Thomas Blount Hill, Sr.

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• OCONEECHEE PLANTATION
• ASSOCIATED LINK(s): The Hermitage (Halifax Co. NC)
• ORIGINAL OWNER: Thomas Blount Hill (1775-1815)
• BUILT:
• ASSOCIATED SURNAMES: Hill, Urquhart, Spruill
• HISTORY:

THOMAS BLOUNT HILL (1775-1815) was a son of Colonel WHITMEL HILL (1743-1797) and his wife WINIFRED BLOUNT (1743-1799), daughter of THOMAS BLOUNT & ELIZABETH WHITMELL. Colonel WHITMEL HILL was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1760, and a conspicuous public figure during the Revolution. He was a delegate to the Provincial Congresses at Hillsborough in 1775 and at Halifax in 1776, a delegate to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia from 1778-1781, and a member of the Council of State in 1781. Colonel HILL died at his Palmyra house on September 12, 1797. His son THOMAS B. HILL was born February 26, 1775, and was married on November 26, 1799, to REBECCA NORFLEET (1783-1845), a daughter of REUBEN and MARY FIGURES NORFLEET of Bertie County. HILL, a member of a widespread and socially prominent family, evidently was a typical planter but did not enter into politics. He owned a number of plantations, as is evident in the papers filed by his children in the years after his death. Thomas died intestate on October 15, 1815, at which time all of his children were minors. REBECCA N. HILL was born 20 October 1800 MARIE LOUISA HILL was born 17 July 1802 WHITMELL JOHN HILL was born July 17 1804 MARIE ANTOINETTE HILL was born 3 January 1807 REBECCA W. HILL was born 8 March 1809 ELIZA BLOUNT HILL was born 10 November 1810 THOS. B. HILL JR. was born June 25, 1813 WINNEFRED BLOUNT HILL born 14 September 1815

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Petition for the Division of Slaves. To the Worshipful Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Northampton The Petition of CHARLES URQUHART & ELIZA his wife and of WINIFRED B. HILL an infant by GEO E. SPRUILL her Guardian, sheweth to your Worships that THOMAS B. HILL of the County of Halifax died some time in year 1815 intestate, possessed of several tracts of land, namely one tract lying in the County of Bertie, adjoining the lands of W. WILLIAMS, NOAH HINTON & Others, known as the Marshes, one other tract at same County known by the name of the Spring Gest. One tract lying in the lower end of Halifax known by the name of the Low Grounds, one other tract lying in Scotland Neck called the Bronson tract, one other tract lying on Coniconary [sic] including the mill & home house, called the Somerville Plantation & one other tract lying in the County of Northampton adjoining the lands of JOHN D. AMIS, WILLIAM BURT, WM. B. LOCKHART & others called the Oconeechee plantation. Possessed also a large number of Slaves, the said THOMAS leaving at his or at his wife REBECCA, and the following children his heirs at law, namely MARY LOUISA since intermarried with GEORGE E. SPRUILL, WHITMELL J. HILL, ANTOINETTE since intermarried with JAMES B. URQUHART, ELIZA one of your petitioners since intermarried with CHARLES URAQUHART, THOMAS B. HILL & WINEFRED B. HILL now infants. Your petitioners further state that the said REBECCA the widow of the said THOMAS has had her division assigned her the Somerville Plantation & her share of slaves allotted will appear by reference to the proceedings in Halifax County Court. Your petitioner further states that the said GEORGE E. SPRUILL & MARY LOUISA his wife, JAMES B. URQUHART & ANTOINETTE his wife, WHITMELL J. and THOMAS B. HILL, have respectively had their shares of the land & slaves of the said THO. B. HILL laid of & allotted to them, as will appear more fully in in reference to the proceedings in Halifax Superior Court. By which said proceedings the Oconeechee Plantation lying in the County of Northampton as before described supposed to contain about 2200 acres of land with the Slaves therein are laid off assigned & allotted to your petitioners ELIZA and WINIFRED as tenants in common. Your Petitioners CHARLES & ELIZA his wife are anxious to have said land & Slaves divided to hold their share as tenants in severalty & not as tenants in common & your petitioner WINIFRED is willing such division should be made. Your petitioners CHARLES & ELIZA his wife & WINIFRED B. HILL by her Guardian GEORGE E. SPRUILL, therefore pray your worships to appoint five Commissioners to divide said tract of land between your petitioners ELIZA & WINIFRED and to divide the Slaves among your petitioners, allotting to each of your petitioners one half of said tract of land of land to hold in severalty, according to the provisions of the Acts of Assembly in such case made & provided & report to the next term of this Court. & your petitioners will ever pray &c.

State of North Carolina Northampton County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions September Term 1828

On the Petition of CHARLES URQUHART & ELIZA his wife & of WINEFRED B. HILL a infant by GEORGE E. SPRUILL her guardian, for a Division of the Slaves of THOMAS B. HILL dec'd on the Plantation known by the name of the Occoneechee Plantation in the County of Northampton aforesaid. It is ordered by the Court that WILLIAM B. LOCKHART, JAMES CRUMP, RODERICK B. GARY, RICHARD CRUMP and THOMAS ELLIS or any three of them divided the said Slaves, among the said Petitioners by allotting to each one half to hold as tenants in severalty according to the provisions of the Acts of Assembly in such cases made and provided, and make report thereof to next December Court.

Iss'd 24 Sep 1828

A Copy Teste JOHN W. HARRISON Clk

SLAVE POPULATION: Pursuant to the annexed order of Court, we the undersigned have divided, appropriated and allotted the Slaves therein mentioned as follows, To wit:

To CHARLES URQUHART in right of his wife ELIZA: ALECK, BETTY, ELISA, RINA and CAROLINE valued at $1135

JACOB, NANCY & child NANCY, CLARA & child ROBERT, ISAAC, TOM, PARNELIA, CHARITY and WILLIAM valued at $1800

PATIENCE valued at $225 LENDER, ESTHER, WASHINGTON, MARINDA, & child SARAH and YARMOUTH valued at $1200

SALLY, ANTOINETT, CINNAMON and JACOB valued at $875 NED valued at $400 MILLEY valued at $250 HARKLEY an invalid a charge upon his lot, it being the most valuable $60 Total valuation: $5825

To WINNIFRED B. HILL: VIOLET, JACOB, DAVY and MARY ANNE valued at $1175 CATO, DINAH, ANNA, PLIER, CHARLOTTE, PENNY and BETSEY valued at $1590 JACK, DILCY, VIOLET & child HOLLON, JOHN and HARRIET valued at $1200 TOM, RELAR, TOM, PENELOPE & PRISCILLA valued at $850 ABRAM & NANCY valued at $575 AMY, PATIENCE & child FANNY valued at $375 Total valuation: $5765

Deficiency in valuation supplied by charge on CHARLES URQUHART's lot for keep HARKLEY - $60 Total of Valuation: $5825

Given under our hands an seals this 14th day of November 1828. W.B. LOCKHART R.B. GARY THOMAS ELLIS RICH'D CRUMP JAMES CRUMP

RESEARCH NOTES: The Charles F. Urquhart family lived in Southampton Co, Virginia, where Charles died in 1866, and his widow, Eliza B. (Hill) Urquhart died in 1869, both of them having property in Northampton Co, NC, where their wills were also filed in reference to their portions of their estates in that County.

Researched & transcribed by Deloris Williams

MISCELLANEOUS: Thomas B. Hill Estate,Halifax Co-1828; Whitmel Hill Biography,NCPedia; Thomas Blount Hill Family Bible; Whitmel Hill on Find-A-Grave North Carolina Plantations

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