1756 Chesterfield County, Virginia Tithables List

Tithing Barn at Buckland Abbey in Devon England


List of Tithables for 1756 Taken by Seth Ward

Tithes
William Grissell 1
George Grissell 1
William Graves, Robert Moon 8
Francis Clayton 3
John Moore at Dead Creek (father-in-law of Richard Cheatham) 1
William Blankenship (father-in-law of Thomas Hatcher) 1
James Watkins, William Ellis, Joseph Watkins 6
William Watkins 5
Robert Beasley 2
Sarah Ward Tithes (widow of Joseph Ward), Leonard Ward 6
Seth Ward 10
Samuel Branch, Henry Cox, Matthew Branch 4
Thomas Oliver, Peter Oliver 7
William Cheatham 6
Roderick Easley 4
Mark Farmer 1
John Hudson 1
Edward Crostick 1
John Franklin 1
Joel Cheatham 1
Edward Gates, William Eppes 2
Edward Stewart 1
William Hatcher Sr., Joel Hatcher 3
Edward Friend Jr. 4
Henry Anderson Tithes at Winterpock, Claiborne Anderson, Peter Pinckstone 5
Cicely Bass (Cicely Branch, widow of William Bass), Benjamin Walthall 8
Joseph Bass 5
Thomas Sadler (father-in-law of Obadiah Hatcher) 1
Thomas Branch Sr., Charles Burton, Richard Ferryman 14
William Branch 5
Thomas Cheatham, son of William 3
Obedience Cheatham (Obedience Branch, widow of William Cheatham) 4
Benjamin Horner (father-in-law of John Burton) 2
Peter Worsham 3
William Moore 2
John Rogers 1
Isham Thompson 9
William Lockett Jr. 1
Thomas Franklin 2
David Owen 2
Stephen Lester 1


