John Sawyer will was filed in 1713. ( but I think it was never probated as I remember.) (Please correct me if I am wrong.) Sons were Robert, John, Solomon and Thomas and each son received a planation on Sawyer's creek at the Plank Bridge and joined Gumberry Swanp according to the land grant. John Sawyer (Jr) the son of John Sawyer died in 1743, Pasquotank (Camden Co.). Sons were John, Tulle, Stephen and Willia. Daughters Grace and Sarah. John and Tulle received plantation called Gumberry. Stephen and William received land in Currituck known as Peter's Ridge. Tulle son of John (Jr.) died in Currituck Co. 1787. His sons were John, William and William. Probably daughters were Cloey Winbery and Nancy Hast/Holt. Tulle gave his son, John a plantation and land on the north side of Leach Rhods Mill pond in Camden. Willis Received the plantation and land that Tulle purchased from John Winbery in Camden. John and Willis were given Tulle's "sailing boat". William received the plantation and land, on the road, in Camden, Wife was Sarah. John Sawyer, the son of Tulle lived in Currituck County.and was obviously a ship captain. This John did not leave a will and no division of property in Currituck, Camden or Pasquotank has been found. The name John Sawyer appears in the first census of 1790. In 1799 John, Willis and William (sons of Tulle) sold a piece of mutually owned property in Currituck which establishes they were all alive at that point. It appears the missing link is Tulle's son, John who was the father of Capt. William Sawyer and his brother Lemuel (referred to in a will and a deed) It is likely that this John Sawyer and Priscilla McPerson had a daughter Betsey Sawyer taken from and old Burbage/Halston Bible as Betsey married nathan Halstead. A Bible which was owned by the late Mag Sawyer documents, John, his wife and his family. In the bible states that John died in 1808 and wife Priscilla (daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth McPherson died in 1838. Their sons were Capt. William born 1781 and Lemuel bo! rn 1790 and daughters were Sarah Sawyer Overton, Nancy Sawyer Perkins and Elizabeth "Betsey" Sawyer Halstead. Author states verbally "I was told there were two other sons, but was not given their names. In 1800 Capt. William Sawyer would have been about 19 years old and probably lived at sea that his father John, had inherited from his father Tulle. Tulle's son, Willis was also a ship boat captain and is in the 1790 and 1800 census of Cemden Co.. There is a divorce settlement recorded between dinah and Willis Sawyer Deed Book 1. Willis died in 1808 and his will is in Bertie County. Article continues: On front, copied and donated anonymously 1999 Author is Frances Sawyer Webster The John Sawyer who went into Edgefield District South Carolina was born abt. 1729 and died in 1780s and was not married to Priscilla McPherson of the N.C. Sawyers. Two different John Sawyers. Not typed word for word. Thanks Arcell Sawyer