General Notes

Cause of Death:<CAUS> Shot to death
"Duncan and Sally lived in a two story white house on a pla
ntation on the old Tarborough to Raleigh Road.  It is no
w a part of the city of Rocky Mount and the road is now cal
led Cokey Road.  He lived in the same area as his mother an
d grandfather.
The eldest son, Samuel, who married Lucinda Killibrew, bibl
e records were in Vol. 3, No. 1, page 12.
It is interesting to note that two of Duncan's daughters ma
rried brothers.  Martha married Robert Stringer Braswell an
d Mary married Benjamin S. Braswell.  The Braswells are a v
ery prominent family in Edgecombe and Nash Counties.  I hav
e not traced their line, nor any of the other children.
The relatives that I know living in Rocky Mount today are
: Mrs. S. L. Daughtridge (Lucy Cummings) and William Hadden
, both of Rocky Mount and Mrs. William F. Clay, Greensboro
, NC.  Her farther was son of Robert Gray, son of Samuel."
---Mae Krider Hargrove Pope
Duncan was 6' 4".
He was shot down on the town hall steps by a slave.  The sl
ave was hanged. (as told by Sally Hargrove Bailey)
The 1860 Census shows the following on Duncan:
He had the following slaves:
70 female, 30 f, 20 m, 18 m, 19 f, 17 f, 17 m, 15 m, 12 f
, 14 m, and 3 slave houses.
15,000 real property and 12,000 in personal property.
(Research):Wills--Edgecombe Courthouse--Williams & Griffi
n "Records Early Edgecombe"--Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Watson "Tombs
tones & Census Records, Edgecombe County"--Early Marriage E
dgecombe County 1733-1868.
Edgecombe County Will Abstracts 1858-1910.  Pg 59 (272):
DUNCAN (X) HAREGROVE     26 July 1865    Oct Ct. 1871 O G/3
68
Eldest daughter LOUISANA JANE MOORE (widow of JOSEPH MOORE)
--five dollars, together with property I advanced her at th
e time of her marriage.  Eldest son SAMUEL HENRY HAREGROVE-
-five dollars, in addition to what I have already give him
.  Son GRAY LEMON HAREGROVE--five dollars, in addition to w
hat I have already give him.  Daughter MARY ELIZABETH BRASW
ELL (Wife of BENJAMIN G. BRASWELL)--five dollars, in additi
on to what I have already give her.  Son THOMAS DANIEL HARE
GROVE--five dollars, in addition to what I have already giv
e him.  Daughter-in-law AMIA HAREGROVE (wife of my son JAME
S BURREL HAREGROVE)--one dollars, in addition to what I hav
e already give them.  Daughter MARTHA ANN CHARITY BRASWEL
L (widow of ROBERT S. BRASWELL)--five dollars, in additio
n to what I have already give her.  Daughters FRANCES DLLE
R HAREGROVE, SARA NINA HAREGROVE, FLORENCE ANNA HAREGROVE
, MALVINA CATHRINE HAREGROVE and my son EDWARD S. HAREGROVE
--all my household and kitchen furniture, etc.  Youngest so
n EDWARD and daughters FRANCES, SARA, FLORRENCE and MALVINA
--all the land where I now live while they are unmarried, w
ith complete reversion to my son EDWARD.
1857 Aug. 17 - Edgecombe, N.C. deposition of Delilah SPICE
R going on 61 years. She is the widow of William SPICER'S b
rother, Moses SPICER. "My mother lived about two miles fro
m William SPICER...." /S/ Delilah (her D mark) SPICER. - De
position of Hartwell LONG past 60 years of age, not exceedi
ng 63.... - Deposition of Newsom LONG about 58.... - Deposi
tion of Gray ARMSTRONG, 70 to 75 years old,.... "SPICERS ha
d in their possession a yellow or mulatto girl named Jenn
y who was not grown. At the age of about 18 or 19 I went t
o TN and settled in sumner Co. where I remained about two y
ears or long enough to make two crops. I came back in eithe
r 1805 or 1806. I married in this county (Edgecombe) afte
r my return from TN in 1807. William SPICER was at my weddi
ng and in the same year he removed to TN. I started to TN i
n Feb. and got there in March following and stoped on Stati
on Camp Creek Sumner Co., TN.... I got back to N.C. near Ch
ristmans. ...William SPICER lived on the HARGROVE place whi
ch he had bought. SPICER sold the land to either John HIL
L or his two sons, Peoples and Nathaniel HILL.... I have ta
lke