MISS DEE and ALL. The NC State Archives will be closed for the next 10 weeks...they are renovating...JDTew -----Original Message----- >From: Dee Thompson <d7777@worldnet.att.net> >Sent: Apr 24, 2007 10:37 PM >To: 'Butch Butler' <bbutler@comcast.net>, NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN] In Search Of a NC Will......... > >Butch, >Sometimes I try too hard - from the new Marylanders to North Carolina book >to every remotely connected book that I could think of. Next, on to the >subscription genealogy sites that cost me my back teeth (I did find the >whole family on OneGreatFamily with Robert Asa's everywhere). >Now, why not just check the Sampson County Will Book even though he >supposedly died in Duplin. What a simple idea. > >>From # 116 >BUTLER, Robert 26 Mar. 1802 >Wife Delilah Butler - negro woman Jean & negro boy Henry; lifetime right to >plant. Whereon I now live, then to son Robert. >To wife's son Reddick Rhodes - 70 ac. Land on SW side of run of Beaverdam Sw >(sic). >Son Gabriel Butler - part of tract of land whereon I now live below Holder's >Mill >Son Robert Butler - part of land & plant. Whereon I now live >Son John Butler - 200 ac. Land SS Great Cohary; bed & furn. >Son Travis Butler - 200 ac. & 200 ac. More adj. Crumpler >Daus Sally Butler, Patience Butler, Betsy Butler - a colt to each >Betsy - negro girl evy & her increase >Sis Cheryvine - negro girl Susanna >Dau Lusia Brown, Susser Royal & Disa Culbreath - 5 shillings sterlings to >each >Rem. Prop. To be equally divided among wife & legatees >Exec: wife Delilah Butler >Wit: Fleet Cooper, Wm Butler, Robert Butler >Signed Robert Butler >NC State Archives > >Also the detailed Wills of: >CHARLES BUTLER, SR. (1811) >GABRIEL BUTLER (1823) >HARTWELL BUTLER (1900) >HARTWELL BUTLER (1838) >MARY BUTLER (1875) >REDDEN BUTLER (1849) >ROBERT BUTLER (1875) >STEPHEN BUTLER (1824) >TRAVIS BUTLER (1857) >WILEY BUTLER (1880) > >According to GenCircles (I'm trying to get my money's worth) Reddick Rhodes, >b. 1776, Duplin County, NC, d. 1820: parents were William Rhodes/Rhoades, >b. 1758, Duplin County, NC, d. 1826 in Horry County, South Carolina >(divorced?) and Delilah Royal, b. 1758, Duplin County, NC, d. 1 Jun 1826 in >Sampson County, NC. Delilah was the daughter of John Royal b. 1719 in >Pasquotank County, NC and Sarah. Reddick had a sister Rhoda Rhodes that was >2 years younger. >Delilah Royal was married twice, first to William Rhodes. William was a >Tory and his lands were confiscated in 1782-1784. William moved to >Horry County, South Carolina. This marriage was ended, I do not know >how. Delilah married second to Robert Butler of Sampson Count y, North >Carolina. > >Both surnames, Rhodes and Butler can be found on early records from Isle >of Wight County, Virginia. It just so happens that I have the Isle of Wight >volumes so let me know if we chase them there. > >Night, Butch > >Dee >All lookup requests will be permanently archived on the Bladen County Genweb >site. For a detailed bibliography on the reference sources used for lookups >refer to this Link: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Butch Butler [mailto:bbutler@comcast.net] >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:08 PM >To: Dee Thompson >Subject: In Search Of a NC Will......... > >Hi Dee, > >Robert Butler was b. bef. 1703 in Edgecombe Precinct, Bertie Co., NC and d. >1769 in Duplin Co. His father MAY have been William. He m. Anne Wood ca. >1735 in Edgecombe. Their children were: Robert, William, John, James, Jesse >and Charles. I would like to see if there is a will or other estate record >for Robert. His middle name may have been Asa. I looked over your library >and it seems you have several references that cover that time and place. I >hesitate to ask for you to check a specific reference since there are so >many possibilities, so if you don't mind, please just use your best >judgement as to where to look. > >Warm Regards, > >Butch Butler >Mt. Pleasant, SC > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCBLADEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message