A List of Tithables Taken by William Thompson

Tithes
Benjamin Andrews 2
George Archer, William Archer 7
Isham Andrews 1
Richard Andrews 1
Francis Andrews 1
William Andrews 1
George Archer, Thomas Norton 2
John Andrews, Peter Andrews, Lewis Andrews 3
Field Archer, John Archer, Edward Archer, Thomas Hanks 9
Abraham Burton 2
John Bevill (father-in-law of John Archer), John Bevill Jr., Francis Bevill 6
James Barker 1
Joseph Bowman 1
Thomas Brooks 1
Thomas Bott, John Bott 7
William Blackley, Constable 1
William Belcher 1
Charles Burton, Robert Burton 4
Farsons Bradley 2
Allenson Clark 2
John Casey 1
Robert Casey 1
William Clark 1
Benjamin Cheatham Jr. 1
Neal Cawin 1
John Cousins 3
George Cousins, James Old 4
John Cook, Johnston Dudley, Thomas Chapman 3
William Dunnavant, Jeffrey Rushel 2
Abraham Dunnavant 1
Henry Dance, Edward Dance 2
Thomas Dance, William Dance 5
William Jackson, Overseer for Thomas Dudley 6
Francis Dyson 1
John Dyer, John Dyer Jr. 2
William Dodd 1
William Dodson, William Dodson Jr. 3
Thomas Dodson 2
Humphrey Dunnavant 1
Thomas Dance Sr. 2
John Dyson 1
John Ellett Jr. 4
William Eanes 1
Edward Eanes Sr. 2
Josiah Eanes 1
Edward Eanes Jr. (father-in-law of Frances Rowlett) 1
Thomas Eanes 1
Henry Eanes 1
John Ennis, Zachariah White 2
James Franklin 1
Joseph Franklin, Alexander Franklin, William Thacker 3
Henry Featherstone 1
Godfrey Fowler (brother-in-law of James Hill) 1
Henry Fowler 1
John Firth Sr., Francis Finn, patroller, Francis Dyer 2
John Farguson 1
John Gibbs (father-in-law of Stephen Dance), William Gibbs 6
Matthew Gibbs 2
Webster Gill 2
John Gill 1
Daniel Gill 2
Robert Gill 1
Jacob Gill, Daniel Handy 2
Francis Gill 3
William Glascock, Isham Evans 3
Benjamin Grainger, Moses Grainger 2
William George 2
Ann Gill 2
James Gill 2
Martha Gill 2
James Hill 4
Robert Haskins 3
John Herbert 8
David Holt, John Childress, Thomas Speed 3
Ralph Jackson Jr. 1
Samuel Jones, Thomas Horten, Stephen Atkinson 3
John Johnson, Philip Johnson 2
William Johnson 1
William Jeffries 1
Thomas Dudley for Richard Kennon 12
John Kirn 1
Neal McLane 1
Benjamin Lockett 2
Francis Lockett 1
Richard Lockett 1
Thomas Lockett 1
John Lockett 1
William Lockett, Halcott Lockett 4
Thomas Lacy 1
George Hunt Moore, Daniel Moore 3
Matthew Moore 1
John Moore 1
Richard Moore 1
Thomas Moore 1
William Moore Jr. 1
Isham Moore 1
Thomas Minskip 1
William Minskip 1
Joseph Male 1
John Martin 1
Christopher Martin 12
Nathaniel Nance 1
William Northcut 1
Sherman Nunnally 1
Edward Osborne 1
Abraham Puckett, Anthony Puckett 2
William Pride 4
John Perkinson, Burwell Perkinson 2
William Perkinson 1
Francis Perkinson, William Ryan 2
John Perkinson, Thomas Perkinson, John Perkinson Jr. 3
William Partin 1
Daniel Perkinson, Baxter Perkinson 2
Caleb Perkinson 1
Nathaniel Perratt 1
Robert Perkinson 1
Peter Fitzpatrick, Thomas Osborne, Joseph Haskins, Edmund Ellis 9
Thomas Puckett, Edward Puckett 2
Mark Puckett 1
Grief Randolph, Andrew Patterson 11
Benjamin Ratliff 1
John Ratliff 1
John Russell, Thomas Russell 2
William Rowlett Sr. 4
John Robertson 9
William Rowlett, Patroller 2
Thomas Rowlett 3
James Robertson, Richard Day 13
Joseph Rowlett 3
John Rowlett 4
Peter Raws 1
William Royall 1
Jonathan Ray, William White, Robert Lyle 4
Peter Russell 1
John Rickman 2
Francis Royall 1
John Stiles 1
Robert Stuart, Joseph Ward 2
Richard Stiles 2
George Davis, Overseer for John Sturdivant 8
Joseph Stuart 1
George Traylor 4
Joseph Traylor 4
Thomas Totty Sr. 5
Thomas Totty Jr. 1
Archer Traylor 1
William Talbott, Henry Talbott 5
John Traylor, John Traylor Jr. 2
William Totty, Abner Totty 4
John Totty 1
Humphrey Traylor 2
William Totty Jr. 1
William Thompson, John Coleman 9
Henry Vaden 1
William Vaden Jr. 1
William Vaden, John Vaden 3
Daniel Vaden 1
Gardner Vaden 1
Edward Valentine 1
Lodowick Willson 1
George Willson, John Willson 7
Thomas Wyatt, Joseph Barker 2
Richard Walthall 3
Thomas Woodcock, Mark Woodcock 4
Thomas Wells, Joseph Wells 5
William Worsham Sr. 3
William Worsham Jr. 4
John Williams 1
Essex Worsham Sr., Essex Worsham 4
Edward Willson 1
John Worsham 1


A List of Tithables Taken by Edward Osborne

Tithes
John Farlow 13
Joseph Tanner 4
Thomas Cheatham 9
Benjamin Branch, Thomas Branch, Edward Branch 18
Frank Morris, Mulatto 1
Edward Osborne, Joseph Pollin, John Pollin 19
Charles Featherstone 5
Richard— 2
Lewis Puckett 1
John Brown 1
Edward Friend Sr., James Auld, Overseer 6
Thomas Howlett, Thomas Howlett Jr., Joseph Howlett 13
Samuel Hatcher 2
James Smith, William Smith 2
Henry Moody, Henry Moody Jr., Thomas Moody 6
Thomas Friend 7
Peter Baugh Jr. tithes, Thomas Robertson, Overseer 3
William Perkinson, John Perkinson, William Perkinson Jr. 3
Joseph Jackson, Joseph Jackson Jr. 4
Andrew LaPrade Tithes, Peter LaPrade 2
Andrew LaPrade Jr. 1
John Ellett, John Ellett Jr. 6
Joseph Ashbrook 2
James Gates (father-in-law of George Robertson) 3
George Robertson 2
Thomas Bass Sr., Josiah Bass 6
David Nunnally 1
Daniel Nunnally Jr. 1
William Ashbrook 1
Samuel Hancock, Simon Hancock 6
Peter Farguson 4
Joseph Cobbs 3
Anthony Hancock, William Wells, John Ferguson 3
Gerard Walthall, Edward Walthall, Gerard Walthall Jr. 6
Charles Cheatham 6
Henry Grissell 1


