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About Mary Deese
BRAVEBOY FAMILY.
1. John1 Braveboy, born before 1700, was tithable in Beaufort Precinct, North Carolina, on 25 December 1712:.
Att Mackoys Garrison Wm Read, Jno Braborn? & francis Gibson & 1 Negro of Mr. Mackoys - 5 [Haun,Old Albemarle County Miscellaneous Records, 181]..
He was the slave of James Ward on 26 August 1713 according to a suit brought in the General Court of North Carolina by Patience Speller, widow of Stephen Swaine, who claimed that John failed to repay her for purchasing his freedom [Byrd, In Full Force and Virtue, 11]. He was addressed by the Chowan County court on 17 July 1716:.
Jack Braveboy, a negro, Coming into this Government with a woman and do live together as man and wife, it is ordered that the sd. Braveboy produce a Sufficient Certificate of their Marryage [Hoffman,Chowan Precinct 1696 to 1723, 224]..
In March 1721 he was sued in the General Court of North Carolina by Havett and his wife, executors of the last will of Thomas Clark [Saunders, Colonial Records of North Carolina, V:231]. On 13 April 1725 he purchased 50 acres in Chowan County on the Southwest side of the Yeopim River near the mouth of Darby's Creek, and he sold this land seven years later on 14 November 1732 [DB C-1:442, 694]. His probable descendants were.
2 i. David, born perhaps 1730, died about 1787..
ii. John2, born perhaps 1732, a "Black" tithable in Tyrrell County in 1755 [T.O. 105, box 1], head of a Beaufort County household of one "other free" and 6 slaves in 1790 [NC:127], one "other free" in 1800 [NC:4], and one in 1810 [NC:116]. He was probably the John Brayboy who volunteered as a soldier in Carteret County in 1778 [The North Carolinian VI:728]. He enlisted on 27 August 1778 for three years in Captain Ballard's Company in the North Carolina Continental Line but was listed as a deserter a little over a year later on 29 October 1779 [Clark, State Records, XVI:1020]..
3 iii. Mary, born perhaps 1734..
4 iv. Joshua, born perhaps 1740..
v. Sukey, born say 1745, a buyer at the November 1774 sale of the Bertie County estate of James Pearce [Gammon, Record of Estates, Bertie County II, 76].
vi. Nancy, born before 1750, a "free Mulatto" taxable in the 1761 Bertie County tax list of William Gray in the household of (her sister?) Mary Braveboy [CR 10.702.1, box 1]. Perhaps she was the Ann Braveboy who was listed with Mary Braveboy as buyers at the sale of the Bertie County estate of Joseph Wimberly which was recorded on 27 February 1767 [Gammon, Record of Estates, Bertie County II, 110]..
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2. David Braveboy, born perhaps 1730, entered 100 acres in Bladen County east of Five Mile Swamp on 10 April 1761 [Philbeck, Bladen County Land Entries, no.1188]. He was head of a Bladen County household of 3 "white" polls in 1763, a taxable "Mulato" in 1769, taxable with his wife in 1772, a "Mixt Blood" taxable on himself, his wife and daughter in 1774, a "Molato" taxable in 1776, and taxable on 1 poll and 250 acres in 1784 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:16, 43, 71, 80, 93, 123, 134; II:67, 74; Bladen County Tax List (1763, 1784)]. In his 20 October 1787 will he mentioned his wife Lydia and his children [WB 1:10]. Lydia was head of a Robeson County household of 7 "other free" in 1790 [NC:48]. Administration of her estate was granted to her son Stephen on 5 October 1797 on a bond of 50 pounds with Thomas Ivey and Ishmael Roberts securities [Minutes 1797-1806, 17]. Their children were.
i. ?Jacob2, born perhaps 1747, not mentioned in his father's will but may have been the eldest son. Perhaps he was the member of the Braveboy family taxable in Bladen County in 1763: "Jas. Blunt & Braveboy 2 "white (free) polls." He was a "Mulato" Bladen County taxable in Solomon Johnston's household in 1769 and a "Molato" taxable in Richard Wharton's household in 1771 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:17, 45, 62]. He was head of a Robeson County household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:367] and 5 in Cumberland County, North Carolina, in 1810 [NC:575]..
ii. Patience Hammons, perhaps the wife of Horatio Hammonds..
iii. Nancy Carter..
iv. Patty Braveboy, born say 1752, perhaps the Patty Braveboy who was head of a Cheraw District household of 2 femal "other free" persons in 1790, living next to Sam Braveboy, head of a Cheraw District household of 1 "other free" male over the age of 16, 1 male "other free" under 16, and 1 female "other free" [SC:380]..
