of Janes

Hasell Sr. , chief justice and scmet:irre acting governor of North Carolina.

Their union pro.iuoed three children: Richard Quince; Mary Sarah Wash.in.gton

Quince; and William Soranzo Quince (who later adopted his nother' s maiden nam=) . l9

Parker Quince and his family nonnally resided in Wilmington at a house

known as the Iroge during the perio.i just following the Revolution, but he

also owned several plantations in the lower cape Fear region in addition to

the lands purchased fran Lewis Henry DeRosset. Moreover, he made his will

in February of 1785 while t:.errq;x::>rarily "residing in Ironrronger Lane, City of • I.Dndon." There he passed away during the same nonth, having requested that his fnneral arrangarents be made by his uncle John Quince of Ramsgate. 20

To his wife Susannah he left his "House and lot called the Iroge" in

Wilmington. To his daughter Mary and son William he left town property and

a plantation near Shallotte, respectively. To his friend Thanas callender

he left a plantation known as Snow Hill. It was in the bequest to his son

Richard that Parker Quince dis:posed of his lands on the Northeast cape Fear;

and it was in this bequest that Rose Hill Plantation was referred to by nam=

in a legal docurrent, perhaps for the first t:irre: "To son Richard Quince my

Plantation called Rose Hill and tracts of Land called Oke[sic?] Island and

Plantation called Mount Pleasant." Also bequeathed to son Richard was a 21 • considerable number of slaves. 8

The Richard Quince wtx> inherite:i Rose Hill was only sixteen years of 22 • age at the t:ilre of his father' s death. It would be several years before he could take full possession in his avn right. 1-:breover, i t is clear that

the settlarent of Parker Quince' s estate as a wtx>le proved extrE!Irely complex

and protracte1. In large rreasure, the difficulty in settling the estate

st:emred fran unresolved problems in the settlarent of his father' s estate.

Parker Quince and his brother RiChard had fa.cOO an .i.nsu:l:Irountable task as

executors of their father' s estate during the tumult of the revolutionary

period and its aftennath. Both men had taken possession of large parts of

the estate and had made independent sales of personal property. Both men

had also becerne heavily indebte:i to the estate. In the end, lingering and

perplexing questions regarding the estate of Richard Quince would produce

sare five cases in the Wilmington District Superior Court and ~d result 23 • finally in proceedings before the North Carolina SUprerre Court in 1806. Further evidence that Rose Hill was involved in the carplex settle­

ment of Parker Quince's estate is found arrong the records kept by one of

the executors, Captain Th.::rnas Callender. Entries for 1787 and 1789 indicate

that at least sare minor activity was going on at Rose Hill. Perhaps of

rrore interest i s an entry for 1796, recording the "Sales of Sundries at

Rose Hill." The lands involved in Parker Quince's estate, ~ver , were far

fran being restricte:i to Rose Hil l. Also mentioned in the records were tracts

near Hillsborough, in Wilmington, and at l.Dckwoods Folly, Town Creek, !-bunt 24 Pleasant, and Holly Shelter.

I t was presumably in connection with the settlerrent of his father' s and

grandfather' s estates that Richard Quince found it necessary to purchase Rose • Hill and large adjoining tracts fran kinsman George .tb:>re of Orange County in 9

1805, even though he had inherited Rose Hill through the provisions of his • father' s will scxre twenty years earlier. Indeed, he also purchased in this sane transaction two large tracts on the Northeast cape Fear which he

himself had patented in 17 96 . In all, Quince purchased fran M:Jore sane

4, 335 acres ~rising seven contiguous tracts. Three of the seven were

properties acquired by Wi ll i am Gray in 1736; and five of the seven were

identical with those conveyed by Richard Quince' s grandfather to Henry

lewis DeRosset in 1769. The recited consideration for the seven tracts in 25 1805 was 3,000 Spanish milled dollars.