List of Tithables Taken by John Archer

Tithes
John Archer, John T. Archer Jr. 13
William Bass, John Bass 10
Ralph Blankenship, Francis Blankenship 2
Edward Ballard 1
William English 1
Robert Elam 1
Richard Elam 2
Maj. Isham Epes 2
Edward Folkes, Edward Folkes Jr. 6
Henry Hudson, Abraham Hudson 2
Moses James 3
John Knibb 8
James Ligon 5
Alexander Marshall 10
William Moseley, Matthew Moseley, Patroller 10
William Moseley Jr. 6
Daniel Nunnally 3
Noel Nunnally 1
Alexander Nunnally 1
Walter Nunnally, William Womack 4
William Norris, Joseph Norris 2
Thomas Nash 1
Elizabeth Randolph Tithes 6
Thomas Stratton 4
John Tanner 3
William Womack 1
William Ferryman, Jack Ferryman, George West 1
Richard Epes, Alexander Dinck, Joseph Harris, Joseph Worsham, William Binsley, John Williams 40


A List of Tithables by John Bolling

Tithes
Tarleton Woodson, John Griffin 9
John Toms, Robert Toms 3
Jacob Morgan, George Cogbill 27
Joseph Carruthers 6
Joshua Roberts 1
George Brown 4
Thomas Franklin, William Franklin, Joseph Franklin, Benjamin Franklin 5
James Farguson, John Farguson 3
Christopher Bass, John Farmer 6
Jacob Trabue, John Trabue, David Trabue, William Trabue 9
John Sassun 1
\Joseph Trabue, Peter Sassun 3
William Turner (father-in-law of Joel Hatcher) 1
Hudson Blankenship, Nowell Blankenship 2
Henry Nunnally 1
Thomas Harding 2
William Loftis, William Loftis Jr., Thomas Loftis 3
Joseph Vaden 1
James Nunnally 1
Zachariah Ellis 1
Robert Franklin 1
William Sallé 1
Nathaniel Sallé 1
Ellick Moore, Mark Moore 2
Mark Moore Sr. 1
Brazure Puckett 1
John Bolling, John Bolling Jr., Robert Bolling, Peter Adams, John Beale 22
Amos Westbrook 1
Henry Walthall 2


Lists of Tithables Taken by Richard Royall

Tithes
William Robertson Sr., James Robertson Jr., John Baugh Jr. 11
John Baugh 7
William Robertson Jr. 2
Mark Clark 1
Thomas Clark 4
Matthew Curle 1
Lewis Baugh, Francis Baugh, John Turner 3
Nicholas Formby, Joseph Akin, Henry Going 3
James Baugh 2
William Farmer 1
Thomas Edwards, Peter Edwards, Patroller 3
John Hamlin 2
Womack Puckett Sr. 1
Ephraim Puckett 1
Womack Puckett Jr. 1
Mary Walthall Tithes (Mary Branch, widow of Richard Walthall) 1
Francis Walthall 4
Elizabeth Walthall Tithes, Richard Walthall 6
Daniel Walthall 2
William Walthall 14
John Walthall 4
John Roberts 2
Stephen Roberts, Stephen Roberts Jr. 2
Lodowick Farmer, Patroller 1
Peter Johnson, Walter Scott, Joseph Stewart 5
Samuel Yeargin 3
Thomas Yuille, James Murdock 7
John Weaver 1
Henry Batte, William Batte 16
Chamberlaine Batte 7
Abraham Bowman, Abraham Bowman Jr. 2
William Farmer 1
John Hailes 1
Matthew Ligon 5
Robert Elam, Robert Elam Jr., Patroller 4
John Hodges, Constable, Samuel Thorn 1
Joseph Ligon, Patroller 2
Joseph Pleasants 2
Joseph Goode, William Pleasants, Patroller 6
Richard Royall, John Hampton 11
Allenson Clark, John Clark 3



