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Contents 1 Profiles with a Will without an Abstract or Transcription that Names some People not yet Added/Confirms Others 2 Relationships in Need of Source Validation 3 North Carolina Verification Tool for Land Grants 4 Pedigree to Match 5 Pedigree to Check 6 Bates and Fleming Families Quaker Monthly Meeting Placement: Add Scimino as a MM Category? 7 CC7 Branches to Work 8 Slaveholders with Enslaved Persons to be Identified 9 Pending Merges 10 Enslavers to work on 11 Enslaved person to amend pending Barbour research 12 Needs GEDCOM/Ancestry or Other Sources Clean-up 13 Confirm that Sources Were Worked Out 14 Books or Other Possible Source Citations to Get and Vet 15 Lockeys in Abstract of North Carolina wills & Hathaway 16 Burns Legacy Heirs 17 Add Collateral Family 18 A Generation or So of Butler 19 Cemeteries to Mine for Kin 20 Connections listed on Porter Fann 21 Project Related Check-Ins for Challenges, etc. as Time Permits

Profiles with a Will without an Abstract or Transcription that Names some People not yet Added/Confirms Others

• Edward Ballenger (abt.1730-aft.1772)
  • Also, check for any US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal (USBH) inclusion criteria; i.e., were any slaves named or otherwise enumerated in the will?

Relationships in Need of Source Validation

• John Gilbert (abt.1754-aft.1829) and Sarah (Tew) Gilbert (abt.1760-abt.1807) - Sarah is allegedly a daughter of Robert Tew (bef.1720-abt.1787) and Eliza (Cameron) Tew, another relationship that is unconfirmed by a source. Robert's death is shown as 1787 by most reports (for example: Bentley, Thelma Tew. The Family of John Adam Tew and Related Branches: Baggett, Butler, Eppes, Fisher, Fowler, Naylor, Royal. 6 Jun 1992. Sampson, North Carolina: Author. Courtesy of Sampson County Historical Society.), but the next Ancestry Hint raises the question - might he have died after the 1790 census? (It does state residence date of 1783, nevertheless, which is unusual.)
  • Hint from Ancestry that is yet to be reproduced from source on FamilySearch: North Carolina, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890. Name: Robert Tew, Residence: 1783 township (redacted), Duplin County, NC. Note that this census may have a count of females, which could be extremely helpful, though most of the children would have married well before 1790.

North Carolina Verification Tool for Land Grants

• NC LAND GRANT IMAGES AND DATA - North Carolina Land Grants from 1663 to 1960.
• Check the following [cf. Bentley (1992)]:
  • Daniel Tew I (abt.1745-abt.1785)
  • Jeremiah Tew I (abt.1747-bef.1829)
  • John Tew (1762-1846)

And their additional brothers:

1. Marmaduke Tew
2. Phillip Tew
3. Alexander Tew

Pedigree to Match

• Generation 11 Henrie Avery 1624-1680 = Henry Avera Sr (1622-abt.1695) - probably not born in France, however.

10th great-grandfather

• Thomas Avera 1649-1715 - TBD

Son of Henrie Avery

• Alexander Avera 1675-1757 - TBD

Son of Thomas Avera

• Alexander Avera 1710-1761 - TBD

Son of Alexander Avera

• Jacob Avera 1742-1807 = husband of Ann (Fail) Avera (1747-aft.1786)

Son of Alexander Avera

• Winifred Winey Winniford (Avera) Wilder 1775-1848 - TBD

Daughter of Jacob Avera

• Temperance (Wilder) Woodard 1804-1871 - TBD

Daughter of Winifred Winey Winniford (Avera) Wilder

• Kitty Kitsey Kitsy Ann Katharine (Woodard) Bryant (1828-1853) - TBD

Daughter of Temperance Wilder (Wilder) Woodard & Wife of Pearl Vendrick Bryant (abt.1822-aft.1877)

• Joseph C Bryant (1852-1921) - Son of Katherine (Woodard) Bryant (1828-1855) and Joseph C Bryant

Pedigree to Check

• Thomas Silas Bennett (1725-1789)
  • John Bennett (1743-1802)
    • John Bennett (1767-1817) - has a probate file in need of transcription: "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch: 20 Nov 2015, Craven County > B > Bennett, John (1817) > image 1 of 8; State Archives, Raleigh, but a preliminary review shows probable daughter Ellenor Bennett making multiple estate purchases, and her future husband, Zacheus Paul making at least one.
      • Penelope (Bennett) Paul (abt.1803-abt.1886) - earliest source record for her is the 1850 census, in which she was a widow of Zacheus Paul (abt.1800-abt.1838)

Bates and Fleming Families Quaker Monthly Meeting Placement: Add Scimino as a MM Category?

See: Hinshaw, William Wade; Marshall, Thomas Worth, ed.; & Brown, Douglas Summers. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. VI: "Henrico Monthly Meeting." 1950. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, Inc.

Virginia Yearly Meeting: The first surviving record of a session of the Yearly Meeting is dated 1702, the seventh month... included were John Bates and James Bates.

