Name: Ezekiel Pritchett. Given Name: Ezekiel. Surname: Pritchett. [1] [2]
Born ABT 1730. Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.
Died 20 JUL 1796. Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. Map: Latitude: N36.042768. Longitude: W79.67602. [3]
Marriage Husband Ezekiel Pritchett. Wife Elizabeth. Marriage 1754 Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. [4]
Residence
1755
All land holdings near present day Seaford, DE.
Northwest Fork Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N38.627426.
Longitude: W75.632939.
[1]
1790
Listed as Caroline Co, MD (index only).
Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N38.901143.
Longitude: W75.58743.
[5]
31 OCT 1792.
Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N36.042768.
Longitude: W79.67602.
[1]
Property:
+50 acres, Brothers Adventure.
11 MAR 1755.
Northwest Fork Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N38.627426.
Longitude: W75.632939.
[6]
+50 acres, Kirks Branch from Noble Hobbs.
14 JAN 1758.
Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N38.901143.
Longitude: W75.58743.
[7]
-50 acres, Brothers Adventure.
29 OCT 1758.
Northwest Fork Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N38.627426.
Longitude: W75.632939.
[8]
+50 acres, Orrells Kindness from Ambrose Goslin and wife Sarah.
15 JUN 1763.
Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N38.901143.
Longitude: W75.58743.
[9]
+64 acres, Orrells Kindness resurveyed and obtains adjacent vacant land.
19 MAR 1776.
Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, United States.
Map:
Latitude: N38.901143.
Longitude: W75.58743.
[10]
-194 acres (part of Mills Purchase, Orrels Kindness, Addition to Kirks Woolf Trap).
31 OCT 1792.
Kent County, Delaware, United States.
[11]
Taxes.
1782
Tax Assessment - Mispillion Hundred Sequence 437, Assessment 4.
Kent County, Delaware, United States.
[12]
1790
Tax Assessment.
Kent County, Delaware, United States.
[13]
Note: (N0368). (N0542). (N0604). (N0605). (N0607).
Note N0368 1/15/2012
By resurvey of "Orrels Kindness", said land now belongs to Delaware 3/19/1776. This land was originally in Caroline County, MD which means there could be more land which was in Maryland. To go further back, need to look for land records in Maryland.
Said resurvey done on 3 and 4 September 1776 contained a total of 114 4/10 acres which contained adjacent vacant land.
11/15/2015 update
Orrells Kindness was located in Dorchester County for a land grant of 50 acres to Francis Orrell in 9/10/1747. Ezekiel Pritchett must have acquired the land between this date and 1776.
Note N0542 7/12/2015
Something wrong with the dates on the last four children here. Three of them have the same date. Got this information from Familysearch.org. Undoubtedly there is a will somewhere that lists all these folks. Ezekiel may have been married twice which would explain the gap in dates of the last four children with the first six.
Note N0604 9/21/2015
Please see reference for the following:
1/25/1755 > Denwood Hicks of Dorchester County, Gent, and Anne his wife to Ezekiel Pritchet of the same county, planter: "Brothers Adventure" on the northwest side of the northeast Branch of Nanticoke River, containing 50 acres more or less. Witnesses were Henry Hooper and Edward Trippe. (McAllister, Book 15, Old 192)
10/29/1758> Sells same to William Jester. Brothers Adventure was originally surveyed for Thomas Hicks in 1714.
10/29/1757 > Ezekiel Pritchett, planter, purchased from Noble Hobbs and his wife Priscilla, a 50-acre part of a tract called 'Millses Purchase' on the borders of Dorchester County, on the south side of Kirks Branch and the north side of the Nortwest Fork of Nanticoke River. This 50-acre parcel is the same land Robert Hopkins and his wife Elizabeth sold to Noble Hobbs in 1754. (McAllister, Vol. 15, Old 545)
1763> Ezekiel Pritchett, planter, bought 50 acres on the Northwest Fork of the Nanticoke River from Ambrose and Sarah Goslin. (McAllister, Vol. 18-382)
3/25/1775> Ezekiel Pritchett, Caroline County, bought the 29-acre "Addition to Kirks Woolftrap" from James Peterkin and his wife Elizabeth for 29.10 lbs. (Dorchester Co., Md., SLC F-3382, Pt. 2, page 95)
Delaware 1782 tax list:
Edward Pritchet Mispillion Hundred, Kent Co. Ezekil Pritchet Zachariah Pritchet
10/31/1792, Ezekiel Pritchett, planter of Kent County, Delaware, sold 194 acres, the whole of the lands he owned in Delaware to John Saulsbury of Caroline County, Maryland. Saulsbury paid 300 lbs for three tracts: "Mills Purchase", a 51-acre tract purchased from Noble Hobbs; "Orrels Kindness", granted by patent September 4, 1747, and an addition in 1776, making the tract 114+ acres; and 29 12 acre "Addition to Kirk's Woolf Trap" purchased from James Peterkin. Ezekiel had appointed Thomas White and Richard Bassett, Esq., as his lawful attorneys to make the sale. Witnessed by Thomas White and Olive Jump. (Kent Co., DE, DB D, Vol. 2, pa 44; SLC F-6460)
Note N0605 9/21/2015
Ezekiel Pritchett (7/20/1796)
In the name of God - I Ezekiel Pritchett of Guilford County, North Carolina calling to mind the mortality of my body do make and publish this my last will and testament in number and form following.
Signed sealed pronounced and declared to be the last will of the testator in presence of us this 20th of July 1796 (7/20/1796)
Robert Peasley & William Peasley proved the execution of the within will in open court then came in Zebulon Pritchett and qualified as executor to the said will within ordered to be reconized.
John xxxxxx CC
Note N0607 9/21/2015
The following from Records of Jones County, North Carolina, 1779-1868 Vol 1
Abstracts of the Records of Jones County, North Carolina 1779-1868, Volume I
Deed Book I (1799-1802)
382-384, May 28, 1801
John Rawlston, J.P. of Kent Co., Delaware state that Jean Hopkins, widow of John Hopkins, late of Misspillion Hundred in Kent Co., Delaware, aged 85 years or about, and deposes that he knew her an her late husband for upward of 50 years ago and they were inhabitants of Dorchester Co., MD, were well acquainted with Zebulon Prichett who had several children, one of whom was named Jeremiah and one named Ezekiel. Ezekiel moved to Misspillion Hundred, Kent Co., Delaware, and had the following sons and daughters born in lawful wedlock: Ezekiel Pritchett of Kent Co., Delaware, had children: Zachariah, Hester, Edward, Sarah, Ezekiel, John, Elizabeth, Unity, Zebulon, Isaac Pritchett. Jeremiah Pritchett, son of Zebulon, married a daughter of the Leaks family, of Dorchester Co., MD, and about 37 or 38 years ago moved to North Carolina where he settled and died there many years later. Jean Hopkins also deposes that: Zachariah Pritchett a respected resident and free holder of Kent Co., DE, lives about seven miles from her residence. Hester Pritchett married Isaac Gillet and moved to North Carolina. Edward Pritchett was killed when he fell from a horse, about 1783. Sarah Pritchett married Joseph Whittington and moved to North Carolina. John, Ezekiel and Isaac Pritchett moved to North Carolina. Elizabeth, a single woman, lives in Kent Co., DE. Unity Pritchett married John Jester and lives in Kent Co., DE. Jean Hopkins deposes that she knew Ezekiel Pritchett well and also knew the above named children. This deposition was signed in presence of Abraham Ridley, Sec. of State of Delaware, and registered in Jones Co., N.C., by William Orme.
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