It appears to have been in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth

century that Rose Hill became the principal plantation residence of

Richard Quince and his family. His wife was the former Elizabeth M:Jore.

Their marriage produced at least five sons: Parker, William, Richard, 26 Roger, and John. Richard Quince, ~ver , lived only a few years • after establishing his residence at Rose Hill. He died in 1809 at about forty years of age. It is quite possible that he was interred at Rose 27 Hill, though his taubstone no longer survives.

Richard Quince's will provided that his plantation be left to his

wife Elizabeth, with their sons Parker, William, and Richard to receive 28 portions of the property upon attaining their majorities. Though

Elizabeth Quince was still living in 1817, it was necessary during that

year that Ttanas F. Davis be appointed the sons' guardian to defend

them against a lawsuit, which possibly involved the Rose Hill property in 29 scxre way.

For several years follCMing the death of Parker Quince in 1785, • SUsannah Quince, William Soranzo (Quince) Hasell, and Mary Sarah Washington 10

• Quince had l ived in Charleston. They returned to the l~ Cape Fear, however, in the early 1800s, establi shing their residence in Wilmington.

William Soranzo (Quince) Hasell died in 1815 and was buried at Rose

Hill, the plantation seat of his late brother. He left no heirs.

SUsannah Quince, widow of Parker Quince, died in 1812 at the age of

sixty. Mary Sarah Washington CUince had long since married one Abraham 30 M::>tte. Their union had produced at least four children.

Richard CUince' s widow, the fo:rner Elizabeth M::>ore , survived her

husband by nore than a quarter century, apparently continuing to live

at Rose Hill. There she died in 1835 at the age of sixty.4:wa. AJ..nost

certainly she was interred there in the family burial ground, though 31 there i s no longer a stone to mark her final resting place.

The surviving gravestones in the small Rose Hill Cenetery all date

from the antebellum peri od, reinforcing the d.ocurrentary evidence that

Rose Hill was a Quince family residence and plantation for only about

half a century. Other identifiable burials, besides those nentioned

above, were those of Nathaniel Hill Quince (1842) , Jane Quince (1849) ,

and Elizabeth M::>ore Davis [1853] . Both Elizabeth M::>ore Davi s and

Nathaniel Hill CUince were children of Parker Quince and grandchildren of

the Richard CUi,nce who had died in 1809. Jane CUince was their nother

and the first wife of Parker Quince. She died at the relatively early

age of forty- seven. The marriage between Parker Quince and Jane (Hill) 32 Quince had produced sane eight children, all born between 1820 and 1839.

It seems to have been in the 1840s that Rose Hill ceased to be a • permanent residence and \\Orking plantation under the Quinces' management • 11

In 1842 Parker Quince sold his one- third interest in the property to his • brothers Richard and William for a recited consideration of $1,500. During the same year they, in turn, conveyed the property to James F.

McRee, with the 2 , 287 acres being described as the "tract on tracts 33 known as Rose Hill Plantation. n

When Dr. John Hampd.en: llill canpileci his detailed acco1.mts of lower

Cape Fear plantations in the mid-1840s, Rose Hill was described already

as a relatively unimportant thing of the past, together with the Davis

family' s neighboring Rock Hill Plantation: "The next two places below

on the river were Rose Hill, the residence of the Quince family, and Rock

Hill of the Davises, two rather inconsiderable and inferior rice 34 plantations."

In 1867 Parker Quince passed away, a quarter century after conveying

his interests in Rose Hill to his brothers. Appparently, his brothers • Richard and William had predeceased him. His death occurred at his hone on Masonl:x:>ro Sound, a residence which had been in the Hasell and Quince 35 families for rrore than a century. It is significant to note, however,

that his body was taken to Rose Hill for burial. On the rrorning of 12

November the WiJ.roington 1-brning Star carried the following notice of. his

passing:

