Col. Enis Francis Thomas Pugh, III.

Williams and Moores had deed works in joint tenancy with Pughs in Bertie County Deed Book M – 1777 - Various Abstracts 297-(315) Whitmell Tufdick, William Roberts, William Blount, Lewis Tufdick, John Randal, William Pugh, James Mitchel, Winoak Charles, William Basket, John Owens, Thomas Roberts, Walter Gibson, Billy Cane Chieftans of the Tuscarora Indians in Bertie County to Thomas Pugh Sr. of same. 28 May 1777. The lease for 99 years @ 8 pounds per year of 100 acres, joining Black Gut Neck on Town Swamp, Roanoke River. Signed by: Billy (x) Blunt, Wineoak (x) Charles, Ben (x) Smith, Walter (X) Gibson, Thomas (X) Roberts, John (X) Ra nndel, Whitmell (x) Tuffdick, Billey (X) Cane, Lewis (x) Tufdick, Billey (x) Baskit, William (x) Pugh, Williams (x) Roberts, James (x) Mitchell. WITNESSES: Zedekiah Stone Jr., Thomas Whitmell Jr., May Ct 1777. John Johntston CJC

from William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs (Vol. 1, New York, 1908), pp. 206-7 (on Google Books)

Francis Pugh son of Francis the immigrant married Pheribee Savage, a native of Cornwall, England. They settled in Chowan precinct of NC (later Bertie County). After death of Francis, Pheribee married Col. Thomas Barker

Their children were

• Col. Thomas, Sen., b 1719 d 1813 bur at Imrocky, Bertie Co, NC. "He was one of the purchasers of the Tuscarora Indian reservation lands, which he bought at the time (1712) that people went north and joined the Five Nations."
• John,
• Pheribee, m. John Williams, mother of Benjamin Williams (Gov of NC)
• Phebe,
• Penelope

The will of Francis Pugh, dated July 5, 1733, proved at the May term of court 1736, mentions his son Thomas, son John, and child in case; this posthumous child was Francis Pugh (3rd) who married Mary Whitwell.

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