1790 Federal Census Records For Pardue And Various Other Spellings

1790 Census Records

The above images are the originals of the 1790 census' records for the sons of John Pardue who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina. A click on the small rectangle in the lower left corner of the screen will bring up captions that designate the columns in which each name appears and each county and state, as well as the page number of the original census.

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In 1790 in the first Federal Census of the new United States, all of John's sons who were alive were enumerated except two, Blackman, who may have not been recorded or recorded in another household, and Morris, who was shown in the 1790 Georgia tax records and who was most probably enumerated in the 1790 Georgia census which was lost. John's enumerated sons were William, Fields, Adams, Richard, Bevel, Liliston, and Joel. His eldest son, John, died in 1783, and his third son, Joseph, died sometime within the year previous to the August 1, 1790 date that began the enumeration of the census.

On the census page in Warren County, North Carolina showing the enumerations for William and Bevel, there also appear three other enumerations bearing the surname who were not John's sons - only one who can be identified - John's grandson, also named John, the son of Joseph, John's third eldest son.

The remaining two households in Warren County record enumerations for a Patram Pardieu and a Joseph Pardieu. Combining information for both Patram and Joseph from later census records show they each were born previous to the year 1765 and combined with tax records, they each were born prior to 1762.  Who was the father, or were the fathers, of Patram and Joseph has not been determined, but it appears from various other records, that William, born about 1731, the second of John's sons, is the more likely choice, though, another choice includes John's eldest son, John, who died in 1783, though, there is nothing that indicates that he had any wife or family.

John's third son, Joseph, had a son named, Joseph, also, who at the writing of the elder Joseph's will in 1789, was not yet nineteen years old and the younger Joseph was  very probably one of the males under sixteen enumerated in the household of his brother, John, who was appointed administrator of the elder Joseph's estate at the time the first census was being enumerated, thus making the younger Joseph born no earlier than 1774.

Because a legatee in a will was excluded from being a witness, the Joseph Pardue who witnessed the elder Joseph's will was most probably the Joseph Pardue who was enumerated in both the 1790 census and 1800 Warren County census records. After 1800 he moved to Chester County, South Carolina where he was enumerated in the 1810 census. He died in Chester County, SC in 1845.

Other possibilities of the father, or fathers, of Patram and Joseph in the 1790 census' include one, or the other, of those who held the P*rdue surname who remained in the Appomattox River area of Virginia of which DNA testing has shown descendants of those who remained there to have had a recent common ancestor with the John Pardue who moved to North Carolina in 1761. But, as noted in the post on the Perdue/Pardue DNA Project, while DNA can prove kinship, further documentation is needed to confirm the degree of kinship.


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1761 The Year of Change

 1751 Joshua Fry - Peter Jefferson Map of Amelia County, Virginia

 Amelia County, Virginia Deed Book 7, page 500.

On the above map, Beaverpond Branch is the unnamed tributary that empties into Deep Creek. At this juncture was located the 400 acres patented in 1733 by a John Adams, acquired by John Pardue prior to 1761, when on 24 August 1761 he and his wife, Sarah, sold to Henry Walthal that 400 acre patent.

The following is an abstract of the deed.  Note that John Pardue was called a planter. In the Colonial South was a man who owned and planted his own land.  A farmer in the Colonial South, unlike in New England, was a tenant.  In New England large landed estates were rare and a farmer usually lived in a village where he owned and farmed his own land at the edge of a village.  These cultural artifacts from that period in Colonial American history are more fully explained in historian David Hackett Fischer's book, "Albion's Seed", a history of the four major British cultural groups that migrated to Colonial America in the 1600s and early 1700s.


"...John Pardue of the County of Amelia, Planter... [to] Henry Walthall of the same county...said John Pardue and Sarah, his wife..400 A, excepting the graveyard...land granted to John Adams by Patent, dated 20 June 1733 and bounded by the lines of George Worsham, Seth Perkerson, & John Ford..."

