THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA C971.74 P68g Vol. 16-17 2009-2010 UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 00040626153 FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION UNCPS 51499 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/pittcountygeneal16pitt 1 . Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly OQl Volume XVI, No. 1 February 2009 Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly Pitt County Family Researchers, Inc. P. O. Box 2608, Greenville, NC 27836 Officers 2009 President Roger Kammerer 1 1 15 Ragsdale Road, Greenville, NC 27858-3920 (252-758-6882) email [email protected]) Vice President Frank D. Barrow, Sr. 1366 Forest Acres Drive, Greenville, NC 27834-6655 (252-752-5345) email ([email protected]) Secretary (office vacant) Treasurer Sue Butler 439 W. 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The Pitt County Family Researchers, Inc., has a website on the World Wide Web at: http://wwwjootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ ISSN* 1092-0226 « 19 Pitt County Genealogical IOQIqUARTERLY VOLUME XVI, NO. 1 February 2009 Hezekiah Nobles, revolutionary war pension 1 Four Sons of James Albritton, Sr., 1774. Rasberry—Ward Court Case 3 Pitt County Court minutes, 1860 J.N. Bynum Letter on May/Bynum Family, 1906 9 Inquest on Francis m. Atkinson and Theophilus Young, 1880 ....10 Beaufort County Death Certificates • ••••**•****•*«*#•** 12 Obituaries, 17 Pitt County Inventors 23 Boyd family marriages .26 Bible Records Levi Tyson Bible *••*•««•••• 2 Susan a. Tyson Family Bible. *»29 Lela Maud Moore Blanchard Bible, 30 ...— Ellis-McCluer Bible „. Index 32 SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION & QUERY FORM Missing Pages from PCGQ November 2008 FILLERS. Benj. Belcher House Burned, 1895 8 ... White/Holton Wedding During Moves, 1921 .9 ••••••«»••» .— Frederick Pollard, Power of Atty., Ga., 1814 1 Barrett-Bynum Wedding, 1926. 22 *****••*•*•«••»»••••• ... Gold Ring of J. W. Smith, 1895 25 Obituaries in the Gospel Messenger .. .28 Copyright 2009 The Put County Family Researchers, Inc. P. O. Box 2608, Greenville, NC 27836 The contents of this quarterly may be quoted without permission for personal use only, providing proper credit is given to the PCFR and its contributors. Publication in any public media is prohibited without permission. Hezekiah Nobles, Rev, War Pension The following are selected items from the Revolutionary War pension records of Hezekiah Nobles found on microfilm at the National Archives, Washington, D. C. Contributed by Roger Kammerer. 8£>C# State of Alabama, County of Pike On this the 16th day of August 185 1 personally appeared before me Bird FITZPATRICK Judge of the Probate Court of said County the same being a Court of Record Elcy NOBLES a resident of said State and County aged 85 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 Entitled an act "granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" as also an Act "granting a pension to certain (Widows of) Revolutionary Soldiers" passed 3rd of March 1843, as also an act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army approved July 29th 1848: That she is the widow of Hezekiah NOBLES who was a private and a musician in the War of the Revolution as will appear from the certificates of William HILL Secretary of State and William J. CLARKE Comptroller of the State of North Carolina, which are hereto annexed marked A & B. That from the representations and statements of Hezekiah NOBLES shortly after the War she is satisfied that he served during the War as a Continental soldier and a musician, that she cannot designate the Terms or period of service and character in which he served more fully than designated in the foregoing Certificates. She further declares that she was married to the said Hezekiah NOBLES in the month of February in the year 1786. That her Husband the aforesaid Hezekiah NOBLES died on the 20th day of May 1 832. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 Viz., at the time above stated, she further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension, that there is no record of her marriage nor does she know by whom she can prove the same witnessed the same. Sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written. Elcey (her mark) NOBLES Luke NOBLES, son of Hezekiah and Elsey NOBLES testified in Chambers Co., Alabama Sept. 8, 1851 that he was born March 27, 1796; that John NOBLES of Pike County is his brother, that his parents were married and that he heard his father relate his many services from North Carolina during the Revolutionary War. John NOBLES of Pike Co., Alabama gave affidavit on Aug. 11, 1851 that he is the son of Hezekiah and Elsie NOBLES; that he was born December 28, 1790; that his parents lived together as husband and wife; and that he has heard his father relate his Revolutionary War experiences; and that his father received bounty lands from the State of North Carolina as result of his Revolutionary War services. William TROTTER of Russell County, Alabama made an affidavit on April 21, 1852 before John BROWN, J. P., stating "...that in the year of 1817 or 1818 in South Carolina Edgefield district at a barbecue he the said TROTTER saw Hezekiah NOBLES a Revolutionary Soldier beat the drum and showing that people how it was beat in the Revolutionary War and saying that he the said Hezekiah NOBLES was a muzestioner [musicianer] in the revolutionary war." Elsey NOBLES on Aug 15, 1853 states she lived in Pike Co., Alabama for the last 17 years and lived in Edgefield District, SC before that. Marshall M. BEAN gave testimony on August 11, 1851 in Pike Co., Alabama that he was present in Edgefield South Carolina when Hezekiah NOBLES died there on May 20, 1832 and that he helped make the coffin in which said NOBLES was buried. PCGQ February 2009 1 Four Sons of James Albritton Sr., 1774 This deed is found in Pitt County Deed Book F, pages 75-76; Pitt County Court House, Greenville, NC. Contributed by Roger Kammerer. «£ «£ This Indenture made the Twenty fifth day ofmay in the year of our lord one thousand Seven hundred & Seventy four Between Thomas ALBRITTON, James ALBRITTON & Peter ALBRITTON of the County of Pitt and Mathew ALBRITTON of the County of onslow in the Province ofNo Carolina Planter of the one Part and George ALBRITTON Planter ofthe County of Pitt of the other part Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of the sum of ninety pounds proclamation money to the sd Thomas ALBRITTON James ALBRITTON Peter ALBRITTON and Mathew ALBRITTON in hand paid by the sd George ALBRITTON at and before the Sealing & Delivery of these presents the Receipt and payment wherof is hereby Acknowledge hath Granted Bargained Sold aliend Ensoffed Conveyed & confirmed by these presents Doth grant Bargain Sell alien enscof Convey &Confirm unto the sd George ALBRITTON planter his heirs and asigns forever one mesuage or track of land Setuate lying & being in Pitt County on the South Side of tan- River and on the Lower Side of the Cross Swamp on the South Side of Checod Swamp Containing 200 acres more or less Begining at a Chesnut oak on one of the Swamps of Checod Runing out So 30d & 160 pole to a pine then No 60 Et 200 pole to a Stake at the out Side of a pine thence No 38 Wt 160 pole to a pine then So 60 Wt 200 poles to the first station ... it being part of a track of land granted unto Simon BURNEY by patent and by him Conveyed by deed to William TAYLOR Senr and by William Senr Convevd by deed to his son William TAYLOR Junr dated Sept 10th 175 1 and by Wm TAYLOR Junr Conveyed by deed bearing date January 22nd 1767 to John HATTOCK Junr and by John HATTOCK Junr Conveyd by deed Bearing date January 23 1767 to John SIMPSON