Will: W.Bk. B, p.49, 28 Feb 1807 Chatham Co., NC

Will of Thomas West, Jr. (Born 1738 or earlier and Died about 1821)

I, Thomas West, of the county of Chatham, farmer, do hereby make my last will and testament, revolking all others heretofore made.

In the first place, I appoint Jesse West, my second son, and Joseph Meacham, my son in law, from the reliance I have in their integrity my executors to execute and carry into effect this my will.

Secondly, I leave and bequeath to my said executors Jesse and Joseph all my Estate real and personal forever, liable to the trust now declared in this my will, it being my principal object and desire to provide for my wife, should she outlive me, during her life comfortably and that at her death all my Estate should be equally divided among my 12 children or the representatives of such that may be deceased at my death.

Therefore appoint my said executors, trustees to divide my estate as follows to wit: that my whole Estate should be appropriated so as to afford a comfortable support to my wife during her life, and at her death either by sale division in lots or otherwise at the discretion of my said Executors to be divided into twelve equal parts, that my said executors shall deliver to such of my sons their shares and shall so settle on each of my daughters and their lawful heirs their respective shares in such manner so that their respective husbands shall have controll over said distributive shares and that it shall not be used for debts or contracts unless he gives sufficient security for the same to be appropriated to the support of my said daughters and their issue, agreeable to the true intent and measure of this my will before the said division should be so made I trust my said Executors after paying all my lawful debts and funeral expenses do retain (one hundred?) fifty dollars as a small consideration for their services and trouble.

And I declare this my last will being on my (perfect time?). this 28th. day of February 1807 as witnessed my hand and seal in presence of us being first called on the testator to witness the same.

Ed Jones Thomas West, Jr.

Elisa Comerford

Mary E. Jones

Chatham County

The within will was duly proved in open court in the February term 1822 by Edward Jones a subscribing witness thereto and ordered to be recorded whereupon Jesse West one of the Executors therein named appeared in Court and was duly qualified and the same was recorded in Book B page 49 and 50.

Test. Thomas Ragland CCC

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Thomas West, Jr. (Power of Attorney)

Deed Book S, page 306 & 307 Chatham Co., NC as copied by John G. West, 4 Aug 1981 (NC Archives, Raliegh, NC)

Know all men by these presents that I Thomas West of the County of Chatham in the State of North Carolina, farmer, having an intention of removing to the Western Country and being possessed of land in the said County in fee simple and also of diverse Chattel property which I cannot now satisfactorily dispose of I therefore hereby empower my truly and well beloved son Jesse West of said County and State my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to dispose of for my use and benefit all my property real and personal which I shall have undisposed of when I remove and particularly my land on dry Creek supposed to contain about 225 acres adjoining Mrs. Lutterloh's and Edward Jones'z which land I bought of Zachariah Martin and also 100 acres of land adjoining other lands of Edward Jones which I purchased from the state agreeable to my grant for the same. And I hereby empower my said attorney to dispose of the same and to give bills of sale, assurances, covenants and a deed or deeds in fee simple in my name or such other conveyance or conveyances as may be requisite to pass my interest in the same to the purchaser thereof with a special warranty and covenant of warranty for a good and sufficient title to the same against all persons, but the heirs of the Earl of Granville - And I hereby acknowledge all the acts and deeds of my attorney aforesaid which he shall or may lawfully do in the promises to be my act and binding on me and my heirs my executor and adm.

As witnessed my hand and seal this _____ day of _______ in the year 1809.

In presence of Thomas West [seal]

Charles Lutterloh

Feb. Session 1813 Power of Attorney duly proven in open Court by oath of Chas. Lutterloh. Registered Thomas Ragland C.C.

D.Bk. X, p.430-32, 15 Nov 1836 Christian Co., KY naming heirs including Charles West.

Indenture: Heirs of Thomas West, Jr. to John West   Deed Book X, Pp 430-432
[As transcribed by John G. West 01 Jun 2005 from photocopy of the recorded
document in the Christian County Clerk's Office, Courthouse, Hopkinsville, KY]
[Anything in "[ ]" is added by me to clarify something.   I have added punctuation to help reading the document, punctuation was either not used or faded over time!   Written in the margin of this document: "delivered to owner Sept. 27, 1841"   - JGW]