List of Tithables Taken by Archibald Cary

Tithes
John Nunnally 6
Jacob Lester 1
Benjamin Bailey 1
Andrew Ammonet, Charles Ammonet, William Ammonet 3
Francis Walker 1
Samuel Bellamy 2
John Smith 1
Ezekiel Slaughter (son of Sarah Harrison) 3
Sarah Harrison (mother-in-law of Crowley Howlett) 3
Henry Baker 1
John Brummall 1
William Brummall 2
John Bowman 2
William Wooldridge, son, William Wooldridge Jr. 4
John Wooldridge Sr., Richard Wooldridge 4
John Roberts, Francis Roberts 3
Jane Dupey 2
Robert Wooldridge 3
Edward Wooldridge 4
William Jenkins, William Jenkins Jr. 2
Stephen Russell 1
William Smith 1
Richard Hatcher 1
Josiah Tatum 10
Thomas Ellis 3
Nathaniel Tanner 1
Henry Hatcher Jr. 3
Edmund Logwood 3
Miles Gibson (father-in-law of Nancy Burton), William Bailey 3
Thomas Gibson 2
Godfrey Hill 2
Edmund Hill (Edward Hill) 1
John Burton Sr. 2
Joseph Starkey 3
Henry Baker 1
John Martain 2
Thomas Farmer Sr., Peter Farmer, Francis Farmer 4
Thomas Farmer Jr. 1
William Hatcher Jr. 1
Benjamin Watkins 7
Edward Wilkinson 9
Tom Johns 1
John Clyborn, Jonas Clyborn 2
John Chitwood 1
Thomas Rudd, Isaiah Blankenship 9
Matthew Turpin, Henry Turpin, Matthew Turpin 3
James Rudd 3
Stephen Pankey, John Pankey, John Tatum 7
Edward Hatcher 1
Robert Church 1
John Wood 1
Morris Roberts, John Roberts 4
Cornelius Elliott 1
John Hancock, George Hancock 6
John Moody, Overseer 9
William Pulliam, Overseer 6
William Brittain Jr. 3
William Brittain Sr. (father-in-law of Daniel Branch), Isham Britton, Joseph Goode 6
John Hatcher Sr., William Hatcher 2
Benjamin LaPrade 1
Mary Fore (Mary Scott, widow of John Fore) 8
Daniel Brown 3
John Ward, Richard Ward 2
Hugh Bragg 1
Drury Bowman 1
Alexander Snelling, Aquilla Snelling 2
Henry Cooks 2
Richard Sumpter 2
William Byrd Tithes, James Patteson, Robert Goode 56
Robert Goode Tithes, Alexander Brown, Richard Wadel _____ 18
Nicholas Shearer Tithes, Hill Smith 3
Dudley Brook 6
William Kennon 10
Mathias Chitwood 3
Gilbert Elam 3
Benjamin Davis 1
Thomas Mann Jr. 1
William Mann 1
John Smith 1
William Moore 1
Robar ___ ___
Benjamin Bea____
Elizabeth Gris____
Agnes Kennon Tithes 6
Rev. Mr. Frasare, William Frasare 8
Philip Mayo 8
Robert Lovell 4
John Pride Jr. 1
Francis Cox 1
William Angeling 1
John Smith 2
Simon Wooten, John Wooten, Dudley Wooten 3
Francis Womack 1
Joel Hudson 1
Simon Hudson 1
George Hudson 1
Edmund Bryars 2
Richard Harris 1
Anthony Burner 1
John Harris 1
John Robertson, Lazarus Bryars 2
David Hazelwood 1
Claiborne Anderson 15
Joseph Power, Joseph Power Jr. 2
John Howlett 6
Alexander Smith, William Smith, James Smith, Peter Hopkins 4
Samuel Norris 1
Joseph Atkins 1
Joseph Smith 1
Ralph Jackson, Lewis Jackson 3
James Clay 1
Henry Winfree 4
William Dale Jr. 1
Daniel Weisiger 1
Daniel Weisiger 1
Samuel Butler Tithes 3
John Robins, Thomas Calvert 2
David Mackie, Peter Mackie 2
Hannah Easley Tithes (Hannah Bates, widow of Robert Easley) 11
James Martin, William Martin 7
Christopher Chamney, John Skelton 4
James Dyson 3
Matthew Branch Sr., Thomas Branch 7
