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Poe and
Essex / Caroline /
Granville/Orange/Chatham County,
[No idea whether or not this
is the same family as that of William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth
Colony, but the Nottinghamshire connection and settlement patterns show some
possibility. The link may date to a generation prior to that of Plymouth William
though]
This Source shows that
the
From:
http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/rbrad.html
Robert Bradford*; b. c1487,
Bentley,
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Caroline County, Virginia
order book / abstracted and compiled by John Frederick Dorman |
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Dorman, John Frederick |
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v. ; 28 cm. |
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Indexes. |
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Library holdings: 1732-1770. |
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Stephen Poe
Rachel Bradford
John Sutton
p. 240 [9 Dec. 1756]
It’s ordered Rachel Bradford and Stephen Poe be summoned to
next court and to bring the last will of Richard Bradford
Present: John Sutton
Stephen Poe
Rachel Bradford
Richard Bradford*
13 January 1757
The last will and testament of Richard Bradford was
presented in court by William Bowler and proved by Thos. Mason, Henry Farley,
and William Ragsdale, witnesses thereto. Racheal
Bradford, executrix in the will named, by a note from under her hand
relinquished her right of executorship and Stephen
Poe, executor, relinquished in open court. On William Bowler's motion,
administration of the estate with the will annexed is granted him.
It's ordered William Bowler, administrator etc., pay Henry
Farley . . . Thomas Mason . . . William
Ragsdale [each] 280 pounds of tobacco for one day's attendance and coming and
going once eighty five miles to prove the will of Rchd.
Bradford.
*Stephen & Hannah mentioned in Will of
Richard Bradford see Record of Unrecorded Wills 1746-57 in Orange Co. NC
October 28, 1756. Cavaliers and pioneers abstracts of
AfriGeneas Slave Research Forum
Slaves in Caroline Co., VA,
1757
Posted By: SlaveContributor
Date: Sunday, 1 May 2005, at 5:57 p.m.
Transcription from
Volume IV, No. 3 (July 1966), p.50:
Richard "one
shilling only;" to son John,
under 21, 2 slaves "I have in
Bequests to
wife Rachell, daughters Septirah Bradford, Elizabeth
Bradford.
Residue of estate to wife for
life, and she is executrix.
"Seal'd Sign'd
& Deliver'd in the Province of
Rachel relinquished the executorship
and administration was granted
to William Bowler. A Copy Teste: Benj. Rob____, Cl.C.
It's ordered William Bowler, administrator etc., pay Henry Farley . .
. Thomas Mason . . . William Ragsdale [each] 280 pounds of
tobacco
for one day's attendance and coming
and going once eighty five miles
to prove the will of Rchd. Bradford
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Abstracts of the wills and estate records of Granville County,
North Carolina, 1746-1808 / by Zae Hargett Gwynn |
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v. 1 1746-1808 ; 2 1808-1833 |
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Unrecorded Wills, 1746-1771
Oct. 28, 1756
- proved Jan. 1757 on oath of William Bowler, Thomas Wrenn,
William Ragsdale, Henry Farley. The executors named relinquished
and the court appointed William Bowler, administrator. Richard Bradford
wills to son Richard, 20 shillings; to son John, 2 negroes, all land in
Carolina which I bought of my brother Phillip Bradford, 2 featherbeds and
furniture and he to reamin in care of my wife Rachel
Bradford until he is 21 years old; to daughter Lephirah
Bradford, a negro slave; to daughter Eliza Bradford, a negro which I have
already delivered to her; to my wife Rachel all else as long as she is
my widow and at her death, to my surviving children: Sepherah
Bradford, Eliza Bradford, Hannah Poe, Mary Case, .... Bird, Exrs: my wife Rachel and Stephen Case. Wits: Thos. Wrenn, Henry Farley, William Ragsdale.
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p. 87
As previously noted, Philemon's oldest brother, Richard Bradford III, apparently moved away
from the
After selling his portion of the family's Charles City
County land to Benjamin Harrison in 1729, Richard III and his wife Rachel moved
to Caroline County, Virginia, where they lived in that country's Drysdale (later St. Asaph's)
Parish. Notably,
After moving to Caroline County, Richard III spent most, if
not all, of his life there (since court records from tht
county mention him as early as 1732 and as late as 1755). Richard's will, dated
October 28, 1756, was probated in
MY NOTE, if this guy had looked at Caroline Co
records at all he would easily have found the 9 Dec. 1756 record above that
explicitly proves the will was probated in Caroline County). Wherever he died (MY note: there isn't a
question about this - it was in Caroline County, VA), Richard III's will names the following children: Richard (IV),
John, Lephirah, Eliza, Sepharah,
Hanna (who had married a Poe (MY NOTE: it surprises me this fellow did not
easily find out that she married Captain Stephen Poe, son of Simon Poe, SR),
Mary (who had married a Case), and an unnamed daughter who had married a
Bird. One particularly interesting fact
in Richard's will is that he left to his son Richard "all land in
resume
Hargett
August 25, 1769 - proved
1770, Jan. court on oath of Joseph Parker and James Heflin and Mary Bradford
qualified as executrix, Thomas Bradford as executor, Philemon Bradford
wills to have executors pay all debts and funeral expenses; to daughter
Elizabeth Hudspeth, 5 pds. money; to son Thomas, 5 pds.; to son Philemon, 5 pds.; to
daughter Mary Whilte, 5 pds.;
to son Richard, 5 pds.; to wife mary,
the plantation where I live, a negro named Gilbert, a negro woman named Hannah,
negroes named Judy, Milley, Ned, Dilcey,
Bob, all stock, household goods, as long as she is my widow or for life; to son
John, the land bought of my son Thos. Bradford on each side of Fort Creek
containing 500 acres; at his mother's death, the negroes Gilbert, Hannah, and Dilce, all stock at William Parnals,
3 cows and calves, 6 sows and pigs, two beds and furniture, and if John
Bradford die under age or without issue, then to go to my other children; to
son David, the 400 acres where I live at the death of his mother, on Poplar
Branch and 30 acres more which is land I bought of my son Thomas Bradford; also
to son David 4 negroes, 6 cows and calves, two beds and furtniture
and, if he died under age or without issue, the property equally divided to all
my children then liveing. Exrs:
wife Mary Bradford, son Thos. Bradford, son Philemon Bradford. Wts: Tamer Heflin , Christopher Darnal, Mary Parker, Joseph Parker
Wulfeck,
Dorothy Ford.
Self Published.
Jonathan Poe
Samuel Poe
(Browning, Bradford)
5 November 1771
Account of Sale of Estate of Courtney Norman*, dec'd. to 5 Nov., 1771.
Purchasers: Reuben Norman, Ezekiel Norman, Cornelius Mitchell, John Norman,
Caleb Browning, John Corbin, Richard Murffie, Samuel
Poe, William Murffie, Jonathan Poe,
William Norman, Miles Murffie, Alexander Baxter,
William Reding, Jessey
Thompson, Thurmon Crim,
William Daniel, Jacob Weekley, Thomas Conn, William
Corbin, John Weekley, Jeramiah
Corbin, James Attwood, James Browning, William Grimsley,
William Day, Miles Murphey, Amry
Day, John Norman, Isaac Reding, William Atwood, John Bradford**, Joseph Boggess, Courtney Norman,
John Norman, Mary Norman.
*Jonathan Poe
and Samuel Poe (see above). Mary Browning (c.1720 - after 1779) married January
21, 1737/8 in