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Personal data Fereby Bird Trotman 

• Alternative names: Fereby Byrd, Fereby Byrd, Fereby Bird
• She was born about 1770 in Gates County, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1771 in North Carolina, Verenigde Staten.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1771 in North Carolina, United States.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1771 in Nansemond, Virginia, United States.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1771 in North Carolina.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1752 in Nansemond, Virginia, USA.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1771.
• She died before 1820 in North Carolina, Verenigde Staten.
• Alternative: She died before ore 1830 in Gates Co. NC.
• Alternative: She died in the year 1831.
• Alternative: She died in the year 1830 in Nansemond County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten.
• Alternative: She died in the year 1801.
• A child of Amos Trotman and Christine Harrell
• A child of Thomas Trotman and Christine Harrell

Household of Fereby Bird Trotman

(1) She is married to James Abraham Baker.

They got married on 05 Feb at Camden, North Carolina, USA.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Henry Baker  ± 1776-1860
2. Jesse J Baker  1784-1880
3. Jesse BAKER  ± 1784-± 1880
4. Jesse Baker  ± 1784-± 1880
5. John Henry Baker  1786-1855
6. Elizabeth "Betsey" Baker  1788-1832
7. Rachel Baker  1790-< 1834
8. Nancy Ann Baker  1791-1874 
9. James Henry Baker  1792-1885
10. Elisha Baker  1792-????
11. Eliza Baker  1792-????
12. Peggy Baker  1793-1886
13. Andrew Baker  1794-1836 
14. Mathew Baker  1795-1839
15. Abselly Baker  1795-????
16. Mathew Baker  1795-????
17. Mathew Baker  1795-????
18. Jesse Baker  ± 1795-????
19. Elizabeth Caroline Baker  1795-1824
20. Elizabeth Caroline Baker  1795-1824
21. Elizabeth Caroline Baker  1795-> 1860
22. Elizabeth Caroline Baker  1795-1824
23. Elizabeth Baker  1800-< 1850
24. Elizabeth Baker  1800-< 1850
25. Elizabeth Baker  1800-1850
26. Blake Baker  1800-± 1862
27. Wynns Baker  1800-1880
28. Wynns Baker  1800-1880
29. Blake Baker  1800-± 1862
30. James Baker  1802-< 1847
31. James Baker  1802-1836
32. James Jr Baker  1802-< 1847
33. Blake Baker  1804-1863
34. Matthew Baker  1805-1839
35. Mary Baker  1805-????
36. Matthew Baker  1805-1839
37. Mary Baker  1805-????
38. Peggy Baker  1806-????
39. Benjamin Baker  1807-????
40. Benjamin Baker  1807-????
41. Penelope Baker  ± 1808-± 1875
42. Penelope Baker (Ellis)  ± 1808-± 1875
43. Nancy Baker  1814-> 1870
44. Nancy "Polly" Baker  1814-> 1880
45. Sally Baker  
46. Sarah Baker  
47. William Baker  
48. Jesse Baker  ????-1880

(2) She is married to Absilla Jane Trotman.

They got married on August 30, 1796 at Gates, North Carolina.Source 6

(3) She had a relationship with Lawrence Baker.

Child(ren):

1. Jesse J Baker  1784-1880
2. Nancy Ann Baker  1791-1874 

(4) She had a relationship with James Baker.

