Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Tinsley Survey (1833)


Original 1783 Military Land Grant to Samuel Tinsley


Not long after his marriage to Nancy Dunlap, Isaac Jones makes his largest land purchase to date, purchasing 1000 acres in Calloway County, Kentucky on December 2, 1833. The land was part of a larger military grant originally awarded to Samuel Tinsley on December 5, 1783 for his service in the American Revolution and hence was referred to and became known as the Tinsley Survey. Over the years the land had come into the possession of a family by the name of Semple, although earlier records list the name as Temple. At the time of Isaac's purchase, he is buying the land from John M. Semple, Charles D. Semple, Isaac R. Semple and his wife Eliza, and Eliza B. Cheatham, none of whom actually reside in the county opting instead to be represented by their attorney Charles D. Semple. This would tend to indicate that the land had been left to them through an estate and was most likely never developed or improved upon, allowing Isaac to take possession of it for only $700. The land lay in the northeastern part of the county along the waters of Jonathan Creek just to the east of the town of Wadesboro, which at the time was the county seat of Calloway County and also the location for the region's land office. Many have speculated in the past that the Tinsley Survey's exact location was along Little Jonathan Creek south of Hico, but I believe that evidence suggests that it was much further north. Far enough north for parts of it to have been incorporated into Marshall County with it's formation from Calloway in 1842. On the 1852 tax list for McCracken County, KY, Isaac's son Burrel is shown as being taxed for 100 acres along Clarks River in Marshall County. I believe this to be land recently acquired through his father's estate and the same land he is shown being taxed on prior to 1842 in the Calloway County tax records. Later deeds even indicate that Issac himself never lived on any of the Tinsley Survey land which is a subject I'll address later.

It's difficult to say for certain how Isaac would have come by knowledge of this particular land being available for sale while he still living in Tennessee, although there are numerous solid possibilities. Calloway County and all the other counties in Kentucky lying west of the Tennessee River had been part of the Jackson Purchase of 1818 with the Chickasaw Nation. The purchase also included all of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River, which included Henry County where Isaac's son Burrel had left Williamson County for around 1830. With land speculation being a national obsession at the time anyone with land they were looking to unload could either advertise in regional newspapers as far away as Nashville, or simply down at either of the two land offices that serviced the area, one being in Princeton and the other in Wadesboro. With Wadesboro being pretty much just across the state line from Henry County where Burrel was, it's quite likely Burrel may have been in the area with his ear already to the ground for just such a deal.

Another possibility once again goes back to the Methodist Church. By 1833, Calloway County already boasted the largest number of Methodist inhabitants in this region of Kentucky, a distinction it would hold throughout the 19th Century even surpassing the nearby population center of Paducah. Later evidence would show that Isaac made the trip several times from Williamson County, Tennessee to Calloway County, Kentucky in the years prior to his own eventual relocation, indicating a certain level of ease in travel between the two locations. With names like Bizzell, Morefield, Wells, and Jones already existing in the county as early as 1830, it's entirely possible that word had trickled back to Williamson County from earlier emigrants.

Isaac wouldn't relocate to Calloway County for another four years, but many of his children did shortly after he purchased the Tinsley Survey. A deed of mortgage between John Jeffrey and Isaac's son Joshua Douglas involving a $50 loan indicates they had arrived in Calloway County as early as February 18, 1834. Isaac would make a return trip to the area later that month to perform the wedding between John Jeffrey and Isaac's now-widowed daughter Jane Jones Sparks on February 25,1834. Tax records for 1834 indicate that Wiley had also arrived in the county that year and that Burrel had begun dividing his time between there and Henry County, TN. By 1835, Isaac's son Thomas had arrived on the scene from Lincoln County, TN accompanied by his sister Alvina and her husband Bowen Whitlock. The theory has been proposed in the past that it was necessary for Isaac to rush his children up to Calloway County to take possession of and quickly occupy his recent Tinsley Survey purchase "to prevent the state of Kentucky from declaring the claim invalid and selling the land to any interested party." While it was possible for this sort of situation to occur, it wouldn't have been the case with Isaac's land purchase.

