Thomas (Chaves) Chavis (abt. 1801 - 1874)

Born about 1801 in Chatham, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy W. (Harris) Chavis — married 14 Nov 1828 in Granville, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 10 Feb 1874 at about age 73 in Randolph, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

PROPERTY OF THOMAS CHAVIS NOW OWNED BY SON ALFRED CHAVIS

FARMERS AND OWNERS OF LAND IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. NAMES, POST-OFFICES, ACRES, AND VALUE. ASHEBORO TOWNSHIP. No. 1. (Postofflce—ASIIEBORO.) AsJichoro P —Asheworth Joel, 3 town lots, value $540 >' Aslieworth W R, 16 acres, 16 ; Allred Richard, 7 a, 40; Allred R J, 98 a, 400; Allred Branson, 1 lot, 300 ; Adderton Calvin, 23 a, 25 ; Asheboro Courier, 1 lot, 100; Auman Jasper, 2 lots, 425; Auman B A, 3 lots, 600 ; Allred J N, 1 lot, 125 ; Allred J C, 90 a, 200; Allred TN, J38a, 100; Allred Jane (heirs of), 100 a, 25 (W W Redding, agt) ; Baldwin Phillis 19 a, 75 ; Birkhead J W, 35 a, 150, 1 lot, 750; Birkhead J F, 2 lots, 900 ; Bell .John, 10 a, 250 ; Burrow John, 146 a, 300; Brittain John T, 5.^ a, 550, 2 lots, 75 ; Brittain John T, atty for Mrs WHinman,"28 a, 2,000, 3 lots 9C0 ; Burns B B, 31 a, 50, 2 lots, 2,200; Burns W M, 130 a, 200; Burns & Moring, 8 a, 25

Bulla L D, 23 a, 200; Bulla T A, 1 lot, 800; Burgess W D, 1 lot, 400; Brown Eli, 100 a, 200; Brown Nath, 706 a, 800; Brown Reuben, 2 a, 5 ; Brown Tlios, 200 a, 300 ; Balfour Geo, 1 a, 120; Blair J A, 1 lot, 1,200; Brown & Hill, 1 lot, 75; Boyeite J M, 3 lots, 850; Bovette & Richardson, 1 lot, 200; Betls, J M, 1 lot, 435; Betts J .J, 1 lot, 175 ; Betts A L, 1 lot, 150; Baldwin Atlas, 17 a, 50; Baldwin Robt, 9 a, 25; Burrow E H, 134 a, 250 ; Bailey W D, 100 a, 150; Bailey J W, 108 a, 500 ; Brower J W, 2 a, 50 ; Brower J W & Co, 1 lot, 50

Bunting Louisa, 100 a, 250; Bunting W H, 100a, 150; Bunting W P, 27 a, 75 ; Bradshaw Geo S, 3 lots, 3,420 ; Bean C H, 67 a, 150 ; Burns H J, 36 a, 300, 1 lot, 1,400 ; Burns J M, 1 lot, 1,250 ; Cox Clarkson J, 1 lot, 150 ; Crawford Rowan, 1 a, 20; Cox Sarah, 1 a, 10; Cox Ann, 1 lot, 25; Cox NO,! lot, 300 ; Clark .John M, 1 lot, 1,000 ; Clark John's heirs, 100 a, 200 ; Calicutt Thos, 4 a, 4; Cross W D, 11 :V a, 150; Cross M H, 20 a, 50 ; Clapp W D, SO a, 100 ; Chavis Alfred, 1 n, 75 ; Craven J M, 26 a, 310 ; Crisco Jacob, 86 a, 125 ; Cox J M, 1 a, 100 : Cross Bettie, 15 a, 50; Carr Cain, 15 a, 50. 1 lot, 15 ; Davidson J R, 215 a. 300 ; Davidson Everett, 7 a, 50; Davidson John, 12 a, 75; Davidson Thos, 5 a, 20; Dunning John,

Thomas Tadlock's land grant shows Chaves owned adjoining property. Grant dated 1854^[1]

James VunCannon land grant shows T Chavis owned adjoining property. Grant dated 1891.

