129. Ann Ruffin
Will dated January 8, 1800
130. James Norfleet
RESIDENCE: Of Edgecombe County
131. Sarah Gordon
RESIDENCE: Of Edgecombe County
136. Colonel Whitmel Hill
Whitmill Hill
HILL, Whitmill, statesman, born in Bertie county, North Carolina, 12 February, 1743; died in Hill's Ferry, Martin County, North Carolina, 12 September, 1797. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1760, and entered the Revolutionary struggle with much zeal. He was a delegate to the Provincial congresses that met at Hillsboro 20 August, 1775, and at Halifax, 4 April, 1776, and was elected to the house of commons from Martin county in 1777. He was a member of the state senate from 1778 till 1780, and its speaker in 1778. In that year he was elected a delegate to the Continental congress, serving till 1781. He was one of the ablest advocates of the national constitution in the convention for its ratification that met at Hillsboro in July, 1788. He was also lieutenant-colonel of the North Carolina militia. He possessed fine literary attainments, and wrote spirited letters in 1780 to Governor Burke, which were published in the North Carolina "University Magazine" in March, 1861.
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http://famousamericans.net/whitmillhill/Col. Whitmel Hill was one of the most prominent patriots of NC during the Rev. War. He served with distinction not only in the continental army but in most of the stirring and patriotic affaris of that area. (Edna Cook Book, pg.4)
Col Hill lived at Palmyra, Halifax County NC was named. Palmyra is located on the Roanoke River west of Hamilton NC. Whitmel was Colonel of the Martin Co Militia, Representative at the Congresses in Hillsborough in 1775 and Halifax in 1776, a Councilor of State and a Delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Additional information in the life and letters of Whitmel Hill by Gov D.L. Swain were found in a March issue of the University of NC Magazine, The Colonel and State Record of NC and Ballard vs Hill, Supreme Court reports, p 332. Hill's Ferry was operated across the Roanoke River near the small town of Palmyra.
Birth and death dates are taken from his tombstone at Trinity Episcopal Church, Scotland Neck, NC
In 1761 he married his cousin Winifred Blount, only surviving child of Thomas Blount and Elizabeth Whitmel.
He was a justice, Colonel in the Martin County militia, representative for Martin County in the Congressses in Hillsborough in 1775 and Halifax in 1776, member of the General Assembly, Speaker of the North Carolina Senate, member of the Council of State, and a delegate to the Continental Congress. He died testate.
As shown by the 1779 tax list ofor Martin County and the 1790 Federal Census, he was one of the wealthiest men in the state. He was originally buried on his plantation, "Hills Ferry," near Palmyra, but his remains were later moved t Trinity Episcopal Cemetery in Scotland Neck. Eastern North Carolina Families, Vol. I, David Gammon, 1997
137. Winifred Blount
She married her first cousin, Col Whitmel Hill
She did testate.
140. James Barnes Jr
Most likely inherited a 200 acre tract of land on the south side of the Roanoke River adjoining Cullen Pollock, being part of a patent to Lewis Davis, which his father James Barnes bought off John Jenkins in August, 1739. He appears to have settled early on this land in current Halifax County. In August of 1748 he bought from Nathaniel Ruffin a tract of 200 acres on the south side of the Morratuck (Roanoke) River and the west side of Deep Creek adjoining the said creek. In May of 1757 he received a Granville grant for 226 acres on the Cahuca (sic) Swamp adjoining Thomas Barnes, William Johnston, and Richard Hill, this land having been entered in March, 1754. He sold this land to Thomas Barnes in 1760. With his wife Ann Barnes, he sold his brother-in-law Cullen Edwards of Northampton a tract of 180 acres on the south side of the Roanoke River adhoining Cullen Polock, Lewis Davis, and Col. Burwell in Decemeber, 1759. Although the acreage is different, this appears to be the same land his father had bought in 1739.
In 1760 he received a second Granville grant for 149 acres on Deep Creek, but must have disposed of it without recording the deed, for there is no mention of it again in the records. In August of 1768 his brother John Barnes of Northampton sold him the 640 acres he had inherited from his father James in Northampton, which James Barnes sold to Robert Peele in 1772. Barnes substantially increased his land holdings in January of 1772, when William Pryor sold him 450 acres on the south side of the Roanoke adjoining Conoconary Swamp, originally patented by William Murphey in 1721. Also in January of 1772, Ann Taylor sold Branes 100 acres, presumably adjoidning the 450 acre tract.
James Barnes evidently was an officer in the county militia, for he is referred to as "Captain" James Barnes in the 1770 will of neighbor Solomon Williams.
Halifax County records indicate James Barnes sent for Levy Laneand Thomas Wills (his brother-in-law) because he was ill and wished to make a nuncupative will. In his his he stated he wanted his daughter Catherine Barnes to have enough of his estate to make her portion equal to that he had given her married sisters (unnamed). He left a Negro to Hiram Barksdale, whom he called his natural son by Jane Barksdale, and left the said Jane a bed and furniture and 100 pounds. To his son James Barnes he left the residue of his estate, and requested that Willie Jones have the management of his son's education.
141. Ann Edwards
Little is known of her, for she appears only in her father's will and in the 1759 deed with her husband.
144. Richard Evans Sr.
From Wales.
Bath or Bath Town, Beaufort Co. N.C.
Occupation was given as Justics of the Peace.
Possibly buried under the floor of Old St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Bath/Bath Town.
145. Mary Lillington
Half Sister to Sarah Pilkington.
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