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is LJ kJi i thaws' , ; Faison Community; ' The Following is the conclu ding Installment of the story of the founding of the com muntty of Faison by the Fai son family. The Times has some extra copies of the is sues .containing 'this feature for those who. might want a copy at Bo each. .- " D-sd from Henry Eustace Mc ' culfoh, son of Henry McCulloh, to Henry Faison, Frogentlor , of the Faison Family at Faison, covered . tract of land that was a part of the . McCulloh Grant This tract of land was a part of a Patent of Land ' granted, " May ? 19, 1637, by King George II of England, upon petl- . tlon of Crymble & Huey and others, : ' Including Henry McCulloh, cover ing 1,200,000 acres, located on the ' head waters of Pee Dee, Cape Fear "and Neuse Rivers. - " ! - After surveys were made of this land Henry McCulloh Included, ap parently for his own benefit, 72,000 acres : on North East Branch of ' Cape Fear River, from the second high bluff upward to a point on Trent River on East side and on the West toward the head of Black River. In Colonial records, VoL 4, page 689, Matthew Rowan, Survey or, states "that lands between North East and Black River are within the heart of settlement upon the river which has the greatest trade in this Province and not far from navigation. A great part of them would have been settled long since had not McCulloh, by his misrepre- sentations, gained . a grant for them." From examination of any map, it will be observed that all of Duplin and Sampson Counties were Included in this Grant to McCulloh of 72,000 acres. McCulloh' proposed to settle a Colony of Swiss between Neuse and Cape Fear Rivers, and the Swiss Colonists arrived in 1730, and a Colony of Protestant Irish settled on the upper waters of North , East River. Among these settlers were Col. Sampson, the Owens Family, the Kenans, and Walkers, and later the McNeils and Duncan Campbell. Three years later, in 1739, Col McAllister, an other Scotch Gentleman, brought over 3S0 Scotch people and set tled in the Western part of Bladen District. In the Swiss Colony were many Welchmen, and where they both settled the tract was called the "Welch Tract." which in March 1737 was merged into the general McCulloch Grants, and extended from Eurgaw Creek to Widow Moore's cn Black River, and thence to the bounds of the Precinct cov ering Duplin and Sampson coun ties. Colonial Records, VoL IV, pages 669 to 689: . It will be observed from the above that no part of Duplin and : Sampson Counties were ever con tained in the so-called Granville I "Test Tube Babies" "Test tube babies" for cattle which breeders call artificial in semination probably Will be talked about in Goldsboro June 10. For that's when the Stock Show will be held, sponsored by the Wayne Breeders Association. You're invited to see the free show, whether you're a farmer or not You're Invited by the Goldsbbro News-Argus. Free parking too. For A Real Taste Thrill EAT HIIIES ICE i CREAM 6sod Every Day 3C - HOGS MUTED! We Boy Hogs At WARSAW EACH FRIDAY CLINTON ON TUESDAYS St. WEDNESDAYS Of Each Week. No Commisrion Charges. WE HAVE TANKAGE FOB SALE S: ""n Liv:i!:r!r!:r!:ct i ' ' i. M . i. - .-. - OO Ji. Ji. I ... . j, - ii HIaailJ VI By John Sprunt Hi Grants. See. Colonial Records, VoL 3, page 345. Seven Lord Proprie tors sold their seven-eighths Inter est to King George II, September 29, 1729, for about 23,000 English Pounds, Provisions In this deed of sale barred all persons having any claims against these lands after a period of seven years. John, Lord Carteret, declined to sell his one eighth share, and from 1729 to 1744, he continued, through his agent, to make grants of land under his original grant from Charles H in 1663. So much confusion arose from grants of land that finally, in 1744, King George II ordered the Earl of Granville's one-eighth part of Carolina (which Included North and South Carolina) to be set off entirely In North Carolina. This Earl of Granville land "cover ed all that territory lying between Virginia on the North, and parallel 35 degrees 34 minutes ' on the South. The Eastern boundary line was the Atlantic Ocean, thence the Southern line began near the old Town of Bath and followed Wester ly lino through Snow Hill; Prince ton and along Southern 'boundaries of the Counties, of Chatham, Ran dolph, Davidson and Rowan, a little below the Southern boundary of Catawba County, and so on to