Frances Pegram

I found this when I googled naming patterns of colonial VA. Since there, at this point, is no hard evidence to prove Frances was a Macon, I thought I would become a detective, and seek out any kind of evidence that could be found, including circumstancial:

A study of Middlesex County, Virginia reached similar conclusions. For the period 1651-1750, only 11% of first-born sons received their father’s name, but 44% were given their grandfather’s name. [Another 16% had a name which was shared by both ancestors.] For daughters, 15% were named for their mothers and 46% for their grandmothers.

Later children of 18th century families also tended to be named after family members. After using grandparents and parents names, the majority of later children were given names of their aunts and uncles. This is generally thought to have been the result of the agricultural family-centered society of the south. The majority of the southern colonial population were members of relatively large family groups. For those not part of these groups, none of these patterns can be assumed to apply.

Here is the breakdown of Daniel and Frances's children names that follow the prevailing patterns of their day:

1. Sarah: Sarah is found on both the Pegram and Macon sides. Paternal Grandmother and Maternal great-grandmother. 2. Daniel: This son is named after his father. 3. Mary: This name is found on both sides, maternal and paternal aunts 4. George: Paternal Great-grandfather 5. Martha: Maternal Great-grandmother (Shared ancestor with Martha Custis Washington) 6. Gideon: Maternal Great-Grandfather. 7. Edward: Paternal uncle 8. Sarah: This is the second daughter named Sarah, the older one died in early childhood. See number 1 for the relatives.

Following the appearance of the name Gideon in the Pegram blood-line, the name only appears in descendents of Daniel and Frances. It is found in a couple of subsequent generations.

The following was found on www.patch.net, referencing the following book:

The Pegrams Of Virginia And Their Descendants

by

Samuel W. Simmons

DANIEL3, MARY, SARAH AND GEORGE PEGRAM

DANIEL PEGRAM3 (Daniel2, George1) was born in York County, Virginia about 1720. He died after 15 November 1776 and before the November Court 1777. From the data available there is every indication that he married into the Macon family, a prominent York County family descending from Gideon Macon, the Burgess and French Huguenot (30, 136). John Macon, son of Gideon and Martha Woodward Macon, was born 17 December 1695. He married Ann Hunt, daughter of William Hunt Jr., and sister of Robert Hunt (30, 31). This is confirmed by a deed recorded in Surry County, dated 1 April 1714, wherein William Hunt and Thabitha, his wife, of Charles City County, (conveyed land on the Nottaway to William Hamlin) stated that they had two daughters, Mary who married Robert Minge, and the wife of John Macon (31). John Macon and Ann Hunt had six children, one of whom was Frances, who it is stated, married Daniel Pegram (30, 136).

Daniel's grandmother was a Hunt. As stated previously, when Daniell, his father, was apprenticed in 1703/04, it was with the consent of his uncle Robert Hunt. It is also widely stated that Sarah his mother, was a Hunt. At any rate Daniel' and his brothers and sisters descended from the Hunts. It may be that William Hunt Jr., father of Ann Hunt Macon, who lived in Charles City County, or some other member of the Hunt family carried the Pegram children to that county to be with their kin, after the death of their parents. The Hunts were said to be "numerous and respectable."

Prince George County was formed from Charles City County in 1702/03; and, Dinwiddie County was formed from Prince George in 1752. Dinwiddie County was the locale of the Pegram family. It is likely that when they went to Charles City County that they actually settled in what was later Dinwiddie County.

The Register of Bristol Parish lists Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Frances Pegram, born 29 September 1741, and baptized 28 February 1741/42 (33).

The Journal of the Council of Virginia in Executive Session held 10 June 1742; showed Daniel Pegram Vs. Abraham Micheau continued to December next for a preemptory hearing. These Councils were held at the Capitol in Williamsburg (34). A Council was held at the Governor's House 15 December 1742: The case of Pegram Vs. Micheau was recorded for land granted the defendant to have an order for the land paying the plaintiff 50 schillings (35).

The fact that Daniel and Frances had a child, Sarah, born 29 December 1741, and baptized in Bristol Parish 28 February 1741/42 (6, 33), indicates that they moved to the Parish in which Prince George, and later Dinwiddie, was situated, at about the time of the Council meetings. It will be recalled that Daniel's brother Edward was apprenticed in Charles City County in 1737, probably prior to Daniel's move from York County.

Daniel and Frances moved to North Carolina sometime between 1741, when their daughter was baptized, and October 1754, when Daniel was shown in the Granville County, North Carolina Militia, in Captain Richard Coleman's Company. On 4 September 1758 Daniel was granted 733 acres of land in Granville County, later Bute, now Warren, on Hobb Quarter Creek. Gideon Hunt Macon, son of John Macon, and thus a brother of Frances, also settled on Hobb Quarter Creek. Gideon Macon sold land on Hobb Quarter Creek to Thomas Harton on 12 May 1753 (witnesses: Daniel Pegram and Marmaduke Perry), and land on Little Creek to William Reed on 23 May 1753 (witnesses: Thomas Harton and William Blalock). Deed Book D., pp. 217, 218, 219 and 220. It was also here that the Honorable Nathaniel Macon later resided (30, 36).

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There was kinship between the Hunts, the Macons and the Pegrams of Charles City County, Virginia. Daniel Pegram3 and the Macons moved to the same locality in North Carolina, where Daniel had invested in land, at about the same time. Daniel and Frances Pegram named a son Gideon. John Macon, son of Gideon, had a son named Gideon (brother of Frances), who moved to Granville County; North Carolina. These things and the close association of the two families over a long period, in two states, seems sufficient evidence to say that Daniel Pegram's wife was indeed Frances Macon, daughter of John Macon and Ann Hunt. Furthermore Alethea Jane Macon, who compiled and published a treatise entitled "Gideon Macon of Virginia and Some of his descendants", stated without reservation that Frances Macon married Daniel Pegram (136). Their children were SARAH4, DANIEL, GEORGE, EDWARD, GIDEON, MARTHA (PATTY) and MARY.

Note that the names, with the exception of Gideon, which is from the maternal side, and Martha, are the same as Daniel's brothers and sisters. He had brothers Edward and George, and sisters Sarah and Mary