[Page 430]   This Indenture made the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord 1836.   Between Jepthah West, Henry Brewer & Nancy his wife, William Brewer, Thomas Brewer, Candis Williams and Amos Williams, Joseph Meacham & Mary his wife, William Meacham & Sarah his wife, Charles West, Philip E. West, Isaac & Susannah Henderson, Jesse West, James Simmons and Caty his wife and Wm. Allder & Keziah his wife formerly Brewer, Moridy West, Wm. Jones & Mary Jones his wife late Mary West heirs of Richard West dec'd. & all heirs of Thomas West deceased and William Duprey, Junr. By Abraham Stites a Commissioner in Chancery of the first part and John West of the second part.   Witnessed that whereas [Page 431] in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Christian Circuit Court wherein said John West is complainant & the heirs etc. of Thomas West are defendants rendered at the August term 1836 of said court.   It was among other things decreed that A. Stites be appointed a Commissioner to convey to John West all the right title & interest of the heirs of Thomas West by quit claim deed in & to the said tract of land in the bill named on which Tho. West died & the same conveyed by Edmund Taylor to said Thos. West by deed bearing date 19th. June 1819.   Each party from this time out to pay their own cost & all fees coming agt. John West from the Christian Clks. Office not paid by John West on or before the 30 July 1836 to be paid by defts. & the bill dismissed without prejudice as to John West's claim in & to the personal estate & slaves of his brother Tho. West deceased.   Said Comr. to report, etc.   Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth that the said parties of the first part by the said Commissioner for & in consideration of the promises do quit claim grant & convey unto the said John West & his heirs & assigns all their right title & interest of in & to a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Christian and State of Kentucky on the waters of Pond river and bounded as follows - viz - Beginning at two sugar trees on the bank of the creek near the mouth of the sugar Camp branch, thence up the branch with the meanders thereof North 71 west one hundred poles to a black oak thence North 17 east fifty eight poles to a stone, thence 73 east one hundred & seventy eight and Eight tenths poles to a white oak, thence south 17 west two hundred and thirty two poles to a Spanish oak, thence North 69 west one hundred and eight poles to a stake, thence north Eighteen east crossing the creek sixteen poles to a stake, thence down the Creek with the meanders thereof to the beginning containing two hundred and five acres be the same more or less being the same tract conveyed by Edmund Taylor to Thomas West & referred to in said decree to have and to hold said tract of land to the said John West & his heirs & assigns to his & their side forever.   In witness thereof the parties of the first part have hereto set their hands & seals this day first herein written ~

Jepthah West {seal}   Henry Brewer {seal}   Wm. Brewer {seal}   Thos. Brewer {seal}   Candis Williams {seal}   [Page 432] Amos Williams {seal}   Joseph Meacham {seal}   Mary Meacham {seal}   William Meacham {seal}   Sarah Meacham {seal}   Charles West {seal}   Philip E. West {seal}   Isaac Henderson {seal}   Susannah Henderson {seal}   Jesse West {seal}   James Simmons {seal}   Caty Simmons {seal}   Wm. Allder {seal}   Keziah Allder {seal}   Meridy West {seal}   Wm. Jones {seal}   Mary Jones {seal}   Wm. Duprey, Jun. {seal}   by Abram Stites Commr. in Chancery {seal}

Commonwealth of Kentucky }
Christian Circuit Court   Etc. }         I, John W. Phelps, Clerk of the Christian Circuit Court aforesaid do hereby certify that on the 17th. day of November 1836 in the November term of said Court at the Court house of Christian County the within deed from Abram Stites Commissioner therein named to John West was produced in Court by the said Commissioner and was by him acknowledged to be his act & deed and was admitted to record among the proceedings of said Court and was ordered to be certified and is hereby certified accordingly to the Clerk of the Christian County Court for further record given under my hand this 17th. day of November 1836 and in the 45th. year of the Commonwealth.
                                                                                              John W. Phelps, CCCC

Commonwealth of Kentucky   }
County of Christian,     towit   }       I, Abraham Stites, the Clerk of the County Court of Christian County aforesaid, do certify that this deed from the heirs of Thomas West dec'd & others to John West with the certificate thereon written was on this day produced to me in my office in behalf of the grantee & ordered to be recorded.   Whereupon the said deed & certificate together with the foregoing certificate hath been duly admitted to record in my office given under my hand the 30th. day of December 1837.      
                                                                                      Attest:   Abram Stites, CCCC

Other Records: DAR National #533460 Betty Jane (Meacham) Armstrong, 13 Feb 1974; DAR National #117765+298 Hazel Atterbury Spraker, 30 Aug 1937; West Family Register by Lette B. Stone, Supplemental pages 260a & 260b.

North Caroline Archives, Raleigh, NC: Accounts of Controller’s Office, War of Rev. Bk. J, p. 144 & Bk. C, p. 53; Rev. Army Accounts, Vol. VI, p. 1, Folio 3.

Revolutionary War Accounts, copied by John G. West 4 Aug 1981 NC Archives, Raliegh, NC. Book J, p.144 Rev. War Accts. Thomas West 28 Jul 1788. 582 Thos. West in lieu of Cert. Destroyed 16 [pounds]..... Book C, p. 53 Rev. War Accts. (Specie in fractions of pounds) 1689 To Thomas West 744 16 | 14 | 3; 1690 To John Buckner 745 6 | 9 | 2.