John Fowler, John Hix 4
Edward Branch 1
William Scott, John Cousins 8
Walter Scott 5
William Atkins, Abraham Atkins 3
Thomas Donald, John McDonald 5
John Markham 4
Jacob Alquire 1
Henry Clay Sr. 7
John Clay 5
Edward Watkins Tithes (father-in-law of John Clay), John Gibson 3
Joseph Farley, Forrest Farley 5
Benjamin Chalkley 1
Charles Johnson 1
Ezekiel Sudbury Jr. 2
George Kleinhoff, David Hix 6
William Shepherd 1
John Belshire [Belcher] Jr., William Hatchett 4
William Walthall 1
Thomas Worsham 5
Joseph Meryday 1
Daniel Ferguson 1
John Elliott 2
Magdalene Sallé 1
Thomas Burton Sr. 2
Thomas Burton Jr. 3
John Burton 3
Frances Hesterly 1
William Baugh, Frederick Baugh 8
Valentine Winfree, Constable 5
Samuel Branch 1
Matthew Branch Jr. 8
Archibald Cary, William Hill, John Hill 38
Stephen Beasley 8
Walter Buchanan, Thomas Friend 2
Robert Hancock 3
James Farmer 4
Frederick Farmer 2
Joseph Farmer (father-in-law of Nathaniel Hatcher) 1
Peter Baugh Sr., James Baugh 5
Wife of George Wynne 2
Mrs. William Gay (Elizabeth Bolling, widow of William Gay), John Minge 8
Brett Randolph, George Rockley, Peter Clutterbuck, Thomas Couly 14
Thomas Branch of “Shampoke”, Thomas Branch, Garner Branch 3
Robert Smith, Richard Smith 3
Charles Hall 1
William Trent Sr. 1
Benjamin Trent 3
Jacob Waddill 3
Olive Branch Sr., James Branch 2
Olive Branch Jr. 2
George Cogbill, Thomas Cogbill 5
Francis Flournoy, Jacob Flournoy, Francis Flournoy Jr., James Flournoy, Gibson Flournoy, William Flournoy 8
Mrs. Nunn, Philip Ryan, Thomas Nunn 6
Christopher Robinson 1
Thomas Cheatham, Thomas Cheatham Jr., Josiah Cheatham 7
John Wooldridge, Richard Wooldridge 4
John _____ Sr., Charles Nuckels 1
John Nuckels 1
James Bly Jr. 1
Robert __unt
Thomas M___ton 1
John Bly 1
Jacob ___urst 5
John O_____ 1
James Cohhon 1
Thomas Cohhon 1
___ Cohhon 1
Robert Cole 1
Edward Hatchett, Hamlen Cole, William Condre 1
Henry ___s
___ Belcher 1
Samuel __illum 1
John __um 1
John ___kalu 1
John Gartor 1
James Moody 1
John Ti___ 1
William ___ates 1
John _____ 1
Henry Blankenship 1
_____ and son 2
_____ Purdue, Thomas Purdue 2
_____ 1
_____ 1
_____ 1
_____ Farmer, Joel Farmer 3
Francis Cheatham 7
Richard Northcott 1
William Moore Jr. 1
Joseph Blankenship 1
John Blankenship 1
Stephen Blankenship 1
Ephraim Blankenship 1
Drury Blankenship 1
Joel Blankenship 1
Francis Moseley 10
Thomas Cary 4
John Skelton 1
Jack Morrisett 1
William Moore 1
John Morris 1
Elam Farmer 2
Hickerson Cox 1
William Perdue 1
Randolph Nuckel 1
John Rudd 2
Drury Thompson 2
William Akin, James Akin 5
John Farmer Jr. 2
William Akin Jr. 2
Charles Clay 2
Joanna Branch Tithes (Johan Hancock, widow of John Branch) 3
Francis Mann 1
Joseph Gill, Stephen Gill 3
William Willson 2
William Newby, William Newby Jr. 2
John Baugh 2
George Farmer, Abel Farmer 5
Aaron Farguson 3
Turner Hamlett 1
Morris Roberts 1
John Godsey 1
Lewis Sublett, Francis Cousins 3
Thomas Godsey, Stephen Watkins 2
Christopher Branch 7
Alexander Mackie, John Scott, John Esdale, James French, Robert Shay 7