Death of Parker Quince, Esq. - Mr. Parker Quince, wOO has been lying very ill for sare time past, died at his residence on Masonboro Sound, yesterday rrorning at nine o ' clock. The funeral will take place fran St. James' Church this m::>rning, from whence the remains will be conveyed to Rose Hill, on the Cape Fear, where is the family burial grotmd of the deceased. Mr. Quince was one of our oldest citizens, being seventy-eight years old at the time of • his death, and was the oldest representative of 12

one of the nost ancient and honored cape Fear families, one of the few ranaining • links that bound us to the glorious his­ to:r:y of this section during the troubles of 1776, in which his fathers took an active part. He has outlived a large and interesting family, who have nearly all found early graves, and he leaves no son beh.irrl him to perpetuate his n.ane.36

Maps dating fran the latter half of the nineteenth century indicate

that there may no longer have been a residence on the Rose Hill property

in .i.rrtrediate proximity to the shipwreck site, though there -were residences

roth upstream and downstream fran the site. A military map of 1864 shows

the Davis family residence slightly downstream and the .I:'K:Jre of one w.

l>k:Pherson just upstream. This map also indicates quite clearly that the 37 river bank near the shipwreck site was high and steep. A New Hanover

County map of 1869 indicates that two fann roads led down to the • Northeast Cape Fear fran the "Duplin Road, " with these roads te:rminating at the river just above and just below the shipwreck site. The presence

of the Davis residence is again indicated at the end of the 1~ road. 38

A New Hanover County map of 1886 recorded no residences along the river,

but does show the two fann roads leading down to the stream above and

below the shipwreck site. 39

In 1899 Rose Hill Plantation was advertised for sale in parcels of

fifty acres or nore. The notice which appeared in the Wilmington

Messenger of 9 November of that year spoke glowingly of mill sites,

standing timber, pasturage, productive soils, abundance of game, and of

convenient access to rail and stearnboat transportation. Signifi cantly, -· however, it made no 1re11tion of a d~ing house on the property: 13

For Sale - This plantation lies on the east side of the North East , • six miles fran the city of Wilmington, N.c. , one-half mile fran the Atlantic Coast Line Rail Road. The highlands are well adapted to fruits and truck growing of all kinds - esped al J y strawberries and lettace, timber and oaks, pine and hickory. Lands level, with grey loan and clay foundation. The river sides are high blu£fs overlooking the nost beautiful stream in the south - plied by s:nall river stecurers, making the city easily accessible to all on the plantation•••• ~ magnificent sites for mills, with an inexhaustible supply of water. The lowlands are adapted to rice, hay, and corn. swamp lands are Juniper, Poplar, Ash and Cypress in abundance. There is no gazre preserve in the country which has nore attractions for the sportsman. Deer, wild hogs, turkeys, and quail, are here in great nunbers. The streams abound with duck and fish• The place is extrenel.y healthy. Tre pasturage is splendid, remaining green the entire year; cane in winter and tanpting • grasses in spring and sumner. No place on earth would be better suited for stock ra1.smg. SUitable for hogs, CCMS and sheep. Contains fine deposits of phosphate and agricultural marl. Known as the Rose Hill Plantation and will sell in lots fran Fifty Acres up, at low prices.40

By 1926 the Rose Hill Plantation property had been acquired by the

Gore Estate Corporation. It was during this year that a detailed map of

the property was executed by Wilmington surveyor Eric Norden. Despite the

advertisanent for partition and sale a quarter century earlier, the Rose

Hill Plantation now encanpassed a vast expanse of land along the Northeast

cape Fear River, extending fran a point just belCM the shifMI"eck site all •• the way upstream to the nouth of Prince George Creek. Fran thence the 14

boundary ran up and along the course of Prince George Creek, then southward • along Sanders Mill Creek to the "Road to Goldsl::oro, " then westward and