Notes about Fereby Bird Trotman

[4-1-08.FTW] Between 1769 tax list and the next countywide extant Dobbs County tax list in 1780, there are several lists of many of the men in Dobbs County but very little information of a more specific and genealogically significant character. There are full lists of seven of the ten Dobbs militia companies that marched under the command of Governor Tryon to make war upon the Regulars, an expedition which ended in the Battle of Alamance in 1771. There are lists of ten Dobbs militia companies that marched to battle the Tories at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February 1776. These name every man showing rank, function, days served, in what company, and how much pay, and some other occasional happenings. Also, commissioned officers are shown for Dobbs Minute Men Units and at least one Company of Continentals from Dobbs. Some of these companies are shown by name for other expeditions early in the Revolution. There is a list of freeholders of Dobbs who voted for members of the General Assembly in March 1779 (before Wayne County was formed from Western Dobbs in December, 1779. The 1780 tax list covers all of Dobbs that was left after Wayne was formed. It is not a poll tax list but a list of freeholders resident in Dobbs showing the valuation of their taxable estates. I believe there is not a single instance of a kinship relation being shown on this list between any two or more persons. Virtually the same list is found in the form of a tax assessment list to be paid in commodities during the year 1780. Thomas BIRD and Robert BIRD are listed among soldiers drafted from Captain Kennedy's Company of Dobbs County Militia July 20, 1777, to be sent out of the State on expeditions under Continental command. Benjamin BYRD and Jesse BYRD also had some Continental service. Benjamin also served in the War of the Regulation. Nathan BYRD was a drummer in Captain Jesse Cobb's company of Minutemen of Dobbs County in the Minutemen Battalion from the New Bern District participating in expeditions against Tory insurgents and the threat of British invasion in 1776 and thereafter. Nathaniel BYRD is at the same time serving in Captain Joseph Green's Company of Dobbs Militia on the expedition to the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February-March 1776. * Note that after the old Richard BYRD, Senior, became deceased, the one hitherto called Richard BYRD, Junior began to be called Richard BYRD, Senior. However the third Richard, grandson of the first, seems not to have taken up the Junior. In the same volume at p. 237 is a deed from Benjamin BYRD to John BYRD made Aug. 9, 1802, ...a tract or plantation in Lenior County on north side of Jumping Run containing by estimate 100 acres more or less...beginning at a red oak in Thomas BYRD's line...refers to Huckleberry Pond...refers to a part of a patent granted to Sammuel Thomas and says this particular land is part of two patents, one granted to Richard BYRD, the other to John Moseley. There are Mosely family deeds which tie in with these BYRD deeds and have also been saved. Witnesses Sam BYRD and Simon Herring. Page 239 is a quit claim deed from Fereby BYRD widow of Thomas BYRD. This one is made 5 Jan. 1815 who for consideration of $118 quit claims her right, title and interest in fifty nine acres of land, being one third part of my dower in the lands of my dead husband, Thomas BYRD to be laid off on the South or lower East of said land joining the lands of Jesse BYRD, deceased by a line South 70 east from said Herrings line to Falling Creek ...for and during the term of my natural life. Witness Sam BYRD and Wm. Croom. Page 255 of same source has a deed made 28 Feb 1804 between Richard BYRD and John BYRD of Lenoir Co to Rachel (BYRD - widow) Bryan for $2,000 sold a piece of land in Lenoir County on Falling Creek and Jumping Run being part of four surveys: ONE granted to Samuel Thomas; ONE to Richard BYRD, Senr.; ONE to Richard BYRD, Junr.; and ONE to John Aldridge (These are all identifiable I the State Landgrant records - CRH) beginning at a pine MILLER BYRDS corner on a small branch and runs with his line South 45° east 44 poles to a post oak his his corner, then with his other line North 88° east 198 poles to a maple at the run of Jumping Run Branch, thence down the same so far as will make 235 poles on a straight averse to