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1759 Patent to Thomas Perdue in Chesterfield County

1759 Chesterfield County, Virginia Patent to Thomas Perdue. VPB 33, Page 560. Issued 28 April 1759.

218 acres of land on upper side of Second Branch of Swift Creek.

Beginning at Cobb's and Worsham's corner hickory, thence North along John Hatchet, Sr. line, Thence Worsham's line.


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1746 Patent to John Perdue in Henrico County

1746 Patent to John Perdue in Henrico County, Virginia.  Issued 5 June 1746.

400 acres on Sappony Road abstracted as follows:

Beginning: Thomas Puckett's corner pine on northside of a branch,

Thence: on Belcher's line South 230 poles to a black oak

Thence: East 308 poles to a pine of Southside of Sappony Road

Thence: North 22 and 1/2 degrees West 304 poles to Moses Ferguson

Thence: on his line South 57 degress West 54 poles to a hickory

Thence: North 60 degrees West 76 poles to Puckett's corner shrub oak

Thence: on said Puckett's line South 65 degrees West 82 poles to the place began
Timeline:

1762 Edmund Belcher of Lunenburg County, VA sold to Mark Puckett of Chesterfield County land on Third Branch next to John Perdue, Thomas Puckett, Thomas Belcher, and John Belcher. One of the witnesses was a Thomas Perdue.

1779 Virginia Gazette, Saturday May 15, 1779 - in Chesterfield County...to Sheriff...commanded you to have one John Pardue, son...and heir at law of John Pardue, deceased, to appear before our justices of our court of said county at the courthouse on the first Friday in November next to answer a bill in Chancery exhibited against him by Cleveland Pardue.....witness: ......clerk...courthouse the 15th day of October in the third year of our commonwealth.

Chancery Court was the court that, among other things, had jurisdiction on estate settlements, especially involving land. And this bill may well have involved the original 1746 patent on Sappony Road to John Perdue. I attempted to run out the deeds on the above patent through 1770 some years ago, without finding any records involving the land in that patent.

From other entries surrounding this land, it appears that the John Perdue to whom it was originally patented was in possession of it until 1770 the last year I researched it and if the same John, he was in possession of it until his death in 1779;  thus, he was not the same John Perdue who received a patent of land in Amelia County in 1746 living there until 1761 when he moved to North Carolina where he died in Bute County in 1769.

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1744 Patent to William Perdue in Henrico County

1744 Patent to William Perdue in Henrico County, Virginia. Issued 1744.
Virginia Patent Books in Library of Virginia.


 240 Acres on Sappony Creek abstracted as follows:

Beginning: Richard Woods corner white oak East side of Sappony Creek.

Thence: on Walthall's line South 82 1/2 degrees East 124 poles to Daniel

Brown's corner white oak

Thence: on Brown's line North 5 degrees East 176 poles to his corner pine

Thence: on same course 84 poles to a large pine

Thence: North 82 degrees West 90 poles to a small shrub white oak

Thence: South 37 1/2 degrees West 268 poles to Tanner's corner marked trees

Thence: South 54 degrees East 66 poles to a turkey oak cornered in Wood's line

Thence: on his line North 56 degrees East 34 poles to Sappony Creek

Thence: along said creek 20 poles to place began

Timeline:

1750 - On 20 May a William Perdue buys 100 acres of land from Moses Farguson both of Chesterfield County, bounded by the said Farguson. Witnesses: John Farguson, Thomas Jefferson, Allyson Clark, Benjamin Adkins. *

1750 - 18 July William (W) Perdue witnessed a deed between Moses Ferguson of Chesterfield and Benjamin Adkins of King and Queen County, 200 acres on both sides West Branch granted to said Ferguson 20 September 1730. Other witnesses: William Watkins, Jr. and Soloman Newby.

1750 - 7 September William (W) Perdue witnessed a deed between John Farguson, Sr. and Joshua Farguson of 100 acres on northside of Third Branch of Swift Creek part of 1365 acres granted to John Farguson, deceased, bounded by Peter Baugh and Moses Ferguson. Other witnesses: Allyson Clark and Jacob Cooke.

1750 - 7 September William (W) Perdue witnessed a deed between John Farguson, Sr. and Jacob Cooke for 50 acres on Reedy Branch of Swift Creek, part of John Farguson patent. Other witnesses: were Edward Eanes, Willam Pleasants.

1752 - William (W) Perdue and John Perdue witnessed the deed when George Brown sold 200 acres to William Perdue, Jr. in Dale Parish, part of land patented to Daniel Brown 25 March 1739. The land was bounded by William Perdue, William Reason, John Clyborn, and Charles Cheatham. William Perdue, Jr. would have been at 21 years old and born no later than 1731.

