Re: John W'ton & Joseph Carruthers &
Francis Hodges md Frances Carruthers, d/of John Carruthers
FYI,
Barry
(Below) April 1757 - April 1758
Carruthers, Joseph John Worthington 416
Carruthers, Joseph Jacob Faulkner 623
Henderson, Samuel Joseph Carruthers 15
Henderson, Samuel Joseph Carruthers 15
Carruthers, Joseph & wife Thomas Ramsey 26 *
File contributed by Martha Mewborn Marble August 2000.
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JOHNSTON/DOBBS/LENOIR COUNTIES
GRANTOR INDEX - Book 5 - April 1757 - April 1758
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/dobbs/deeds/grantorindex5.txt
Transcribed from the Grantor Index and checked against the Grantee Index
Martha Mewborn Marble
l377 Independence Ave, S.E., Washington, D. C. 20003
FROM TO PAGE #
Howell, John Richard Caswell 5
Henderson, Samuel Joseph Carruthers 15
Carruthers, Joseph & wife Thomas Ramsey 26 *
Carruthers, Joseph & wife Thomas Ramsey 89
Caswell, Richard William Eyler 118
Cole, William Durham Leigh 132
Castellow, Thomas Thomas Pettit 163 *
Caswell, Martin, Shff Charles Young 165 *
Calcote, James William Cade 202
Coin, Bartholomew Henry Turner 218
Caswell, Richard Samuel Singleton 234
Croom, Major Gersham Wiggins 237
Carter, Charles William Pugh 255
Coward, William John Morris 273
Cox, Thomas James Manly 312
Core (Coar), Thomas Fleet Cooper 342
Cogdell, Richard Richard Caswell 347
Caswell, Benjamin James Adair 353
Caswell, Martin John Sugg 391
Same Isaah McNese 392 (Isaiah McNeese)
Cogdell, Richard John Campbell 400
Carruthers, Joseph John Worthington 416
Carruthers, Joseph Jacob Faulkner 623
Henderson, Samuel Joseph Carruthers 15
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Petition of Robert Hamilton for Resurvey of Land - Dobbs County, NC
Submitted for use in the USGenWeb Project Archives by Francis R. Hodges
frhodges(a)gate.net
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Petition of Robert Hamilton for Resurvey of Land, Dobbs County, 1773
Original in the North Carolina Archives, Raleigh, NC
Loose Papers, SS 727.4
RE: Francis Hodges md Frances Carruthers, d/of John Carruthers (d 1751/52),
New Bern merchant
To His Excellency the Governour in Council ~
The Humble Petition of Robert Hamilton Sheweth ~
That your Petitioner purchased from Simon Bright, Senior, 200 acres of land
lying in Dobbs County on the South side of Stony Town Creek about Sixteen
years agoe, and has been settled upon the said land and paid the Quit Rents
during the sd. time
Now so it is, may it please Your Honours, Simon Bright the
Younger has
been persuading your petitioner of the said land, and tells him that His
Land is where some poor people has been settled these Eighteen or Nineteen
years, which would not leave your petitioner above Forty Acres of the land
purchased of the said Simon Bright Sen. as aforesaid, occasioned by an
Error or mistake of the Surveyors returning different courses than the
marked Trees will make appear, which can be proved by the oath of Francis
Hodges, uncle to Simon Bright the Younger, who carried the chain round the
said land about Thirty two years agoe when it was surveyed for the patent.
Your Petitioner therefore Humbly prays for a warrant of Resurvey of the
said Land agreeable to the marked trees, and further prays that He may have
his patent altered agreeable to the bounds Trees.
And your Patitioner as in duty Bound will ever pray etc.
New Bern 27th February 1773
Robert Hamilton
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/dobbs/deeds/robhamil.txt
NOTE: The above document was discovered in the North Carolina State
Archives by Mr. William Bennett of Raleigh, NC, in 1994. It proves that
Francis Hodges was the uncle of Simon Bright, Junior (d. 1776), whose will
is reproduced above. Enough is known of the life of Francis Hodges, who
married Frances Carruthers, daughter of John Carruthers (d. 1751/52), a New
Bern merchant, to permit one to conclude that Francis must have had a
sister who married Simon Bright Senior, and who was thus the mother of
Simon Bright, Junior (or "the Younger, as he is referred to in the above
document). Dr. Charles Holloman's claim that Simon Jr's. mother was a
daughter of Peter Reel is thus in error, a conclusion further supported by
the fact that at the time Peter Reel wrote his will in 1739, his daughters
were less than twelve years old.