a stake JESSE BYRD's corner, then with his line South 68° West 79 poles to THOMAS BYRD's line, then with his other line north 20° West 100 poles to a post oak his corner, thence South 70° West 160 poles, then north 20° West 132 poles to the mouth of the branch MILLER BYRD's Line, then up the various courses of the Branch, being MILLER BYRD's line to the beginning, containing 380 acres INCLUDING THE PLANTATION WHERE THE SAID RICHARD BYRD AND JOHN BYRD NOW LIVES, THE GRAVEYARD EXCEPTED. Page 251 of same Lenoir Colonial Records Vol. has a deed from MILLER BYRD TO WILLIAM HERRING, both of Lenoir County, Made 8 Nov. 1816...for $1,772 sells Herring 202 acres on North side of Neuse River and the lower side of Falling Creek, being part of TWO surveys: one granted to Samuel Thomas dated 1745 ONE granted to RICHARD BYRD, SENIOR date 1767. ....Samuel Mewborne's line mentioned...also Jumping Run and Falling Creek. Witnesses Jno. Meyer and John Shirley. Proved in open court by the grantor at Lenoir County Court, January Term 1817. Enrolled 15 Jan. 1817. ENTRIES IN THE OLD GRANTEE DEED INDEX SHOWING PERIOD WHEN ENTRY WAS MADE AND ALL BYRD GRANTEES FROM VOLUME 1 which began in January 1746 in Johnston County TO VOLUME 21 (inclusive) which was in use in Lenoir County beginning Jan. 1804: Original Deed Book Number - Page 1 26 Richard BYRD from Samuel Thomas in Feb. 1746 1 72 Richard BYRD to Henry Garrett March 1746 2 294 Richard BYRD to Joshua Herring about 1753 3 336 Richard BYRD from Charles Holmes about 1754/55 No other BYRD grantees in the Johnston County period of present Lenoir County. That period ran from Jan 1746 to April 1759 at which time the Dobbs County period of present Lenoir began and ran unntil Feb. 1792 at which time Lenoir period of Lenoir Began and the records of all periods weere burned Oct. 1878 (as to Clerks and all records but deeds) and April 1880 (as to all deed records and Clerk's records accumulated since Oct. 1878 - CRH) 7 431 Nathan BYRD from Williams (FIRST APPEARANCE OF NATHAN BYRD) about 1763 8 38 Benjamin BYRD from John BYRD (FIRST APPEARANCE OF BENJAMIN BYRD) about 1765 (Recall that this John is mentioned in the Will of Stewart) 9 156 Thomas BYRD from William & John T. Miller about 1766/67 FIRST OF THOMAS 10 122 Thomas BYRD from Richard BYRD about 1772 11 303 JOSHUA BYRD from John Creek about 1775 or a little later FIRST OF JOSHUA (The firsts means only in the Deed Grantee Index - see also 1769 tax list 13 201 Richard BYRD from John Creel About 1779 13 198 Richard BYRD from Elijah Hinson About 1779 14 478 Archibald BYRD from William W. Vining About 1781 14 356 Richard BYRD from Moses Parker About 1781 16 12 Nathan BYRD form Richard BYRD, Senior About 1786 FIRST TIME USED Senior 16 156 Nnathan BYRD from Benjamin Sheppard About 1786 - 1792 17 464 Richard BYRD from Nathaniel BYRD About 1797 FIRST MENTION OF NATHANIEL 17 474 Richard BYRD from Jonathan BYRD ca 1797 FIRST MENTION OF JONATHAN 17 274 Lemuel BYRD from John Garland About 1796/97 FIRST MENTION LEMUEL 18 159 RICHARD BYRD, SR. from WILLIAM Aldridge, Jr. Enrolled June 1797 18 245 Lemuel BYRD from Archibald BYRD about Aug 1796 (SECOND MENTION OF ARCHIBALD) 18 258 Richard BYRD, Jr. from Archibald BYRD 18 365 Joshua BYRD from Major Croom 18 368 Joshua BYRD from same 18 99 Nathan BYRD from Jesse Farmer 18 252 Lemuel BYRD from John Caile 18 7 Elijah BYRD from Frederick Jones (FIRST MENTION OF ELIJAH BYRD) ca 1796 19 19 Nathan BYRD from William Aldridge ca 1797-1799 19 136 Thomas BYRD from Drewry Aldridge This deed exists but have misplaced it. 19 153 Richard BYRD from Drewry Aldridge 19 246 Richard BYRD from John Aldridge 19 124 Lemuel BYRD from John BYRD 19 254 Richard BYRD from Lemuel BYRD 19 45 Nathan BYRD from Moses Gooding 19 162 Lemuel BYRD from James Glasgow 20 192 John BYRD from Benjamin BYRD deed extant ca. 1802 20 247 Elijah BYRD from Joshua BYRD SECOND APPEARANCE OF ELIJAH 20 244 Elisha BYRD from Joshua BYRD FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELISHA 20 252 William BYRD from Joshua FIRST APPEARANCE OF WILLIAM 20 251 Thomas BYRD from Joshua BYRD 20 261 Lemuel BYRD from Spencer Caldwell 21 174 Rachel BYRD from Richard and John BYRD deed extant made 28 Feb 1804 21 182 SUTTON BYRD FROM JOSHUA BYRD FIRST OF SUTTON BYRD 21 184 Joshua BYRD, Jr. from Joshua BYRD FIRST OF JOSHUA, JR. 21 35 Lemuel BYRD from William Copeland Other BYRD