Part #5 This post includes the surnames of WRIGHT, BOYD, PATRICK, VANVLECK, REED, BRASWELL, MOREHEAD, MOORE Mill Sites in Simpsonville Township Rockingham Co. NC IRON WORKS Mill (site) is located on Troublesome Creek, NC State Road 2423, approximately 1.5 miles north of Monroeton. In operation as early as 1770. ************************************************************ The $2.25 bill for food and lodging at PATRICK's was for Rev VANVLECK, his wife, their two children, and their driver. Reuben REID's tavern was in present day Reidsville. By 1830 William PATRICK owned four slaves and by 1831 he had opened a store at Iron Works. In Feb 1831 he was appointed by the county court along with Blake BRASWELL and George D. BOYD as the patrol of slaves in the Iron Works District. William PATRICK died 1832/3. Although he had lived at Iron Works for many years, his father still owned the property. James PATRICK Sr died 16 May 1835, he willed the 800 acre Iron Works Mill property to his grandson, James Dillon PATRICK, who was a minor. The bequest included three negroes, plantation tools, blacksmith tools, and all of the furniture at the Iron Works. PATRICK's will also directed that the executor rent the plantation and mills, hire out the negroes until his grandson became of legal age. Also in the will, PATRICK states that he applied the money from the estate of his son William, toward building a house at the Iron Works for James Dillon PATRICK. This dates the house as being built either in 1833/4. On 16 June 1835 all hogs, cattle, corn, wheat, bacon, and numerous other articles at Iron Works were sold at public auction according to the directions of the will. On the same day, Nathan WRIGHT who had been appointed guardian for James Dillon PATRICK, in May 1835 sold the tools, a sawmill crank, a turning lathe, augers, chisels and furniture. The total from the sales, cash and notes, and the renting of the plantation and mills including the miller and his wife, who were slaves, amounted to $3,851.20. .. By May 1836 James PATRICK's guardian, Nathan WRIGHT had spent $332.31 to finish the crop at Iron Works, repairs on the millhouse, and dwelling house, and for his ward's schooling and clothing. By Aug 1837 WRIGHT had resigned and by Feb 1838 James Turner MOREHEAD had been appointed guardian for PATRICK. In Feb 1838 MOREHEAD wrote, "I took Dillon over to see N. WRIGHT accounts that he might be satisfied and paid James WRIGHT's tavern bill at Feb court $2.50". Iron Works Mill was rented to the MOORE family in 1840, during that year a license "to retail spirituous liquor at the Iron Works granted to John M. MOORE. Sources: The North Carolina Historical Review V111 pages 187, 188 Rockingham County Inv. Docket 1829-1835 pages 161, 174 Rockingham Co. Census 1820-1830 Rockingham Co. Will Book B page 115 Rockingham Record of Settlements 1829-1843 page 72, 89 Rockingham Court Minutes Aug. 1837, Feb 1838, May 1840