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EARLY INHABITANTS From The Settlement Of Perquimans To The Revolutionary Period
From: History of Perquimans County by Ellen Goode Winslow, published Raleigh, NC 1931
Court was held on April 11, 1704, at the house of Dennis Macclenden. Some of the inhabitants of Carolina mentioned as being in Court were James Beesley (Beasley) and Mary, his wife, Francis Wells and David Harris, and wife, Elizabeth. Constance Snowden, wife of Thomas relinquished her dower right in land unto John Bateman, and Thomas Evans and Mary, his wife, acknowledged a deed made by them to Thomas Snowden. A petition was presented in Court by James Thigpen, showing the need of a road "to be cleared from the ferry out to the High Road."
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NCBERTIE-L Archives
From: MR ROBERT W HARRIS
Subject: James WARD of chowan Co., NC
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:53:06, -0500
Will of Richard Stiball 9-15-1695/ 4-1696 in Perquimons Co., NC
names his daus Mary, Patience (or Constance , and Martha
Witt: William Carleton, Arthur Carleton
c 1703 Patience or Constance md at the home of James WARD, a Mr. Thomas Snowden, son of Christopher Snowden of PA , The Showdens lived with Thomas WARD and w/ Mary for 6 months , went to live on a
plantation he purchased in the adj county of Perquimans, on a creek called Yahpien abt .5 mile from James Wards. (Testimony of Luke Mizell, aged 60, who was at Wards house the day of the wedding.
Also the testimony of Constance Stiball Snowden Williams, aged 56, concerning her own first marriage (Craven Co., NC Records 1741- 1750 p 19 dated 7-19-1743)
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