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From: Cathy Farris <>
Subject: [NCBERTIE] Absentee Landowner David MEADE
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:15:27 -0800





1748 wills Paul PENDER 18 Apr 1748 Aug Ct 1748 before John LOVICK
of Bartie Co very sick and weak in body
1s sterling each to sons John, Joseph, Solomon PENDER, daughter Mary
LAURANCE, daughter Elizabeth LEE, daughter RACHEL ELLIS, daughter Christian
DAVIS. wife Elizabeth, the estate now in her possession. Son Paul, rest of
my estate.
ex: son Paul PENDER
wit: Alexander COTTEN, Jacob LASHER


Dar Group,

Last year this record was on the NCBertie list. As you can read below, it
mentions that David MEADE was an absentee landlord. He lived in Nansemond
Co VA in 1755.

Does anyone have the record of this land transaction?

Does anyone know more about Absentee Landowners in Bertie?

Thanks, Cathy Farris

Does anyone know


1751 from Bertie List "Griffin's Quarter Plantation" An Historical
Overview of the Griffin's Quarter Plantation Area of Bertie Co NC by
Wilson Angley 20 Dec 1983:

In May of 1751 one Aaron ELLIS, who resided on nearby Roquist Creek to the
east, presented a petition to the Bertie County Court requesting that "two
acres of Land...be laid off for building a grist mill on Flagg Run", a
small stream which borders the former Griffin's Quarter Plantation area on
the south and east. More specifically, the mill was to be located "Near the
mouth of Flagg Run near Roanoke River". By the following July permission
for construction of the proposed mill had been granted by the absentee
landowner, David MEADE, Esq., a merchant of Nansemond Co VA. It was at or
very near this same site that a mill would be operated a century later by
John B. GRIFFIN, owner of said plantation

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