southwestward back to the river bank. Seven structures were located at

this~ in the general vicinity of the shifM.reck site. One structure was

especially close to the site, being located at the end of a fann road and

near the lov.er end of the high bluffs along the river bank. A cluster of

other structures was located just upstream fran the shipwreck site, perhaps

one hundred yards distant. 41

Debouching into the river approximately one-hal£ mile furtl1Ek up was

a stream significantly labeled "Brickyard Cr[eek] ," perhaps indicating the

area' s involvenent in the construction of the Red Banks and Rose Hill

plantation houses. Significant, too, is the designation on this map of

"I.Dng or Quince' s Reach, " given to the broad stretch of the river at and • above Brickyard Creek. The "Quince" reference clearl y r eflects the long association of the Quince family with this area along the river. Even m::>re

ancient, rowever, was the alternative name of this particular portion of the

river, for explorer William Hilton had referred to it as a "long reach" 42 d urmg. his upr~ver. expedition . m . 1663 •

An aerial photograph taken in 1938 shows that a na.rrCM fann road led

down to a house site or clearing in the irrmediate vicinity of the shipwreck

site. It is unclear fran the photograph whether the house recorded on the

1926 map was still standing. Clearly discernible, however, was the large

fannhouse just upstream, which had appeared on the map of 1926. On both

sides of this fannhouse, and running well back fran the river, were extensive

cultivated fields. A rCM of trees ran along the river shore both above and 43 • belCM the farmhouse, broken only by the clearing near the shipwreck site. 15

The land fo.nnerly ca:nprising nuclear portions of Rose Hil l and possibly

• Red Banks plantations is now owned by the General Electric ~y , which

operates a large manufacturing facility nearby. For many years it has had

no oonnection with maritirre activity. It is quite possible, however, that the·

Rose Hill landing saw at least intennittant use fran the 1730s through the

early years of the twentieth century as a focal point of local trade. This

use was probably nost concentrated during the late eighteenth and early

nineteenth centuries, when Rose Hill served as the plantation residence of

the Quince family. Clearly, then, the area oolds oonsiderable potential

for significant cultural reseurces, both in the river and along the

adjacent sooreline. The recently disoovered shipwreck, possibly dating

fran the Am:rrican Revolution, is clear and dramatic proof of that potential• •

• FOOTNOI'ES

• ~ew Hanover County Deeds, Book F, 168- 170, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh; and Margaret M. Hofmann, Province of North Carolina, 1663-1729: Abstracts of Land Patents (Weldon, North Carolina: Ibanoke News Co., 1979) , llO, 111, 132. 2 r.awrence lee, The ~ Ca.J?€ Fear in Colonial Days (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1965), 120- 121. 3 eolonial Court Records, William Gray estates _papers, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh; and William L. Saunders (editor) , Colonial Rec0rds of North Carolina, 10 vollll.res (Raleigh: State of North Carolina, 1886-1890), rv, 28 and 283. 4 Saunders, Colonial Recx:>rds of North Carolina, rv, 57 I 59, and 217; Hofmann, Province of Nort,h Carolina, 9, 113, and 114; Margaret M. Hofmann, Colony of North Carolina: Abstracts of Land Patents, 2 volurres (Weldon, North Carolina: Ibanoke News Co., 1979), I, 105 and ll3; and New Hanover County Deeds, Book A B, 264. 5 New Hanover County Dee1.s, Book F, 168-170; and plats and land records am:mg the Ida Kellam Collection notes, Research Branch, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh. Hereinafter cited as Ida Kellam Collection• 6 New Hanover County Deeds, Book F, 168- 170. • 7 Saunders, Colonial Recx:>rds of North Carolina, IV, 684 and 714; and New Hanover County Deeds, Book c, 157. 8 Saunders, Colonial Recx:>rds of North Carolina, rv, 934- 935. 9 Saunders, Colonial Recx:>rds of North Carolina, rv I 934-935. See also pp. 1080, 1094, 1111- 1112, and 1122. 1 °For rcore detailed infonnation on Richard Quince and his varied activities, see Wilson Angley, "Richard Quince: Merchant, Planter and Patriot of Brunswick Town. " (Report prepared for the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1986), 1 , 4- 6, and 8-ll.

