chasing White, Bryan and Ballard shadows…
1729… John Bryan buys a “periague” from one Media White. This sale is duly witnessed by John White and Laurance Mague.
source: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/
So…to cut to the chase… I simply want to know where John White may have lived in 1729. Lawrence Mague was the purported father in law of John Bryan (Bryan married his daughter Alice Mague).
Common sense dictates that a periaguer (boat) would be near the water. But a periaguer was not a canoe… it was a somewhat larger craft usually also equipped with a sail.
As an aside… one Daniel McDaniel had a “periauger”. https://andersonnc.com/2021/07/09/daniel-mcdaniels-periauger/
Backing up a bit… who in hell would name someone “Media”? Well, John White did, evidently. You can search it out online… like I say, I just want to explore where Bryan and White and Mague may have found a convenient spot to make the deal for this freaking boat. Some folks think White may have settled near Bath County in the early 1700s. I don’t know… maybe/maybe not.
https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/John-White/p38761
Here is where I think John White was in 1719… and why I think that.
as usual… click the blue filename below the graphic to open in a better window to zoom in.
Samuel Bozeman and John Ballard are just other shiny objects for you folks to fret over… I know how you are…
One Richard Parker left a whole heaping lot of lands to his kids in his will in Chowan “precinct”… I suspect he was the adjoining land owner to the John White land I discuss…
https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/parker-richard-chowan-county/801684
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