1756 - Appears in the Chesterfield Tithables List as 1 tithable and as neighbor to Jack Morrisett, and Lewis Soblett, both surnames listed in the original King William Parish Registers, the parish to French Refugees. (Huguenots)

1761 - William Perdue, Jr. sold the 200 acres to ?? and disappears from the Chesterfield records. Where did he go?

1762 - Appears in the Chesterfield Tithables List

"Mrs. Nunn, Philip Ryan, Thomas Nunn 6

Christopher Robinson 1
Thomas Cheatham, Thomas Cheatham Jr., Josiah Cheatham 7
John Wooldridge, Richard Wooldridge 4
John _____ Sr., Charles Nuckels 1
John Nuckels 1
James Bly Jr. 1
Robert __unt
Thomas M___ton 1
John Bly 1
Jacob ___urst 5
John O_____ 1
James Cohhon 1
Thomas Cohhon 1
___ Cohhon 1
Robert Cole 1
Edward Hatchett, Hamlen Cole, William Condre 1
Henry ___s
___ Belcher 1
Samuel __illum 1
John __um 1
John ___kalu 1
John Gartor 1
James Moody 1
John Ti___ 1
William ___ates 1
John _____ 1
Henry Blankenship 1
_____ and son 2
_____ Purdue, Thomas Purdue 2_____ 1
_____ 1
_____ 1
_____ Farmer, Joel Farmer 3
Francis Cheatham 7
Richard Northcott 1
William Moore Jr. 1
Joseph Blankenship 1
John Blankenship 1
Stephen Blankenship 1
Ephraim Blankenship 1
Drury Blankenship 1
Joel Blankenship 1
Francis Moseley 10
Thomas Cary 4
John Skelton 1
Jack Morrisett 1
William Moore 1
John Morris 1
Elam Farmer 2
Hickerson Cox 1
William Perdue 1
Randolph Nuckel 1 "

* All the deeds references for this post, except the 1744 patent, came from "Chesterfield County, Virginia Deeds 1749 - 1756"; Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III; Iberian Publishing Company, Athens, Georgia. 1995. Reprint.



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Will of John Perdue Died 1769 In Bute County, North Carolina

Will of John Perdue in Bute County, North Carolina in 1769.  Bute County, North Carolina Will Book A, page 52

John's will was probably dictated on 24 March 1768 when he signed with his mark in his own hand. Whoever took this dictation spelled his name Perdue. However, in all of the other records associated with the inventory and probate of his estate, his surname is spelled Pardue, when in February 1769 his will was entered into probate in Bute County, North Carolina. Bute County was formed in 1764 from a part of Granville County and in 1779 Warren and Franklin Counties were formed from Bute when Bute County was discontinued.

In the will John named eleven sons and three daughters and his wife.  His children named in the order in which they are recorded in the will were: son, John, to receive land; sons, Joel and Morris, also to receive land when they "have judgement to manage their business"; his wife, Sarah, to receive the lease of land he had from John Dawson, and if she should die before the lease was up, then the lease to go to his son, Richard; sons, William, Joseph, and Adams, to receive five shillings sterling, apiece and daughter, Phebe, a feather bed and furniture; then named were sons, Bevel, Liliston, and Blackman, and daughters, Sally, and Ann; and finally son, Field, to receive a feather bed and furniture at the death of John's wife, Sarah. In January 1768, shortly before the will was written, Fields was deeded 100 acres of land by John, his father, for love and affection, which seems to explain the appearance of his name at the end of the will. This may also indicate that Fields may have been the first son by a second wife, or the wife, Sarah named in his will, who may be the same and the last of two wives John may have had. 

Just as parents today usually recite their children's names in order of their births, just so, it would seem that parents would have always recited their children in such order and that the names in a will would be named in order of their birth, allowing, though for special circumstances as in the case of this will, underage children, especially male and involving land where they were mentioned directly after his first son, the main inheritor of property in that historical period. Having given his eldest son, John, land in 1758, he, then willed him, a second portion of land, fulfilling the law of inheritance in Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, that the first son was to receive a double portion. Thus the order of his appearance first in the will.

