Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

…had a helluva time finding this… Jennifer from California helped me out…

So the Big Dark Cloud hanging over this Will is that it was “Imbezelled“. Man…I needed some scandal to get my juices flowing…

So with that in the background, perhaps you puzzle solvers might take a crack at dissecting this puppy…

hey…if you really think it is 1702 just say it…

…and click the blue filename above for a better view   I ain’t gonna ask who you think the Imbezeller was…

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That was the warm up…

Roger Bagnall’s wife was a Rebecca…….. no one seems to have identified this woman… I really suspect this woman was “somehow” connected to Robert Bracewell the preacher.

Roger’s son was James Bagnall… wife Ann Bracewell (daughter of the preacher)…James Bagnall had a daughter Rebecca/Rebeka

Roger’s grandson was Robert Bagnall… wife Rebecca This Roger Bagnall had a sister Rebeka/Rebecca Bagnall   (one Rebeka Bagnall stays around the area as of 1755… I have not dissected her as yet)

Has anyone identified these Rebeccas? Of course, to add to the puzzle, the preacher also had a daughter Rebecca that married William West “the Rebel” and seems to have stayed with him until her death (but I still do not rule her out of the puzzle.)    …with that being said…

I’ve been focused on the older part of IOW lately… notably I have been trying to find the preacher’s house.

Who was Rebeca West in Rev Robert Bracewell’s will?

This is a Post about a Post… my apologies to the purists…

This is about the Wrights of Isle of Wight…

This is my attempt to fulfill the promise to provide more information”:

I have provided my research….what is your next question?

The preacher would be the Rev. Robert Bracewell

I do not know if the good Reverend Bracewell ever actually preached at the “Old Brick Church” but it seems rather obvious since the church is reputed to date to 1732. Rather, I am just looking for the preacher’s house, since the church is well,… still there. It probably had a dirt floor.

While I am looking for the preacher’s house, a commenter asks a question: do I know about a certain WRIGHT that may have lived around… “the area that I am currently studying”.

Well…yes I do…

I keep stumbling over this guy in my research… one William Wright… as early as 1644…

75 years later…

One can’t help but notice that in 1719 a John Wright purchased from Rebecca Bagnall 60 acres … that 60 acres seems to be nigh the Old Brick Church. see file above

But, lest you get too excited and think I have figured out the details of this “Herring Branch” business, note that this was a very popular area evidently… also note a “Thomas Wright” in 1713…

All of which are on the same land (seemingly).

As I try to sum up clues… it is apparent to me that a Mill was established on Herring Branch (which is the head of Pagan Creek now Jones Creek). The Rev. Robert Bracewell may have set up the first mill. (I am looking for evidence). From the deed above these names for the same Mill emerge:

Webbs Mill…..Tullagh Mil…..Wests Mill

I do have a Mill question…. it is also obvious at this Mill (from the deed descriptions) that an active Spring was “boiling” from one of the ponds. This seems to be very advantageous to a pond since the pond will forever be full… like a bath tub with the faucet left on. It seems to me that with a magic pond so close to the mill it could allow it to run pretty much 24/7.

If that spring is still active, I would love to fish that little pond.

So I worked up these notes and realized… Hmmm… this study can stand on it’s own.

My objective was to find the house of the Rev. Robert Bracewell in Isle of Wight. I am now at the place of a stone’s throw… or at least an arrow’s shot of finding it. A lot of people are interested in his neighbors…

That Post is in the works… this is just to chew on…

An interesting short video… I am particularly interested in the dock site known as “King of all Places”; so named because a goods laden vessel could ease right up to the bank and load or unload without a problem of shallow water.

Oh… nice work on the video. It wasn’t that long ago these types of shots would require a helicopter and a Steady Cam setup.

At about the 2:26 mark the image shows the “dock” and then goes to show Windsor Castle Park. I previously thought that “spot” was “the King of all Places”… but I am digging up evidence to show it may have been on the other side of the creek. …I will update what I find…

I have a few observations on these folks in Nansemond….

I have confronted these boys before and have come back from the fight bruised and mangled…

That Wm. above with 2250 acres in 1662… I have him in 2 places and cannot decide… put zero stock on where I have him placed…

The others near William Sanders, Dumpling Island and that area east of the Nansemond River I have confidence I have them placed very close (I need to fill in the surrounding neighbors to whittle it down.

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…that being said…

I agree with you that there ‘may’ …I think it highly likely, be a different William Wright in Isle of Wight…

These situations are tough where you have the same surname just across a county boundary. To be honest, I do not have my focus on this Wm. Wright in IOW other than to mix him in with my broader map… he is a piece of the puzzle right now…

…click the blue filename under the graphic for a better view…

Note carefully the John Herring mentioned in the notes… I think the creek he is near (if I can swing that little bit of research magic) was named after him… that being “Herring Creek or branch”…

Wright was on Herring Creek…

stay tuned…

I write snickering…

I am still a bit “overwhelmed” with raw data concerning my newest iteration of the IOW/Nansemond map. But as I see in your comment, you seem to be a frequent visitor to the same Funny Farm that I visit… that being the dusty old records of Isle of Wight.

“I have admired your maps for some time! I am working on the Wrights of Isle of Wight Co. VA. 1730 Mary Wright married 1728 William Rutter, son of 1698 Walter Rutter and 1719 Martha Bagnall, who married 2nd 1711 Thomas Allen.
Island Pond: The 1704 Quit Rent Roll for Isle of Wight shows John Rutter with 300 acres, next to Godfrey Hunt with 600 acres and William Wilkinson with 200 acres. In 1715, William Wilkinson is granted 100 acres in Isle of Wight by the Island Pond, adjoining Andrew Monrow (Monro), John Rutter, Barnaby Kerney and James Wood. In 1742 John McDowell lists transportation of John Rutter. In 1746 Thomas Godwin, Jr., is granted 100 acres by the Island Pond, by a path and between the lines of Andrew Monrow, John Rutter, Barnaby Kerney and James Webb, land that was not cultivated and improved by William Wilkinson. The Island Pond is also mentioned in 1688 in a deed by Walter Rutter to Daniel Long. In 1688 Walter Rutter and wife Martha sold 30 acres bounded by a Boiling Spring, Island Pond, and Thomas Poole, to 1698 Daniel Long. Thomas Poole left land in his will to John Hall. It is noted that this 150 acres parcel is adjoining Rutter’s own land. In 1694 Walter Rutter and wife Martha deeded a plantation on which David Price “now lives”, adjoining Green, to their daughter Martha Rutter, who married 1724 John Long, son of 1698 Daniel Long.
I hope this helps your brilliant work.”

You have a few folks listed above that I have failed to invade their privacy and ransacked thru their dirty laundry. In the meantime… here are some of my Data Sheets on some of the folks you are researching: In no particular order:

…click the blue filename under the graphic…

Just between you and me… I’m trying to nail down where the preacher’s house was… that Bracewell guy. And a certain grist Mill that is really getting on my nerves…

…and I’ll keep an eye out for any Wrights

…click on the blue filename below the image…