Despite being part of the Jackson Purchase and owned by the Chickasaw prior to 1818, the area of Calloway County had originally been the location of many military grants issued to Virginians who fought in the American Revolution. Many of these veterans or their descendants had settled in the area without a clear title of ownership to their land. After the land was purchased from the Chickasaws, the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation on February 14, 1820 developing the public land system.This called for the land to be mapped and laid out using the township and range method and then sold off to the public in 160 acre quarter sections. This legislation also provided for military veterans or their assigns who did not possess clear title to their land to continue with the original patent process. This scenario would not have applied to or even affected Samuel Tinsley's land because he had already entered the 1000 acres that Isaac purchased back on August 11, 1784. This same land was subsequently surveyed for him on March 11, 1825 and recorded on March 16, 1826 with the state, meeting all requirements for rightful and legal ownership prior to it even ending up in the hands of the people Isaac bought it from. The actual deed for Isaac's purchase in 1833 states that the land was "patented to Samuel Tinsley on the first day of September 1826" further proving that Tinsley had met the requirements of the state and held clear title to the land. This voids any possibility that the state could have declared the claim invalid at the time of Isaac's purchase.

Despite having been opened up to settlement back in 1820, plenty of cheap land was still available to be had in Calloway County. Kentucky Land Office records show that in 1835 during the months of July, August, and November, Isaac's sons Burrel, Thomas, and Wiley purchased a total of four quarter sections of land along Little Jonathan Creek. Each quarter section consisted of 160 acres and cost a mere $20. Isaac's son-in-law John Jeffrey would also purchase a single quarter section in July bringing the total to five, which were all eventually sold to Isaac in 1836 and 1837. The records involving these land purchases hold a particular significance in that they take the form of receipts from the receiver's office in Wadesboro. Upon receiving payment for the land, the land office receiver would issue a receipt as proof of ownership that also listed the specific township and range location. Anytime an individual wanted to transfer ownership of their land, they would simply sign it over to the other person on the back of the receipt. This could continue on through several owners, and often did, until the last individual sent the receipt off to the governor's office in Frankfort to have it finalized and an official certificate of ownership was then issued. With the original receipt having been handed over, there was no need for a court copy to be produced as was usually the case with the typical land deed, thus providing the viewer with a rare glimpse at actual authentic signatures for each of these individuals.





The land purchases mentioned above are where many of these individuals or their children ended up actually living, all located along Little Jonathan Creek on both sides of modern day Roosevelt Road (Hwy 1346) and including the land occupied by the Jeffrey Cemetery.






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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The 3rd Wife.....Nancy Flemming Riggs Dunlap (????-1837).


Nashville Republican & State Gazette~May 17, 1833 edition
(a BIG thanks to my sister Stacie for this image!)


After the death of his second wife Bethania, it becomes pretty evident that at sixty-three Isaac had very little interest in becoming a bachelor again when he marries a local widow named Nancy Dunlap. Nancy must have been quite the catch because someone went to the effort of having the marriage announced in the Friday May 17, 1833 edition of the Nashville Republican & State Gazette newspaper. The announcement reads, "MARRIED--On Wednesday, 8th inst. Rev Isaac Jones, of Williamson cty, to Mrs. Nancy Dunlap, of Maury county, T." This date is confirmed by the couple's marriage license issued in Maury County and further supported by the $1250 marriage bond Isaac submitted on April 25, 1833.

Nancy Dunlap had originally been born Nancy Fleming in North Carolina sometime in the 1770's. It's extremely possibly that she and Isaac were already acquainted because her first husband was a man named Zadock Riggs who had been the sheriff of Surry County, NC in the early 1800's while Isaac and his family were living there. Zadock and Nancy Riggs had left Surry County sometime after 1810, resettling the family in Williamson County, TN where Zadock would eventually die on May 19, 1816. Two years later Nancy would eventually remarry on December 23, 1818 to a man named Samuel Dunlap. Prior to her marriage to Samuel Dunlap, Nancy and her children by Zadock Riggs were the wards of a man named Aaron Boyd. Through her marriage to Samuel Dunlap, it is believed that Nancy had six children: Samuel, Eliza Jane, Lydia Anderson, Nancy Fleming, Thomas, and Emily. Interestingly enough, history would repeat itself when some of these children became wards of Aaron Boyd upon the death of Samuel Dunlap in 1829. I think this is an important clue to the fact that Samuel Dunlap had been married once before to a woman named Jane Crawford Foster. In his will, which I've unfortunately only seen an abstract of, Samuel requests that "settlement be made with Col. Aaron Boyd as guardian of the children of Nancy Dunlap, formerly Nancy Riggs." He then separates out his two youngest children Lydia Anderson Dunlap and Nancy Flemming Dunlap from his four "oldest children" Samuel, Eliza Jane, Emily, and Thomas.