Wit: Daniel Willson
Christopher Walthall
Robert Mann

At a court held for Amelia County on 27th August 1761.
Ack. by John Pardue and Sarah his wife.


1761 - Arriving in North Carolina

Owen's Creek was a tributary flowing into Great Fishing Creek from the Northeast in Granville County, later to become Bute County in 1764.

The following is an abstract of the 1761 deed of land on Owen's Creek conveyed to John Pardue one month after he sold his land in Amelia County, Virginia.

Deed to John Pardue from William Graves in Granville County, North Carolina 24 Sep 1761.

Granville County, North Carolina Deed Book E, page 95.

"...John Pardue, late of the County of Amelia in the Colony of Virginia and Raleigh Parish, from William Graves...land in Granville Co. on both sides of Owens Creek....386 acres...

Beginning at Hackney's corner, a red oak in Governor
Johnson's line, then running by the governor's line
South 45o East 90 poles to a hickory thence
East 194 poles by Ballard's line to a black jack, then
North 256 poles by Kimbal's line to a poplar on OwensCreek, thence
West 257 poles crossing the said creek to a white oak in Hackney's line,
thence by his line to the beginning."

Wit: William Ballard
Joseph ( H ) Hackney
Rubin (+) Ballard

At a court held for Granville County, North Carolina. 9 Feb 1761.

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Pardue Documents in Old Handwriting

 Pardue Documents In The Original Handwriting

The mark of John P*rdue is shown as he made it on 24 March 1768 less than a year before he died in 1769.  The will was presumably dictated by him to someone who spelled the name as Perdue throughout, while John, himself, signed with his mark, a mark which could also be viewed possibly as the abbreviation for the prefix of his surname when compared with the various renderings of the abbreviations for the prefix, "par","per", "pro", and "pre", etc. featured in the above picture.


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1758 Land From John Perdue To His Son William Perdue

1758 Deed of Gift to William Perdue.

The elder John Perdue gave his second son, William Perdue, the other 200 acres of the 400 land grant in Amelia County on 23 Feb 1758.

Amelia County, Virgina Deed Book 6, page 158.

Abstracted as follows:

"John Perdue, the Elder of Amelia Co... to William Perdue... the said
John Perdue, the father for love & affection to his son, William Perdue
hath granted...200 A lying & being in Amelia Co. on Winticomack Creek
being the Upper Half of a greater tract of 400 A, bounded:

Beginning at a corner on Tesdales line running
South 63 degrees West to a corner black jack, thence
North 5 degrees West to a corner pine on Munford's line, thence
North 18 degrees East to another corner in his line, thence
North 35 degrees East to another corner in Munford's line, thence
East  35 degrees  South to Coleman's line, thence
South 28 degrees West to the beginning."

At a court held for Amelia County on 23rd of Feb, 1758.
Ack. by John Perdue.

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1758 Land From John Pardue The Elder To His Son John The Younger

1758 Deed of Gift on Wintipomack Creek to John Pardue, the Younger.

The elder John Pardue gave his eldest son, John Pardue the Younger, 200 acres of the Amelia County land on 23 Feb 1758.

Amelia County, Virginia Deed Book 6, page 239.

"John Pardue, the Elder of Amelia Co... to John Pardue, the Younger, of
the said county, for L & A hath granted...200 A lying & being in
Amelia Co. on the head of Winticomack Creek, being the lower half of
a greater tract of 400 A, bounded:

Beginning a corner Tesdale's line
South 63degrees West to a corner black jack, thence
South 5o East to a corner shrub white oak, thence
East to a faced corner, thence
North 35o East to Tesdale's line, thence to beginning."

At a court held for Amelia County on 23rd of Feb, 1758.
Ack. by John Perdue.


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1746 John Perdue Receives Patent in Amelia County

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Patent for 400 acres of land on Wintipomack Creek in Amelia County
                                           Issued 5 June 1746
                             Virginia Patent Book 24 page 233

The following is an abstract:

John Perdue Patent, Amelia County, Virginia. 400 Acres. VPB 24:233. 5 June 1746.

