Produced a large family.
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69. Rebecca Norfleet
According to family tradition, she died of the "black tongue" (dholera) caused by drinking unclean water from the well aat the home of her daughter Mary Louisa Spruill in Warren County
70. James Barnes III
He inherited 550 acres of land from his father in 1775. He slowley added to his father's land holdings. In November, 1791, Dudley Whitaker sold him 100 acres lying between the head of Little Cahuca (sic) and Deep Creek adjoining John Edwards and Susanna Whitehead. In December, 1796, he received two state grants - one for 30 acres and another for 100 acres, all on the south side of Conoconary Swamp adjoining his own corner. The following year he bought 169 acres from John Moore on the south side of Looking Glass Swamp and the north side of Deep Creek. Although there is no deed to prove it, he bought 610 acres on both sides of Deep Creek adjoining Wolf Pit Branch, which he sold to William Vaughan in 1809. In October, 1817, John H. Edwards of Greenville County, Virginia, sold him a water grist mill across Looking Glass Swamp formerly owned by Cullen Edwards. His last acquisition was in January, 1821, when he purchased 550 acres on Looking Glass Swamp on Rainbow Branch above the old mill from Micajah Nicholas Dickson.
In 1813, James Barnes served in the North Carolina House of Commons.
His will was written 7 June, 1822 and it was probated at November Court, 1822. In it he mentions his granddaughter Charity Dawson Barnes, leaving her his lands on Conoconary known as "Murfree's Patent" and other lands adjoining Benjamin Davis, John Brown, and Doggett. To his daughter Lavinia Dorothy Barnes he left the rest of his lands. He statted clearly that his wife Temperance should apply to the laws of the state to obtain her legacy. Accordingly, she entered her dissent to the will.
At the death of her brother Jesse Atherton, who died intestate and unmarried in 1799, she inherited 778 acres of land in Northampthon County on the north side of the Uraha Swamp adjoining the Maple Spring Meadow and Pollock.
She dated her will 18 May, 1832 and it was proved a May Court, 1841. In it she mentions her daughter Lavinia Dorothy Hill, bequeathing her land in Northampton County adjoining George Pollock. She further states taht if Lavinia has a son nmaed Atherton Barnes Hill, he would inherti this land. To her graddaughter Revecca Norfleet Hill she left Negroes, and to her granddaughter Charity Anthony a bed. She requested her administrator to place a stone at the grave of her deceased son Jeptha A. Barnes. James and Temperance Barnes are said to be buried at "Kenmore," the home of their daughter Lavinia Hill.
Member of the Colonial Assembly 1773
Member of the Standing Committee of Pitt 1774