Despite having left a will in Maury County dated October 1, 1828 and recorded in court on August 25, 1829, the family still ended up hashing things out in the Maury County Chancery Court. It would appear that Samuel Dunlap had come from a wealthy background and was fairly wealthy himself based on a file found in the county containing 143 pages titled, "Samuel Dunlap Jr., Et al (plaintiffs) vs. Bird S. Hurt, Et al (defendants)." The file is part of Maury County's Loose Records Project and the 143 pages it holds span from April 30, 1831 to March 20, 1836. The bulk of it deals with the four older children of Samuel suing their father's estate executor Bird S. Hurt, the two younger children Lydia and Nancy, and their mother Nancy for the sum of $1000. This amount had been left to them through their grandfather John Crawford's estate in Screven County, Georgia. Once again, this separation of the two groups would imply a prior marriage for Samuel Dunlap. Especially considering that at the time of the lawsuit his daughter Eliza Jane is listed as Eliza Jane Dunlap Padgett and obviously married. Even if she was the oldest daughter of Samuel Dunlap and Nancy Riggs, she would only be 12 at the time the suit commenced and hardly old enough to be married. My theory is backed up even further by her descendants who state her year of birth as 1815 (3 years before Samuel Dunlap married Nancy Riggs) and her parents to be Samuel Dunlap and Jane Crawford, which coincides with the chancery court suit. Having married Nancy Riggs Dunlap in 1833, Issac Jones is also eventually listed as a defendant in the suit. Due to the volume and mostly illegible nature of the documents I have yet to determine the final outcome of the lawsuit, although I can say that Isaac's only other mention was providing a receipt of some sort dated May 2, 1836.

1833 Maury County, TN Marriage Bond~Isaac Jones to Nancy Dunlap

1833 Maury County, TN Marriage License~Isaac Jones to Nancy Dunlap (page 1)

1833 Maury County, TN Marriage License~Isaac Jones to Nancy Dunlap (page 2)
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Flat Creek, Williamson County, TN (1827-1837).....Part 1




Williamson County, Tennessee was the place to be in 1827. Up until the outbreak of the Civil War, Williamson County held the honor of being the third wealthiest county in the state of Tennessee. Established in 1799, the area was settled primarily by individuals making claims on land grants awarded for service in the Revolutionary War. Positioned not too far to the south of the city of Nashville, the county had gained a reputation by establishing several prestigious private academies of which the towns of Franklin and Triune were particularly known for. Bethania's older brother Major John Bostick, who had fought in the Revolution and served as a Stokes County representative in the North Carolina House of Commons off and on between the years 1801 and 1806, had moved to Triune in 1809 and is buried there in the Bostick Family Cemetery.

Isaac and Bethania decided to settle in the southeastern portion of the county along the waters of Flat Creek, purchasing 150 acres that straddled the Williamson County and Maury County line for $750. This initial purchase was finalized in a deed dated August 2, 1828 between Isaac Jones and James Reid. Despite the date on the deed, county tax records for the proceeding year show Isaac being taxed for the same amount of acreage on Flat Creek, along with three slaves, indicating he had taken ownership of the land at some point in 1827. The piece of land was originally part of a state grant as indicated by tax records showing 40 of the 150 acres being set aside for a school, a standard practice for land grants given out in Tennessee and North Carolina. As I had discussed earlier, the land lay adjacent to David Gillespie and the deed was witnessed by John Allison, two earlier transplants from Rowan County. To the south of Isaac's land where it crossed over into Maury County lived the widow Kesiah Morris and her family. Her husband James Morris had died in 1826, leaving his estate to her. It would appear that the Morris family were fellow Methodists based on the fact that Isaac Jones performed the marriage for Kesiah's daughter Lucinda, when she married Edward A. Morris on September 19, 1833 in Maury County.