Some of the names were listed in clusters, the first one consisting of Joel and Morris, who, by having been willed a portion of land, also, indicates that they were his youngest sons, and the land willed to them was to be used for their benefit by their guardian(s), who were bound by law to use all the profits accrued from their portion of the land for their upkeep and education.

The second cluster listed William, Joseph, and Adams.  From tithable lists, we know that William and Joseph were born after John, and that Adams was probably the next son in order of birth as seemingly also confirmed from a tithable list of their father in 1762/63 in Granville County, North Carolina where both Adams and his brother, Field, are shown in their father's list, presumably neither yet married and that both were at least 16 years old. No further Granville County, NC tithables lists are available and no other records have been found that could determine the ages of either of them.

Then, appears the cluster of Richard, Bevel, Liliston, and Phebe, of which only Liliston's birth year,1748, is known and finally the cluster of Blackman, Joel, Morris, Sally and Ann.

In increments of at least two years separating their births, with the known birth years of Joseph in 1733, Liliston in 1748, and Blackman in 1756, fitting the children in an arrangement that seems most probable, the more difficult ones, Phebe and Fields, are fitted in the possibilities outside the clusters and with noted exceptions, all subsequent names appear to be in order of birth.

Of all the children listed, Phebe is the most difficult. She had two children, born in the early 1770s, who were made wards of Sarah and James Burke in 1779, and in 1782 she married Alexander Burnam. In 1768 when her father wrote his will he left her a feather bed and furniture, indicating that she was probably at least approaching marriageable age or was already of marriageable age, but was unmarried, making her born no later than the early 1750s, or she could have been much older, born in the early 1740s or even earlier as surmised above. In any event moving her birth year would only rearrange the birth order of that cluster, except for Liliston, by probably only two years, so the general birth arrangements remain much the same.

The following is a transcription of the original will recorded in Bute County, North Carolina Will Book A, page 52, now housed in the archives of the North Carolina State Library in Raleigh. The above photostatic copy was obtained from the State Library on an excursion there, in 1973, by this compiler. The following transcription uses the spelling contained in the original.


"In the name of God and God's name this being the last Will and Testament of John Perdue being now of perfect Memory and Judgement thanks be to God for it... and first of all I give and bequeath my Soul to God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my executors and family................

Secondly I give and bequeath to my beloved Son John Perdue that tract of land where on he now lives from Jonathan Johnson Creek down to owins (Owen's) Creek, all over owins (Owen's) Creek of the North Side of the said creek..

Thirdly I give and bequeath to my two beloved sons Joel Perdue and Morris Perdue the land and plantation where on I now live to be divided between them at the discretion of James Moore and that they may have the benifit of the land as soon as they have judgment to manage their business and the howse and plantation I give the use of and benifit to my beloved wife during her life....

Fourthly and likewise I give and bequeath to my beloved wife my lot of land that I had of John Dawson during the time I leased it for and her life and if she should die before the time is out I give it to my son Richard Perdue...

Fifthly I give and bequeath to three sons William Perdue, Joseph Perdue and Adams Perdue five shillings of sterling a peace...

Sixthly I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Phebe Perdue one feather bed and furniture and seventhly and lastly I do give and bequeath to my beloved wife my three negros Jack and Peter and Will to have the use of her life and at her death and the aforesaid negros as living or any of them I give them to my beloved sons Richard Perdue and Bevel Perdue and Liliston Perdue to be praised by fit persons with the rest of my estate not yet mentioned which I also give the use of to my beloved wife during her life and then to be divided with the praise value of the negros, between my three beloved children Blackman Perdue, Sally Perdue and Ann Perdue and if the value of the Negros be more then than that of the household estate and Stock then the aforesaid persons to wit Richard and Bevel and Liliston shall pay out of their value, so that they, the six last named children shall have a just and equal devesion of all.

Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved son Field Perdue one feather bed and furniture to be paid at the Death of my wife or before if it can be spared....As also I do appoint James Moore and my wife Sarah Perdue my hole and sole executors of all my Business in witness were of I have unto set my hand and fixed seal this 24 day of March 1768.

his John Perdue mark Seal

Signed Sealed in the presants of us
Susanna Moore Jurat
Ann Moore Jurat

Bute Sct February Court 1769

This will was proved by the oaths of Susanna Moore and Ann Moore the witnesses hereto and on motion it was ordered to be recorded. Then James Moore, one of the Executors herein named Qualified as such and was ordered to be Certified.

Test Ben. McCulloch C.C

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