Nicholas Medlin (1699 - aft. 1742)

Born 16 Apr 1699 in St Peter Parish, New Kent, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Owens) Medlin — married 1719 in Henrico, Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1742 after age 42 in Pvt Home, Bertie, North Carolina

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Biography

The following paragraph contains unsubstantiated information:
When Richard Nicholas Medlin was born on April 16, 1699, in New Kent, Virginia, his father, Richard, was 19 and his mother, Susanna, was 19. He married Ann Owen in Halifax, VA in 1719 when he was 20 years old and their children were: Nicholas Medlin Sr (1720-1790); William Owen (1723-1806); Joseph (1725-1780); Richard Nicholas (1725-1790); John (1736-1780) & Lorenzo Jack (1777-?). He died in 1742 in Bertie, North Carolina, at the age of 43^{[citation needed]}.

Name: Nicholas Medlin (see Research Notes)

Born: on 16 Apr 1699in New Kent County, Virginia ^{[citation needed]}

Marriage: to Ann Owen 1719 probably in Henrico County, Virginia ^{[citation needed]}

Property: Feb 1739 in Bertie County, North Carolina - Nicholas Medlin and wife Ann sold 440 acres to James Stewart. ^[1]

Death: (unknown, see Research Notes)

Research Notes

Some unsourced family trees at popular websites show his first name as Richard with a middle name of Nicholas but this is wrong because middle names were all but nonexistent in 17th-century Virginia^[2]

Unsourced trees at popular websites show Halifax County as the location for his 1719 marriage but Halifax County did not exist in 1719^[3]; it was formed from Lunenburg County in 1752. The marriage probably took place in Henrico County where Ann Owens lived.

Some researchers have cited the 7 Feb 1742/43 Bertie, NC will of Owen McDaniel (no relation to Ann Owens) witnessed by Richard Medlin as evidence that Nicholas Medlin died in North Carolina after 1742 (wrong name/wrong man?).

Sources

1. ↑ photocopy of deed at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/63491010/person/30271114876/media/af7b5b13-a0c7-4dfa-8698-351505478e8d?_phsrc=ZYd26&_phstart=successSource
2. ↑ A guide to Seventeenth-Century Virginia Court Handwriting by Kent P. Bailey and Ransom B. True; Virginia Genealogical Society, 2001
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_County,_Virginia

• Stephen M. Lawson http://steve.lawson.net/smlawson/kerby.htm This website has been taken down and we no longer know what, if any, evidence was there.
• S69 Ancestral File The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Ancestry.com and familysearch.org. Both these sources are notoriously unreliable