Abstracts by Zae Harget Gwynn

TAX LIST 1779

Dist 1 &endash; Reedy Branch to Crooked Run
Abram Bussett Simmons assessor
Cornelus &endash; 120 acres worth 460 pds
William &endash; 300 acres 525 pds

Dist 2 &endash; William Harrison, John Lavender and Risdon McDaniel assessors

Edmund &endash; 100 acres
James &endash; a single man &endash; 100 acres

District 3
Stephen Tilghman, John Andrews, Martin Frank assessors

Abraham &endash; 100 acres

WILLS

Have not read page by page for others &endash; no index

Will of Rachel Taylor &endash; 19 March 1779 &endash; eldest son Elias, daughter Eliza Roberts &endash; 1 shilling each - son Edmund &endash; 100 acres adj John McDaniel, James McDaniel and Arthur Smith &endash; if he dies without heirs to his brother John and if John dies to son Phillip and if he dies to Thira (Visa ??) Roberts daughter of my daughter Elizer Roberts; John to get 100 acres where I now live on Crooked Run &endash; household furniture, hogs, cattle etc to three sons
Son Edmund, exec
Not sure when probated

WILL of Cornelius &endash; 1 July 1791 &endash; May Term 1792 &endash; David son of Phillip and Susannah his wife &endash; land on Crooked run adj Lewis Bryant, Busset Simmons


DEEDS &endash; from index

P 112 &endash; 18 Sept 1769 - ABRAHAM of Onslow to Emanuel Jones &endash; 126 acres in Jones &endash; ES Whiteoak River &endash; Fo John Roberts who conveyed to Abraham

P 235 &endash; 1800 &endash; Jarman Winset to JESSE TAYLOR - WIT &endash; JOSEPH and ABRAHAM

P 525 &endash; 1816 &endash; FREDERICK and AMOS TAYLOR to George Pollock &endash; 23 of ½ a patent granted to John B. Lee and WILLIAM TAYLOR for 640 acres &endash; where Joseph Hatch and Joseph Smith's lines intersect

No JACOB

LAND ENTRY &endash; Cornelius had land 1779 &endash; SS Tent

P 89 &endash; 5 April 1778 - WILLIAM TAYLOR to JAMES TAYLOR both of Craven &endash; 40 pds &endash; 100 acres taken up by JAMES Sr &endash; SS Trent adj Abraham Bussett, Crooked Run,
WIT Daniel Simmons, J. Taylor

Cornelius was probably the Caroline Dickerson Taylor in the index &endash; the actual entries says Cornelius Dickerson in places and just Cornelius in places unless there were two of them

P 110 &endash; 7 Feb 1784 &endash; Vincent Chance and Sarah wife and Mason Broom and wife Rachel of Dobbs to Simon Speight &endash; JOHN TAYLOR was father to girls &endash; he died intestate in Craven leaving 100 acres on Beaver Creek which he bought of Patrick Stanaland and descended to his daughters &endash; land now in Jones Co

25 Feb 1783 &endash; Richard Reynolds, Sharp Reynolds and Elizabeth his wife to Lewis Bryan &endash; NS Trent both sides of Crooked Run, formerly WILLIAM TAYLOR'S line at Lemuel Latch's line

#172 &endash; 8 Jan 1800 &endash; Jarman Winsett to JESSE TAYLOR &endash; part of 200 acres granted to Thomas Jarmon in 1755 at mouth of island Creek
Wit JOSEPH and ABRAHAM TAYLOR

#175 &endash; 28 Nov 1799 &endash; PHILLIPS TAYLOR father and guardian to DAVID TAYLOR &endash; deeds to John Thomas Bryan &endash; SS Trent, ES Crooked Run &endash; land willed by CORNELIUS to his guardian, DAVID TAYLOR, for 12 years

#78 &endash; 5 June 1792 &endash; WILLIAM and DOROTHY TAYLOR of Onslow sold furniture, animals etc

Edmund on Crooked Run in 1793

Edward probably a descendant of John &endash; 1844 &endash; Abraham Bussett appears to have sold land that JOHN TAYLOR had on Crooked Run

#323 &endash; 14 Dec 1799 &endash; WILIAM and ELIZABETH TAYLOR sold land to Dawkins Wilkason

#71 - - 26 Dec 1843 &endash; Enoch Foy to FREDERICK TAYLOR JR and ELIZABETH AND EMILY TAYLOR children of Amos

#234 &endash; 23 Jan 1816 &endash; FREDERICK and AMOS TAYLOR sold to George Pollock &endash; 2/3 of ½ of a patent granted to John B. Lee and WILIAM TAYLOR for 640 acres

1799 &endash; ISAAC TAYLOR of New Bern &endash; was an attorney

10 Oct 1818 &endash; ISAAC TAYLOR to HARDY COLLINS all my right in land of my grandmother Nancy Dudley wife of Stephen Dudley

could not determine Isaac's mother

JAMES TAYLOR's land on White Oak in 1788 &endash; adj Prescott
Remember that a Sarah Prescott was a wit to the will of Old Abraham

6 June 1778 &endash; John Oliver to RACHEL TAYLOR of CRAVEN &endash; SS Trent in Craven
WIT Cornelius Taylor

Was this the Rachel with the will? Was Cornelius her husband?

Old James had a grant adj Bussett &endash; 16 Nov 1764

James on Whiteoak in 1786

Stopped on James ca 1814

JESSE TAYLOR &endash; GRANT &endash; 8 June 1790 &endash; Tuckahoe Creek at Beaverdam

25 Jan 1815 &endash; JESSE of Lenoir &endash; part of 2 surveys &endash; one patented by Thomas Jarman 1750 &endash; other one not given
WIT LEWIS and ZENOS TAYLOR

9 June 1784 &endash; law suit over 45 acres &endash; by JOHN TAYLOR, William Oliver and John Simmons &endash; Abraham Bussett had patent of 640 acres &endash; sold 100 acres to John Oliver who deeded to RACHEL TAYLOR who willed to JOHN TAYLOR

I6 June 1778 &endash; John Oliver to RACHEL TAYLOR &endash; both of Craven &endash; Ss Trent

1816 &endash; Frederick Foy sold land granted to JOHN TAYLOR 1768 &endash; WS Bachelor's Creek

stopped on John ca 1831

Joshua a WIT in 1796

1794 &endash; Henry Jones gave all property to daughter MARY TAYLOR his only daughter &endash; his sons got nothing
WIT Stephen Grande

Moses did not show up until 1850

WILLIAM TAYLOR had land SS of Neuse by 1780 &endash; Persimmons Branch next to Goy &endash; in 1789 &endash; land was NS Whittick next to Bazel Smith

WILLIAM of Craven &endash; 1779 &endash; 250 acres sold by Thomas Simson &endash; William was FO

1785 &endash; WILLIAM sold land on Crooked Run

1796 &endash; Frederick Foy to WILLIAM TAYLOR of Jones &endash; SS Trent &endash; ES Mill Creek adj John Granade