Sally's
great-great-great-great-great-Grandparents:
Isaac Hunter ca 1690 - 1753 |
his
parents
& est 1713 Elizabeth Parker ca 1695 - bef 1752 |
her parents
of Chowan County, North Carolina
This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!
Isaac Hunter, son of
William, married Elizabeth
Parker daughter of Richard Parker.
1732 -Easter Monday - Isaac Hunter who lived in Chowan County,
NC (the part now Gates) selected as a member of the Vestry of St.
Paul’s Parish [served until April 1736]
1734 - April - Isaac Hunter selected Church Warden
for the year.
1734 - Oct Isaac Hunter made Lay Reader [for the upper
part of the Parish] at Constance (Costens) Chapel near his plantation.
[served until his death in 1753, June 1754 Jacob Hunter is appoimted Lay
Reader of Constants Chapel.
1737 - April - Isaac Hunter again appointed to the Vestry is
stead of Robt. Forster who has left the district. [served until April 1742]
1744 - March - Isaac Hunter again elected to the Vestry.
Selected Church Warden again.
[served on Vestry until April
1752]
Isaac
Hunter lived near what is now called the "Sugar Run Road." a short distance
South East from present-day Sunbury, on land granted his father William Hunter.
1744/45 - Isaac Hunter of Chowan bought the water mill from
John Rice.
The Mill was left to his son Jacob.
e-mail from Hunter Cole -
Last week my sister and I returned from an exploration of genealogical
records in Edenton, N. C., and Gatesville, N. C. We found that
Isaac Hunter of Chowan bought the water mill from John Rice (1744-45).
In the Chowan records there are four mentions of this continuing
transaction. Isaac left the mill to his son Jacob. At Merchants
Mill Pond state park outside Gatesville I asked a ranger about the mill.
He said the site, known and identifiable (near Corapeake), had returned
to nature.
Children of Isaac Hunter and Elizabeth Parker:
1. Elisha Hunter ca 1714 - 1786 home
place, stayed in Gates Co
married Ann Walton
dau of Thomas Walton died 1751
1. Thomas Hunter
2. Sarah Hunter
married
Amos Freeman
3. Rachel Hunter
married
Aaron Blanchard
married
Bond
4. Elizabeth Hunter
married Needum Janikin
5. Mary Hunter
married Benjamin Saunders
6. Asenith Hunter
married Abraham Eason
7. Christian Hunter
married Johnathan Roberts
8. Celia Hunter
married David Harrell
9. Milly Hunter
married Sumner
2.
Jesse Hunter ca 1716 - ca 1786
Thomas
Morris place; later lived in
Warren Co., NC, Wilkes Co, GA; will Wake Co, NC
his descendants lived in Wilkes, Greene, and Elbert Cos. of Georgia
married Granville Co NC 1758 Ann Alston
29 March 1738 -
dau of Solomon Alston and wife Ann Hinton of Warren Co NC
1. Elisha Hunter
2. Ruth Hunter
married
Green
3. Jean/Jane (Joan) Hunter ca
1717 - ca 1743 her adm Robert
Perry
married ca 1734 Phillip Perry died 1751
1. Jesse Perry
2. Phillip Perry
3. Sarah Perry
married Standin
4. Rachel Perry
married Whedby
4. Isaac Hunter ca
1718 - Sept 1811 Wake Co NC
Bertie
Co land,
Isaac Hunter
and Solomon Alston owned plantations along Shocco Creek in the southeast of
Warren County.
married 18
April 1760 Granville Co NC Martha Alston
25 May 1745 -
sister of Ann
All of Isaac and Martha's children, except
Solomon, migrated to Tennessee.
Solomon migrated to Liberty County, Ga., to
Wilkes Co., Ga., and to Abbeville Co., S. C., where he died in
1799.
5. Alee (Alice) Hunter ca 1724 - aft 1752
married Joseph Perry (brother of Jacob, John, & Phillip)
6. Hannah Hunter
est 1728 - Nov 1791 her adm. Robert Perry
married est 1748 Joseph Riddick ca 1708 - 1759
Perquimanns Co NC as his second wife
brother of Robert Riddick who married daughter of Thomas
Docton
married 2nd ca 1759 Benjamin Perry
ca 1738 - 10 Jan 1784
brother of Ezekiel and son of Benjamin Perry died 11 May 1788 Perquimans Co
7. Elizabeth Hunter ca 1730 - aft 1752 her adm. Lemuel Baker
married Joseph Perry
per 1827 depo. by Nathan Ward of Gates Co
*8. Rachell Hunter ca 1732 - 1803/4
Hertford Co
married ca 1748 William Walton ca 1718
- 1771 Chowan/Gates Co
married 2nd Matthew Small d bef 1803
Gates Co
9. Daniel Hunter ca 1734 - 1797 Granville Co NC
-died single person
75 £ money, lived Warren and Franklin Counties, NC
Daniel Hunter lived
on Fishing Creek in
Granville County
from
Book One, page 371, of the Granville County, N. C., Deed Books.