Unfortunately, at some point prior to 1833, Isaac's second wife Bethania passes away. As with his first wife, Bethania's grave has yet to be located. Possible locations would naturally include the Bostick Family Cemetery located on her brother John's land near Triune, or possibly in the nearby Moses Steele Cemetery where many local notables like David Gillespie are buried. Moses Steele was originally from Mecklenburg
County, Noth Carolina and had purchased 225 acres that were originally part of David's father Thomas Gillespie's 4000 acre land grant in the area. Recent surveys of the cemetery indicate there are at least 50 graves marked with unmarked field stones and an additional 96 graves without markers at all making this an undesirable, yet likely location.
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Hunting Creek, Surry County, NC (1801-1827).....Part 3


North Little Hunting Creek area, Yadkin Co., NC
(vicinity of Isaac Jones' homestead)


Beginning on April 28, 1821 with a small sale of eleven and a half acres to his neighbor Daniel Brown, Isaac would begin to sell off all his land in Surry County along Hunting Creek. This initial land sale was witnessed by Matthew Sparks and Isaac's son Willie (Wiley) Jones. This is very likely the beginning of Isaac's preparation towards migrating westward. Two years prior in 1819, his sons Thomas and Burrel had left for Warren County, TN along with their sister Alvina and her husband Bowen Whitlock. Shortly after witnessing the above land transaction to Daniel Brown, Isaac's son Wiley would also leave for Warren County, TN thought to have also been accompanied by his sister Jane and her husband at the time John Sparks.

A little over a year and a half later on August 8,1822, Isaac would sell another 136 acres to his other adjoining neighbor Benjamin Johnson for $100. This deed is important because once again it states that Isaac is "of the county of Iredell", helping solidify his location and marriage to Bethania Perkins. Six months later on February 21, 1823, Isaac sells another 100 acres of land on Hunting Creek to Daniel Brown for the sum of $200. This deed is witnessed by Henry Brown and Bethania's son Manoah B. Hampton, a good sign that Isaac's son Wiley had in fact left for Tennessee especially when coupled with the fact that he drops off the county tax records after 1820. By 1826, Isaac sells his last two remaining parcels of land in Surry County to his other adjoining neighbor Joel Sparks for the sum of $400, now leaving him with only the land that had belonged to his wife Bethania. The following year on October 13, 1827, Isaac and Bethania would together turn over the land left to her by her first husband Samuel Hampton to her son John B. Hampton in the deed recorded in both Surry and Iredell Counties that I mentioned in an earlier post. Having dispensed of all their land in the area, Isaac and Bethania head west for Williamson County, Tennessee, accompanied by William Jeffrey Jr. who had married Isaac's daughter Lydia. The group also most likely included William's brother John Jeffrey and Bethania's oldest son James Hampton, who both went on to Lincoln County, Tennessee around that time.

North Little Hunting Creek area, Yadkin Co., NC
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Isaac Jones...............The Methodist Minister.





The earliest known actual record of Isaac's involvement with the Methodist church dates to September 18, 1820, where he is listed as a deacon on the list of local preachers for the Iredell Circuit, which was then part of the larger Yadkin District under the even larger Virginia Conference. At the time, the Iredell Circuit encompassed the areas of Iredell County, the part of Rowan that is now Davie County, the part of southern Surry County that is now Yadkin County, and present-day southeastern Wilkes County and eastern Alexander County. Despite being created in 1807, the Iredell Circuit really only began keeping detailed records of it's activities in 1823. These records being primarily quarterly conference meeting minutes in which Isaac makes a steady appearance during the years 1823 to late 1826 listed as a local deacon. As a local deacon, Isaac would have been a licensed minister yet not "officially ordained" by the church, a system set up to service the large number of Methodists in the area when at the time there were very few ordained ministers to fill the need. Even in this position, his duties and abilities within the church would have been "to baptize in the absence of an elder. to assist the elder in the administration of the Lord's Supper, to marry, to bury the dead, and read the liturgy to the people as prescribed, except what relates to the administration of the Lord's Supper." In many locations holding the title of minister, regardless of the denomination, would exclude an individual from having to pay any sort of county poll tax in order to vote.

During the years 1823-1826, Isaac routinely attended the quarterly conference meetings held in July and September of each year, making appearances at Hickory Grove Campground and Center Meeting House in Surry County and Snow Creek in Iredell County. At one particular meeting held at Snow Creek in September of 1826, Isaac is one of four men selected to serve on a committee to investigate a fellow local preacher named Reuben Ellis who had been "charged with fals swaring and intoxication." An accusation to which the defendant is ultimately found guilty of only the charge of intoxication and records state that "Bro. Patterson and Bro. Jones was appointed to ask him for his credentials for the purpose of returning them to the annual conference." In other words, the two men had been selected to strip him of his minister's license.

