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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