"James Hunter; Jacob Hunter; Lewellen Jones and wife Ann; Green
Williamson and wife Patty; Garrott Vorhus and wife Sooky; Beaufort Turner
and wife Sarah; Elisha Hunter; Ruth Green; Robert McCullock and wife
Elizabeth; Timothy Walton; Wm. Walton; Mary Cherry; and Celia Jones, who are
heirs of Daniel Hunter, decd., and tenants in common petitioned for sale of
the land of said Daniel Hunter, which was sold at public sale to Robert
Jones, July 16, 1823."
(This
abstract is from Kinfolks of Granville Co., N. C. by Zae Hargett
Gwynn. Rocky Mount, N. C.: Joseph W. Watson, 1974, p. 249)
10. Sarah Hunter ca 1735 - aft 1752
married Charles Moore d. 1789 Perquimans Co
11. Jacob Hunter 1737 - 8 June 1784
Water mill
married
Sarah Pugh Hill died 19 Nov 1793
dau of Henry Hill of Gates
Co
e-mail from Hunter Cole: . . .
.Daniel, a bachelor, died intestate in
1797, and his heirs were required to advertise in a Raleigh newspaper in
order to seek out any other claimants to Daniel's siblings. The
resulting depositions from Chowan, Gates, Perquimens, and other counties
locate many heirs. The children of each of Daniel's siblings and their
spouses are listed in these court records
Isaac of Warren and his brother Jesse moved from Chowan to Bute County
(renamed Warren), where they married the Alston sisters. Isaac Hunter
and Solomon Alston owned plantations along Shocco Creek in the southeast of
Warren County. Brother Daniel Hunter lived nearby on Fishing Creek in
Granville County.
The wills of Isaac of Chowan (m. Elizabeth Parker) and Isaac of Warrren (m.
Martha Alston) show the progression of this branch of the Nansemond
tree.
All of Isaac and Martha's children, except Solomon, migrated to
Tennessee. Solomon migrated to Liberty County, Ga., to Wilkes Co.,
Ga., and to Abbeville Co., S. C., where he died in 1799.
On 23 Sept 1826 - Robert McCulloch prepared this for
the use of the Clerk & Master of Equity of Granville Court:
A List of the Original hears of Daniel Hunter deceased:
Elisha Hunter had 9 children
Jacob Hunter had 3 children
Jesse Hunter had 2 children
Isaac Hunter had 7 children
Sisters of the above
Jane Perry had 4
Hannah Perry had 4
Elizabeth Perry had 3
Rachel Walton had 9
Sarah Moore had 7
Isaac Hunter Jr to Isaac Hunter Sr May 2d 1739 384 A part of patent to Wm Hunter late
of VA & given by him to his son Nicholas Hunter and by him sold to his son Isaac, on
Meherrin Swamp issue out of Bennetts Creek. Test William Hunter, Elisha Hunter
Thos Rountree. Atty of Nicholas Hunter and wife Rebecca to Wm Hunter, March 29 1729. 120 A
on SE side Meherrin Swamp where said Hunter did live, part of a patent to William Hunter
of Nansemond Co VA father of said Nicholas. Test Isaac Hunter, Chas Rountree
same to Isaac Hunter, 100 A on SE side of Meherrin Swamp adjoining above patent, dated Apl
24, 1701. Test. Wm Hunter, Chas Rountree.
Chowan Co NC Book A p 257 Feb 16, 1743. Robert Hunter to Isaac Hunter, "For part of a
patent granted to William Hunter late of Nansemond Co" "being the father of the
said Robert and Isaac Hunter."
Will of Isaac Hunter In the Name of God Amen
I, Isaac Hunter of Chowan County, Being
of perfect Memory and mind and Calling to mind the Uncertainty of this Transitory, Do make
and ordain this my Last will and Testament, in manner and forme following, first I
Bequeath my Soul to almighty God: and my Body to the Earth to be Buried at the Discretion
of my Execut/r, hereafter named; and as for my worldly Estate which it hath pleased God to
Bestow upon me, I Give and Dispose of as followeth, Vizt:
First, my will and Desire is that all my Just Debts be Trewly paid and Discharged by my
Execr,
Item. I give and Bequeath to my son Elisha Huntor my plantation whereon I now live and the
plantation whereon he now lives together with all the land thereunto Belonging, I Say to
my sd. Son Elisha Huntor and his heirs and Assigns for Ever. I also give to my sd Son
Elisha Huntor, my Negro man named Duke, to him and his heirs forever
Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Jesse Huntor, all my land and plantation purchased of
Thomas Morris as pr. Deed of sale containing three hundred acres be it more or less I say
to my son Jesse Huntor and his heirs and assigns forever. I also give to my sd son Jesse
Huntor, my Negro boy named Toney I say to him and his heirs forever.