Name Thomas Chavis Event Type Marriage Event Date 14 Nov 1828 Event Place Granville, North Carolina, United States Gender Male Spouse's Name Nancy Harris Spouse's Gender Female ^[2]

1840 Census

Name Thomas Chaves Home in 1840 (City, County, State) South Division, Randolph, North Carolina Free White Persons - Males - Under 5 = 2 Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9 = 2 Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14 = 1 Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39 = 1 Free White Persons - Females - Under 5 = 1 Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9 = 1 Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39 = 1 Free Colored Persons - Males - 10 thru 23 = 1 Persons Employed in Agriculture = 2 Free White Persons - Under 20 =7 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49 = 2 ^[3]

1850 Census

Name: Thomas Chavis Age: 48 Birth Year: abt 1802 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1850: Southern Division, Randolph, North Carolina, USA Gender: Male Family Number: 326 Household Members: Thomas Lovelock 42 Jane Lovelock 41 Martitia Lovelock 19 Joseph Lovelock 18 John Lovelock 16 Stephen W Lovelock 12 Jane Lovelock 7 Mary E Lovelock 3 John T Lovelock Thomas Chavis 48 Virena Chavis 17 Thos C Chavis 16 Josiah Chavis 12 Robert Chavis 9 ^[4]

Son: Nicholas P Chavies Thomas Chavis(e) MyHeritage Family Trees DUNCAN Web Site, managed by SANDRA ELEANOR TYLER DUNCAN Birth: Circa 1801 - NC Death: Circa Feb 10 1874 - [Randolph] NC Wife: Nancy Chavis(E) (born Harris) Children: Alvina Jane Tenney? (born Chavis(S)), Alfred Chavis, Nicholas P. Chavis, Virena E. Walker (born Chavis(S)), Thomas C. Chavis, Joseph Alvin Chavis, Robert Chavis^[5]

1860 Census

Name:Thomas Chavis Age:60 Birth Year:abt 1800 Gender:Male Race:Mulatto Birth Place:North Carolina Home in 1860:Western Division, Randolph, North Carolina Post Office:Asheboro Dwelling Number:1048 Family Number:1033 Occupation:F Real Estate Value:500 Personal Estate Value:500 Attended School:Yes Cannot Read, Write:Y Household Members: Thomas Chavis 60 Alfd Chavis 25 Josiah Chavis 22 Bert Chavis 19 Jane Chavis 18 ^[6]

Additional Information

CHAVIS NAME

The Chavis surname was most common in southeastern Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina with the majority claiming either Native American and White and/or African-American ancestry, sometimes both. Our line maintains their identity as Native American and/or White (Welsh, German, Swiss). Elsewhere, groups like ours would probably be considered Metis. The surname appears on lists of Free African Americans, Melungeons, and tri-racial isolates. Any one of these associations draws controversy and many heated discussions on mailing lists. These groups developed from the early years of Jamestown and the Virginia/Carolina colonies when both Europeans and Africans served as indentured servants rather than chattel slaves, and many settlers took Indian wives or lived among Indian communities, especially traders. Indentured servants fulfilled their terms of service, purchased their freedom or were freed by their owners, and developed plantations or farms of their own. Legal restrictions on this community began as early as 1670.

By 1750, many who could be labeled free black, mulatto, Indian or mixed often lived in fear of illegal abduction as chattel slavery became the norm. Several sites state that on the 1790 census, anyone in the United States who could be labeled anything other than white fell into one category -- free persons of color. For this reason, and because it is believed families used whichever racial label provided the most freedom, race categories on legal documents and census are often disputed.

Whether predominately African, Native and/or White, many of these families came to live together in small isolated communities often moving deeper into the mountains or swamps. Fears were renewed with the forced Indian removals of the early 1800's, and there are stories of some of these communities harboring fugitives from the Trail of Tears . In these years, the growing population of free African-Americans or those of mixed race in Virginia and North Carolina was also seen as a threat. These families faced similar obstacles, but each family's story of survival is unique.

Our family has been living along the Edisto River since the 1700's and were given land grants following the Revolutionary War. Living in the swamps along the Edisto -- such as Four Hole Swamp , our family members served as riflemen under Gen. Francis Marion, Col. William Thompson, and Capt. John Allston. After the war, they moved to land grants along the North fork of the Edisto in Orangeburg Co. SC.