"..Lying and being in the county of Amelia on both sides of the head of Winticomack Creek, adjoining Tesdales, Colemans, and Munford's lines and bounded:

Beg. at corner shrub white oak in Munford's line thence,
East 252 poles to a faced corner, thence,
North 35o East 118 poles to Tesdale's lines, thence along his lines
West 35o North 116 poles to his corner, thence,
North 28o East 60 poles to Coleman's corner, thence along his line
West 35o North 161 poles to Munford's line, thence along his line
South 35o West 150 poles to his corner large forked pine, thence
South 18o West 113 poles to his corner pine, thence
South 5o East 81 poles to the beginning..."

In 1758 John deeded to his two eldest sons, John and William Pardue, two hundred acres each, of the original 400 acres. John, the Younger, sold his share in 1767 and joined his father in North Carolina and William sold his share in 1780 and joined his remaining brothers in North Carolina.

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1733 Patent to John Adams Later Conveyed To John Pardue

                                                      
                                         1733 Patent to John Adams

Virginia Patent Book 15, page 39.

Sometime prior to 1761 it was conveyed to John Pardue.

The location in Amelia County, Virginia where the patent was surveyed.

In the lower center of the map is a light colored area and bordering the northside of the area is Deep Creek.  Just northwest of the light colored area Beaverpond Creek empties into Deep Creek, and not visible on the map is the "small branch" where the survey for the patent begins on the Upper side of Deep Creek adjoining Abraham Burton's line and bounded as follows: 

"Beginning at a scaly bark hickory on beaverpond branch

at or near the mouth of a small branch thence
North 25 degrees East 132 poles to a corner lightwood stake or knot thence,

East 270 poles to a corner, thence,
South 82 poles to Abraham Burton's line, thence along the same line
West 16 degrees South 4 1/2 poles to said Burton's corner, thence,
North 117 poles along Burton's line to his upper corner upon Deep Creek as it meanders to the mouth of Beaverpond Branch, thence up Beaverpond Branch as it meanders to the 1st station."


This patent of 400 acres was  issued to the above John Adams and finalized in 1733 just prior to his death, after which at some point the land was conveyed to John Pardue who, with his wife, Sarah, sold it to Henry Walthall in August 1761.

In 1734 this area of Prince George County became part of Amelia County, where thereafter  the deed records for this part of Prince George County appear in the Amelia County Deed Records.


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Huguenot Or Not?

HUGUENOT CROSS

Stories of French Huguenot ancestry have been handed down through the generations in many of the branches descending from the Pardue/Perdue families from the lower Appomattox River of Virginia, when, in the words of the English writer, Evelyn Waugh, "the unlettered had long memories".

Those stories have persisted down through those branches long separated by time and distance. While it is not conclusive, and no single source, or combination of sources, provides a precise account that can determine the earliest ancestor, the oral tradition of those stories combined with records of descendants separated by a single generation from the earliest documented generations, strongly suggests that there was a common P*rdue ancestor of French Huguenot ancestry who came to Colonial America. And, and most probably he was among the French Refugees who began to arrive in the Colony of Virginia in July 1700. The chaos and turmoil that prevailed in France during the century previous to the coming of the French Refugees to Virginia precluded any French immigrant not Huguenot as being highly unlikely.

The tantalizing clues of the earliest spellings, the signatures of the name in early documents, and those traditions of French Huguenot ancestry handed down by descendants of many of the sons of John Pardue who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina, combined with the stories of French ancestry through lines of descent of the Perdue families who remained in the Appomattox River area, strongly suggests the probability that the earliest colonial ancestor of these families was, indeed, among those first French refugees.


John Pardue who died in Bute County, North Carolina moved there from Amelia County, Virginia in 1761. He left a will naming fourteen children, eleven of whom were sons. Through lines of descent of his documented sons and their progeny, in researching and compiling a history of this family through a period of almost forty years, the tradition of French Huguenot ancestry is the compelling common thread of original colonial ancestry.

