Does anybody know where Cooper's Creek is located? It is mentioned in the following deed abstract, and I assume it flows into the Tar River from the south. Of course, it may have been renamed to something else. John Morgan, Sr. of Nash Co. to his son, John Morgan, Jr., of same, Oct. 29, 1808, for $250.00 a tract of 200 acres on the south side of Tar River adjoining Benjamin Tann, John Taylor, Jacob Lewis, and Cooper's Creek. Wit: John Taylor and Isaac Bass (Nash County Deed Book V, page 163). Rocky Strickland

---- Original Message ----- From: <RockyIII@aol.com> To: <NCNASH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:31 AM Subject: [NCNASH-L] Location of Cooper's Creek | Does anybody know where Cooper's Creek is located? It is mentioned in the | following deed abstract, and I assume it flows into the Tar River from the | south. Of course, it may have been renamed to something else. | | John Morgan, Sr. of Nash Co. to his son, John Morgan, Jr., of same, Oct. 29, | 1808, for $250.00 a tract of 200 acres on the south side of Tar River | adjoining Benjamin Tann, John Taylor, Jacob Lewis, and Cooper's Creek. Wit: | John Taylor and Isaac Bass (Nash County Deed Book V, page 163). | | Rocky Strickland | | | | February 18, 1754 William Bennett to ISAAC BASS (WITNESS IN THE MORGAN DEED ABOVE) 16 pounds current Virginia money 181 acres in the fork of Peachtree and Back Swamp, a grant to William Bennett 01 November 1753. Wit: John Pope, Shemuel Kearne Reg: Edgecombe County February Court 1754 (Abstracts of Edgecombe County, 1732-1758, M. Hofman, page 164.) Peachtree is near Halifax County line. I could not find an entry in the NC Gazetteer by Powell. Faye

7. Benjamin1 Tann, born say 1735, orphan of Anthony Tann, was ordered bound out by the churchwardens of Albemarle Parish in Surry County on 19 December 1744. In 1754 he was an insolvent Sussex County taxpayer [Southside Virginian 6:48]. He moved to Northampton County, North Carolina, where he was listed among the "Black" members of the undated colonial muster roll of Captain James Fason [Mil. T.R. 1-3]. He was occupying land adjacent to James Morgan when Morgan made his 24 November 1774 Nash County will [WB 1:19]. He was taxed in Nash County on 260 acres, a mule, and 5 cattle in 1782. He received 9 pounds payment on certificate number 1859 from the North Carolina Army Accounts on 10 June 1783 and a further 14 pounds, 18 shillings on undated certificate no. 238 [T&C, Rev. War Accounts, Vol I:45 folio 2; XI:48, folio 2]. On 15 October 1787 he purchased 200 acres on the south side of the Tar River on Cooper's Creek in Nash County [DB 4:42]. He was head of a Nash County household of 5 "other free" in 1790 [NC:71] and 8 in 1800 [NC:122]. He sold 10 acres of his land to his neighbor and executor of his will, Jesse Booth, on 10 February 1804 [DB 7:215]. His 11 September 1806 Nash County will, proved November 1806, mentioned his wife Priscilla and two of his children, Benjamin Tann and Amy Locus [WB 4:42]. Priscilla was probably identical to Priscilla Booth whose illegitimate children Jesse and Sylvia Booth were indentured by the Nash County court in April 1778 [Bradley, Nash County Court Minutes I:5]. On 28 September 1807 there was a judgment levied on Benjamin's land for a $35 note in favor of John Lewis [Estates Records 1770-1909, 1807]. The account of sale of his estate on 5 June 1813 mentioned $129.94 divided among six unnamed heirs [DB 9:265]. Faye ----- Original Message ----- From: <RockyIII@aol.com> To: <NCNASH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:31 AM Subject: [NCNASH-L] Location of Cooper's Creek | Does anybody know where Cooper's Creek is located? It is mentioned in the | following deed abstract, and I assume it flows into the Tar River from the | south. Of course, it may have been renamed to something else. | | John Morgan, Sr. of Nash Co. to his son, John Morgan, Jr., of same, Oct. 29, | 1808, for $250.00 a tract of 200 acres on the south side of Tar River | adjoining Benjamin Tann, John Taylor, Jacob Lewis, and Cooper's Creek. Wit: | John Taylor and Isaac Bass (Nash County Deed Book V, page 163). | | Rocky Strickland | | | ============================== | To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 | |