Revolutionary Army Accounts Vol. VI, p. 1, Folio 3 Claim #582 Thomas west (in lieu of Certificate destroyed) - Sum Claimed: 16.00 Certificate delivered to Major Griffith.

9. Thomas West, Sr. (Before 1718 – 1808) [Lucy Hall ?]

Marriage Record: From an e-mail message I sent to Ben West 25 Mar 2001:

I did realize my lack of zeroing in on a more accurate estimate of birth year for Thomas West, Jr. (1738 or earlier) and until just a few days ago, I had not thought too much about the 1760 date of John Hall's will. That fact makes the likelihood of Lucy being Thomas West, Jr's wife a lot lower (assuming the Lucy that is mentioned in the land transaction as wife of Thomas West - is the Lucy West mentioned in John Hall's Will)!!!

Transcribed from the Bute County Record Book 1 (Source of this transcription is a published book: Warren Co., NC Records (Vol. I) Abstracted Records of Colonial Bute Co., NC 1764-1779 and Bute Co. Marriages, compiled by Mary Hinton (Duke) Kerr, The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartanburg, SC, 1983 p. 6) Book 1, p. 42 Will of John Hall of Southampton Co.(VA?).   Dated 27 July 1760.   Wife Mary Hall.   Daughters: Lucy WEST, Jhan (Jane?) Wood, Esther Washington.   Exrs: Wife Mary Hall and Brewer Wood.   Wit: John Brown, James Browning, Mark Browning.   Recorded October Court 1765.

A Thomas West and wife Lucy sold some lands in Orange or Chatham County some years later (I think the deed has already been submitted to this site).   It has been argued that this Lucy is the Lucy that is in the John Hall will.   It has further been said that this Lucy is the wife of Thomas West, Jr. (b. 1738 or earlier).   I suspect, however, that this Lucy in the will in 1760 is too old for Thomas West, Jr.   She would be much more likely to be the wife of Thomas West, Sr.

Deeds: Source - Book Abstracts of the Early Deeds of Granville County North Carolina 1746-1765 by Zae Hargett Gwynn, published by Joseph W. Watson, Rocky Mount, NC, 1974. Page 49. Deed Book B, pp. 279-281. 4 Mar 1754, Lodowick Alford to William Mannard for 20 pds. 600A on Little Creek, part in Granville & part in Johnston Cos., NC of which this deed contains 200A thereof. Witnesses: Daniel Underwood, Thos. West. Page 49. Deed Book B, pp. 281-284. 5 Mar 1754, Lodowick Alford to Thomas West for 25 pds. 350A in Granville Co., formerly Edgecombe Co., NC on East side of Bear Swamp, which land was granted to Samuel Lanier (or Lemuel) 20 Apr 1745. Wts: Thos. Lowe, William Sisson. Page 251. Deed Book F, pp. 466&467. 9 Feb 1764, Thomas West to Allen Groves of Nansemond Co., VA for 100 pds., 350A on ES of Bear Swamp. Wts: James Pierce, Hen. Hill.

Source: (Book) Warren Co., NC Records, Vol. II, Abstracts of Deed Book A, 1764-1766, Deeds of Colonial Bute Co., NC, abstracted, indexed & compiled by Mary Hinton Kerr, Warrenton, NC, Chairman Historic Activities, Granville-Warren Committee, National Society Colonial Dames of America in State of NC, published 1967. Deed Book A, page 69

John Fikes & Elizabeth Fikes, of Orange Co., to Thomas Sherrod, of Granville Co. 28 July 1763. 150 Pds. Procl. money for 389 A. in Granville Co., on WS Bear Swamp, adj. Charles Ivey, Bell, Lanier, an Earl Granville Grant XI March MDCCLX. Wit: Thomas West, Sr., Thomas West. Proved by Thomas West, Sr., Bute Nov. Court 1764, Ben McCulloch, C.C. Reg: 21 Jan. _____, Susan Johnson, P.R.

From the Earl of Granville, by his agent Thomas Child, "Thomas West, planter of Granville Co." received a land grant of 386 acres, dated 29 Jul 1761. This grant was in Granville Co. on "Cyprus Swamp," adjoining Brinkley and Simmons (DB A, p. 316). Bute County was formed in 1764 from Granville Co. and included this land. "Thomas West of Orange Co." sold this land on 1 Dec 1766 to Samuel Eley of Bute Co., "386 acres in Bute Co. on the Cypress Swamp, a Lord Granville Grant of 29 Jul 1761" (DB B-1, p. 347). These deeds show that Thomas West moved from land that was formerly in Edgecombe Co., NC on Bear Swamp to land that was on Cypress Swamp (formerly in Granville, then Bute, and today in Warren Co., NC) and then into Orange Co. by 1766 (a distance of perhaps 70 miles from Cypress Swamp).

