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BARFIELD
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ELIZABETH RUTLAND at "Katherine Creek" which RUTLAND
had bought from LEWIS WILLIAMS, 'Tate of this precinct." in 1708.
NICHOLAS MOORE owned land on Ahotsky Marsh in 1715, had
purchased the land from THOMAS DYALLS. HENRY BARFIELD
bought the land from MOORE'S son and executor, then living in
Nansemond County in 1725. It is doubtful that Moore ever settled
his land, nor did DYALLS.
JOHN SPIERS and wife, PATIENCE, owned land on the south
side of Ahotsky March which they sold to GEORGE POWELL in
1725. Their patent was dated 1723.
ALEXANDER STEEL, "laborour," bought land from COLONEL
WILLIAM MAUL in 1725. The tract was located on the "west side
of Chinkapin Creek."
Both JOHN SPIERS and RICHARD BARFIELD lived near each
other on the "north west side of Horsky Meadow." in 1725.
JOHN BEVERLY had been living in the section that is now
Hertford for some years in 1711. He owned land on Wiccacon Creek.
LEWIS WILLIAMS lived in this same area during the period. He
owned land at what is now Tunis, died sometime before 1727. He
was in the area by 1708.
JAMES HOWARD lived on "Ahotsky Ridge" in 1723 and a court
was convened at his house then in a law dispute. This probably
indicates that no public building had yet been built near Saint John's
Chapel for the new county of Bertie.
JAMES RUTLAND lived "near the head of Ahotsky Swamp" in
1723 and the Rutland plantation later became boundary corner
marker for the new county of Hertford.
JOHN GARDNER lived on the south side of Buckhorn Swamp in
1723. His plantation was later located on a road which ran from a
ferry on the upper Roanoke to Hill's Ferry on the Meherrin.
ROBERT BRASWELL lived on the south side of the Meherrin
River in 1719. He also owned land on Buckhorn Swamp.
WILLIAM WORRELL lived on the north side of Meherrin River
before 1718.
JAMES TURNER lived on the south side of Meherrin River in 1719.
THOMAS BONNER owned land on Hotsky Swamp in 1722. BON
NER had purchased land from THOMAS BROWN in 1717, sold it
to MARGARET MOORE in 1723.
JACOB LEWIS and DEBORAH KEEL owned land at Petty's
Shore on Chowan River in 1723.
JONATHAN SANDERSON owned land near what was to become
Buckhorn Swamp in Maney's Neck Township in this period.
PETER PARKER had a patent (royal grant) in "Hotsky Woods" Jn
1720.
JOHN MOLTON, SR., had a patent (dated 1719) to land on the
"south side of Ahotsky Swamp" in 1722, transferred the grant to
JOHN JERNIGAN. MOLTON had patents dated 1719.
GEORGE WYNNE was an important landholder on the Chowan
River in what is now Hertford County by 1719. He received a patent
for land "along Peter West's line" in 1720, and in 1728 deeded this
land to his son, JOHN WINN. (Spellings of the name vary as do
all names listed in early records.)
MAJOR ROBERT WEST had patents for land on the west side of
the Chowan River, probably in what was to be Hertford County,
in 1717.
CHARLES JONES and wife, SARAH, owned land on Hotsky
Swamp and on the "north side of Wiccacon Creek" in 1722.
ARTHUR GOSS bought land near Cutawhiskey Swamp from
COLONEL WILLIAM MAULE in 1725.
ARTHUR DAVIS sold land on the Meherrin River to WILLIAM
KINCHEN in 1722. DAVIS had received patent for the land in 1720.
WILLIAM BOONE owned land on the south side of Meherrin
River in 1721. He sold the land to SAMUEL CANADY in that year,
and CANADY sold the land to ELIAS FORT.
ANTHONY LEWIS, JUNIOR and SENIOR, owned land on the
south side of Meherrin River in 1721.
ROBERT PATTERSON owned land in the same area at that time.
TIMOTHY HINDS owned land on south side of Meherrin River
in 1719.