entries in the Grantee Index are in my notes down to 1870 - CRH There is a countrywide list of Dobbs Voters (freeholders who voted in an election for the General Assembly in March 1779. No BYRD-BIRD voted: A list of taxables with their valuation of their taxable estates for the year 1780 (after Wayne was cut off) shows the follow BYRDs with their valuations: In District # 1: Benjamine BIRD £1,021; Nathan BIRD £774; Richard BIRD £1 3,092; Thomas BIRD £400 In District # 2: Joshua BIRD £624 and Nathaniel BIRD (Hatter) £1,205 There was no BIRD/BYRD on the 1786 tax list for Wayne County. Dobbs County freeholders who voted in an election for Constitutional Convention representation in March 1788 show the following BYRD/BIRD members: #129 Richard BYRD #290 Richard BYRD, Junior #150 Robert BYRD #301 Nathaniel BYRD #167 Thos. BYRD #302 Lam. BYRD (Lemuel) #199 Richard BYRD, Senr. The age minimum for voting was age 21 #212 Joshua BYRD Each voter had to own at least 50 acres of land #286 Archibald BYRD A petition from Dobbs County on behalf of holding a new election to replace a disputed election and proposing it to be held 14 and 15 July 1788 contained signatures of the following BYRDs in Dobbs: #138 Thomas his mark BYRD #140 Joshua BYRD #146 Joshua BYRD, Senr. #192 Thomas BYRD (no difference in the two) #204 Richard his mark BYRD #206 Nathan BYRD #244 Archibell BYRD Papers in N.C.Arch File SS907 JESSE BYRD of N. C. was applicant for Rev. War Service Pension but his application was rejected by U. S. National Archives File Rev. War Applications R-1574. THOMAS BIRD born in Duplin Co. N. C. widow Nancy, a Rev. War Pensioner in his service right. Her U. S. Pension Number indexed as W-8183 She also received bounty land warrant No. 56942 for 160 acres in 1855. U. S. Archives. The deed records of present Johnston County are in good condition back to March 1759 and were burned at Lenoir Courthouse for all prior dates. BYRD Deeds from 1790 to 1818 have been reviewed successfully. *The above BRIGHT BYRD is ancestor of Mrs. Tera BYRD Averett, 100 North Ouida Street, Enterprise, Ala. 36330. From 1760 to 1776, the Provincial government required that certain information with respect to Wills probated and Administrations granted be sent by the Clerk of County Court to the Treasurer and many of these list showing the testator or intestate, the executors or administrators, the securities and their bonds and the date letters issued or the Court Term when probated are shown. The lists for Dobbs County from 1763 through 1774 have been examined and no testate or intestate of the name BYRD was found on any of them. Also there is nothing in the Grantee Index or other records found prior to 1792 to suggest the death of an adult male in the BYRD family within Johnston, 1746-1759 or Dobbs 1759-1792- who left an estate in land or in other property of consequence. The case papers of the Superior Court for the New Bern Districts and the Minutes Books of that Court have been gleaned for information on the BYRD family and these also show no death of a male BYRD as stated above for the period 1746 to 1792 when Nathan BYRD died. Consequently, this researcher can affirm with confidence that Richard BYRD, Sr. who was born about 1711 in Chowan County died in Lenoir in 1796 or 97, that his son Richard BYRD, Junior, born about 1752 in Johnston County (now Lenoir) died in 1818 in Johnston County (now Johnston) and that the latter had at the date he wrote his will in 1807 a young son named BRIGHT BYRD who was still of school age but who survived and became a prominent planter in Johnston County. ((John BYRD, b CA 1655 m(1) Mary and m(2) Rebecca Peterson He died in 1716. His youngest son, Richard, was born in or near 1711 and reached his majority in or about the year 1732, at which time he received a deed of sale from John BYRD and William BYRD. Richard married twice. The name of his first wife has not been found. But his son, Richard, Jr. was born of a second wife, Mary O'Dyrs (or Odyer), daughter of Dennis Odyer. Richard, Sr. was deceased by 1797. Richard, Jr. died in 1818. The wills of John BYRD (BIRD) and of Richard BYRD, Jr. are shown below. We are concerned with the two sons of Richard BYRD, Jr. who came to Dale County, Alabama, in the 1820s from North Carolina, namesly, Bright BYRD and Redding BYRD. A chapter of genealogy has been devoted to each - TBA)) Between 