v. Milly Braveboy..
vi. Stephen, born about 1759. He received his father's plantation of 150 acres. He sold land by deed proved in Robeson County on 8 April 1800 and purchased land by deed proved on 6 April 1801 [Minutes 1797-1806, 104, 142]. He was head of a Robeson County household of one "other free" in 1800 [NC:366]. He was probably over fifty years old in 1809 when the Robeson County court excused him from paying poll taxes [Minutes 1806-13]..
vii. Levy, who was probably the "L. Brave Boys" who was head of Cumberland County household of 2 "other free" in 1810 [NC:622]..
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3. Mary Braveboy, born say 1734, was a "free Mulatto" taxable in the 1761 Bertie tax list of William Gray. She was tithable with her son John in an untitled 1766 Bertie tax list, and she was tithed on her son only in 1771 [CR 10.702.1]. She was counted as white in the household of her son John in the 1790 census for Martin County [NC:68]. Her children were.
i. John3, born about 1754, tithable in 1766. In 1770 he was a "free Mulatto" in Abraham Sullivent's household in the Bertie tax list of David Standley, and he was taxable with his mother in Standley's 1771 list [CR 10.702.1, box 2]. In 1774 he was a "Negro" head of his own household in David Standley's list. In 1779 he was taxable on an assessment of 243 pounds in District 6, Martin County [GA 30.1]. In 1790 he was head of a Martin County household of 7 "other free" and one white woman: John Braveboy & mother [NC:68]..
ii. ?Jacob1, born about 1759, called a "bastard Mulattoe aged about 15" by the May 1774 Bertie County court when it ordered him bound as an apprentice bricklayer [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, IV:74]. In 1774 he was taxable in Benjamin Stiles household in David Standley's Bertie tax list. He enlisted for two and one-half years as a private in Fifth Regiment, William's Company of the N.C. Continental Line on 9 May 1776 and was discharged 10 November 1778 [N.C. Historical & Genealogical Register, II:181]. He was head of a Martin County household of 3 free males and 3 free females in William Barden's District no. 5 for the state census in 1787 and head of a Martin County household of 10 "other free" in 1800 [NC:387]..
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4. Joshua Braveboy, born say 1740, was called as a witness but failed to appear in the Cumberland County, North Carolina suit of the Governor and James Simpson vs. Moses Bass on 17 October 1758 [Minutes 1755-79, 39]. He held land in Cumberland County before 26 October 1767 [Patents, 12:143]. He was a taxable "Mulato" in Bladen County with his son Lewis in 1768 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:8]. He moved to Craven County, South Carolina, where he received a grant for 150 acres on Lynches Creek on 4 March 1772 [S.C. Archives series S213019, vol. 25:215]. He was taxable in Prince Frederick Parish, South Carolina, in 1786 [S.C. Tax Returns 1783-1800, frame 118] and head of a Georgetown District, South Carolina household of 5 "other free" in 1790. He was the father of.
i. Lewis, recorded a plat for 118 acres on Crackers Neck near the Savannah River in Orangeburgh District, South Carolina, on 9 December 1784 [S.C. Archives series S213190, vol. 2:187]. He was head of a household of 5 "other free" in South Orangeburg District, South Carolina, in 1790 [SC:99]; 1 "other free," 2 white boys under age 10, 1 age 16-21, and 3 white girls under age 10 in Barnwell District in 1800 [SC:65a]; taxable on 300 acres and a "free Negro" in Winton, South Carolina, in 1800 [S.C. Tax Returns 1783-1800, frame 301, 313]..
ii. ?Morris, taxed in South Carolina on 1,000 acres and 8 slaves on 22 April 1825 [S.C. Archives Index 0015 052 1824 03420]. His 3 June 1843 Williamsburg District will was recorded 7 August 1843 [WB vol.I, D:394]. He divided his land and slaves between his wife Drusiler and children: Morris Murphey Braveboy, Elizabeth Braveboy, Moses Murphey Braveboy, Margaret Thomas, and Annis E. Matthews..
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Mary Deese's Timeline
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1789
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Robeson County, North Carolina, USA
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1807
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South Carolina
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1810
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Robeson County, North Carolina, USA
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1820
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Robeson, North Carolina
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August 14, 1823
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Robeson, North Carolina
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1850
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Upper Division, Robeson, North Carolina, USA
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Robeson, North Carolina, United States
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Coward, Florence, South Carolina, United States of America
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