Beyond the earlier mentioned quarterly conference meeting minutes, no further record of any equal or higher level of involvement within the church on Isaac's part has yet to emerge, apart from performing several marriages primarily involving people within his extended family during the 1830's and 1840's. Having been a slave owner as early as 1810, this would have been an instant disqualifier for becoming officially ordained by the church in the years prior to the split within the Methodist Church over the issue of slavery and formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1844. Isaac most likely sided with the Methodist Episcopal Church South, as evidenced by the fact that he was still listed on the 1850 Census with the occupation of Methodist clergyman while still owning slaves at the time of his death later that year or in early 1851. It is also important to note that his youngest son Joshua Douglas Jones, also a slave owner, went on to become a minister with the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Kentucky.

When looking at Isaac's level of involvement within the church between 1788-1798, it would seem there is little there indicating that he was anything more than just another member of the church. Despite eventually achieving the rank of local deacon on the Iredell Circuit, this does not imply that he was an actual circuit riding preacher at that time or any other. In regards to the ten year time period in question, the known existing evidence actually shows that it would have been somewhat unlikely. During this time, the preachers selected to travel by horseback preaching the gospel across the sparsely populated frontier were known as circuit riders. The general base requirements at the time were that these individuals be "young, in good health, and single (since marriage and a family forced preachers to settle in one area and leave the traveling ministry)." In addition, "circuit riders rarely served longer than one year on a circuit." With Isaac having gotten married possibly as early as 1787 at the age of 17, it would seem that during the time when Isaac would have most been a prime candidate for the circuit, he was instead getting married and having children in direct contrast to what they were looking for in a circuit rider.

1820 List Of Local Preachers On The Iredell Circuit, NC (courtesy of Mike Jones)

1824 Methodist Quarterly Conference Minutes~Iredell Circuit

1825 Methodist Quarterly Conference Minutes~Iredell Circuit (page 1)

1825 Methodist Quarterly Conference Minutes~Iredell Circuit (page 2)

1826 Methodist Quarterly Conference Minutes~Iredell Circuit (page 1)

1826 Methodist Quarterly Conference Minutes~Iredell Circuit (page 2)




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Monday, April 23, 2012

A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!!

Oh Serendipity....how sweet you are!

A drum roll please.....................................

We now have a specific date of birth for Isaac Jones!!!!!!

March 5, 1770

This amazing piece of information came to me just this morning via the kindness and efforts of Virginia Mylius, a direct descendant of Isaac Jones' second wife Bethania through her first husband Samuel Hampton. The date is recorded in the family bible of Bethania's son Manoah B. Hampton and his wife Cynthia Mitchell. These bible records were graciously shared with Virginia by Kathy Hassenpflug!

Beyond the fact that we now have a specific date of birth for Isaac Jones, this is also important because it once again calls into question the entire validity of his entry on the 1850 Census. It appears based on this bible record that Isaac knew his exact date of birth, so if Isaac was actually only 80 at the time the census was taken in August, it's very unlikely he would've overstated his age by saying 81. Further proof his 1850 Census info wasn't given firsthand by him.

Once again, a HUGE thanks to Virginia Mylius and Kathy Hassenpflug for putting this info out there!


Family Bible of Manoah B. Hampton & Cynthia Mitchell.

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The 2nd Wife.....Bethania Bostick (1768-1832)

Isaac Jones' second wife Bethania Bostick was born March 18, 1768 in southern Virginia, most likely near Pittsylvania or Halifax County. Her parents were Col. Absalom Bostick and Bethania Perkins, who had relocated their family to Surry County, NC from Virginia just prior to the American Revolution. They settled along the Dan River in the eastern part of the county which ultimately became Stokes County. Absalom Bostick had been a large source of supplies to the Patriot military during the American Revolution, also serving at the rank of captain. In 1789, he was elected to represent Surry County at the North Carolina Constitutional Convention in Fayetteville when the state ratified the U.S. Constitution and joined the Union. After the war, he bacame a successful planter and went on to serve in the General Assembly representing Stokes County as a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1790,1791 and 1793-1795.

On August 19, 1785 Bethania married her first husband Capt. Samuel Hampton. Samuel was the brother of Henry Hampton who founded the town of Hamptonville, which was located just a few miles southeast of where Isaac was living on Hunting Creek. Samuel Hampton was also a local Revolutionary War hero who had seen action and established his reputation at the Battle of Cowpens, the Battle of Kings Mountain, and on the Cherokee Expedition. During the course of their marriage Samuel and Bethania would have six children: James, Samuel, John, Mary, Susannah, and Manoah. The couple's marriage would come to an end after 17 years with the death of Capt. Samuel Hampton in 1802. Two years later in 1804, Bethania gets remarried to a man named Charles Perkins who also happened to be her first cousin. This second marriage would be relatively short-lived due to Charles Perkins death on February 14, 1813.

