General Notes

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(Research):Arlina –
I tried to email you, but your address seems to have change
d. I followed your postings through both the Holland and Th
omas forums and I’ll be drawing from them since some of wha
t you mentioned is very important to proving these families.
In your postings, you stated that James Holland’s land wa
s on Utley Creek in Wake Co, and that Burwell Utley was on
e of the witnesses. Burwell Utley’s wife was Sally Lashle
y – married in Wake Co 5 Feb 1787, Silas Green and Samuel R
owland bm. You stated that James Holland’s will named a da
u Mary Lasley who has been proven as the wife of Lewis Lash
ley. I understand Sally Lashley was a dau of Lewis Lashle
y and Mary Holland. So Burwell Utley would have been Jame
s Holland’s granddaughter’s husband. Sally had apparently d
ied by 1809 when Burwell Utley m2 Jane Norris.
I am descended from William Utley Sr, Christopher Woodward
, and Lewis Jones Sr who lived near Middle Creek in the are
a that’s now called Holly Springs, so I know the families a
nd the land there well. Other families that held land in th
at area were William Speight (I, II, and III), John Burt wh
ose daughter Sally Burt m William Speight III, Hardy Sander
s (wife Lucy Utley), and Capt Etheldred Jones. These name
s will appear in the records I’ll be referring to later.
Wake Co. Deed Book G, p. 25
Etheldred Jones of Wake Co. to Richard Holland of Nash Co.
, N. C., Feb. 12, 1785, for 70 pds. specie two tracts of la
nd in Wake Co. on the north side of Holley Spring Branch: (
1) 200 acres on said Branch adjoining Samson Holland, grant
ed to said Samson Holland by the State of N. C. by deed dat
ed 1780; (2) 200 acres adjoining the first tract and Hollan
d, granted by patent to Etheldred Jones. Wit: Hardy Sanders
, John Burt, Wm. Jones.
This must have been the Richard Holland who was an extr t
o James Holland’s will. One of these tracts had been grante
d to Samson Holland, James Holland’s son. Notice that the l
and was on the north side of Holley Spring Branch and thi
s Richard Holland was from Nash Co.
Will Book 6 p 54 Thomas, Jonathan dec'd Division of land No
v 1804
Widow’s dower to Sarah Bledsoe, widow of Jonathan Thomas. B
eginning on Holly Springs Branch in William Speight's line
, 33 1/3 a. 23 Oct 1804.
Plat p. 354. Comm: Silas Green, John (X) Norris, John (X) J
ones, David
(X) Jones, Jas Huckabee, William Speight, Elijah (X) Watson
, James (X)
Walson, Richard Woodward, Joseph (X) Woodward, Peyton Norri
s, Andw Peddy
This land was in the exact same location – on Holly Spring
s Branch. So James and Sarah Holland’s daughter Sarah Holla
nd Thomas must have m1 Jonathan Thomas who died some time a
fter James wrote his will, then m2 ?? Bledsoe by 1804.
The 1790 Wake Co census lists – in order:
Barker, Lewis..............................1-1-3-0-0
Lashley, Lewis............................3-3-2-0-0
Barker, Mark..............................1-2-3-0-0
Bledsoe, Moses.........................1-2-2-0-0
Hicks, Moses.............................2-1-4-0-0
Wood, Moses.............................2-0-5-0-6
Dennis, Nathan...........................1-4-5-0-0
Holland, Richard.........................2-3-3-1-0
Leavins, Richard.........................1-2-2-0-0
Leavins, Richmon.......................1-0-2-0-0
Barker, Shadrack.......................1-2-5-0-0
Holland, Sampson......................1-5-3-0-0
Hambiton, Stewart......................1-3-4-0-0
Olive, Southwood........................1-2-4-0-1
Rowland, Samuel........................1-2-2-0-0
Wood, Sampson.........................2-3-4-0-0
Holland, Thomas.........................1-0-3-0-0
Hayes, Thomas..........................1-1-4-0-0
So who was the Richard Holland from Nash Co who purchased t
he land on Holley Spring Branch in 1785 – land that had ori
ginally been granted James Holland’s son Samson Holland i
n 1780? Since Richard Holland was an extr to James Holland’