1991 Boyett Newsletter(C)2000 Boulineau Press
BOYT/E-BOYET/T/E NEWSLETTER
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| Vol. VII, No. 4 Oct/Nov/Dec 1991 |
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Published & Edited by Wendy Elliott, 4808 Garland, Anaheim, CA 92807
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Revolutionary War-NC Vouchers .... ... 2
Land Records-Dobbs County, NC ........ 3
Wills - Wayne County, NC ........... 5
Devisee/Devisor Index Wayne Co.NC .... 10
Renewal Notice . . . . . . . . . . ..12
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BOYT/BOYET/BOYTE REVOLUTIONARY WAR CREDIT VOUCHERS
IN THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES
(Extracted)
No. 1370 District of Wilmington Arthur BOYT 2 lbs 5 s
16 March 1782
No. (punched out] Martin County Benjamin BOYET $7,500. 1 May 1781 (assigned to John EVERETT 18 Mar 1782)
No. 12 Hillsborough Benjamin BOYT ?lbs 7 s l0p
1 May 1792 (soldier in the Continental Line of NC)
No. 27 H----orough Benjamin BOYT 5 lbs 15s l1p
1 May 1792
No. 5306 Halifax District Benj'm BOYT 15 lbs 4s
7 Feb 1782
No. 46 Benj BOYT $7,500.
25 April 1781 (received from James GREEN 5 ___ 1782)
No. 1371 District of Wilmington Ephram BOYT 1 lb specie
| 16 March 1782 (for service in the Militia) |
No. 4072 Halifax District Isaac BOYT 8 shillings
16 Jan 1782
No. 1209 Halifax District Isaac BOYT 1 lb 16s
16 Jan 1782
No. 5339 Halifax District Isaac BOYT 10 lbs 18s
7 Feb 1782
No. 4050 Halifax District James BOYT 3 lbs
16 Jan 1782
No. 406 Dobbs County Joseph BOYET 1 lb
11 Jan 1785
No. 407 Dobbs County Jacob BOYET 1 lb
11 Jan 1785
No. 1354 District of Wilmington Samuel BOYT 1 lb 8 s
16 March 1782 (for service in the Militia)
No. 1374 Samuel BOYT 1 lb
16 March 1782 (for service in the Militia)
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No. 1323 District of Wilmington Samuel BOYT 6 shillings
16 March 1782 (for service in the Militia)
No. 1292 Moses BOYETT 8 lbs
25 August 1783 (for M_(punched out] service)
No. 1257 Warrenton Samuel BOYETT 28 lbs 8s 8p
1 May 1786 (for service in Continental Line of NC)
No. 9211 Halifax District Thomas BOYTE of Nash Co. 6 lbs
August (other part of date punched out]
No. 57 Newbern District Thos BOYT of Wayne (Co.] 10s
2 June 178 (for vouchers rendered)
No. 1353 District of Wilmington Wm. BOYT 1 lb 8s
| 16 March (1782--paper folded] (for Militia service) |
No. 433 Halifax District William BOYTE 6 lbs 8s 2p
8 June 1782
No. 1295 District of Wilmington Wm. BOYT 9 lbs 8s
16 March 1782 (for Militia service)
No. 9211 Thomas BOYTE of Nash Co. 6 lbs
August (other part of date punched out]
No. 57 Newbern District Thos BOYT of Wayne Co. 10s
2 June 178 (for vouchers rendered)
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LAND RECORDS
DOBBS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Grant #64
This transaction may have been recorded on page 477 in the original grant book for this number appears alongside the following text;
Thomas BOYT 48 (acres in] Dobbs [County] on the Marsh Branch Joining his own and John MITCHELLS lines Beginning at a Stake in his own line and runs with his own line Et 114 pole to a maple in the Marsh Branch his own corner then No 33 Wt 22 pole to a red Oak John MITCHELs (sic) corner then with his line No 17 Wt 83 pole to a pine in said MITCHELs corner then So 75 Wt pole to a Black Jack in or near John SASSERs line then with or near his line So 12 Wt 40 pole to a pine thence to the first Station. Dated 21st Dec'r 1762
Arthur Dobbs (Governor of North Carolina]
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NORTH CAROLINA No. 304
His Excellency Arthur Dobbs, Esq; Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the said Province.