1769 tax list and the next countywide extant Dobbs County tax list in 1780, there are several lists of many of the men in Dobbs County but very little information of a more specific and genealogically significant character. There are full lists of seven of the ten Dobbs militia companies that marched under the command of Governor Tryon to make war upon the Regulars, an expedition which ended in the Battle of Alamance in 1771. There are lists of ten Dobbs militia companies that marched to battle the Tories at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February 1776. These name every man showing rank, function, days served, in what company, and how much pay, and some other occasional happenings. Also, commissioned officers are shown for Dobbs Minute Men Units and at least one Company of Continentals from Dobbs. Some of these companies are shown by name for other expeditions early in the Revolution. There is a list of freeholders of Dobbs who voted for members of the General Assembly in March 1779 (before Wayne County was formed from Western Dobbs in December, 1779. The 1780 tax list covers all of Dobbs that was left after Wayne was formed. It is not a poll tax list but a list of freeholders resident in Dobbs showing the valuation of their taxable estates. I believe there is not a single instance of a kinship relation being shown on this list between any two or more persons. Virtually the same list is found in the form of a tax assessment list to be paid in commodities during the year 1780. Thomas BIRD and Robert BIRD are listed among soldiers drafted from Captain Kennedy's Company of Dobbs County Militia July 20, 1777, to be sent out of the State on expeditions under Continental command. Benjamin BYRD and Jesse BYRD also had some Continental service. Benjamin also served in the War of the Regulation. Nathan BYRD was a drummer in Captain Jesse Cobb's company of Minutemen of Dobbs County in the Minutemen Battalion from the New Bern District participating in expeditions against Tory insurgents and the threat of British invasion in 1776 and thereafter. Nathaniel BYRD is at the same time serving in Captain Joseph Green's Company of Dobbs Militia on the expedition to the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February-March 1776. * Note that after the old Richard BYRD, Senior, became deceased, the one hitherto called Richard BYRD, Junior began to be called Richard BYRD, Senior. However the third Richard, grandson of the first, seems not to have taken up the Junior. In the same volume at p. 237 is a deed from Benjamin BYRD to John BYRD made Aug. 9, 1802, ...a tract or plantation in Lenior County on north side of Jumping Run containing by estimate 100 acres more or less...beginning at a red oak in Thomas BYRD's line...refers to Huckleberry Pond...refers to a part of a patent granted to Sammuel Thomas and says this particular land is part of two patents, one granted to Richard BYRD, the other to John Moseley. There are Mosely family deeds which tie in with these BYRD deeds and have also been saved. Witnesses Sam BYRD and Simon Herring. Page 239 is a quit claim deed from Fereby BYRD widow of Thomas BYRD. This one is made 5 Jan. 1815 who for consideration of $118 quit claims her right, title and interest in fifty nine acres of land, being one third part of my dower in the lands of my dead husband, Thomas BYRD to be laid off on the South or lower East of said land joining the lands of Jesse BYRD, deceased by a line South 70 east from said Herrings line to Falling Creek ...for and during the term of my natural life. Witness Sam BYRD and Wm. Croom. Page 255 of same source has a deed made 28 Feb 1804 between Richard BYRD and John BYRD of Lenoir Co to Rachel (BYRD - widow) Bryan for $2,000 sold a piece of land in Lenoir County on Falling Creek and Jumping Run being part of four surveys: ONE granted to Samuel Thomas; ONE to Richard BYRD, Senr.; ONE to Richard BYRD, Junr.; and ONE to John Aldridge (These are all identifiable I the State Landgrant records - CRH) beginning at a pine MILLER BYRDS corner on a small branch and runs with his line South 45° east 44 poles to a post oak his his corner, then with his other line North 88° east 198 poles to a maple at the run of Jumping Run Branch, thence down the same so far as will make 235 poles on a straight averse to a stake JESSE BYRD's corner, then with his line