the Boundary twixt VA/ NC………a map
My intrepid Sidekick Jennifer from California emailed me a link to a map I was unfamiliar with…
Here is the version that can be zoomed in…
https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/ncmaps/id/1245
But of particular interest to me personally is this additional map by the mapper of the above 1737 version that Mike McNamara has styled the “manuscript map”. This is a section showing the survey line of Byrd II in 1728. Moseley was there also but I figure him and William Little were probably drunk most of the time… I have no proof but I do have my suspicions… smiling.
Did I mention that Jennifer from California’s last name is Thornton? Observers will notice that one Thomas Thornton is noted on the map just a stone’s throw away from Carolus Anderson. It seems that William Byrd II was too busy trying to seduce William Kinchin’s wife to mention Mr Thornton. (Byrd wrote two versions of his exploits surveying the boundary line… the “secret” version is more entertaining)… cough…cough.
This is low resolution, my apologies… if you know of a higher res version let me know. Also click on the blue filename below for the bigger version to view.
Not a bad job on the map… considering they did not have aerial photography and satellite GPS in 1728…
Here is my version, as best as I can recreate…
During 1724, Thomas Thornton buys 230 ac from William Bennet. Both parties of the County of Albemarle, Bertie Precinct. [Bertie Deed Book A 1721-1725; FHL Film # 007510477, image 344/470 (p.337)].
Thomas Thornton sells the said 230 ac, in 1746, to Chaplin Williams of IOW. [Northampton NC Deeds, vol. 1-2, 1741-1759; FHL Film # 007517521, image 135/527 (bk 1/p. 258)].
Please note that the 200 acres of 1724 is in the Precinct of Bertie, but in 1746, it’s of Northampton, NC. (Northampton County, est. in 1740, originally part of Bertie County)
PogMoThointon
April 18, 2023 at 10:44 am
Jonathan Sanderson to Daniel Cammerin of Nansemond Co., VA. May 13, 1728. 7 pds. for 120 ac. on NS Meherrin River, SS Buckhorn Swamp, Meadow Branch. Adj. “Beal Bound Line”. Part of patent to John Hooke dated Nov. 7, 1723 (Bertie Deed Book B:391). This would appear to be the south half of the land that Hooke sold to Sanderson in 1725 (Bertie Deed Book B:155). The Beal Brown reference was a little confusing until I found that Brown had in fact patented land in 1722, but let it lapse, and it was picked up in 1729 by John Boude and the trail of deeds leads it to John Vick selling it to “Daniel Coumarin,” both of Bertie County May 24, 1742 (Northampton Deed Book 1:20). I can’t prove but suspect that’s it on the south side of Hooke’s 1723 patent.
According to the terms of Daniel Cameron’s will, apparently after his widow Ann died about 1754/5, only son Phillip Alexander Cameron sold off the land, which included the two tracts above (Northampton Deed Book 2:298, 2:464), plus one not located as of yet sold by John Rogers to Daniel Camerlin that P.A. sold in 1755 (Northampton Deed Book 2:187).
It would have been really nice if someone had sold any of the properties around the land and had a reference to Daniel Cameron’s boundary lines, but there’s not a one that I have located yet between the times of Daniel buying the land and Phillip Alexander selling it. My interest is in trying to determine where Daniel’s daughters were at – one apparently married William Whitley, another married William Godwin, and daughter Eliza married Robert Tew, my sixth great granddad, who appears to have dropped out of the sky about 1740. There are no references to Robert in Bertie County nor Northampton County, until he patents land down in the part of Duplin which later became Sampson in 1764. Aargh.
Vernon Tew
December 21, 2023 at 10:45 am
see this map… might be a clue…
https://andersonnc.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/1chowan-prec-working-2.pdf
anderson1951
December 22, 2023 at 6:40 am