searching for Snowfield…
This is my current project and map… an unexpected commenter has offered up some tantalizing clues and a bit of history which may put me on a more accurate path. I will no doubt update this as I work out new details… good fun
…as usual, click the blue filename under the graphic for a zoomable view
I am chasing a clue to find the original “survey” of a patent for William Gray in 1726 to get some nitty gritty insight on the Snowfield land… some of my notes
Oh… and there appears to be more than one plantation known as Snowfield… below is two divisions of the William Gray patent… we are trying to find the third (the remaining 220 acres of the 640 acres).
Who was Thomas Bond, mentioned in this deed?
And who was Thomas Barker? And the 83 yr old deponent says that that the pond was not Village Swamp… and I believe him dammit!
Whoa! G Tyler of Bertie informs me he was a bona fide Big Shot… (I’ll just overlook the fact he hailed from Rhode Island…) Dude even has an oil portrait floating around somewhere… She also informs me that Thomas Bond was the overseer of his Bertie properties for a few years.
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/barker-thomas
Apple Tree Plantation
Apple Tree Plantation was in Village Swamp about a mile south of Woodville. Thomas Barker, a very influential farmer who is buried at Hayes Plantation in Edenton, built a home at “Apple Tree” there [Apple Tree Swamp near Village Gate or Village Swamp near bridge over Hwy 11] in 1742, and married Pherebee Savage, ggrandaughter of Thomas Savage and formerly married to Francis Pugh III.
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ncbertie/homes.htm
This is why I am having such a difficult time placing these patents on the map… I can’t find any damn Anchor Points. All the creeks have dried up or been plowed away. All the Mills closed down and the slaves ran away. The Indians got fed up and moved North. I’m left wondering how the bass fishing is?
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