To the Surveyor-General, Greeting,
You are forthwith to admeasure and lay out, or cause to be
admeasured and laid out, unto Thomas BOYT, a Plantation, containing
Two Hundred Acres of Land, in the County of Dobbs on the Marsh
Branch Joining his own & John Mitchel's lines
Observing his Majesty's Instructions for running out Lands; Two just and fair Plans whereof, with a proper Certificate annexed to each, you are to return into the Secretary's Office, within Twelve Months from the Date hereof: And if the Warrantee shall not within Eighteen Months from the Date hereof, take out a Patent for the said Land, this Warrant, and all Proceedings thereon, shall be void and of no Force; and the said Land shall be deemed vacant and free to be taken up by any other Person.
Given at Wilmington under my Hand, the 20th Day of April Anno Dom
1763 Arthur Dobbs
Nov'br 29th 1763
Surveyed for Tho's BOYT Jr. A Acres 48
Plantation containing 48 Acres of Land in ye County of Dobbs On the Marsh Branch Joyning his Own and John Mitchels Lines Begining (sic) at a Stake in his Own Line And Runs with his Own Line Et 114 pole to A Maple in ye Marsh Branch his Own Corner then No 33 Wt 22 pole to a red Oak John Mitchels Corner then with his line No 17 Wt 83 pole to A pine Said Mitchels Corner then So 75 Wt 52 pole to A black Jack in Or Near John SASSORs Line then with or Near his Line So 12 Wt 40 pole to a pine thence to ye first Station.
By Philip Stone
D.Sw'r.
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| The first record transcribed above is the Grant awarded to Thomas BOYT of Dobbs County, North Carolina. According to law a survey was required, and this was completed and recorded on 29 Nov 1763 as is transcribed immediately above. Although neither the 48 acre grant dated 25 December 1762 nor the 200 acre grant which is dated 20 April 1763 identify Thomas BOYT as junior or senior, the survey record clearly shows that this 48 acre |
grantee was Thomas BOYT, Jr.
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Apparently Thomas BOYT had previously purchased or been granted land adjacent to the 48 acre grant, because the record states that part of the 48 acre parcel is bounded by “his own line” which refers to a previously established boundary. Thomas BOYT Jr.'s neighbors were John MITCHELL and John SASSER. Thomas BOYT's 200 acre plantation was shown to be adjacent only to lands belonging to John MITCHELL. Both the 48 acre and 200 acre properties were situated on the Marsh Branch in Dobbs County.
Dobbs County was organized in 1758 from Johnston County. It was discontinued in 1791. A portion of Dobbs County was used to create a part of Wayne County in 1779; what remained of Dobbs County became Lenoir County in 1791.
The following wills, recorded in Wayne County, North Carolina, are probably for Thomas BOYT Sr. and Jr. of Dobbs County, although there are at least two other Thomas BOYET/BOYTEs that appear in the records of Wayne County for this same period. One is the son of Thomas BOYTE, Jr. as named in his father's will dated 15 February 1816, and the fourth Thomas BOYTE served as a witness to the same will.
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WILLS
WAYNE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Thomas BOYET (Sr.) left a will which was probated in Wayne County, North Carolina during the January term of court in 1787. It reads as follows:
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| In the name of God Amen. I Thomas BOYET of the province of North Carolina and County of Wayne. Planter, being of perfect mind and memory, make this my last will and Testament, first, I desire to be buried in a decent manner at the descressition (sic) of my executor, my Temporal Estate first I give and bequeath to my beloved son Shadrack BOYET a piece or land, Begining (sic) at a white oak and down the Branch to the Puckkosen to the line and to the Begining (sic) I give & bequeath to my beloved son Amos BOYTE (sic) A piece of land which was Called Mitchel's Land the Land which is on the East side of the said Branch in that Tract to him I give and bequeath to my son and I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Her life Time my estate to maintain her on, and after her decease, my Hole (sic) and sole estate to my beloved son Thomas BOYET, I constitute and appoint my beloved son Thomas BOYET and Amoss BOYT my hole (sic) and sole executors, and annull all former wills & Legacies by (86 written between these two lines] by (sic) |
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me heretofore in any wise Left or made declaring and confirming this and no other to be my last will & Testament as witness whereof I here unto set my hand and Seal this 3rd day of September 1786
Signed Sealed and delivered
in presence of us
his
Thomas + BOYT (Seal)
mark
Jos. Ballard BOYT
Aaron WALLISS
Jan'y Court 1787
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The Inventory of the Estate of Thomas BOYET is recorded on page 103 and is No. 29. It is dated April Court 1787. The first sentence of this record states, ".. .the Estate of Thomas BOYET Dec'd 11 Nov 1786...” which is probably his death date. The inventory lists both household and farming items and stock.