In original records in which there is an actual signature of the individual, and not a clerk's rendering, the name, as signed by John's third son, Joseph, was clearly written "Pardue" two separate times on payroll receipts in records of his service in 1756 and 57 in the Seventh Virginia Militia Company in the French and Indian War, and, then, again, in 1789, when he signed his will Joseph Pardue.  

It appears that the records in jurisdictions where John and, or, his sons had become established as a presence in the community, the spelling of the name was more often rendered Pardue in the public records, depending, of course, on other circumstances, not the least being degree of literacy, or understanding the language.  Many of the early Huguenot records in Colonial Virginia were written in French for a number of decades after the arrival of the refugees.

The earliest records, combined with the oral traditions and the earliest references wherein the name was spelled Pardue, and in several early biographical sketches of descendants in which their French ancestry was explicitedly stated, each one sketched, born in the early decades of the nineteenth century, some less than a hundred years after the coming of the French Refugees to the James River, further adds credence to the tradition of French Huguenot ancestry. The sketches demonstrate that each had living relationships with parents and grandparents who lived in the days of John of Bute County, further augmenting the probability of French Huguenot ancestry.


The biographical sketch first noting French Huguenot association is found in a history of Baldwin County, Georgia of Samuel Medlock Singleton. He married Sarah Anne Christian, noted in the sketch as the daughter of "Elizabeth Pardue....the daughter of Lilliston Pardue, a Huguenot."  Lilliston Pardue was born in 1748 as documented by Revolutionary War Pension records by his wife, Sarah West, and was one of the middle sons of the eleven sons named in the will of John Pardue who died in 1769. 

“Samuel Medlock Singleton was born in Putnam County, Georgia, February 14, 1809, and when quite a young man became a citizen of Lexington, South Carolina. It was in that State that he married Sarah Anne Christian, of Edgefield, S. C., whose mother, Elizabeth Pardue, was the daughter of Lilliston Pardue, a Huguenot, and Sarah West (his wife)... In 1840, Samuel Singleton and wife located in Milledgeville and lived on the lower corner of Wilkinson Street…Later they lived in Midway, moving from there to Eatonton, in 1872, where he died, March 25, 1896. He was buried in the cemetery at Milledgeville. Samuel and Sarah Anne Singleton's children names were: John Chappell; and Earnest, who died in childhood; Samuel, died while a prisoner-of-war (Civil) at Elmira, N. Y.; Elizabeth; Ellen; Martha; Stewart; Charles; Laura; and Robert. All of this large family with the exception of three, have passed into another world. Ellen, (Mrs. Sam Pearson); Martha, (Mrs. A. B. Zachery); and Laura, (Mrs. J. L. Walker) who now live in Waycross, Georgia. ”Biographical Sketch: Cook, Anna Maria Green, History of Baldwin County, Georgia; Anderson, S.C.: Keys-Hearn Print. Co., 1925, 495 pgs. Page 448-449."

Sarah Anne Christian was born in 1820, the daughter of Elizabeth Pardue and Stephen Christian. Elizabeth was born in 1796, the daughter of Lilliston Pardue and his wife, Sarah West. Sarah (West) Pardue died in 1859 and her daughter, Elizabeth, died in 1886, both living long within the lifetime of Sarah Anne, and one, if not both, very probably were the ones from whom she obtained the knowledge of the Huguenot history of her grandfather, Lilliston Pardue. Sarah (West) Pardue was listed in the 1850 Cherokee County, Georgia Federal Census in the household of Thomas Hughes, her son-in-law.  Sarah Anne (Christian) Singleton was listed in the 1880 in Georgia Federal Census of her husband.