In Free African-Americans of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware , Paul Heinigg has documented Chavis moving out of Virginia into Granville Co. NC and on to Drowning Creek, now the Lumber River, in Robeson Co. NC. He traces the Chavis surname to Surry Co. Virginia resident, Thomas Chevers , Cheevers or Chivers of Monktown Castle, Co. Dublin, Ireland, who arrived in 1654. Other researchers disagree. The Chevers supported the crown against Cromwell, and in the same year Thomas emigrated, his brother, Walter Chevers, was banished to Connaught. A Norman line, Chevers is derived from the French chevre -- goat, and has also been associated with Chivas or Schivas , a Scots name from the barony in Aberdeenshire, Scotland though that link is disputed.

On Chavis message boards, some say Chavis is derived from Chavin or Chevin , the surname of a Huguenot refugee. Another similar sounding name is that of Huguenot refugee, Jean Chevas , who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1700. At this time in France, Scots, some of Norman ancestry, were among French Protestants while others served in the army or worked in French ports as traders -- so am uncertain about origins. Though primarily French, several nationalities were found among the Huguenot. The Mary Ann , arrived in the summer of 1700, and the Huguenot colonists settled not at Jamestown, but at Manakin Town (east of Richmond). The Peter and Anthony, the Nassau, and another ship (name unknown) arrived later. Chevas ("Tumar and his wife, Chevas and 2 children - 5") is listed in Brock's, Documents Relating to the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia as being in the fourth ship (though he is on the Mary Ann list) and settling between the two creeks. No further information for Chavin or Chevas.

The largest percentage of Native Americans with the Chavis or Chavous surname are among the Lumbee of Robeson Co. NC and the Pee Dee originally from the Florence and Marion Co. SC area, now concentrated in small pockets throughout South Carolina. Both groups also moved into Georgia. The Lumbee believe they are descended from the Roanoke colonists and the early tribes in the area. Some of their surnames are the same, and they took the name Croatan for many years. They were once labelled Cherokee. The Pee Dee share some common surnames with the Lumbee : Bear/Behr, Berry, Bird, Braveboy/Brayboy, Chavis, Jackson, Jones, Locklear, Oxendine, Scott, Sweet/Sweatt and others. There are more German-Swiss names among the family in Orangeburg Co. SC: Harmon, Huffman, Yawn/Yonne.

The Pee Dee were a smaller group associated with the Catawba confederacy, but researchers now believe they belonged to the Muskogean families like the Creek, rather than the Siouan. When they were placed on reserve, they were placed with the Notchee (Natchez), another Muskogean tribe. Many Pee Dee descendants had been told they were Indian, usually Cherokee. Some also have Creek ancestry. Several Pee Dee groups in South Carolina are applying for federal recognition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Current chiefs of the Pee Dee are from the Locklear, Chavis and Ott lines.^[7]

MELUNGEON DISCUSSIONS

The Chavis surname is included on Melungeon surname lists. N. Brent Kennedy wrote The Melungeons , in 1994 drawing attention to the origins of mixed race groups in southern Appalachia. He believes the common claim of Portyghee (Portugese) ancestry by many considered Melungeon was very possibly correct. What originally piqued Kennedy's interest in a Portugese connection to the Melungeons was contracting a disease common to those of Portugese or Mediterranean origin, though his heritage was believed to be Scots and German. There are many stories of Portugese or Portyghee heritage quoted (and disputed) in early American legal documents. Kennedy believes these groups have Portugese and Turkish (peoples within Portugese dominions or the Ottoman Empire) noting a large percentage of Spanish and Portugese sailors were Turks. The Ottoman Empire covered a lot of territory and those pressed into service might be Armenians, Kurds, Conversos/Marranos or North African. It has been said the Spanish Inquisition sent 500,000 Muslim and Jewish peoples fleeing throughout the Mediterranean. Blood tests have indicated those tested in the Wythe Co., Virginia area share a relationship to Mediterranean peoples.

Kennedy notes that in 1586, Francis Drake brought sailors/galley-slaves taken from a Spanish ship in the Caribbean and left them on Roanoke Island. They were not there when he returned, disappearing much like the Roanoke colonists (1585). During this time period 1560-1580, de Allyon, Joao Pardo and others established forts and missions in the Carolinas and Virginia; i.e. the Santa Elena colony (Beaufort Co.),the fort at Winyah Bay, the Spanish missions mentioned in The Patriot. It is believed some soldiers, colonists, sailors or slaves, perhaps with children from Indian associations, remained behind when the Spanish abandoned these settlements. Most often groups like this are absorbed into a larger group. Would surnames continue? Perhaps some would continue westward attempting to find another route home? It has been suggested or it is known a Chaves (Portugese surname and town near border with Galicia) was among Pardo's men.

