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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