South 68° West 79 poles to THOMAS BYRD's line, then with his other line north 20° West 100 poles to a post oak his corner, thence South 70° West 160 poles, then north 20° West 132 poles to the mouth of the branch MILLER BYRD's Line, then up the various courses of the Branch, being MILLER BYRD's line to the beginning, containing 380 acres INCLUDING THE PLANTATION WHERE THE SAID RICHARD BYRD AND JOHN BYRD NOW LIVES, THE GRAVEYARD EXCEPTED. Page 251 of same Lenoir Colonial Records Vol. has a deed from MILLER BYRD TO WILLIAM HERRING, both of Lenoir County, Made 8 Nov. 1816...for $1,772 sells Herring 202 acres on North side of Neuse River and the lower side of Falling Creek, being part of TWO surveys: one granted to Samuel Thomas dated 1745 ONE granted to RICHARD BYRD, SENIOR date 1767. ....Samuel Mewborne's line mentioned...also Jumping Run and Falling Creek. Witnesses Jno. Meyer and John Shirley. Proved in open court by the grantor at Lenoir County Court, January Term 1817. Enrolled 15 Jan. 1817. ENTRIES IN THE OLD GRANTEE DEED INDEX SHOWING PERIOD WHEN ENTRY WAS MADE AND ALL BYRD GRANTEES FROM VOLUME 1 which began in January 1746 in Johnston County TO VOLUME 21 (inclusive) which was in use in Lenoir County beginning Jan. 1804: Original Deed Book Number - Page 1 26 Richard BYRD from Samuel Thomas in Feb. 1746 1 72 Richard BYRD to Henry Garrett March 1746 2 294 Richard BYRD to Joshua Herring about 1753 3 336 Richard BYRD from Charles Holmes about 1754/55 No other BYRD grantees in the Johnston County period of present Lenoir County. That period ran from Jan 1746 to April 1759 at which time the Dobbs County period of present Lenoir began and ran unntil Feb. 1792 at which time Lenoir period of Lenoir Began and the records of all periods weere burned Oct. 1878 (as to Clerks and all records but deeds) and April 1880 (as to all deed records and Clerk's records accumulated since Oct. 1878 - CRH) 7 431 Nathan BYRD from Williams (FIRST APPEARANCE OF NATHAN BYRD) about 1763 8 38 Benjamin BYRD from John BYRD (FIRST APPEARANCE OF BENJAMIN BYRD) about 1765 (Recall that this John is mentioned in the Will of Stewart) 9 156 Thomas BYRD from William & John T. Miller about 1766/67 FIRST OF THOMAS 10 122 Thomas BYRD from Richard BYRD about 1772 11 303 JOSHUA BYRD from John Creek about 1775 or a little later FIRST OF JOSHUA (The firsts means only in the Deed Grantee Index - see also 1769 tax list 13 201 Richard BYRD from John Creel About 1779 13 198 Richard BYRD from Elijah Hinson About 1779 14 478 Archibald BYRD from William W. Vining About 1781 14 356 Richard BYRD from Moses Parker About 1781 16 12 Nathan BYRD form Richard BYRD, Senior About 1786 FIRST TIME USED Senior 16 156 Nnathan BYRD from Benjamin Sheppard About 1786 - 1792 17 464 Richard BYRD from Nathaniel BYRD About 1797 FIRST MENTION OF NATHANIEL 17 474 Richard BYRD from Jonathan BYRD ca 1797 FIRST MENTION OF JONATHAN 17 274 Lemuel BYRD from John Garland About 1796/97 FIRST MENTION LEMUEL 18 159 RICHARD BYRD, SR. from WILLIAM Aldridge, Jr. Enrolled June 1797 18 245 Lemuel BYRD from Archibald BYRD about Aug 1796 (SECOND MENTION OF ARCHIBALD) 18 258 Richard BYRD, Jr. from Archibald BYRD 18 365 Joshua BYRD from Major Croom 18 368 Joshua BYRD from same 18 99 Nathan BYRD from Jesse Farmer 18 252 Lemuel BYRD from John Caile 18 7 Elijah BYRD from Frederick Jones (FIRST MENTION OF ELIJAH BYRD) ca 1796 19 19 Nathan BYRD from William Aldridge ca 1797-1799 19 136 Thomas BYRD from Drewry Aldridge This deed exists but have misplaced it. 19 153 Richard BYRD from Drewry Aldridge 19 246 Richard BYRD from John Aldridge 19 124 Lemuel BYRD from John BYRD 19 254 Richard BYRD from Lemuel BYRD 19 45 Nathan BYRD from Moses Gooding 19 162 Lemuel BYRD from James Glasgow 20 192 John BYRD from Benjamin BYRD deed extant ca. 1802 20 247 Elijah BYRD from Joshua BYRD SECOND APPEARANCE OF ELIJAH 20 244 Elisha BYRD from Joshua BYRD FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELISHA 20 252 William BYRD from Joshua FIRST APPEARANCE OF WILLIAM 20 251 Thomas BYRD from Joshua BYRD 20 261 Lemuel BYRD from Spencer Caldwell 21 174 Rachel BYRD from Richard and John BYRD deed extant made 28 Feb 1804 21 182 SUTTON BYRD FROM JOSHUA BYRD FIRST OF SUTTON BYRD 21 184 Joshua BYRD, Jr. from Joshua BYRD FIRST OF JOSHUA, JR. 21 35 Lemuel BYRD from William Copeland Other BYRD entries in the Grantee Index are in my notes down