William Avent

Notes for WILLIAM AVENT:

Removed to Northampton, NC and married.

Will of Joseph Massie, Brunswick Co., VA, 19 August, 1760. Probated 26 May 1761. Will Book 3, pp. 368-370, Inventoried 3 June 1761, pp. 374-375.

Will of William Avent, 22 April, 1760, Northampton County, NC, NC WB1, pp. 56-58. Probated August 1761. Named as executors his wife, identified as Sarah Avent in the probate act, , William Ragland (his son-in-law) and Joseph Avent. His daughter Rebecca was bequeathed two negro slaves--she was well under age.

Sources

• SOME COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOL. I, Marilu Burch Smallwood, Washington, NC, 1964, pp. 7-9, 14-15, 22.
• Will of Thomas Avent, September 1756, Sussex County, VA, probated 1757, WB A p. 80.
• REGISTER OF ALBEMARLE PARISH SURRY AND SUSSEX COUNTIES, 1739-1778, Gertrude R.B. Richards, 1958, p. 214.

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