Item. I Give and bequeath to my son Isaac Huntor all my Land in Bartea County as by a
pattent Dated the twenty eighth day of February 1744/5 for one hundred and fifty acres;
also a deed of sale for 170 acres dated April 20, 1745 and joyning Elisha Huntor’s
lands I say to my son Isaac Huntor and his heirs and assigns forever; I also give to my
son Isaac Huntor my Negro girl named Venus she and her increase; also one good feather bed
and furniture there unto belonging; also three medle sized puter dishes and one puter
Bason and one iron pot of forty pounds weight, one frying pan and two cows and calves to
him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give to my son Daniel Huntor seventy five pounds currant money of Virginia to be
raised out of my estate it being in consideration as I have not given him any land or
negroe I also give to my sd son Daniel Huntor one good feather bed and the furniture
thereunto belonging, also three medle sized puter dishes, one puter bason, and one Iron
pot of about forty pounds weight one frying pan and two cows and calves I say to him and
his heirs forever.
Item. I give to my daughter Alce Perry my Negro man named Tobey to her and her heirs
forever.
Item. I give to my daughter Hannah Riddick my Negro girl named Lacey she and her increase,
to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Perry my Negro girl named Kate provided she pay to
my daughter Alce five pounds currant money to make the value of Tobey equill with her
negro Kate and then I say to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give to my daughter Rachell Walton my negro woman named Hagor to her and her heirs
forever.
Item. I give to my daughter Sarah Hunter my negro girl named Tresea also my side saddle
and my leather trunk with a date of 1734 on it and a horse or mare of four pounds vallue
and three meddle sixed puter dishes one puter bason one Iron pot, one frying pan two cows
and calves and one good feather bed and the furniture thereunto belonging. I say to her
and her heirs forever.
Item I give to my grandchildren ye sons and daughters of my daughter Jean deceast namely
Jesse, Phillip, & Mary Perries & Sarah Field to each and every of them the sum of
five pounds currant money of Virginia to them and their heirs forever.
Item. I give to Zilphea Parker, daughter of Jonathan Parker one good feather bed and
furniture and two puter dishes & three puter plates provided that if she stays and
lives with me or in my family till she comes to the age of eighteen years and behaves
well, or at ye day of marriage if to my or friends satisfaction then I say to her and her
heirs forever.
Item. All the rest and residue of my estate not before given be it of what nature or kind
soever it is my will and desire that it be equally devided between my sons and daughters
namely: Elisha, Jacob, Jesse, Isaac, Daniel, Alce, Hannah, Elizabeth, Rachell, and Sarah
share and share alike; it is also my desire that my son Jacob Huntor have & enjoy all
my right of the water mill.
Lastly, I nominate and appoint my son, Elisha Huntor, my whole and sole executor to see
this my Will duly fulfilled and performed and I do hereby revoke and make null & void
all former or other will or wills heretofore by me made, published or declared either by
word or wrighting and if my son Elisha should happen to die before this my will be
fulfilled then and in that case I do hereby appoint my son Jacob, and John Gordon or
either of them to see this my last will and testament duly fulfilled.
In winess whereof I
have hereunto sett my hand and fixed my seal this seventeen day of April 1752.
Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the Testator to be his last will and Testament
in the presents of us: Isaac Huntor (seal)
Moses Sumner, Samuel Sumner, Jurt., John Sumner, Jurt. Proved April Ct 1753
son of Isaac Hunter and Elizabeth Parker
Jacob Hunter 1737 - 1784 |
his parents
& Sarah Pugh Hill d.1793 |
her parents
of Gates County NC
Jacob Hunter son of Isaac stayed in Gates Co. He was a member of the Hillsboro
Convention of 1776. He was appointed by the April Congress in Edenton District to
establish the manufacture of arms, and to secure muskets and bayonets for the army. He was
2nd Major of Chowan Minute Men September 9, 1775. Like his father before him he was a
member of the Vestry of St Paul’s Parish and Lay Reader at Constance Chapel. Prior to
the Revolution, Jacob Hunter and the members of Constance Chapel, except the Gordon
family, severed relationship with the English Church and everything pertaining to England
and became just as ardent members of the new Methodist Church.