to 1870 - CRH There is a countrywide list of Dobbs Voters (freeholders who voted in an election for the General Assembly in March 1779. No BYRD-BIRD voted: A list of taxables with their valuation of their taxable estates for the year 1780 (after Wayne was cut off) shows the follow BYRDs with their valuations: In District # 1: Benjamine BIRD £1,021; Nathan BIRD £774; Richard BIRD £1 3,092; Thomas BIRD £400 In District # 2: Joshua BIRD £624 and Nathaniel BIRD (Hatter) £1,205 There was no BIRD/BYRD on the 1786 tax list for Wayne County. Dobbs County freeholders who voted in an election for Constitutional Convention representation in March 1788 show the following BYRD/BIRD members: #129 Richard BYRD #290 Richard BYRD, Junior #150 Robert BYRD #301 Nathaniel BYRD #167 Thos. BYRD #302 Lam. BYRD (Lemuel) #199 Richard BYRD, Senr. The age minimum for voting was age 21 #212 Joshua BYRD Each voter had to own at least 50 acres of land #286 Archibald BYRD A petition from Dobbs County on behalf of holding a new election to replace a disputed election and proposing it to be held 14 and 15 July 1788 contained signatures of the following BYRDs in Dobbs: #138 Thomas his mark BYRD #140 Joshua BYRD #146 Joshua BYRD, Senr. #192 Thomas BYRD (no difference in the two) #204 Richard his mark BYRD #206 Nathan BYRD #244 Archibell BYRD Papers in N.C.Arch File SS907 JESSE BYRD of N. C. was applicant for Rev. War Service Pension but his application was rejected by U. S. National Archives File Rev. War Applications R-1574. THOMAS BIRD born in Duplin Co. N. C. widow Nancy, a Rev. War Pensioner in his service right. Her U. S. Pension Number indexed as W-8183 She also received bounty land warrant No. 56942 for 160 acres in 1855. U. S. Archives. The deed records of present Johnston County are in good condition back to March 1759 and were burned at Lenoir Courthouse for all prior dates. BYRD Deeds from 1790 to 1818 have been reviewed successfully. *The above BRIGHT BYRD is ancestor of Mrs. Tera BYRD Averett, 100 North Ouida Street, Enterprise, Ala. 36330. From 1760 to 1776, the Provincial government required that certain information with respect to Wills probated and Administrations granted be sent by the Clerk of County Court to the Treasurer and many of these list showing the testator or intestate, the executors or administrators, the securities and their bonds and the date letters issued or the Court Term when probated are shown. The lists for Dobbs County from 1763 through 1774 have been examined and no testate or intestate of the name BYRD was found on any of them. Also there is nothing in the Grantee Index or other records found prior to 1792 to suggest the death of an adult male in the BYRD family within Johnston, 1746-1759 or Dobbs 1759-1792- who left an estate in land or in other property of consequence. The case papers of the Superior Court for the New Bern Districts and the Minutes Books of that Court have been gleaned for information on the BYRD family and these also show no death of a male BYRD as stated above for the period 1746 to 1792 when Nathan BYRD died. Consequently, this researcher can affirm with confidence that Richard BYRD, Sr. who was born about 1711 in Chowan County died in Lenoir in 1796 or 97, that his son Richard BYRD, Junior, born about 1752 in Johnston County (now Lenoir) died in 1818 in Johnston County (now Johnston) and that the latter had at the date he wrote his will in 1807 a young son named BRIGHT BYRD who was still of school age but who survived and became a prominent planter in Johnston County. ((John BYRD, b CA 1655 m(1) Mary and m(2) Rebecca Peterson He died in 1716. His youngest son, Richard, was born in or near 1711 and reached his majority in or about the year 1732, at which time he received a deed of sale from John BYRD and William BYRD. Richard married twice. The name of his first wife has not been found. But his son, Richard, Jr. was born of a second wife, Mary O'Dyrs (or Odyer), daughter of Dennis Odyer. Richard, Sr. was deceased by 1797. Richard, Jr. died in 1818. The wills of John BYRD (BIRD) and of Richard BYRD, Jr. are shown below. We are concerned with the two sons of Richard BYRD, Jr. who came to Dale County, Alabama, in the 1820s from North Carolina, namesly, Bright BYRD and Redding BYRD. A chapter of genealogy has been devoted to each - TBA))

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