Deed Book A, pp. 337, 338 & 339 Chatham Co., NC as copied [including misspelling and capitalization and puncuation] by John G. West 4 Aug 1981 North Carolina Archives, Raleigh, NC.

Indenture 9 Aug 1774 between Thomas West and Lucey his wife of Chatham first part Charles Stuart of same county. Witnessed that said Thomas West and lucy his wife for 53 pounds, 6 shillings and 8 pence lying in the county aforesaid on the branches of Robertsons Creek beginning at a post oak & hicory on the path side leading from the meeting house to David Banks thence south west wise on the ___?_____ line to a Black Jack thence nearly north on a line of marked trees to hicory thence coming along a line of Marked Trees nearly east to the creek then corner'g on the south side of the said Creek on an Elmm thence with the said Creek to a willow Oak on the North north side of the said creek near the mouth of Sal. Mashes Spring branch from thence nearly east course along a line of marked trees to the old line from thence along said line to the first station containing by estimation 190 acres being part of a survey taken up by Samuel Mash.

Signed by Thomas West (seal)

Lucy West (seal)

The above property was bought in two parts from two different parties.

D.B. 2, p. 555 Orange Co., NC as copied (but summarized to save time for now) by John G. West 4 Aug 1981 in Archives as stated above.

13 Mar 1769, from James & Judith George of Orange Co. to Thomas West, planter, of same county. 90 acres on Robertson Creek with most of the same metes & bounds as listed above.

D.B. 2, p. 556 Orange Co., NC as copied (but summarized to save time for now) by John G. West 4 Aug 1981 in Archives as stated above.

13 Mar 1769, from William & Elizabeth Willkey to Thomas West lying in the County of Orange about 100 acres on Robertson Creek with the rest of the metes and bounds as stated in the first indenture of 1774.

The two together make up the 190 acres bought in 1769 and sold in 1774.

Will: From CHATHAM COUNTY COURT MINUTES 1805-1811, North Carolina Department of Archives and History, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807: p. 193 [Ben West sent this to me on 19 Feb 2005]

Wednesday February Sessions 1808

The last Will and Testament of Thomas West Sen’r. was duly proved in open Court by the Oaths of Robert Richerson and Elizabeth Richerson witness thereto and ordered to be Record[ed]. Whereupon Administration of the Estate of the said Thomas West sen’r is granted to Ignatious West with the Will annexed?, he having entered into Bond in the sum of One hundred and Twenty pounds with Robert Richerson and Obed Powell his Securities and was duly qualified.

Tax Lists: North Carolina West Family Research

Comprising Notes and Document Transcriptions
from Research in Orange and Chatham Counties, North Carolina,
the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, and from
the Southern History Department of the Birmingham Public Library,
Birmingham, Alabama

Research Performed by Benjamin Milton West
March 10 - 15, 2003 in North Carolina
August 2002 in Birmingham, Alabama

From GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS FOR 1754, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807:

A List of Tythables Taken by John Martin Esq:r for the year 1754

Thomas West & son Thomas 2 whites, 2 total

From GRANVILLE COUNTY SCH, A LIST OF TAXABLES FOR THE YEAR 1755 transcribed by Susan Martucci:  [Internet Source] http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgranvi/other/1755tax.htm, a transcribed/text version of the Granville 1755 Tax List taken from the 1955 journal The North Carolinian William Perry Johnson, Editor.  Submitted by Susan Martucci (Accessed May 24, 2003):

Thomas West & Son Richard, 2-0-2

From GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS FOR 1757, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807:
A List of Tithables taken by John Martin for the year 1757

Thomas West.  Son Richard and Thos. West. } . . . 3

From GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS FOR 1758, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807:

A List of Tythes taken by John Martin for the year 1758

Thos. West . . . Constable . . .

Thomas West Senr } 2
& Son Richard         }

From GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS FOR 1759, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807:

Allso the List of delinqts for the year 1759

West Thomas. ________1

From GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS FOR 1760, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807:

A list of Tythables taken by Thos Person for the year 1760
Thos. West                }
& son Thos West Jr } 2

Thos. West       1

From GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS FOR 1761, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807:

1761.  The List of Taxables for Bare Swamp District Taken pr.? me. Solo. Alston

Thos. West & Son Thos. 1

Thomas Jones, Constable List, for the year 1761

Thomas West

From GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS FOR 1762, North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601-2807:

A List of Taxables for the year 1762.  Insolvents.


List of Taxables for Bare swamp District [1762]

Thos. West Const. & } 1 white, 1 total
Son Thos.                    }