With the passing of her first husband Samuel Hampton, his entire plantation and all his slaves were left to Bethania in his will. Included in his estate were three tracts of land totaling 350 acres, all situated along the waters of Kennedy Creek which lies just to the east of Hunting Creek and flowed from Surry into Iredell County at the time. One of the tracts of land was in Iredell County and the other two were in Surry County, in essence straddling the border. The land had been under the care of one of Samuel Hampton's estate executors named John Donaldson, and Surry County land records indicate that in 1816 Bethania decided to lay claim to this land and relocate there from Stokes County. Subsequent tax lists for 1817 and 1818 show her being taxed for 100 acres along Hunting Creek which is described in the deed as being adjacent to Jesse Patterson. This is important to note because beginning in 1821 and continuing through the year 1826, Isaac Jones is shown as owning 100 acres of land adjacent Jesse Patterson and Bethania disappears from the tax record in 1819, providing the first evidence of their marriage and a possible time frame.

Unfortunately there isn't a marriage record for Isaac and Bethania's union. Bethania was living in northern Iredell County at the time, so the marriage bond would have been issued from there. It's most likely one will never be produced because most of the county marriage bonds were destroyed when the courthouse caught fire in 1854. Hardly a big deal because there are plenty of secondary sources that absolutely prove their marriage.The first piece of evidence is an Iredell County deed dated July 15, 1819 when Isaac Jones purchases a 25 year old female slave named "Delph" from Bethania's oldest son James Hampton for $575. The deed states that Isaac is "of the County of Iredell" and is witnessed by Bethania's other son Manoah B. Hampton. This same female slave can still be seen in Isaac's possession in 1851 when his estate is being probated in the Calloway County, Kentucky courts. Further evidence of Isaac's move to Iredell can be seen in the fact that beginning in 1819, Surry County tax records no longer show Isaac paying any sort of poll tax either for himself or his slaves, which would indicate that he wasn't actually living in Surry despite being taxed for land. This move to Iredell County would also explain Isaac's disappearance from the 1820 Federal Census for Surry County, a source of confusion for many researchers and often mistakenly seen as a sign that he left the state for Tennessee at that time. Isaac can actually be found on the 1820 Iredell County Census which provides an excellent picture of the wealth that came along with his marriage to Bethania, with Isaac now being shown as having eight slaves in his household.

The most definitive piece of evidence proving this marriage is a deed dated October 13, 1827 and registered in both Iredell and Surry County. The deed shows "Isaac Jones and wife Bethania" selling all the land left to Bethania by her first husband Samuel Hampton, to her son John B. Hampton. This was most likely a stipulation made in Samuel Hampton's will, because all 350 acres were sold for just one dollar. One can only guess how Isaac and Bethania came to meet, although it was most likely through their common involvement with the Methodist Church. Bishop Francis Asbury even makes mention of her father Absalom in his journal dated Wednesday March 18, 1784 when he states, "Being sent for, I went to Mr. B____'s on Dan River" followed by the next entry dated Sunday the 22nd stating, "Preached at the funeral of Absalom Bostwick's daughter"..............a sure sign that Bethania had come from a Methodist household.

1819 Iredell County, NC Deed (slave purchase)~James Hampton to Isaac Jones (page 1)

1819 Iredell County, NC Deed (slave purchase)~James Hampton to Isaac Jones (page 2)

1827 Surry County, NC Deed~Issac Jones & wife Bethania to John B. Hampton (page 1)

1827 Surry County, NC Deed~Isaac Jones & wife Bethania to John B. Hampton (page 2)

1827 Iredell County, NC Deed~Isaac Jones & wife Bethania to John B. Hampton (page 1)

1827 Iredell County, NC Deed~Isaac Jones & wife Bethania to John B. Hampton (page 2)

1827 Iredell County, NC Deed~Isaac Jones & wife Bethania to John B. Hampton (page 3)

1827 Iredell County, NC Deed~Isaac Jones & wife Bethania to John B. Hampton (page 4)

Link To An Excellent Site Detailing The Bostick Family History.
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