Of note, is that Sarah Anne (Christian) Singleton’s youngest daughter, Laura (Singleton) Walker, was a historian early active in historical projects in the Middle and South Georgia.  She also wrote an early history of Ware County, Georgia and became a member of DAR on the service of Lilliston Pardue.  She is also considered one of the first major conservationists and the Laura Walker State Park in South Georgia is named for her.  It was originally established as a national park and it was the first national park to be named for a woman. Later it was transferred to the state of Georgia which now has jurisdiction over it.


In unpublished family papers in possession of descendants of Joseph Pardue, the third son of John Pardue, it was recorded that Dr. George Madison Pardue, Joseph’s great-grandson, upon his coming to Montgomery County, Tennessee in 1849, reported to his cousins that the name was correctly spelled Pardue, that it was a French name and that it was originally spelled Pardieu. Dr. Pardue was the grandson of George Pardue, born ca 1758/9, the eldest son of Joseph Pardue who died in 1790 in Warren County, North Carolina. George Pardue married a Miss Sarah Rowland who was born in 1762.

When Dr. Pardue moved to Tennessee from Granville County, North Carolina he live for a while with his cousin, Littleton John Pardue, who was born in 1804, where also, lived Sarah (Rowland) Pardue, mother of Littleton John and grandmother of Dr. Pardue, where both were recorded in the household of Littleton John Perdew (sic) in the 1850 Montgomery County, Tennessee Federal Census. Previous to Dr. Pardue’s arrival to the home of his cousins the name was recorded in the Littleton John Pardue family Bible as Perdue, when, thereafter, the spelling was changed to Pardue.

In another unpublished manuscript, compiled from family papers of her father, Thomas Williams Pardue, Willie Mae Pardue, a granddaughter of Littleton John Pardue, wrote an overview of the ancestry of her Pardue family noting them as of Huguenot ancestry, a copy  of which is possession of this writer.  Both George Pardue - the father of Littleton John and grandfather of Dr. George Madison Pardue - and his wife Sarah (Rowland) Pardue were living within the lifetime of John Pardue who died in 1769. George Pardue was born circa 1758/59 and was about ten years old at the death of his grandfather.


In an 1889 history of Vandenburgh County, Indiana, a biographical sketch was published of Rachel H. Purdue, which appears to have been an oral interview of Rachel, in which it was noted that Richard, the father of Howel Gregory Purdue, her father-in-law,  was of French ancestry. Richard was one of the middle sons, also, of John Pardue who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina. Howel Gregory Purdue, John's grandson, was born circa 1790 and Rachel had married his son, Richard Robeson Purdue, who died in 1858.

Unfortunately, the account in this history of Vandenburg County is somewhat garbled, either by editing or by confusion of the information which earlier had been told to Rachel, who, in trying to remember stories from the far distant past, and in the process of remembering may have interpolated many of the facts recounted even perhaps to her by her father-in-law previous to his death in 1850 and before the death of her husband in 1858.

This account also seems to be the source of the many accounts, by different researchers of this branch of the family, that Richard was the father of 22 sons and that his name was Richard Robeson Purdue. The only extant Federal Census record available for Richard is the 1790 Federal Census of Anson County, North Carolina, (posted elsewhere on this site) where, aside from himself, were enumerated four other males, all under age 16, born between 1774 and 1790, one of whom may have been his new son, Howel Gregory Purdue. Between 1790 and 1800 Richard moved to South Carolina, and by the time of the enumeration of the 1800 census he appears, then, to have moved into Georgia, and within three years had moved on to Montgomery County, Tennessee, where he died in 1811. Neither the 1800 Georgia census, nor 1810 Tennessee census records have been preserved.

“Rachel H. Purdue…was born in Butler County, Ky., and when four years of age she accompanied her parents to Warrick County, Ind. They settled in the vicinity of Boonville, in the fall of 1827....She was married in Warrick County to Richard Robeson Purdue, July 18, 1841. Prior to the Revolutionary War, Richard Robeson Purdue, Louis Gregory Purdue, and another brother emigrated from France and settled in South Carolina.