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Thomas BOYTE (Jr.) also of Wayne County, North Carolina, made his will on 15 February 1816. It was recorded in Wayne County as follows:
In the Name of god Amen
I Thomas BOYTE of the County of wayn (sic) and State of North Carolina being Weak of Body But of Sound and parfect (sic) mind and memory bless Be god Do this 15th day of Fabruary (sic) one thousand Eight. (sic) hundred and Sixteen do make and order this My Last will and Testament in mannar (sic) and form As followes (sic) to wit I ?mipermise? my will and Desire is that all my jest (sic) Dets (sic) be paid by Executors Heareafter (sic) named Second my will is my (“beloved” written above line] son Henry BOYTE the land and other things that I have given him to be his part. (sic) and my beloved Son Elisha BOYTE the Land and other Things that I have given him to be his part also I give to my beloving (sic) Son Howell BOYTE all the Land that on the North Side of the rode (sic) that goes to Waynsboroug (sic) of a pallin [patent?) of Sixty Acers [blank space) Also my Lot in waynesborough [”e” written above the line] As Also I give to my beloved Son Thomas BOYTE the young gray mare bridel (sic) and Sadel (sic) and one Bed and furnituer (sic) when he marries or gits free Also I give to my beloved Son William BOYTE my Strase Coalte (sic) bridel and Sadel one bed and Furnatuer (sic) Also one Negrow (sic) gal by the name of Delce [or Delie] not to be taken from his (sic) Mother dureing (sic) her naturl (sic) Life without hir (sic) Consent Also I give to my beloved son Patrick BOYTE All the ["rest of my" written above the line] Land that I have not given away aftar the deth (sic) of my beloved wife Also one negrow (sic) Woman by the name of Chreara and one negrow Boy by the name of tom [not to taken from his mother during his naturl life” written above the lines) also I give to my beloved
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daughtar Sela HOWELL five dollars besides what She has had Also I give to my beloved Daughtar Ann SASSAR twenty five Shillings besides what She has had Also my beloving Daughtar Nansa HOWELL what She has had to be her part as yet Also my beloving Daughtar Patta BOYTE What She has had to be her parte as yet Also my beloved Daughtar Equilla LANGSTON five Dollars besides what She has had also my beloving Daughtar Bekka BOYTE one bed and furniture when She Marries or Comes (“of” written above the line] age as also I give to my Beloved Daughter Elizabeth BOYTE one bed and Firnature (sic) Also one Negrow (sic) gal by the name of Juda not to be taken from hir (sic) mother During her naturl Life with ("out” written above the line] hir (sic) Consent Also I give To my beloving wife Elizebeth BOYLE [“t” is uncrossed] All my Property rayl (sic) and persnal that I have not given Away During hir naturl (sic) Life and Aftar her deth (sic) to my Son Pattrack (sic) all but one Negrow gall (sic) by the Name of Rose and one Negrow gall By the Name of Juluan and their increes (sic) And aftar the Deth (sic) of my beloved wife the Negrow gales (sic) rose and Julaan to be and their incres (sic) To be vallad (sic) and Some of the ares (sic) take them and if not Sel (sic) them to the hiests (sic) biddar (sic) and the money Equal Devided (sic) between Ann SASSAR Nanca HOWELL and Palla BOYLE (uncrossed t's] and my son Thomas BOYTE Also Bekke BOYTE and Wm LANGSTON son of Elijah LANGSTON and Equlla (sic) his wife I a nominale (uncrossed “t”] and appoint my Worthy Frinds (sic) Isaac HANDLY and Cladeous S. HAMBELTON Executors of this my Last Will and Testament Rattufying (sic) and Confirming This and this only to be my Last will and Testament in witness Where of I the Sd Thomas BOYTE have hear (sic) unto Set my Hand and Seal the day and Date above mentioned
Sealed and published pronounced
and Delivred (sic) by the his
Testator to be and Thomas + BOYTE (Seal)
Containes (sic) his Last mark
Will and Testament
in the presants (sic) of
us who are in the of (sic) Each
other Claudias HAMILTON