Since Chavis and other associated surnames appear in settlements upriver from Winyah Bay in North and South Carolina it lends some credence to a Pardo or Spanish connection. Helen Chavis Othow, in her book on the African-American Presbyterian minister and teacher, John Chavis, gives the Spanish slave/Indian origin. On the other hand, as mentioned before Paul Heinigg's research connects the Chavis with descendants of Thomas Chevers, a Norman-Irish immigrant, moving onto Drowning Creek (Lumber River) from Granville Co., North Carolina. Then there are the Huguenot with similar sounding surnames.

MELUNGEON MEANS WHAT?

Some believe Melungeon is from the French, melange , meaning a mixture, but this is disputed. There are Muslim sites which state Melungeon could be derived from mujhadeen as well as illustrating possible connections to other southern Native American names. Another source is believed to be the Turkish or Arabic, Melun-can , meaning "cursed soul." The author says it was in common usage during the 16th century among Ottoman Turks, Arabs and Muslim converts to Christianity. Some mention the stories told by southeastern tribes of people living among them who from their descriptions seemed to have either Muslim or Jewish traditions, and there are also stories of Welsh Indians in southern Appalachia (from Sevier's explorations, and the Prince Madoc legends) .

Others, like Tim Hashaw , believe Melungeon is a term taken from the homeland of the earliest African slaves brought to the Virginia colony. He quotes researchers who say Angolan slaves in Brazil described themselves as Malungu -- from the Kimbundu (and Kikongo) word for "watercraft" which came to mean anyone who traveled on the same ship together. One Brazilian researcher says the word transferred to Portugese as "melungo" meaning shipmate, and refer to the 1880 definition given by Macedo Soares which included other associations such as companion, comrade or relative. Hashaw says that Britain and America had no direct African slave trade at the time, but British and Dutch privateers often attacked Portugese slavers leaving the Angolan port of Luanda. He quotes Sluiter in an article for the William and Mary Quarterly, which showed that a Captain Jopes (Cornish sailing under Dutch marque) traded 20 or more African slaves to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Between 1618-1620, Portugal was attacking the Mbundu kingdom of Ndongo, the modern Malange district of Angola, and driving deep into the Kongo. During this campaign, it is believed 50,000 men, women and children were taken into slavery, including approximately 5000 Christian converts. Some would come to New Amsterdam (New York), and many would go to Spanish and Portugese colonies such as Brazil and Mexico.

SIMILAR SOUNDING WORDS & SURNAMES MOST PROBABLY IRRELEVANT BUT INTERESTING

Jewish sites say chavush is a Hebrew word meaning captive, prisoner or imprisoned , as demonstrated by this quote from a Jewish Mailing List (find chavush). It is used in the same context on other Jewish sites.

The surname Chavush, apparently not with the Hebrew meaning, appears on Turkish, Armenian, Hungarian and other sites: i.e, Chavush Shipping, Gevork/Gevorg Chavush, Nazaret Chavush, Indjili Chavush, Sinan Chavush, Ibrahim Chavush . In Turkey, there is a chavush.cjb.net and a www.sivashaber.com . (I think haber means word or news.)

At The Fall of Medieval Hungary... it defines chavush: 1. courier; 2. marshal; 3. ceremonial escort. Chavush was the name given the Turkish whistling arrow , and which is said to mean messenger. Whistling arrows were used to signal military movements and to send messages.

Mulatto Classification of Indian Families & Related Laws

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For the last 200 years numerous Indian descendants have been fighting a legal, and often racially charged, battle due to historical and modern-day race classification. The dreaded historical beast of southeastern Indian communities that continues to rear it's ugly head is the fact that from the mid 1700's to after 1900 most Indian groups or individuals east of the Mississippi were racially classified as "Mulatto." The reasons and justifications for this are rooted deeply in the history of southern slavery, land ownership, and political power.