JOHN HOLLEY owned land on Wiccacon Creek in 1723 which
he sold to CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
STEPHEN HOWARD owned a plantation on Chowan River and
land on the "south side of Ahotsky Swamp" in 1722.
JAMES BOON owned a plantation along the Chowan River in
LANE
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ernor of Roan-oak.” The title is
Fox’s.
Historians now believe that
Batts perhaps received some sort
of appointment from the Virginia
governor in order that the state
might have an official among set
tlers along the Chowan. At any
rate, Batts disappears from his
tory after the report in George
Fox’s journal.
This then is the story of the ob
scure and clouded beginning of
settlement in North Carolina,
From the date of the Durant Deed
and the Cumberford Map, the his
tory moves in well-documented
fashion. Before these, the story is
still covered with the mystery of
centuries.
Yet, all the evidence points to
the Chowan River and the Roan-
oke-Chowan as the scene of this
long ago drama of settlement.
Hertford County can claim part of
that tradition.
(A detailed account of the
explorations of the Roanoke-
Chowan section by Ralph Lane's
Expedition is included in an ar
ticle in the final section of this
edition.)
EXPLORATIONS
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from yet another Indian tribe
which had migrated into the
area sometime after the Lane
Expedition of 1586.
Written evidence of these In
dians says they lived on the
headwaters of the Wiccacon in
what is now Hertford County,
at a site called "Ahautsky.”
Artifacts indicating their pres
ence have been found within
the corporate limits of the town
of Ahoskie. They migrated
again by the time of the forma
tion the Proprietary Colony of
Carolina in 1663.
Cumberford Map
Then, in 1657, London map-
maker Nicolas Cumberford pro
duced a detailed map of the
Roanoke-Chowan region, based
on information about the area
known in Virginia, which show
ed the “Batts House” in what
is now Bertie County.
Nathaniel Batts was still liv
ing in the area in 1672, when he
was described as having been
the “Governor of Roan-oak” by
an early traveler through the
region.
The Cumberford Map is the
first to document the earliest
certain settler in the region that
is North Carolina.
First Settlers
Soon after the Proprietary
Colony of Carolina was estab
lished in 1633, a few settlers
probably seated permanently on
the west bank of the Chowan
River.
Several Governors of the
early “Albemarle” colony lived
in what was to become Bertie.
By 1675, there were several
dozen families living in the area
west of the Chowan.
In that year, a fierce Indian
War in southeastern Virginia
seriously depleted the Meherrin
and Chowan Indian tribes and
inaugurated a new period in the
history of the area that was to
become Hertford County.
(The map accompanying this
article, based on historical doc
umentation, was prepared by
start artist Mary Ellen Albares.)
SETTLEMENT
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and Edward Howard were all on
the council. They all lived along
Wiccacon, Ahotskey Ridge or the
Chowan River on what was to be
come the Hertford shore.
Wynns (as the name later came
to be spelled) was a leader in Ber
tie Precinct for several decades
and was the first of a family that
; to dominate politics in the
new county of Hertford during its
early years and into the 19th cen
tury.
what is now Hertford County in 1723. He sold the land that year to
COLONEL WILLIAM MAULE. The land was bounded by property
of RICHARD BARFIELD, JOHN GRAY, JOHN BEVERLY and
JOHN HOLMES.
ELINOR MERRITT seems to have owned land in Hertford County
in 1715. CHARLES MERRITT and PETER EVANS sold land which
had belonged to her to RICHARD BARFIELD in 1724. A power of
attorney by ELINOR MERRITT, dated 1715, had been witnessed by
BARFIELD and EVANS.
THOMAS BROWNE owned land on the north side of "Potfascasi
Branch of Meherrin Creek" (now Potecasi Creek) by patent dated
1714, He sold land there to JAMES DENTON in 1723.
JOHN GARLAND bought land on the north side of Meherrin
River in 1723.
JOHN HICKS bought land in "Horse Swamp" in 1723 from
CHARLES SOWELL.
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