Uriah LANGSTON Qualified Exr only
John FLOWRY
thomas BOYTE (no capitals)
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| Apparently the settlement of Thomas BOYTE's estate took several years. During the November 1827 of court for Wayne County, a record is included pertaining to the valuation of the estate's |
negroes as follows:
page 397
Agreeable to an order directed to us from the County Court of Wayne to Value the negroes belonging to the estate of Thomas BOYTE dec'd Report as follows, negro Girl Rose & Child Valued at Four Hundred
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and fifty Dollars. Girl Julian Valued at Four Hundred dollars, Edy Valued at Two Hundred dollars Boy Elbert Valued at One Hundred and Eighty five dollars, Boy Tom Valued at one Hundred and Eighty five dollars. amounting in all to fourteen Hundred & Twenty dollars all which is Respectfully Submitted by your Committee August 29 1826
Samson LANE
John EVRETT
Uriah LANGSTON
The above Valuation was not agreed to by
The Heirs of Thomas BOYTE dec'd C. HAMILTON
Nov Term 1827
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Also on the same page is the following court record:
Acc't Sale of the Negroes belonging to the Estate of Thomas BOYTE
dec'd:
Nov 20th Negro Rose & child to Henry SASSER for $460.25
Julian John HOWELL 427.25
Edith Thomas BOYTE 229.00
Elbert John HOWELL 141.25
Thomas John BOYTE 175.00
Aug 29th Hire of Julia for 2 mo 8.10
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$1450.85
1826 Nov 20th John HOWELL rec'd 229.10
John BOYTE do 229.10
John THOMPSON do 229.10
Thomas BOYTE do 229.10
Uriah LANGSTON Grd for WmLANGSTON 229.10
John BOYTE rec'd for keeping/
/negroes Rose & Child 11.70
Patrick BOYTE acc't Rose & Child/
/when sick 14.00
Jno. STARILY? for professional/
/services 5.00
Henry SASSER Rec'd 229.10
Dr. Baugh Rec'd 9.35
Commission on $1450.25 36.30
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$1450.25
This appears to be the final settlement of the estate of Thomas BOYET, (Jr.). Because of the stipulation in his will that the negroes Rose and Julian were to go to his wife and were not to be sold until after the death of his wife, Elizabeth, it can be assumed that Elizabeth died prior to 20 November 1826 when the negroes were sold.
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Of primary importance is that this record along with Thomas Jr.'s will, provided all necessary clues to the husbands' names of Thomas Jr.'s daughters. Ann BOYTE married Henry SASSER. Nancy BOYTE married John HOWELL. Polly BOYTE married John BOYTE; Rebecca "Bekke" BOYTE married John ThOMPSON.
This final accounting also provides the information that Equilla's
husband Elijah LANGSTON was deceased in November 1827, and Uriah
LANGSTON had been appointed guardian of Elijah and Equilla's son,
William LANGSTON prior to the settlement of Thomas Jr.'s estate in
November 1827.
[Note: this data corrects and supplements material included in From Boyt to Boyette: The Descendants of Thomas BOYET. See pages 17-23.]
Amos BOYTE's will:
| In the name of God Amen I Amos BOYTE of the County of Wayne and State of North Carolina being sick and weeke (sic) of body but of Sound Mind and Memory do this 2nd day of April 1826 make and publish this my last Will and testament in maner (sic) following first I lend to my wife Elizabeth BOYTE during her life time or Widowhood One fether (sic) bed and furnature one Sow and Six pigs one Cow Cauld (sic) the Langston Heiffer and her calf five barrels Corn one Hundred weight of flax from the brake and the Cotton patch at the Houses the field ajoining it on the rode (sic) the apple orchard and the field on the left hand of the rode going to the mill nere (sic) the long branch one wheel and card and one pot to be her choice and all the bacon that I (sic) one wash tub one Warter (sic) pale (sic) one bred (sic) tray and the dwelling House I Give to my Sun (sic) Dempsey BOYTE a peace (sic) of land ajoining the land of Uriah LANGSTON beginning at my corner up the branch and run down the