Henry Adcock

Letter: Received August 9, 1850 of M. B. Littlejohn, Clerk, Master of Granville Court of Equity $6.34 in full of the shares of Jonathan and Stepen Adcock in the lands of Tabitha Adcock dec. wit. J. M. Wiggins. N. C. Granville Co.

The area in Dickson where Jonathan, Stephen and Jesse lived was in southern Dickson County. Their father and grandfather, Edward Connoway Adcock, had been in the militia and received money for 640 acres of land granted to him for 7 years of service in the Rev. War. Edward married Tabitha White, daughter of William White and granddaughter of Jonathan White, in Granville County on July 4, 1780, and was the son of John Adcock who died in Granville Co. in February 1780. John was the son of Henry Adcock who died in Essex County, VA in 1738, Henry the son of Edward Adcock who died in Essex Co, early 1700s, Edward the son or grandson of John who was on Queen's Creek in York, VA in 1640 and died there in the late 1600s. Edward inherited the estate of "John of York." John of York was likely the same Lt. John Adcock who had come from England to the colony of Providence Island in the western Caribbean on the ship "Expectation," in 1637 and the inhabitants of that small colony had petitioned the Governor of Virginia for land on "Queen's Creek as James City is full and no more souls allowed." The Spanish captured Providence Island by 1641.

Jonathan Adcock left a will in Dickson Co. when he died November 26, 1866 and named all of his children but Edward H. who had married Elizabeth Petty in 1833 and died prior to 1850. Jonathan listed his ten children as: David W, (Martha Crowe); Martha A, (Reuben Goodwin); Nancy (Allen G. Crowe); Mary (Thomas Tate); Sarah (Moses Rhodes); Jonathan, Jr. (Sarah C. Lankford); James E. (Sarah Williford); and his three deceased sons' heirs, George Washington (Kesiah Petty)- George's children were Jonathan - Jerusha (Dennis McCarty), Mary (Burkett Murrell), Caroline (F. M. Crowe), Cynthia (Joseph Smith), Martin Van Buren, Joshua Gabriel, and minors, John, George and James J.; Littleton's son James "who lives in Rutherford Co.;" and the "unknown heirs of my deceased son Richard Adcock

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 24 2022, 19:17:22 UTC