~ew Hanover County Deeds, Book F , 168- 170.

1 ~ew Hanover County Deeds, Book F, 168- 170; and Ida Kellam Collection. 1 3wi 1 1 i am s. Powell (editor) , Dicti~ of North Carolina Biography, vollll.res I and II (ChaJ?el Hill: The Univers~ty of North Carolina Press, 1979 and 1986), II, 56- 57; Catherine DeRosset Meares (c::crrpiler) , Annals of the DeRosset Family (Columbia, South Carolina: R. L •. Bryan Co., 1906) , 34- 35 and 40- 41; genealogical notes in the Davis and Walker Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, ChaJ?€1 Hill; and Ida Brooks Kellam (c::crrpiler), • Marriage and Death Notices in Newspapers Published in Wilmington, North 17

Carolina, 1797- 1842 •••• (Wilmington: Published by the ca:npiler, 1959) , 16. 14 • See Collet and M:>uzon maps in Ap~e_s . 15 New Hanover County Deeds, .Bcx::>k G, 296- 300. 16 English Records, IDyalists' Claims, Henry Lewis DeRosset folder, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh. Hereinafter cited as Loyalists' Claims, DeRosset folder. 17 Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, II, 56-57; Meares, Annals of the DeRosset Family, 37- 42; and Loyalists' Claims, DeRosset folder. 18 Angley, "Richard Quince, 11 3 and 14. 19 North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, edited by J . R. B. Hathaway, Volurre III, No . 3 (July, 1903) , 464- 465; SGuth Carolina Genealre , Rice, Hasell, Hawks and Carruthers Families of North Carolina (Bladensburg, Maryland: Genealogical Recorders, 1966), 40. 20 North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volurre III, No. 3 (July, 1903) , 464- 465 (will of Parker Quince) • • 2~rth Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol urre III, No . 3 (July, 1903) , 464- 465 (will of Parker Quince) • 22 Richard Quince had been bor.n on 28 August 1769. See South Carolina Genealogies, 15.

23 11 See Angley I "Richard Quince, 20- 21.

2 ~w Hanover County Estates Papers, Parker Quince folder, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh. See also Walter Clark (editor) , State Records of North Carolina, 16 volurres (Winston and Goldsboro: State of North Carolina, 1895- 1906), XXV, 28- 29. 25 New Hanover County Deeds, .Bcx::>k M, 449- 452; and Ida Kellam Collection. 26 South carolina Genealogies, 15- 16; M::x:>re , Rice, Hasell, Hawks and Carruthers Famil~es of North Carolina, 41; and New Hanover County Wills, will of Richard Quince, North CarolJ.na State Archives, Raleigh. 27 New Hanover County Wills, will of Richard Quince; and Rose Hill Ceretery records in the Ida Kellam Collection • • 18

28 New Hanover County Wills, will of Richard Quince. 29 • ~re , Rice, Hasell, Hawks and Carruthers Families of North carolina, 43.

30~re, Rice, Hasell, Hawks and Carruthers Families of North carolina, 40- 41; Rose Hill Cerretery records in Ida Kellam Collection; and New Hanover County Wills, will of SUsarmah Quince. 31 Abstract fran the People's Press and Wilmington Advertiser of 23 October 1835 and Rose Hill Cerretery records, both in the Ida Kellam Collection. 32 Rose Hill Cerretery notes and newspaper abstracts in the Ida Kellam Collection; and Hewlett, Between the Creeks, 281. 33 Ida Kellam Collection; and Elizabeth F. McKoy (cetrq?iler and editor), Early New Hanover County Records (Wilmington: Published by the canpiler and editor, 1973), 40. 34 R. H. Fisher, Biographical Sketches of Wilmington Citizens (Wilmington: Wilmington Stanp and Printing Co. , 1929) , 35- 36.

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