branch untill (sic) ?run? east Come Will hit the black haw tree in the field and then [blank space] East to the back line then with Uriah LANGSTONs line run to the beginning the sad (sic) Dempsey to pay Uriah LANGSTON the are (sic) of Charty (sic) JONES tene (sic) Dollars Out of the land to Stephen BOYTE my Sun (sic) I Give appease (sic) of land begining (sic) where Dempsey hits the back line and with the line to a white Oake (sic) on the rode (sic) run the long branch then with the road to the bars that goes in to the apple orchart (sic) then to a White cake tree in the field neare the plum Orchart (sic) and Strate (sic) on to the line in the branch the Said Stephen to Give out his parte (sic) this land ten dollars to the ares (sic) of my Sun Moses BOYTE all the rest of my land to be equally divided betwin (sic) my Suns (sic) Micajah and Amos BOYTE by their paying ten dollars each to the airs (sic) of Moses BOYTE I give to my Sun John BOYTE my negro man Cadis and one horse Cicielo. Cadus and all the Hogs that is Caul (sic) Cadus The rest of my property is not Wild (sic) away I wish to be Sould (sic) and my Just Debts paid out of the money then the ballance if any to be equally divided between my Children Sher (sic) and Sher alike and I hereby Make and ordain my Suns John and Amos BOYTE Executors |
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of this my last Will and testament in witness thereof I the said Amos BOYTE have to this my last Will and testament Set my hand and Seal the day and year above written [the remainder is too faded to read]
his
Amos + BOYTE
mark
Howel BOYTE
Patrick BOYTE
May Term of Court 1826
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WAYNE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
DEVISOR/DEVISEE INDEX TO WILLS
1782-1965
Devisor Devisee date Bk-pp File #
Thomas BOYET Thomas, Amos Jan 1787 A-85 17
Shadrack
Shadrack BOYET Martha, Mary, - - - 131
Judy, Elizabeth
Joseph B. BOYTE Mary B., Feb 1816 R3-341 210
Thomas BOYTE Henry, Bekke, Feb 1817 R4-33 221
Elizabeth, Howell,
Thomas, Patta, Wm.,
Patrick, Elisha,
Elizabeth & Rebecca BOYTE,
Nansa & Sela HOWELL,
William & Equilla LANGSTON,
Ann SASSER
Amos BOYTE Elizabeth, May 1826 R5-261 319
Dempsey, Amos,
Moses--heirs of,
Micajah & John BOYTE,
Uriah LANGSTON
Polly BOYTE John WORRELL, Feb 1838 R7-261 433
Henry BOYTE
David WORRELL Easter (WOR- Jan 1789 A-161 25
REL) HOWELL,
Jesse, Sarah, John,
James WORRELL,
Henry BOYET, Mary BOYET
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Devisor Devisee date Bk-pp File#
William HOOKS Dorcas, Blake, Nov 1820 R4-365 264
John, Nancy, Wm,
Robert & Warren HOOKS,
Morning HOWELL,
Sarah WORRELL,
Smithey RAIFORD,
Polly BOYET
Joshua HOWELL George, Bryant,JUl 1799 B-288 83
& Edna BRADBURY,
Silvie, Louis, Cliff,
Burwell, Admiral, Jasper,
Barbara & John HOWELL
Archilus HOWELL Elizabeth, Nov 1811 R2-85 173
Abraham, Henry,
John, Needham, Stephen,
Caleb & Daniel HOWELL,
David, Stephen, & Charity PATE
Elizabeth HOWELL Henry, Caleb, Nov 1821 R4-462 273
Daniel, John,
Stephen-children of,
Needham, Emelia, Eliza,
Elizabeth-children of,
Winifred, Abram & Lucy HOWELL
James JONES Elisha, Moses, May 1827 R5-363 328
Stephen, Amos,
Dempsey, & Micajah BOYTE,
America-children of &
America TOLER, Thomas WISE
Isbel JERNIGAN Jesse & Jan 1783 A-25 7
Patience WATKINS,
Etheldred & Priscilla BOYT,
Jesse & Isbel HAYES,
Alse & John WIGGS
Uriah LANGSTON Mary, Equilla, May 1838 R7-385 436
Elisha, Asa, William,
Robert, Henry, Eleanor,
Elizabeth, Ira, Martha,
Lydia, Uriah, Wright,
George & Martha LANGSTON,
Polly PIKE, Sally HOWELL
Mary LANGSTON Asa W., George, Nov 1844 R9-140 491
Henry, Ira, Uriah &
Wright LANGSTON, Lydia
& Sarah HOWELL, Sarah
WADKINS, Martha VINSON, Polly PIKE
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Devisor Devisee date Bk-pp File#
James THOMPSON James-wife of, Nov 1839 R7-557 451
Elizabeth, Edney,
Lotty, Sally, Wilie,
Benonly, Jackson,
James & Willie THOMPSON,
Elizabeth PEACOCK,
Charlotte PEACOOK,
Sally BOYTE
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