... [monthly meetings] known to have existed at this time [circa 1702] and are named else where are: Curles (same as Henrico) and the ancient Warwick - York Monthly Meetings...

In a letter, bearing the same date as the 1702 minutes of the yearly meeting, it is discovered that ... are appointed delegates to the yearly meeting 'for the monthly meeting belonging to Curles in James River, and for the monthly meeting to York and Warek (sic) (Warwick) Counties there is appoynted John Bates (Bates) and..."

Subheading: Virginia Yearly Meeting (p. 12-13)

"In 1698 and again in 1705 the famed minister, Thomas Story, visited extensively in this area, and from his Journal we can draw information concerting Quakers in this area. First we find a number of homes in which he held meetings; they were:... John Bates' at Scimino, York County..." #24/1063-#25/1064

"And now, here follows a list of persons known to have been Quakers:... John Bates and family of Scimino;... James Bates of Scimino.

Perhaps the most influencial family among the early converts above named was that of Bates. Through the next two and a half centurees they were to prove strong members of the Society and furnish many members from their family roster. Story's account of the conversion of James Bates and his wife is most winsome.

p. 8 (image 20/1064), page heading Virginia Yearly Meeting

CC7 Branches to Work

• Mahalia (Paul) Lee (1820-1898) and her husband Robert Lee (abt.1813-1887) need these additional children created (also, Robert's father is Levin Lee, who is not yet proven.

1. Richilda (Lee) Hardison (1844-1923) who married Rufus W Hardison (1837-1918) - 1st cousins
2. Emily W (Lee) Brinson (1845-1897) who married 22 Feb 1873 William H Brinson (1851-1929), no issue - William remarried to Mollie Walker
3. Joseph Bryan Lee (1848-1916) of Arapahoe, a saw mill and cotton gin owner, who married 9 Jan 1870 Phoebe Ann Caton (1848-1923)
4. David P Lee (1852-1930) who married in Beaufort 22 Jan 1885 Mollie E Rowe (1864-1917)

NOTE: The 1850 census of the parents has not been leveraged, which captures all of the children but the youngest (David). Above is summarized from Lee, Ruth. Pamlico County, North Carolina Lee's. Arapahoe, North Carolina: author. Accessed 25 Apr 2023.

• Siblings of Charles Leon Lockey (1878-1958) (add his wife via her grandparents: David McCain (1832-1905) and Find A Grave: Memorial #24776446 [which has the grandmother's parents as Francis Franklin Garner Sr (abt.1797-aft.1865) and Susan Ann (Sanders) Garner (bef.1802-aft.1880)); and their wives/issues, as applicable. Note also that the children of Susan Ann (Sanders) Garner (bef.1802-aft.1880) and Francis Franklin Garner Sr (abt.1797-aft.1865) are well described on Susan Anna (Sanders) Garner profile, but only one of them has had their profile created.

1. William Autrey (abt.1745-abt.1790) 2 of five children only have profiles

• Descendants from Johan Jacob Mueller (abt.1667-aft.1732) (eighth great grandfather) are worthy of attention in CC7 range - Working from another direction: John George Kornegay (1671-1711) - John Jacob Mueller was his guardian

Slaveholders with Enslaved Persons to be Identified

• Absolom Autrey (abt.1740-1833)
• Allen Bonner (abt.1781-1827) - by one historians account, names of the enslaved are in the records (presumably estate or possibly manumission).
• Patrick Carr (abt.1709-aft.1742)
• Otway Burns Jr (abt.1775-1850) - see also adding collateral family

Pending Merges

• Proposed a Merge of Spence-2925 into Spence-1559

Enslavers to work on

• Parent(s) of, and also these sons, at least:
  • James Barbour (1775-1842)
  • Phillip Pendleton Barbour (1783-1841)

Enslaved person to amend pending Barbour research

• Phillip Barbour (abt.1790-)

Needs GEDCOM/Ancestry or Other Sources Clean-up

• John Spooner (aft.1734-1810)
• John Spooner (1696-1763)

Confirm that Sources Were Worked Out

• Joshua was mentioned on a memorial in Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States with a death date of 1 March 1778.
  • Memorial:

Find a Grave (has image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #17619386 (accessed 8 November 2023)
Memorial page for Joshua Spooner Sr. (1741-1 Mar 1778), citing Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Rich H. (contributor 46489213).

• • Broken link cited for birth 1778 birth record, with no other details for event, FamilySearch ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Brookfield/Images/Brookfield_D532.shtml
• To be Moved Off of this Page: A different Jabez and Hannah (Unknown) Spooner: listed on profile of John Spooner (bef.1708-bef.1773), but belong to a different (Jabez) and his wife Hannah (Unknown) Spooner, of unknown/unconfirmed origins. John Spooner (bef.1708-bef.1773) needs some parents and descendants confirmations.
• Love Culbreth (1812-1896) probably has additional citations on FamilySearch.
• Zora was mentioned on a memorial in Springvale Cemetery, Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, United States with a death date of 13 February 1947.
  • Memorial:

Find a Grave (no image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #219513989 (accessed 8 November 2023)
Memorial page for Zora Culbreth Lance (27 Dec 1882-13 Feb 1947), citing Springvale Cemetery, Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by George Carter (contributor 48638380).

