Cherry Boykin

Cherry Joyner was born BEF 1720, and died AFT 1762 in North Carolina.. She was the daughter of Thomas Joyner and Patience .

Family

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She married

1. James Harris on BEF 1740.
2. John Boykin on BEF 1758. Son of John Boykin & Ann Williamson.

Children with James Harris

1. James Harris: Birth: ABT 1740.
2. Eli Harris

Notes

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Edgecombe Co. Wills: James Harris, dated 10 Jan. 1749. Feb. Ct. 1749 – Son James Harris, My plantation while I now live and 100 acres on the east side of Deep Creek. Wife Cheary – my plantation in Southampton County on the east side of Assomusuk (She sold this land on 12 May 1763). Son James Harris – Negro Garomy. Son Eli Harris – Negroes Jack, Bess and Stephen – To Matthew Joyner – mare. Three of my mares are to be sold to school my two children. Remaining Estate to my wife.

Edgecombe Co. Estate Records, 1750: Matthew Joyner administrator of James Harris Estate. Cherry Harris gave inventory. IOW W.B 3, p. 97: Will of brother Thomas Joyner, dated 8 April 1728. R. 27 May 1728 … ‘sister Cherry one guinea’ … … ‘brother Mathew one guinea’. They were children of Thomas Joyner, Will dated 13 April 1740. R. 28 April 1740: ‘I give and bequeath unto my daughter Cherry Harris … one chest and one feather Bed and furniture which she has in her possession already … I give unto my son Mathew Joyner … the plantation whereon I now live with two hundred and forty acres of Land thereunto belonging, one pair of English hand millstones, one iron pott, and one gun’.

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John Boykin, brother of above William, married Cherry Joyner, who is mentioned in the will of Katrine Joyner Dunkley in 1758 as her sister (Southampton Wills I, Chapman). John made his will in Halifax, N.C., Jan. 10, 1762, probated March Court 1762; legatees sons Benjamin, Joseph, Chaney Boykin; James M. Lane, Wm. Pope, James and Eli Harris. Exrs. wife Cherry and James Harris. (Bk I-60)

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Southampton Co. D.B. 3, pp. 208-209, dated 12 May 1763: James Harris and Cherry Boykin (after the death of James Harris Sr., his widow m. John Boykin), both of Halifax Co., to Benjamin Arrington. 160 acs. on the east side of Assomosock Swamp (conveyed to James Harris, decd., by the Nottoway indians on 7 Aug. 1735. Signed James Harris and Cherry Boykin. Wit: Charles Buggs, Charles Simmons and David Herring.

Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850
View Record Name Cherry Harris Date13 Apr 1740LocationIsle of Wight

NotesThis probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.

Remarks

• Thomas Joyner. Leg. -
• daughter Cherry Harris;
• son Jonathan, the land on which William Thomas did live and on which Arthur Smith now lives;
• son Mathew;
• daughter Patience;
• daughter Elizabeth;
• son Thomas;
• daughter Catherine Dunkley;
• granddaughter Cathe
• DescriptionDaughterBook4-267Prove date 28 Apr 1740

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John Boykin, brother of above William, married Cherry Joyner, [widow of James Harris], who is mentioned in the will of Katrine Joyner Dunkley in 1758 as her sister (Southampton Wills I, Chapman). John made his will in Halifax, N.C., Jan. 10, 1762, probated March Court 1762; legatees sons Benjamin, Joseph, Chaney Boykin; James M. Lane, Wm. Pope, James and Eli Harris. Exrs. wife Cherry and James Harris. (Bk I-60)

A different John Boykins married Elizabeth Joyner. John Boykin made his will Oct. 8, 1794, in Southampton as John Boykin, Sr., same probated April 9, 1795. His legatees were: dau. Cherry, wife of Robert Eley; sons, Mathew, John, Joel, Daniel and Ely; dau. Patience, wife of Jacob Turner; dau. Elizabeth, Dau. Martha, wife of Thomas Vick; dau. Ava, wife of William Branch; dau. Keziah; dau. Sarah, wife of Arthur Sherrod. Exrs., son Ely and Jacob Turner. Wits. Britton Britt, John Cook, Prederick Boykin. (CII-130).

Kath Dunkley, will 1758, was a Joyner. She mentions sister Elizabeth, wife of John Boykin of So. Carolina; sister Cherry, wife of John Boykin of N.C.; names two brothers, mother, and Thomas Joyner.