"When the war broke out one of the brothers went with Washington and the other with Marion, and both fought until the close of the war. Richard was married before he entered the army and had three children. In all, he was the father of twenty-two sons, when his wife died. He was married the second time and had one son, Howell Gregory Purdue. His second wife dying, he was married again and had another son, Jarrett Purdue. He then died, and his widow married a Frenchman, Gabriel Visor. Howell Gregory, Richard Purdue's only son by his second wife, was married August 25, 1814, to Miss Nancy Jane Dixon, whose mother was Ellen (Evans) Dixon. She and her husband were both natives of South Carolina, where he was born October 21, 1790, and she December 30, 1795. They were married in Kentucky, but made their home in Tennessee.

"They were the parents of eleven children, viz.:Richard Robeson, born February 3, 1816, Jarrett G., Ellen E., William D., Andrew V., Howell G., Basil B., Susan, Oliver L., Nancy J.  They were born in Montgomery County, Tenn., except the last four, natives of Warrick County. The parents emigrated from Tennessee to Kentucky in December, 1829, and the next fall reaching Warrick County. His death occurred July 5, 1850, and she passed away February 4, 1868.  After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Richard R.(obeson) Purdue resided in different parts of Warrick and Spencer counties until 1853, when they removed to Marion County, Ill, in which place they resided until his death, October 2, 1858. They were the parents of nine children: Jarrett G., born June 10, 1842, who enlisted in 1861 as a private in the Twenty-fifth Indiana volunteer infantry, and after participating in the battle of Shiloh, died near Corinth, Miss., June 10, 1862; Susan M., born September 5, 1843, died November 2, 1844; William H., born August 30, 1846; Orrin C, born June 24, 1848; Richard H., born April 9, 1853; Samuel D., born March 13, 1856, James B., born February 6, 1858. After her husband's death, she returned to Warrick County, where she was married to Rufus Roberts, the marriage taking place in April, 1859. Two sons resulted from this union: Rufus J., born October 12, 1860, died in infancy, and Union B., born April 14, 1862. When the latter was only a few weeks old, she and Mr. Roberts separated, since which time she has remained a widow, and made her home in Warrick County, until the summer of 1886, when she removed to the city of Evansville, where she still resides with her youngest child. ”Brant and Fuller. History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Madison, Wisc. 1889. Pages 617-618."

Howel Gregory Purdue was, as stated, Richard’s only son by Eleanor Gregory, his second wife, who died previous to the death of her father, Howel Gregory, who died in Columbia County, Georgia in 1813, and her share of her father’s estate accrued to her son, Howel Gregory Purdue. 

This account, stating that Richard Purdue had a brother named Louis Gregory Purdue, seems very probable an account given close to the time of it publication in 1889, and the considerable time lapse created confusion as to which sides were which in the family of Rachel's father-in-law, Howel Gregory Purdue.


From accounts of descendants of the Perdue families of Chesterfield County, Virginia, there is also a tradition of French Huguenot ancestry, the earliest one, found by this compiler, for William N. Perdue born ca 1810 in Chesterfield County, the father of Edgar N. Perdue, where the former was noted as having been born of “representatives of the fine French-Huguenot element that early found homes in Virginia” in History of Virginia, Volume 4; Page 78, Philip Alexander Bruce, Lyon Gardiner Page, Richard Lee Morton.  American Historical Society. 1924.

A later account in a history titled Chesterfield – An Old Virginia Colony; Page 80, Francis Earle Lutz. William Byrd Press, Richmond, Virginia. 1954, notes that “William Perdue, a French Huguenot, received a patent of 240 acres of Land”.  

Along with the above accounts, threads of French Huguenot ancestry also run strongly through a number of lines living later in the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century giving serious consideration for the need to attempt further research of the Huguenots in England just prior to 1700, when many sojourned there as refugees, after the Revocation Of The Edict of Nantes in 1685, many of them affiliated with the Huguenot churches in London and elsewhere as they waited out their fate.

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