Martha (Duncan) Reynolds (abt. 1813 - 1856)

Born about 1813 in Orange, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 24 Aug 1856 at about age 43 in Franklin, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Martha was born about 1813. She is the daughter of Seamore Duncan and Pricilla Hicks.

Married William A. Reynolds (or Runnals)

Sources

• Orange Co. NC Equity Court (from Charles O. Duncan 3/1985)

(no date) Bill of Complaint of Anderson Duncan, Betsy Duncan, Frances Duncan, William Duncan, Lucy Duncan, Patsy Duncan & John Duncan against Nelson Duncan and Cleopatra Duncan, infants & minors under the age of 21 years.

That Seamore Duncan late of Orange Co. departed this life intestate sometime last spring, leaving the orators and aforesaid Nelson Duncan and Cleopatra Duncan his children and heirs at law; that Seamore died seized of a tract of land containing about 320 acres in Orange Co. in the Hawfields and on both sides of the public road leading from Hillsborough to the High Rock upon Haw River; that Seamore left Priscilla Duncan his widow him surviving, who is yet living & holds possession of the Mansion House & her dower of said lands which has heretofore been duly allotted to her.

That by making partition of the said tract of land ... among the several tenants in common, that is to say, the said 200 acres divided into nine shares subject to the widows dower therein, the value would be greatly diminished, inasmuch as the several dividends would be too small for the establishment of a farm thereon ... (request for public sale of the land and the proceeds divided) but Nelson Duncan & Cleopatra Duncan are minors under the age of 21 years and incapable of conveying their estate. That the said Nelson Duncan and Cleopatra Duncan may appear by their proper guardian for the purpose of defending their interest in this application.

List of the personal property of Seamore Duncan decd which was sold on 13 Feb. 1827 by James Forrest & A.B. Duncan, adm. of Seamore Duncan decd. Sales to Prisilah Duncan, William Duncan, James Forrest, James Christopher, A.B. Duncan, David Mcadoms, John Clardan Junr, James Clarke, Martha Duncan, Thomas Woods, John Christopher, James Fausett, Cleopatra Duncan, Lucy Duncan, Joseph Alerson, Clarke White, William Liles, Thomas Lynch, Charles Mcanly, John Duncan.

• "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD9J-YNL : 16 March 2020), Patsy Duncan in entry for William M. Reynolds, 1839.

• Duncan, W.A. and James Harvey Duncan. John Hawkins Duncan, Son of Seamore Duncan 1992 (FHL book 929.273 D912dwa and FHL film 1,697,825 Item 7) - descendants of Seamore Duncan