the West of the Mississippi River. It is evident, therefore, that the deed from Henry Eustace McCul loh, son of Henry . McCulloh, to Henry Faison, was never a part of the Granville Grants. It la sad, but this is true despite the opinions of many of our -ancestors who claim titles directly from the Earl of Granville or King George II. It will also be observed that while deed from Henry Eustace Mc Culloh to Henry Faison was signed in 1776, it was not registered un til the 24th day of September, 1783, just two days before the entire estate of Henry McCulloh was con fiscated because of his support of the English Government Instead of the Colonists. Colonial Records, Vol. 4, page 285: . Henry McCulloh says: "It has been the practice of long standing for people to box pine trees and burn lightwood for pitch and tar without taking out patents of land 'from anybody." See Ashe's History or North Carolina, VoL 1, page 376, for map showing settlements and locations of. races in North Carolina down to 1776, copy of which map is hereto attached. , In 1773, Henry Faison of North ampton County, as he was prepar ing to move to Duplin, sold 20 cattle, 9 sheep and 131 hogs in one lot and four cattle and "sundry hogs" in another lot As part pay ment for new equipment he was credited with 438 pounds of pork and some beef. These items show that he was a stock-raiser in his. old home in Northampton County, 3 where easy transpor&Con could be had over the Roanoke and Meherrin Rivers. . -.. ' ; ' But the price was low and, with the increase in production as new settlers 'came In and population in crcfased, little profit was to be ex pected from meat production. In the region of the long-leaf pine, turpentine had been a profit able export product for fifty years. It did not require expensive equip ment or great outlay to begin pro duction - only to chop "boxes" in the trees and 'chip off this strips of bark above, and the sap would flow, to be dipped out. and put In barrels reay for market In all probability this Is what led Henry Falson's brothers to Sampson County and himself to Duplin County, where they had the same advantages for meat produc tion as in his old home with the added advantage of turpentine as an imperishable chief money pro duct. J: The only drawback to turpentine was that it was a heavy product, making transportation to market costly if it had to be by cart or wagon and team over the trails that served as roads in that day. Heroic efforts were put forth to make small streams navigable, and so we have the plan of Henry JFai sontand his neighbors to make Goshen Swamp Run fit for boats to pass up to the mouth of Reedy Branch. They took the- matter to the County Court of Dupltn, which appointed a committee to study the feasibility of the plan. The report of this committee was favorable, and, in 1785,Moshen was divided into seventeen districts to the mouth of Panther Branch, with overseers and men assigned to each district to keep the run open for navigation. Henry Faisori's six negro fellows were assigned to the Sixteenth District, "from the bridge up to the mouth of Reedy Branch." Heavy rains the next year caused the work on Goshen to be suspend ed. But the following the overseers were directed to work for four days on Goshen navigation-upkeep, and it is mentioned in the Court Min utes of 1790, which shows the ef fort put forth to get efficient and ' phennpr transnnrtfltion for turpen tine downstream to markets or lar- J ger boats on Northeast River. Diana Griffin, wife of Henry Fai son, was born October 12, 1756, ac cording to memorandum in her I Hymn Book. She married Henry ' Faison at the age of 17, and came 1 with him to his Duplin County Plantation, where he died when she was 32, leaving her a widow with six children. She married (2) Daniel Clark who died when she was 40, before her children had grown up. She had mm AUTO AUCTION EVERY WEDNESDAY . 2:00 P.M. SeU While Prices Ar Still High ur ear on the auction block for only ANYONE BUY ANYONE SELL SALE RAIN OR SHINE t.. eonver your car into cash" Herbert Pate AUCTIONEER Goldsboro Highway Phone 4527 We Pay The High Dollar For Your Wheat, Oats And Corn. We Haul From Fields Shingles $ 6.50 Roll Roofing 3.00 50 Lb. Stand Pure Lard 13.25 4 Lb pkg. 50 per cent DDT 1.35 4 Lb Mixide Beandust .75 A I h Arcpnato I Mil .95 ,T fall flliivimi 28 Lb Grandeur ' Garner Brothers , f V;!::!:::.::Ir-J I::rs'i! no dtUtlran fcy her see4 husband and after bis death, she remained a widow until her death March s 1828.