Prior to 1850 the federal census and most county tax books only distinguished 4 types of persons; free white males, free white females, free persons of color, and slaves. By the record keeping of the time Indians not taxed were not supposed to be recorded at all. These non-taxed Indians supposedly lived on reservations and therefore were not required to be subject to federal census or county tax recordings. However, the inhabitants of many state reservations and some federal Indian land grants were recorded on these documents.

In 1705 the Virginia Legislature passed into law that "the offspring of an Indian and a White is a Mulatto." This law went on to state that if the half-Indian 'mulatto' was to marry a white person then that 'mulatto' and his or her offspring were to be legally regarded as 'white' (this is undoubtedly where the notion that a person should be of at least ¼ blood to be considered an Indian arose). The Virginians were using the word 'mulatto' in its historical usage, from the root word 'mule', meaning any crossbreed. With the independent formation of the lower southern states, each state adopted racial classifications roughly equivalent to that of Virginia. Florida's official race laws stipulated that any mixed-blood person, whether of white/Negro, white/Indian, Indian/Negro, white/Hispanic, or whatever, were to be legally and socially classified as 'mulatto'.

Prior to 1850 federal censuses were performed primarily for tax and land ownership recording purposes, and most Indians were either not recorded, or included in the 'other free persons' or 'free persons of color' categories. Beginning in 1850, persons contracted to perform the federal census were encouraged to inquire as to person's self-identification due to the fear of "Light skinned Negroes trying to pass them selves off as whites or Indians." Given that there were only three available categories, white, black, or mulatto; that persons who appeared to be obviously mixed-blooded of any kind were to be listed as 'mulatto'; and that persons taxed could not be listed as 'Indian' (who were inherently non-taxed); it is not surprising that there were few Indians recorded east of the Mississippi from 1850 to 1900.

Any Indian person, family, or community not living on well-known reservated areas were more likely to be recorded as mulatto than either Indian or white. In fact, some Indian individuals who were living on land set aside for Indians were still the target of this racial arrow. Recording individuals on a land reserve as mulatto, or otherwise suggesting that the inhabitants mere mixed with Negro blood, was one of the most popular methods used to usurp the natural land rights of an eastern Indian people. The list of tribal remnants who were, at some point, recorded as mulatto include the mixed Creek-Cheraws of Alabama, mixed Choctaw-Chowans of Alabama, Lumbees of North Carolina, Nanticokes of Delaware, and others.

For a perfect example of the confusion suffered by lawmakers attempting to place these mixed-bloods into some neat category, read this excerpt from the 1871 North Carolina Joint Senate and House Committee as they interviewed Robeson County Judge Giles Leitch about the 'free persons of color' living within his county:

Research

FORUM ARTICLES SEARCH .Home > Forum > Surnames > Lafayette CHAVIS ~ Lafayette's Soldier By patricia obrist July 08, 2008 at 10:49:07 Seeking information about the roster of soldiers who came with Gen. Lafayette to fight in the American Revolution. My family story is that our earliest American ancestor came from France with Lafayette to fight in the revolution. He may have been in South Carolina, but he settled in North Carolina.His son, Thomas CHAVIS, was born in 1800.

Other family stories have proven true. I have not been able to corroborate this one however.Can anyone help?

Thanks, Patricia Bishop Obrist

My earliest CHAVIS is Thomas CHAVIS, b. 1801 in NC, by 1840 resided in Randolph Co., NC.In 1850 Randolph Co., NC Thomas is widowed with children: Nicholas, Alfred, Verina, Thomas, Josiah, Robert and Alvina Jane.

Other family stories have proven to be true.It was said that Josiah CHAVIS was a rebel.He did indeed leave NC and join the Union Army in Knoxville, TN.

Pat Bishop Obrist

My grandmother wrote about her grandparents and I am going on what she wrote about them I put in Rev John Chaves because of looking for some of the relatives that my grandmother wrote about in the writing that I have. I have not changed the Rev. John Chaves yet but plan to. She said that her dad (George Washington Chaves was born the third of 10 children. Grandpa Thomas Chaves died September 30, 1901, 65 years Grandma said that she remembers him quite well especially his black eyes, he had lots of friends everyone called him Uncle Tom. My grandmother said that her grandmother died in April before she was born.This is what my Grandmother Minnie Gertrude Chaves Hobson wrote: When Grandpa Thomas left North Carolina his mother and father were dead, his father came from Spain and fought in the Spanish and Indian war. Indians drove them south but grandpa came back to North Carolina. Grandpa left a brother and sister in North Carolina named Joecyrus and Cyrena. He said his mothers name was Lovada. I don't know his fathers name.

