Charity (Hardy) Todd (1716 - 1778)

Born 1716 in Chowan Precinct of Albemarle County, Province of North Carolina, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Todd — married 1740 in Bertie, Province of North Carolina, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 1778 at about age 62 in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Charity Hardy was born in 1716 to William and Edith (Batchelor) Hardy in the Chowan Precinct of Albemarle County, Province of North Carolina, British Colonial America. [1, 2] Six years later, in 1722, the region would become Bertie Precinct and then in 1739 Bertie County. [10]

"Charity" was the given name of her paternal grandmother, Charity O'Dyer. [6]

She married Thomas Todd in 1740 in Bertie County, North Carolina, where the two had eight children in twenty years, including Elizabeth (b. 1740) and William (b. 1750). [3, 4]

Charity and her husband Thomas are listed together as a couple (viz., “Thomas and Charity Todd”) witnessing the will of Frances Razor on 18 Dec 1748 in Bertie County, North Carolina. Also listed as a witness was William Hardy, the name of Charity’s father, who would have been age 62 or 63 at the time. (William died in 1751 at age 65 or 66.) [5]

Frances Rasor was the mother-in-law of Charity’s brother Lemuel “Lamb” Hardy, and the Rasor and Hardy family relations included multiple land gifts and bequeaths over the years prior to the above-listed will for Frances Razor. [6]

North Carolina Early Tax Census records place the Thomas Todd family in Bertie County in 1757, 1759, and 1769. [7, 8, 9]

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1769 in Bertie. [1, 2]

Charity passed away in 1778 in Bertie County, North Carolina. [1, 2]

Sources

1. Biographical details, FamilySearch [1]

2. Biographical details, Ancestry.com [2]

3. "Abstract of North Carolina Wills," Ancestry.com, database [3]

4. "US and International Marriage Records, 1590-1900," Ancestry.com database [4]

5. Abstract of North Carolina Wills, 1690-1760, Raleigh: E. M. Uzzell, 1910. Vol. VII, page 306. Digital Collections of East Carolina University. [5]

6. “Hardy Documentation, c. 1700s” [6]

7. "North Carolina Early Tax Census" for 1757. Ancestry.com database [7]

8. "North Carolina Early Tax Census" for 1759. Ancestry.com database [8]

9. "North Carolina Early Tax Census" for 1769. Ancestry.com database [9]

10. "Bertie County, North Carolina." Wikipedia. [10]

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 16 November 2016, 15:30), entry for Charity Carrel Hardy(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L67T-24Z); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 16 November 2016, 15:30), entry for Charity Carrel Hardy(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L67T-24Z); contributed by various users.
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