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Lest We Forget ; Our Melvins and Kin by Lionel Dane Melvin NCMcKay Home "Lest" Contents Page Book Index-> A-F, G-Mc, M-Q, R-Y <--Pg. 025 Pg. 027--> 26 Thomas' will, made in Bladen County, N.C., 8 June 1756 and probated in Oct. Court 1756 names only a wife, Joan, and a son, George. Joan could be intended for Jenette and was an error in copying the will after one of the courthouse fires which damaged the record books, or Joan could have been a second wife. The daughter, Jane, could have been provided for before the will was made. Daniel died at age c86 and was buried on land that Gov. Gabriel Johnston ordered the Surveyor General on the 27th day of September 1751 to lay out for him in Bladen County, N.C., on the south side of South River. Children of DANIEL MELVIN, Immigrant, and Jane Thomas: dau. JANE MELVIN, born c 1746 in Bladen County, N.C., died in Bladen 1836. Married EDWARD REEVES, born 1721 and died at Reeves' Store about two miles east of Ammon, N.C., in 1826 at the age of 105. The Reeves house was gone, but the old store building was standing in the 1920's. It was here that DANIEL MELVIN, Jr., was living when he married Sarah West c1790. When EDWARD REEVES died, Jane went to live with her sister Susannah and her husband, Christopher Sutton. Both of the sisters died in 1836. See REEVES FAMILY. dau. Susannah Melvin, born c1748 in Bladen County, N.C., died 1836 in Bladen. Married Christopher Sutton. son, Tolliver Sutton, died 29 Nov. 1894. Married, first, a Reeves, second, Mariah Peterson, born 7 Sept. 1858. Died 5 July 1898. Son of Christopher Sutton: son, Gaston P. Sutton (1860-1949). dau. Ann (Nancy) Melvin, born c1753, married Eleaser Russ, son of THOMAS RUSS and Mary Russ who moved from St. Tho- mas Parish, S.C., to Bladen County, N.C., before 1735. See Mary Russ Will. Ann and Elieazer had a son, Eleazer Russ, Jr., whose name appeared in the 1830 census of Mar- ion County, Ga. son, GEORGE MELVIN, born after 1755 in Bladen County, N.C. Married Mary Russ, dau. of Thomas Russ, Jr., and Anna Singletary. It is believed that Anna was a daughter of John Singletary. GEORGE MELVIN and part of his family moved to South Carolina c1820. son, JOHN MELVIN, born 1762, died 10 March 1853, wives were Keziah Suggs and Mary Turner. dau. Morning Melvin, born after 1755, married, first, Alfonzo Rice, second, Windsor Fort. son, DANIEL MELVIN, born 27 Aug. 1769 in Bladen County, N.C., died on his plantation in N.W. Bladen County, 28 Aug. 1846. Married Sarah West, born 26 June 1772, died 12 Nov. 1844, the daughter of James West it is believed. DANIEL MELVIN, II (1769-1846) Son of DANIEL MELVIN, I, Immigrant, (1708-c1786) of Scotland and Jane Thomas of Bladen County, N.C., thought to be a dau. of Francis Thomas and Jeannette Wining, dau of John Wining. Born in Bladen 27 Aug. 1769, died in Bladen 28 Aug. 1846. Married Sarah West of Bladen, born 26 June 1772, died 12 of Nov. 1844, evidently a daughter of James West who settled in the Ammon section of Bladen County, N.C., about 1760. DANIEL <--Pg. 025 Pg. 027--> |
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