John Carraway

• General Notes
  • <b>but his son John IV appears to have gone to Craven Co. with his wife, Margaret Keeling. John and Margaret were in Craven County with the other Carraways, but moved inland to areas which eventually became Dobbs and Wayne Counties. (Some of the Keelings came with them to North Carolina.) They had settled first and spent a few years on Powell's Creek, which became Smith Creek on the north shore of the Neuse. Their daughter Elizabeth married Aaron Smith (the Smiths eventually went to South Carolina).
    
    In 1742 they sold Hickory Point, a tract of 800 acres to John Wilson on the north side of Powells Cr. Richard Lovett witnessed a receipt for #700, and the deed was witnessed by West, Carney and Thomas Nelson. 1742 John and Mary Carraway sell to John Wilson 800a n side of Neuse, n side of Powells cr where Richard Smith lived patented 1724 by Richard Smith wits John Carney and Wm Nelson (I wonder if this is John and Margaret Keeling Carraway?)
    
    In 1745 John Carraway made a deed of gift to Aaron Smith, his son-in-law (Book 3; page 80), and the same year he patented 200 acres in Craven about a mile above Green's path on the south prong of Swifts Creek and ns of sd creek adj e side of a reedy branch.
    
    In 1750 John Carroway's house was mentioned in a deed of 80 acres to John Kendricks. The deed was north of Thomas Carraway's land and south of Valentine Bowers'. The description continued on the upper side of a small gut next to the dwelling house of John Carroway.
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