Ann (Blount) Wingate (1668 - 1763)

Born 1668 in Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America

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Died 27 Jun 1763 at about age 95 in Craven, North Carolina, British Colonial America

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Ann Blount was born about 1668, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, a daughter of James Blount b. 1648 ^[1]

Chowan county, in the Carolina Colony was formed in 1668 by English settlers and was originally called Shaftesbury Precinct of Albemarle County. It was renamed Chowan Precinct around 1681 for the Chowan River, itself named for the Chowanoac Indians who inhabited the region. In 1683, in Carolina Colony, Anne married Josias Slocum, a son of Joseph Slocum and grandson of Anthony Slocum, the immigrant and early settler of modern day North Carolina (established November 21, 1789) ^[2]

Josias Slocum (Joseph,- Anthony) married Anne, daughter of James Blount who settled in Chowan Precinct of the old Albemarle County (now North Carolina) in 1669; and whose Will was there proved 17 July, 1686. Josias is mentioned in his grandfather's Wil. He moved southward; and was the first to sign, in 1706, a petition for a Court for the Neuse River region. Some of his land went into the possession of his uncle John Slocum by whom it was willed to Josias' cousin, Joseph. Children, perhaps not born in the order given, viz:

1. John Charles Slocum. Perhaps he was killed with his father in the Tuscararo masaker [massacre] Note: The Tuscarora War was fought in North Carolina from September 10, 1711 until February 11, 1715 between the Tuscarora people and their allies on one side and European American settlers, the Yamassee, and other allies on the other.
2. Joseph Slocum. Date of birth, marriage, or death not found
3. Ann (Slocum) Blount, married her uncle, Thomas Blount and had children James and Sara, according to her grandfather James Blount's Will which reads: "to my grandchildren James and Sara Blount, children of my son Thomas and Ann Slocum, daughter of my daughter Ann Slocum"

In 1712 the Province of South Carolina was formed. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, South Carolina became a royal colony in 1719. After the death of her husband and probably, her eldest son, Ann married about 1717, in Edenton, Chowan District, Carolina Colony, to Edward Wingate, born circa 1690, in Chowan Carolina Colony, a son of John Wingate and Mary Dow. Edward wrote his Will on September 2, 1758 and it was proved April 9, 1761, in Craven, Prince George Parish, South Carolina. Children of Edward and Anne Blount named in his Will are: John, Edward, Sarah, who married James, Mary who married John Symmonds, and Ann who married John Hickman. Edward Wingate's grandsons, John Hickman and Samuel Bell, were to each receive one half of a tract of land lying at "Lockwoodfolly," Lockwood's Folly is situated in present-day Brunswick County, North Carolina. ^[3]

Ann wrote her Will on June 27, 1763, naming her son John Wingate as executors. Also named in the Will is John's wife and her daughter Mary Simmons. Witnesses were Thomas Sessions, Margaret Chickens and Hannah Wingate. Ann's Will was proved in court and recorded November 15, 1773 in the Original Will Book 1771-1774, page 499. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MNP1-DP5
2. ↑ Charles Elihu Slocum, History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, genealogical and biographical, embracing twelve generations of the first-named family from A.D. 1637 to 1908, with their marriages and descendants in the female lines as far as ascertained, page 22
3. ↑ Will Book 9, pages 106-107, images #124-125, Charleston County, South Carolina. Typed manuscript, copied from old wills, Will Book 1760-1767, originally page 85. The typed title page: Wills, Charleston County, 1760-1767-A."
4. ↑ Volume 15, page 654, image #685, Craven County, South Carolina