Sarah Pugh Hill "was the
daughter of Abraham Hill and Judith,
his wife.
Abraham Hill was the son of Henry Hill and Mary Pugh. Mary Pugh
was the daughter of Daniel Pugh, who with his brothers Frances and Thomas,
[the emigrants] settled in Upper Nansemond County VA. in 1665".
-From The Hunter Family by
William T Cross [corrected]
Will of Abraham Hill,
Chowan, 18 April 1760
- sons: Henry, Abraham, and Isaac, son Theophilus
- granddaughter Leah Hunter
-daughter Mary Easton
- wife Judeth
Exrs: son Henry and Marmaduke Norfleet
Test: Sturges Ederingame, Wm. Hinton, Clary Blanchard
Isaac Hunter born at the Jacob Hunter home near Sunbury in what is now Hunter’s Mill
Township, Gates County on Aug 29, 1759 and died Oct 22 1816. He owned the Jacob Hunter
home place, the Mill and Mill Pond and all the land lying on the right hand side of the
road going from the Mill towards Suffolk up to what is now the Kellog Farm. He farmed and
operated the Mill all his life. At about age 21 he was appointed the First Public Register
of the County, he moved to Gatesville and purchased the Tavern later known as the United
States Hotel; he also bought the corner store which he operated. Several years later he
returned to his home located on "Sugar Run Road.". The road on which Isaac
Hunter lived was the Main Road leading from Edenton to Suffolk and over which the stage
ran. In 1804 the main road was changed to run through what is now Sunbury which crossed
over the old Mill Pond. Isaac Hunter built a new house where the roads cross. In the yard
of his new home a sun flower came up and it is family tradition that he named his place
Sunbury. Like his father, Jacob, he left the English Church and became a leader in the New
Methodist Church; and it was at his home that Bishop Asbury stayed on several of his
visits to the County. He gave the land on which Philadelphia Methodist Church was built
and was one of those instrumental is establishing this Church. Isaac Hunter gave the new
church in Sunbury its name according to family tradition.
-From The Hunter Family by
William T Cross
Jacob Hunter died 8
June 1784. Sarah his wife died 19 Nov 1793.
Children of Jacob Hunter and Sarah Pugh Hill:
1. Isaac Hunter 29 Aug 1759 - 22 Oct 1816 [Jan 1816]
married 1st 8 June 1785 Sophia Riddick 3
Nov 1768
Suffolk, VA - 28 Jan 1791[4]
a. Jacob Hunter 12 Oct 1786
- 30 Oct 1810
b. Edward Riddick Hunter 29 Aug
1788 - 21 July 1857 Gates Co - farmer
married 1809 Martha Sumner
Riddick
dau of Micajah Riddick Jr and
wife Elizabeth Sumner Riddick
she was daughter of James Riddick & his
wife Martha Sumner
i. Mary Eliza Hunter 1811 - 1862
was an invalid having fallen from a horse when she was a girl
ii. Edward Riddick Hunter
another man by the same name married several times twice (recorded in Gates
Co)
married Carmi Watts
1. Samuel Watts Hunter
2. Mary Eliza Frances Hunter
3. Martha Jane Hunter
4. Edward Moore White Hunter
iii. William I Hunter died 10 Sept 1870
married Sarah B Roberts
1. Willie Hunter [married late in life]
iv. Willis Micajah Hunter
1. Edward Hunter [his aunt's will]
v. Henry Holmes Hunter
MD
married Mary Hinton Cheek
vi. James Beverly Hunter editor of Durham paper
married Martha (Mattie) Hayes of Warren Co
vii. Sophia Caroline Hunter
married Dr. Thomas Hines
1. Irene Hines dsp
2. Mattie Hines dsp
viii. Artamesia Maria Hunter [Mullen] died 1854
married 15 March 1841 Joseph Mullen
1. Henry Hunter Mullen 1844 -
2. Joseph Mullen 1847 -
3. Edward Mullen died 1855 aged 7 yrs 5 mos
c. Isaac Riddick
Hunter 14 Jan 1791 - 1835 age 44
married 7 Jan 1817 Emily Riddick 14 Dec 1796 - Oct 1879
dau of Micajah Riddick Jr. and Elizabeth Riddick