- :-:k t- vy-.;-,1.- Contemporary description of Dl- anna Faison Is lacking except for statements of a neighbor girl who became the mother oi ev. ur. James D. Hufman. In letters writ ten to John Sprunt Hill,? Dr. Huf man says: "Diana Clarirwas hew in great esteem by the young peo ple who called ner "uranny Clark." because she was the grand mother of so many of them, so I learned from my mother who was born at the Pass Place near Faison In 1811." Mrs. Clark was a member of an old Baptist Church at Bear Marsh. Many of the Thompsons and Fal- sons of Sampson were Baptists also." "Diana Faison Impressed her first husband with ability 'to man age her affairs before he left her by Will, much responsibility. We have read of his bequests, in his Will, at 475 acres of land "to her own use during her v.wn life of build ings and improvements, slaves, livestock and household furniture and tools for the use and support of herself and her house and her family." He also left her in com plete charge of the education of his daughters. Henry Faison am not name his wife as one of the Executors of his WilL That respon sibility was intrusted to Col. Dixon and his wife's brother, John Grif fin, but apparently Diana Faison had much to do with the manage ment of her property. When her second husband, Daniel Clark, died, without leaving a Will, Diana quali fied as one of the Administrators of his Estate, along with her hus band'; brother, James Clark, and for her dower she was allotted the house where she and her husband, Daniel Clark, lived and 300 acres of land. It was in this house of her second husband where Diana Grif fin resided to the end of her life, and was described by Dr Hufman as one of the best bouses in the Counts'. V'e mav be sure that Diana Faison presided over her house hold not only with a high degree of capacity as a housekeeper and with religious devotion to the moral training of her children, but also with much social charm, otherwise, her daughters would not have be come matrons of noble gracious- ness nor her sons have become the competent highly respected citi zens disclosed us by all accounts. SeDterober Id. 1822. Diana Clark, made her Will, As most women of her time she had only personal property to convey. She made be quests to her grandson, Albert Hicks, to her daughters Nancy Frederick and Patsy (Martha) Fai son, and to children of her daugh ter, Fannie Shaw, who apparently died the same year, and as Exe cutors she named her sons, Isom and Ellas Faison. Education of ber children. In statement oi accounts of the Estate of Henry Faison, we find statements for schooling of child ren to the following persons: John Hurst, Samuel Trigg, Mr. Stanford, Thomas Duncan (dancing master), William Rigsbee, H. Hol lingsworth, and for her son Isom, attendance at Chatham's School. Settlement of Estate In the settlement of the Estate of Henry Faison, where a division of money was made, Isom, Elias, Nancy, Patsy, and Fannie received 304 pounds, 6 shillings, 11 pence each, and the . husband of Mary Hicks was paid 141 pounds, 10 shillings, 3 pence in February 1778 RASCIACC3Q , mm mm yffT. 'v'"5'',i w Flour 1-70 as the balance of ber portion of the Estate This Indicates that Hen ry Faison accumulated quite a for tune in his life time. Twenty yean later, after the death of Henry Fai son, in 1828, there was a division of 22 slaves (valued at $4,425.00) amonc the then living 5 heirs: Nan cy Frederick having died ;lnil825, without leaving heirs. Ancestors of Diana Faison. She was the daughter of Edmund Griffin and his wife, Martha Will iams Griffin. (Griffin Line) Edmund Griffin was the son of John Griffin who died July 1, 17 27, leaving property, under his Will to his wife Jemima Griffin and to sons Edmund. John, Arthur, and daughter Mary. This John Griffin was the son of John Griffin of Nansemond and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia, and apparently was the original an cestor, coming from Gloucester shire, England. (Williams Line"). This Martha Williams Griffin, mo. her of Diana Faison, was the daughter of Rowland Williams and his wife, Phyllis Sims. Rowland Williams, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, died March 10, 1678, leaving a son, George Will iams. This George Williams left a Will, dated 1737, probated 1774, Isle of J Wight County, Va. His Will men tions his son Rowland Williams, who, in 1739, was Justice