DOCUMENTS

DESTINED FROM THE START

3 Ancetral Grandparents On One Early Census Page

(See the transcription below+)

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*John Edwards, Sr. is Captian John Edwards, our Edwards ancestor.  2 names down is ** Nancy Anglin, wife of Issac Anglin who by this time is deceased, also our ancesters. Just below center page are Charles Roland and George Roland. George is Charles' son.  Charles is the patriarch of the Rolands in our Western NC ancestry, and at first I thought George was our ancestral grandfather, Charles' grandson, or Charles' brother George. But was too young.

 (Our George married *John Edwards' grand-daughter, Sarah Edwards. Eventually, Hobart Roland, descendant of Charles and our George, married Norah Anglin who was a descendant of ** Nancy and Issac Anglin.)

 However, upon comparing ages, this George is a son of Charles Roland, and also the brother of Henry (Halley) Roland, obviously, also a son of Charles. (Some records have their names spelled Rowland. Here they have been spelled without the w as they should be.)  Both Charles the elder Roland and Henry, his son, who is listed on a different census page, have the formal name: Charles Henry Roland. George listed on this page, was probably named for Charles' father, who is believed to be named George, and lived in Haw Creek, NC, near Hillsboro. Charles is said to have given Hillsboro as his birthplace.

The other John Edwards listed here is probably the husband of Martha Patsy Roland, Henry and George's sister, (buried at the end of Roland Road in an overgrown grave yard.) Perhaps the John Taylor is kin to Christopher Taylor who married John Edwards Sr.s  sister. The same who built the Taylor House, in what became Franklin and then Tennessee, of which I have written in one of my blogs.

What is marvelous about this 1810 Census Document is -

Both our earliest Anglin family and our earliest Roland family, are represented here

and so close together on one page, of an area not yet called Yancey Co., NC. The

bonus is that our Edwards ancestor is also here.

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The names listed above+:

EDWARD CARTER

>JOHN EDWARDS, SR.

ANNANIAS HIGGINS

>NANCY ANGLIN - (WIFE OF ISAAC ANGLIN, Decd.)

JAMES GREENLEE? GREENLES?

JOHN EDWARDS

LAZARUS PHILLIPS, SR

THROWER? PHILLIPS

LAZARUS PHILLIPS

JAMES LINCH?

EZEKIEL HAMPTON

MOSES HONEYCUTT

>CHARLES ROLAND

GEO (GEORGE) ROLAND

JOHN BAKER

MALCOMB MCCURRY

GILBERT GILAIN?

WILLIAM EDWARDS

JOHN TAYLOR*

CHRISTOPHER BIRD

T?? RAMSEY

SAMUEL McKINNEY

JOHN BENNET/BURNET?

WILLIAM BENNET/BURNET?

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Adrian Anglin's Will
Link to the will online.
Transcription to Follow - of the inventory

An Inventory of the Estate of Adrian Anglin Deceased….

(my transcription ~ CAW)

40 French Books whole bound and a parcel torn ones

13 English Books whole bound with a parcel torn ones

7 grown Hogs and 5 Pigs

9 Head of Cattle with bits and ??

1 Horse

1 Pair Cotton Cards  new set

3 pair old  Ditto

2 Jugs and Small Butter Pot

A parcel of (name brand?) Crockerware

1 pr Steelyards ? and Pre

1 Iron Plate handsome

A parcel of carpenter’s old Tools

1 Bulb and Cutter

3 Reaping Hooks

1 Box Iron and Heaters

1 Candle Mold

2 ? hoes

2 Pole axes

1 grubing/greebing ?  hoe

2 old hoes

A parcel of leather judged to be 2 sides

1 small brass kitttle

1 Frying pan

1 small pot and hooks

2 small Pewter dishes

2 large Ditto basins

6 Pewter Plates

1 old dish and 8 spoons

2 dozen knives and forks

1 Small tooth flax hackle

1 very large Gimp Ditto (Do)

1 Tea Pot and 2 Cups and saucers

2 Qt bottles and 2 Tickler Bottles

1 old Saddle

1 Cotton Wheel

1 Flax ditto

1 large Chest

1 Butter Tub and Piggon

1 Table

1 Feather Bed and furniture

5 old chairs

1 Small Chest

1 old Churn

1 old looking glaze and vial

1 feather bed and furniture

1 large Pot

1 old Table

2 old Chests and Powdering  bab/bub?

1 Horses Cilt

1 Snuffe/Snaffle ? Reida? 

At a Count held for Buckingham County the 9^th day of March 17??. This Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of Adrian Anglin was returned and ordered to be recorded by Testee Rolfe Eldridge…Boling Branch D.C.

Abt. 1778

P.S. The will itself was written in 1770, and among the witnesses was a James Brown.  Would be interesting to see if descendants of his family also shows up in Yancey Co., NC later. My curiosity has found some interesting things by asking such questions. So I keep asking questions.
Cynthia A. Wilkerson
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