i. Jacob Edward Hunter 18 July 1818 - 27 Dec 1846
ii. Richard Micajah Hunter 5 July 1820 - 5 Aug 1837
iii. Sophia Riddick Hunter 22 June 1822 - 16 Mar 1896
iv. Mary Susan Hunter 3 March 1824 - 22 June 1844
v. James Joseph Hunter 22 Jan 1827 - 5 June 1842
vi. Isaac Riddick Hunter 13 Dec 1829 - 1 Oct 1864
married 1 Jan 1862 Mary Eliza Gatling died 20 April 1895
dau of Dr. John Gatling and Mary Eliza Riddick
1. Percy Isaac Hunter 3 Oct 1862 rem to Texas
married Mary Lyon
2. Sarah Elizabeth Hunter 11 Jan 1864 - Sept 1866
vii. Fletcher Harris Hunter 30 Sept 1830 - 24 April 1839
viii. Emily Mariah Hunter 30 Dec 1832 - 20 Mar 1901
ix. Cornelia Artemisa Hunter 9 Dec 1834 - 18 Sept 1909
married 1st 22 Feb 1861 Joseph Mullen
widower of her first cousin
married 2nd 19 Feb 1884 Capt. Timothy S. Meara, CSA
married 22 Dec 1796 Mary Hunter Gordon 12
Jan 1772 - 14 Dec 1802
dau. of Jacob & Barsha Gordon
d. Sophia Caroline Hunter 18 Oct
1797 - 18 Nov 1823
e. Artemesia Hunter 1 F eb
1799 - 1 Dec 1845
f. John Omega Hunter 4 Dec 1802 - 29 April 1878
Yazoo City, MS
married Elizabeth Ann Pugh of Yazoo City died 11 Mar 1887
married 3rd 7 Oct 1804 Mary Gordon 13 April 1783 -
1 Aug 1838
dau of
Benj.
Gordon & wife Tamar Copeland
g. Barsha Eliza
Hunter 3 Aug 1807 - 22 Oct 1808
h. Jacob/Issac Benjamin
Hunter 7 July 1812 - 19 Oct 1839
i. Sarah Edna Adeline
Hunter 27 July 1814 - 10 Dec 1843
"after drinking a glass of lemonade prepared by her husband
she became violently ill and within a few hours was dead"
married 2 Dec 1829 Willis F Riddick 1811 - 28 Feb 1871
son of Micajah Riddick Jr and Elizabeth Riddick
i. Mary Elizabeth Riddick 6 April 1831 -
married 1st
8th Feb 1859 E J F McCampbell
married
Granville Co 2nd 10 June 1863 Orren Randolph Smith
at the home of James Beverly Hunter by the rector of the Episcopal Church at
Warrenton
1. Jessica Randolph Smith
2. Riddick Hunter 1760 - 1808
married Ann Riddick 1761 -
a. John Streeter
Hunter 1792 -
b. Sarah Ann Hunter 1797 -
3. Leah Hunter bef 18 April
1760 - died 8 Jan 1806
married 1772 Seth Riddick
ca 1747 Nansemond
Co, VA - aft 1820
Seth Riddick made depo. before Abraham Harrell & Joseph Riddick on 17
March 1820 - age 73
a. Sarah Riddick
married Kitchen Norfleet
i. Nancy Norfleet
married Thomas Jordan
ii. John Riddick
Norfleet
married 1st Harriet Cross
married 2nd Ellen Coopwood
moved to and died in Mississippi
iii. Marmaduke
Norfleet
married Margaret Jordan
married 2nd Eliza Felton
the line of Conrad Plyler, [now deceased] the musician [pianist,
organist, and music teacher] from Gatesville
iv. Seth Riddick
Norfleet
married Martha Eliza Rawls
1. Harriet Susan Norfleet
married John Franklin Cross
2. William James Norfleet
married Sarah Jones died in Georgia
3. Mary Elizabeth Norfleet
married Joseph Milton Cross
brother of John Franklin Cross
4. Martha Medora Norfleet
married Leonidas Whedbee
5. Sarah Amelia Norfleet
married James Abner Harrell
son of Samuel R Harrell d 1864 and wife Mary Elizabeth
g son of Noah Harrell d 1848 and Sarah Goodman
line of Harriett Anne Hathaway
v. James Jacob Norfleet
married Josephine Epps
moved and died in Alabama
vi.
Barsha Susan Norfleet 1822 - 1880 Al
married 22 Oct 1844 John
William Walton 1817 - 1897 Al
? married 2nd Parker
4. Elizabeth Hunter ca 1764 -
married Robert McCollock
Sources include: "The
Hunter Family" by William T Cross, 1973, Gatesville, NC
Bible Records of Gates County, NC Vol 1, pub by the Gates County
Historical Society
US Census of Gates county
Estate file of Daniel Hunter d 1797 in Granville Co NC
Hathaway's North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register
28 November 2007
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