of the Peace in Bertie County, N. C, (See N .C. Colonial Records Vol. 4, page 346) at which time he sta ted that he was from Isle of Wight County, Va. 1749 Rowland Williams was Justice of the Peace in North ampton County, N. C, Northamp ton having been formed from Ber tie County in 1741. (See Colonial Records Vol. 4, page 496. In 1742 Rowland Williams re ceived Patent of Land for 642 acres on North side of Contentia Marsh, Edgecombe County. Rowland Will iams died in Northampton County March 8 ,1754. Mentions in his Will his daughter Martha Williams and his wife, Phyllis Williams. Phyllis Fort Fiebash Sims Will iams Line: N. C. S&H Register, Vol. 1, page 44. George Fort died leaving Will dated May 15, 1719, in which he mentions his daughter, Phyllis Fie bash (widow) from Round Hill, Isle of Wight County, Va. In 1720 widow Fiebash married Robert Sims, wid ower, who formerly lived In Nanse mond County, and moved to Bertie County, leaving four sons, the old est being Robert Sims, Jr. Robert Sims, Jr., a Major, was born 1721, and died in Wayne County 1791, leaving 11 children. The 10th child of Robert Sims and Phyllis 'was Benjamin Sims, born November 13, 1772. The old est son of this Benjamin Sims was Robert Sims, II, of Wayne County, who moved to Georgia about 1791, and married in Hancock County, Ga., Mareh 25, 1815, to Sarah Dick inson who died in Cowetee County, Ga., June 25, 1850. The 6th child of Major Robert Sims, Jr. of Wayne County was named Diana Sims; married John A. Green, Clerk of Court of Wayne County, and was well known to many of the residents of Duplin County. This confusion of names accounts for a great deal of mis understanding about the ancestry Of Diana Faison. The 7th child of Major Robert Sims, Jr. of Wayne County, named Penelope, married Bryant Herring of Duplin County, and of course her descendants are well known Never its-- '5fi?sf t'hK - z$fffr Whatever its hjrth date . . . your car will live a longer life if you regu larly drain out old oil and Oil Platb with Conoco N'. .. . . u And here'a.the reason why. The moment N' Motor Oil (Patented) enters your engine, special added , ingredient fasten! an extra film of ' lubricant to closely to metal that cylinder walla aad all working parts are literally Oil-Plated I . to many persons nuvv i Duplin County. - fjnis NOTICE OF SALE QF LAND - Under and by virtua of the au thority Conferred by Dead of Trust executed by Wilbert Castelia uroa om and wife. Gladys F. Brodgen, dated the 2nd day of May, 1947 and recorded in Book 431, page 403, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Dunlin County. 'Jefferson E. Owens, Trustee, will at twelve o' clock Noon on Friday, July 2, 19 48 at the Courthouse door of Du plin County in Kenansville, North Carolina, sell at public auction for cash to the highest Didder, in xoi lowlng land, to wit: In th Town of Faison, Duplin County, North Carolina r j Beginning at the intersection of the Southern' margin of Solomon Street and the Western margin of Church Street, and runs along the Western margin of Church Street South 8 West 150 feet to an iron stake; thence North 82 West 50 feet to a stake; thence North 8 East and parallel with Church Street 150 feet to a stake on South ern edge of Solomon Street; thence, along the Southern margin of Sol omon Street South 82 East 50 feet to the beginning, and being the same lands as described in a -deed from Mary L. H. Williams to H. T. Bay as recorded in Book 439, page 256, of the Duplin County Registry. . This sale is made on account of J t 1 jn r Inilakk UGlon!- lift yayiiicftii uj. wic auucul- edness secured by said Deed of Trust. This sale is made subject to lien of all unpaid taxes and as sessments, the payment of which shall be assumed by the purchaser. A five per cent i5'yc) cash de posit will be required of the high est bidder at the sale. This the 25th day of May, 1948. Jefferson E. Owens, Trustee. 6-25-4t. ATHLETES FOOT GERM KILL IT IN ONE HOUR. YOUR 35c BACK If not pleased. The gesjn grows DEEPLY. To kill it, you must REACH it. Get TE-OL at any drug store. A STRONG fungicide, made with 90 alcohol, it PENETRATES. Reaches More Germs. m GIVES Maksrial Chills tFever RELIEF TYNDA1L FUNERAL HOME or Mouirr oun Burial AssooUtlop Foaeral ' EHraotors, mbabueri Ambulanea Service, day or sight H ae mt Warae-DwaHa 3 Southerland Electric Co. Warsaw, N. C. Phone 270-1 All Types Of Wiring 1 too lat . 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