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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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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