This may be correct. Research is on going. Thomas5, born say 1801, an insolvent taxpayer for the year 1822, reported in the Wednesday, August 1823 session of the Chatham County court. He was one of the freeholders of Chatham County who were ordered to work on the road from the Randolph County line to the branch below Rebecca Evans in the Monday, November 1827 session of the court.

ii. William, born say 1805, one of the freeholders of Chatham County who were ordered to work on the road from William Ragland's to John Dorsett's by the Monday, February 1836 session of the court.

DNA Research

possible match---Cebron David Chavis born 1853 father Nicholas P Chavis born 1829 Grandfather Thomas Chavis above.

possible DNA matches Cebron David Chavis (1853 - ?) Emmaline Chavis (1821 - 1893) Henry Harry Chavis (1789 - 1870) Laura Effie Chavis (1882 - 1915)

Direct ancestors with the surname Chaves From D.S. : Pooler Family Tree (2) Thomas Calvin Chaves B: 14 Oct 1836 in North Carolina D: 30 Sep 1901 in Missouri Minerva Alice CHAVEs B: 01 Apr 1878 in Fairmont, Clark County, Missouri, USA D: 28 Feb 1948 in Whitehall, Jefferson County, Montana, USA

From JUDY BYRUM : Judy Chaves Family Tree (4) Thomas Chaves B: 1801 in Chatham County, North Carolina, USA D: 10 Feb1874 in Randolph County, North Carolina, USA Edward Chaves B: abt 1876 in Missouri D: Abt 1901 in Missouri, USA Elmer Chaves B: 8 Jul 1911 in California, USA D: 23 Jun 1984 in Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, USA

Randolph County

It is necessary to separate the year 1779 from the other years of the Revolution in order to note a very important date in Randolph County history — its birth.

Randolph County was included in Orange and Rowan Counties until Guilford was formed in 1770- 1771. The eastern one-third part of Guilford was in Orange County and the western two-thirds was in Rowan. As the population increased in Guilford County people in the lower section found it was a long way to travel to court and other public gatherings at Guilford Court House and decided to request the establishment of a new county of their own. In 1778 a bill was presented to the General Assembly asking leave to divide Guilford into two counties. The General Assembly sitting at Halifax, February 26, 1779, passed the bill and officially recognized Randolph County, naming it in honor of Peyton Randolph of Virginia, President of the Continental Congress, 1774-1775.

The boundary for the new county was to begin "on the Anson Line at the corner of Rowan, thence running North twenty eight Miles, then East to the Orange Line." Thomas Owen, John Collier, John Adineal and Jacob Sheppard were appointed com- missioners for running the dividing line and Abraham Tatom, William Cole. John Hinds, John Collier and William Bell were appointed commissioners to erect the Court House, Prison and Stocks in the most con

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1. ↑ PAGE IMAGE FOR REFERENCED LAND PATENT BOOK 158 PAGES 742-743 Look for file number 3118 circled on the left margin of page 743 Click image to zoom and then use mouse wheel or bottom slider, click bottom right icon for full screen view
2. ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFS3-R9M : 22 December 2016), Thomas Chavis and Nancy Harris, 14 Nov 1828; citing Granville, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 1,758,775.
3. ↑ TranscriptResidence date: 1840 Residence place: Randolph, North Carolina, United States DetailYear: 1840; Census Place: South Division, Randolph, North Carolina; Roll: ; Page: . Web Addresssearch.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1840usfedcenancestry& h=1646172&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
4. ↑ Year: 1850; Census Place: Southern Division, Randolph, North Carolina; Roll: M432_641; Page: 103A; Image: 211 Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
5. ↑ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ8G-MSZG : 20 November 2015), Thomas Chavis, 1882; citing Randolph County, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,070,295. View the original document. The original may contain more information than was indexed North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979 GS Film Number 002070295 Digital Folder Number 007384148
6. ↑ Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
7. ↑ FROM QUESTION HOME.COM Chavis
8. ↑ By Stacey Ricketts 10 Sep 2006

"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFS3-RM1 : 4 November 2017), Thomas Chavis and Nancy Harris, 14 Nov 1828; citing Granville, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 1,758,775.