Will Book A, page 49 JOHN CAGLE'S WILL In the name of God Amen. I, John Cagle of Moore County being sound and perfect mind and memory blessed by god do this Eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety Eight make and publish this my last will and testament in manner following that is to say - First I give and bequeath to Cathrine Cagle, my beloved wife, my land and plantation my stock of horses cattle & hogs all the household furniture, by her freely & quickly and peaceably to be possessed till my sons come of age, John Cagle and William Cagle. John, my son John Cagle shall have one hundred and fifty acres of land lying on the south side of Cabin Creek and my son William Cagle shall have one hundred and twelve acres in the fork of Cabin Creek and Bear Creek the plantation I am now living on after his coming of age. My wife Cathrine Cagle shall have ten acres in what part she pleases of the said old plantation as long as she lives or remains my widow and afterwards it shall belong to my son William Cagle and he also, shall have thirty-eight acres of land lying by the Meeting House by him freely to be possessed and enjoyed. Also my daughters Susanna Cagle, Dorety Cagle, and Margaret Cagle shall have the horses cattle hogs and all the household furniture shall be divided among them three equally after my wife Cathrine Cagle's deceased by them freely possessed and enjoyed. I also give to my beloved children Jacob Cagle & Elizabeth Gilmore & George Cagle & Mary Melton and Henry Cagle everyone of them to have the sum of twenty shillings to be paid out of my estate & I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disannul all and every other former testaments wills & legacies bequeathed and executors by me in any wise before this time named will and bequeathed ratifying & confirmed this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. I do hereby appoint Bartholomew Dunn and George Cagle as executors.                                                                                                                   His Mark   John X Cagle ................................................................The earliest Cagle reference in the records of old Cumberland Co., NC, dates from February 3, 1764, when John Kegill (John "Dutchman" Cagle) bought 120 Acres in the forks of Bear and Cabin Creeks from James Chiney (James Cheney), as recorded in Deed Book 2, pages 326-7.( A transcript of this deed and a photo copy of the original document is published in the Cagle Journal of Historical Inquiry, Jan 1999, pg 2 authored by John G Cagle of Little Rock, AR.) Richard Caswell had originally received the tract of land by a grant from the Colony of NC on May 10, 1760, and he sold it to James Cheney on May 28, 1760, who in turn sold it to John Kegill. John Cheney made a handsome profit on his sale to John, having paid only twenty pounds Proclamation money, a currency issued by the Colony of North Carolina as a supplement to the British pound sterling, which was continually in short supply during the colonial period. John paid seventy-five pounds proclamation money for the same parcel. On May 15th, 1764, Mary Cheney, wife of James Cheney, executed her release of dower on the tract of 120 acres which her husband had conveyed to John on Feb 3, 1764.( This document, as recorded in Cumberland Co. Deed Book 2, pp 360-61, was transcribed and a photo copy of the original provided in the Jan 1999 issue of the Cagle Journal of Historical Inquiry.) As a matter of interest, Richard Caswell, the original owner of John's land, went on to become Governor of North Carolina and the original tract was for 170 acres, but by the time the tract was sold by James Cheney to John in 1764, the deed lists the tract as only 120 acres. The reason for this discrepancy is unclear, but in 1811 it was corrected by William Cagle, 1788-1860, John's youngest son, who inherited the tract of 120 acres at John's death in 1799. There were two more entries in the minutes of the Cumberland County Court of Pleas & Quarter Session for Nov 1764, that being John Kegell as a Road Jury Member to lay off a road from Sandhill Smiths and the other from Bear Creek, at Shuffills path to join Spinx's Road. Received a land grant for improvements to property in Moore County, North Carolina in 1796-64A on South side of Cabin Creek adjoining property of George Cagle. Bought 100 acres in Feb 1764 at Bear Creek where gold was later discovered by Conrad Reed, minor son of John Reed, a German immigrant, that being a 17 lb gold nugget. John Dutchman and his brother David (1728-1780 had homesteaded at this location in 1764. John Dutchman's son John, inherited 150 acres, then moved to Mississippi in the early 1810s and left his land to his brother, George 1760-1830. George gave his land to his son John M. Cagle 1793-1860. He stayed on the place and worked the mine, becoming the wealthiest Cagle in America. Tax list of 1767 Cumberland Co., NC shows John Dutchman with 310 Acres. >From the 1799 Will of John, filed in Moore Co., NC., we learn his wife's name and the names of his ten children: Jacob, b. 1760s; Elizabeth, b. 1750s; George, b. 1750s; and Mary b. 1760s, m: James Melton; these four children are thought to be from his first marriage. The next six are thought to be from his second marriage to Catarina "Caty" Seitz/Sides: Henry, b. 1770s; Susanna, b. 1770s; John, b. 1780s-1830s; William, b. 1788; Dorety, b. 1789, m: David Jones; Margaret, b. 1790s. It might be speculated that two of these children -- Henry and Dorety (Dorothy) were named after John Henry Seitz/Sides and Dorotha Elisabeth Felsinger Seitz/sides, who are the parents of Catarina "Caty". John Dutchman is buried in the Cagle Family Cemetery on John's old homestead. You go northeast from junction #1001 and #1434 about 200 yards to an open field on the north side of the road. Then go west across the center of the open field (Old Cagle house stood in the center of this field) for 100 yards to a twin poplar near the edge of the field; continue west for 25 yards to an old road bed leading towards Cabin Creek and to the paddy spring. The cemetery is marked by a tripple red oak. John and his wife are thought to be buried here, along with his son, George and his wife, George's son, John and his wife Martha's tombstones, together with their daughter's tombstone, Louisa A Cagle Goldston. There are other marked and unmarked graves. In, "Miscellaneous Ancient Records of Moore County, N.C." by Rassie E. Wicker...it states on Pg. 117 ..The Seventh or 1850 Census of Moore County...'The remainder of the people bear family names which might be either Ulster, Scot or English, with an admixture of German, such as Cagle (originally Kegill), ...' Pg. 305 shows the First Census of Moore County in 1790... Cagle Christian, David, George, George, Henry, Jacob, John, Leonard, Roger, and William. Pg. 313..."Cagle, Kegill - John Kegill, from Pennsylvania and a German, settled in the forks of Bear and Cabin Creek, above Rovvins. The Cagle gold mine was on this tract, which is now the property of Standard Mineral Company. The Cagle's were related to the Sides family, in Pennsylvania."