• • Confirm whether aligned on WikiTree

Books or Other Possible Source Citations to Get and Vet

• Bundy, Vivian Mayo. Supplement to Meet Our Ancestors: Culbreth, Autry, Maxwell-Bundy, Winslow, Henley and allied Families. - Link to FamilySearch Library information, only. 2nd ed. 1979. Greensboro, North Carolina: Media Inc. [Is this Supplement 2?]
• Bundy, Vivian Mayo; Brooks, Robert Autry. The descendants of Cornelius Autry, immigrant of Edgecombe County, North Carolina: Neil Culbreth of Sampson County, North Carolina, and allied families. 2013. Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company. Digital edition on FamilySearch, in full.

Lockeys in Abstract of North Carolina wills & Hathaway

This person was mentioned in the book Abstract of North Carolina wills in 1910. Book: North Carolina. Secretary of State; Grimes, J. Bryan (John Bryan), 1868-1923; North Carolina. Trustees of the public libraries. [from old catalog], Abstract of North Carolina wills
Raleigh, E. M. Uzzell & co., state printers; 1910; page: 536
Internet Archive (accessed 14 February 2024)

Early North Carolina Settlers, 1700s-1900s

• Lockey, Lieutenant Christopher. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 420.
• Lockey, Frazier. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 336.
• Lockey, Henry. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 336.
• Lockey, James. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 336
• Lockey, Joseph. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 336.
• Lockey, Sarah. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 336.
• Lockey, Henry. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 372.
• Lockey, Henry. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 387.
• Lockey, Joseph. Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I. p. 507.

Burns Legacy Heirs

• Owen Augustus Burns was mentioned on a memorial in Rosemary Cemetery, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, United States with a death date of 28 Aug 1937. Memorial: Find a Grave (has image) Find A Grave: Memorial #64944754 (accessed 14 February 2024). Memorial page for Owen Augustus Burns Sr. (31 Oct 1869-28 Aug 1937), citing Rosemary Cemetery, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, USA; Maintained by Sandra (contributor 47198337). See also: http://www.owenburns.com/2010/09/join-celebration.html
  • His father: Owen Burns USN, Ret (abt.1810-abt.1869):

Owen Burns was mentioned on a memorial in Saint Francis Xavier Shrine Cemetery, Warwick, Cecil County, Maryland, United States with a death date of 1869. Memorial': Find a Grave (has image). Find A Grave: Memorial #10686714 (accessed 14 February 2024). Memorial page for Capt Owen Burns (1810-1869), citing Saint Francis Xavier Shrine Cemetery, Warwick, Cecil County, Maryland, USA; Maintained by Harold Massey (contributor 46739095).

Add Collateral Family

• Otway Burns Jr (abt.1775-1850)
• Mary Ann (McMillan) Bain (1825-1903) - children's marriage dates need sorted out
• Mark Johnson (abt.1783-abt.1829) - check for collaterals especially if CC7
• Cary Johnson (1802-aft.1880) - children's marriages, deaths to be appended - see extensive Research Notes to construct spouse Mary Polly/Polley Unknown

A Generation or So of Butler

• Traverse Butler Family Bible Records

Traverse Butler Holy Bible book. 16 Apr 1797. Published MDCCXCI. Edinburgh. In possession of Mrs Effie Butler of Clinton North Carolina, borrowed from her by Earl Butler, also of Clinton. Submitted by Evelyn (Butler) Clifton of Albany Georgia. Transcribed as written by Traverse (Travis) Butler. North Carolina State Archives: Traverse Butler Family Bible Records (1722-1863). Wake County, North Carolina, United States. Local Call Number 400.1.1.1960. Accessed 2 Mar 2024.

Cemeteries to Mine for Kin

• Little Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Clayton, Johnston County, North Carolina - common 90 graves with surnames (among others, those with at least two are shown):

1. Adams
2. Allen
3. Baker
4. Batten
5. Benson
6. Childers
7. Collier
8. Denning
9. Hubbard
10. Johnson
11. Jones
12. Kennedy
13. McLeod
14. Parker
15. Parrish
16. Powel
17. Puckett
18. Smith
19. Southerland
20. Stephenson
21. Tyner
22. Woodall
23. Woodard (maiden)

• completed

1. William Ashley Woodard (1862-1918)
2. Lenora (Johnson) Woodard Lewis (1859-1937) - have not located Mr Lewis

Connections listed on Porter Fann

• Goal: For all of these, check the confidence levels in the descents.

Project Related Check-Ins for Challenges, etc. as Time Permits

• England Biography Builders Team Page
• When adding a new Notable, help as needed:
  • See: General Profile Creation Procedures
  • US Black Heritage: Notables

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