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Persoonlijke gegevens Mordecai Mendenhall 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1710 in Concord, Chester Cnty, Pennsylvania, Colonial America.
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1790, Guilford Cnty, North Carolina, Colonial America.
• (Reference Number) .

  3467

• (Will Proved) november 1803.

  see fact notes

  Mordicai left the following will listed in Guilford County Court November 1803:

  
  

  "Will of Mordica Mendenhall

  
  

   

  
  

  I, Mordica Mendenhall, of Guilford County and State of North Carolina being sound in mind and memory do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and for following. I lend unto my loving wife Charity Mendenhall the plantation that I now live on during her life allso my personall estate except what I hereafter order otherwise. I give unto my son Richard Mendenhall heirs five shilling. I give unto my son Thomas Mendenhall hairs five shillings. I give unto my son Aaron Mendenhall hairs five shillings. I give unto my daugher Charity Mills five shillings. I give untio my son Isaac Mendenhall the plantation that I now live on containing three hundred and thirty two acres at the decease of my wife to him his heairs and assigns for ever. I give unto my son Isaac my smith tooles. I give my money and notes of hand unto my four sons Moses, Stephen, Mordica and Isaac Mendenhall and at the decease of their mother all the remainder of my personall estate to be equally divided amongst them. I do reby appoint my sons Stephen and Isaac mendenhall executors to this my last will and testament, ratifying this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth day of the first month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred ninty six.

  
  

   

  
  

  Signed seal and declared in the enterlined before signed between the 7th and 8th line presence of

  
  

   

  
  

  Mathew Coffin, Curat,

  
  

  Gallant (his Mark) Ayers

  
  

  Hannah Coffin Mordicia Mendenhall

  
  

   

  
  

  State of North Carolina

  
  

  Guilford County November Court 1803

  
  

   

  
  

  The execution of the within will was provn in open Courrt by the Affirmation of Matthew Coffin and ordered to be recored when (?) comes in Isaac Mendenhall and qualifyed as Executor to said Will according to law.

  
  

   

  
  

  Test Jn(?) Hamilton, Clk

  
  

  Ent. A, page 239 Nov. 1803"

  
  

   

  
  

   

• (Personality and Interests) .

  see fact notes

  Mordecai moved to Frederick County, Virginia in September 1736 shortly after marrying Charity. The Hopewell Monthly Meeting Records mention that on Sept 27, 1736 "Mordecai and wife granted certificate Hopewell MM, Va. by New Garden MM". Mordecai had a 200-acre section of land (Tract 148D) that ran east on Berkeley County Highway 15 past the Quaker Providence Meeting House and cememtery. The Meeting House was erected by 1741. Reference Virginia Land Patent Book 16, pp. 318, 411. Mordecai bought the 200-acre for 20 pounds on October 28, 1743 from Richard Beeson. Mordecai and hs wife Charity were in Anson (Rowan) County, North Carolina sometime between August 6th 1751 when they received their certificate from Hopewell MM, VA and the July 3, 1752 when the certificate was received at Cane Creek, North Carolina. On March 6, 1751, Mordecai and Charity, and children were granted certificate at Cane Creek Montly Meeting, N.C. In 1751 they moved to New Garden, North Carolina, then to Deep River and finally Springfield. He acquired hundreds of acres of land along Deep River. During the Revolutionary War, Mordecai furnished quarters, food and horses for the American army and his home was used as a temporary hospital for the wounded.

  
  

   

  
  

  From the family records of Kurt Otto Shelle, Jr:

  
  

   

  
  

  Minutes of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting - Orange (now Almanace) County, N.C. Dated March 7, 1752 say "Mordecai Mendenhall and wife and children ROCF (received on certificate from) Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Virginia dated March 6, 1751. Mordecai was a sucessful farmer and blacksmith. Being a quaker he didn not fight in the Revolutionary War but he did render sufficient public service to the cause of the revolution that according to the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) he qualified as a "patriot" and is so listed in the "DAR Patriots Index" Volume One.

  
  

   

  
  

  The 1790 Census of Guilford Co., North Carolina mentions a Mordecai Mendinghall living in a household with two white females.

  
  

   

• Hij is overleden tussen 3 november 1803 en 13 november 1803 in Springfield, Guilford Cnty, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten.
• Hij is begraven in High Point, Guilford Cnty, North Carolina, USA.

  Springfield Monthly Meeting

• Een kind van John Mendenhall en Susanna Pierson

Gezin van Mordecai Mendenhall

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Charity Grubb Beeson.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 21 mei 1735 te Leacock Twp, Lancaster Cnty, Pennsylvania, Colonial America, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Leacock Monthly Meeting

Leacock Monthly Meeting

Kind(eren):

1. Richard Mendenhall  1737-1773
2. John Mendenhall  1739-1825
3. Thomas Mendenhall  1741-1783 
4. Moses Mendenhall  1743-1835 
5. Stephen Mendenhall  1744-????
6. Mordecai Mendenhall  1747-1818 
7. Maris Mendenhall  1749-1750
8. Aaron Mendenhall  1751-1793
9. Charity Mendenhall  1754-1836
10. Isaac M Mendenhall  1756-1833 

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