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Ancestors of LYNN STOKES BUTTS

Generation No. 7

       80. JOSEPH RUTLEDGE, born October 06, 1771; died August 13, 1843 in MONROE COUNTY, MS. He married 81. NANCY RUTLEDGE.
       81. NANCY RUTLEDGE, born October 10, 1780; died August 30, 1843 in MONROE COUNTY, MS.

       Children of JOSEPH RUTLEDGE and NANCY RUTLEDGE are:

	i.	MARTHA RUTLEDGE, born 1801 in ALABAMA; married DANIEL B. MITCHELL 1818 in LIMESTONE CO., AL.
40	ii.	ALFRED HENRY RUTLEDGE, born February 02, 1807 in LIMESTONE CO., AL; died January 02, 1863 in BATTLE OF STONES RIVER, TN; married SUSANNA HODGES November 10, 1842.

       82. CHARLES HODGES, born July 18, 1797; died June 22, 1856 in ITAWAMBA CO., MS. He married 83. MARY " POLLY " MILLHOUSE January 27, 1816.
       83. MARY " POLLY " MILLHOUSE.

       Child of CHARLES HODGES and MARY MILLHOUSE is:

41	i.	SUSANNA HODGES, born February 02, 1824 in MADISON CO., MS; died October 15, 1896 in ITAWAMBA CO., MS; married ALFRED HENRY RUTLEDGE November 10, 1842.

       90. WILLIAM LAYCOCK, born 1786 in ORANGE CO., NC; died 1886 in CARROLL CO., TN. He was the son of 180. THOMAS JOSEPH LAYCOCK and 181. ROSEA. He married 91. SARAH WARREN April 08, 1806 in ORANGE CO., NC.
       91. SARAH WARREN, born 1790 in NC.

       Child of WILLIAM LAYCOCK and SARAH WARREN is:

45	i.	MARY POLLIE LAYCOCK, born September 14, 1815 in ORANGE CO., NC; died January 26, 1885 in CHICKALAH MOUNTAIN, AR; married AARON SUGG.

       96. CHRISTOPHER STOKES, born September 30, 1758 in VIRGINIA ? PROBABLY SUSSEX CO.; died November 14, 1822 in ROWAN CO. NC. He married 97. JANE (JINNA) DAVIS.
       97. JANE (JINNA) DAVIS, born March 01, 1755 in SUSSEX CO. VA; died November 14, 1831 in ROWAN CO. NC. She was the daughter of 194. THOMAS DAVIS and 195. JANE OR JEAN.

Notes
INDEX TO THE 1800 CENSUS OF NORTH CAROLINA
COMPILED BY ELIZABETH PETTY BENTLEY
GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
BALTIMORE
1977

PP. 231
STOKES, CHRISTOPHER RWN 383
NOT LISTED IN THE NC CENSUS 1784-1787

WILL OF CHRISTOPHER STOKES
(BOOK H - PAGE 183, SALISBURY)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I, CHRISTOPHER STOKES OF THE COUNTY
OF ROWAN AND THE STATE OF N. C., BEING AT THIS TIME SICK IN BODY
AND OF A LOW CONSTITUTION BUT OF A SOUND MIND AND PERFECT
MEMORY AND UNDERSTANDING AT PRESENT - BLESSED BE GOD - DO
CONSTITUTE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM
FOLLOWING AND DESIRE IT MAY ME TAKEN BY ALL AS SUCH, FIRST I
DESIRE THAT ALL THESE DEBTS THAT IS OWING TO ME TO BE WELL AND
TRULY COLLECTED IN DUE TIME AND ALSO ALL THAT I OWE TO BE PAID
BY MY EXECUTOR - HEREAFTER NAMED.

ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY DAUGHTER, SUSANNA ATERTON,
THE NEGROES THAT IS NOW IN HER POSSESSION, NAMELY HANNAH,
WITH ALL HER INCREASE, TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE HEIRS
OF HER BODY TO THEM AND THEIR HEIRS FOREVER- AND I ALSO GIVE TO
MY SAID DAUGHTER SUSANNA EDERTON, ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR IN
MONEY TO HER AND HER HEIRS FOR EVER.

ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON KINCHEN STOKES ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN MONEY AND THE NEGRO GIRL I LET HIM HAVE BY
THE NAME OF ESTHER AND HER INCREASE - AND THE PROPERTY HE HAD
FROM ME TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOR EVER.

ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY WIFE JINNA STOKES THE USE OF ALL
MY LANDS, PLANTATIONS AND HOUSES ENDURING HER NATURAL LIFE AND
AFTER HER DECEASE THEN THAT PART OF LAND THAT BELONGS TO ME AS
AS I BOUGHT OF DANIEL WOODSON TO BELONG TO JAMES ATERTON TO
HIM AND HEIRS USE FOR EVER AND THE BALANCE OF MY LAND AND
PLANTATIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF MY WIFE JINNIE STOKES TO BELONG
EQUALLY TO MY TWO SONS, KINCHEN STOKES AND WILLIAM STOKES, TO
THEM AND THEIR HEIRS FOREVER, I ALSO GIVE TO MY SAID WIFE JINNA
STOKES ALL MY NEGROES AND ALL MY STOCK OF EVERY KIND AND ALL
MY MOVABLE PROPERTY OF EVERY KIND WHATEVER AT HER WILL AND
DISPOSSAL FOR EVER PROVIDED NEVER THE LESS, IF THE SAID JINNA
STOKES SHOULD MARRY THEN ALL THE ESTATE THAT IS THEN IN HER
POSSESSION EXCEPT THE LANDS BE IMMEDIATELY SOLD TO THE
HIGHEST BIDDER, GIVING TWELVE MONTHS CREDIT AND THE MONEY
ENSUING FROM THE SALE OR SALES, ONE HALF TO BELONG TO MY WIFE
JINNA STOKES FOREVER AND THE OTHER TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED
BETWEEN SUSANNA ADERTON, KINCHEN STOKES AND WILLIAM STOKES
AND THEIR HEIRS FOREVER.

I DO NOMINATE AND APPOINT MY SON WILLIAM STOKES AND MY WIFE
JINNA STOKES TO BE MY EXECUTOR OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND
TESTAMENT AFTER MY DECEASE, IN WITNESS WHERE OF I HAVE HERE
UNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL

THIS 3RD DAY OF NOVEMBER 1822

WIT. WILLEHE NICHAS (CHRISTOPHER)
SUSANNAH NICHAS ( STOKES)
.

STOKES FILE SALISBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY

BOOK 24 PAGE 16: DEC 11, 1815, JAMES DANIEL - NO WIFE SIGNS - LETS CHRISTOPHER STOKES ( BOTH OF ROWAN CO.) HAVE 200 ACRES ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF BALD MOUNTAIN RIDGE NEXT THOMAS DAVIS AND SAID STOKES, FOR 25 POUNDS, WITNESSED BY J. W. H. DANIEL AND WILLIAM STOKES AND PROVED BY THE LATTER IN FEB. 1817.

BOOK 20 PAGE 555: MAY 13, 1816, DAVID WOODSON SR. -- NO WIFE SIGNS -- LETS JOHN ADERTON AND CHRISTOPHER STOKES ( ALL OF ROWAN CO.) HAVE 602 ACRES ON THE EAST BANK OF THE YADKIN RIVER NEXT THE OLD CORNER OF JOHN PARKS, NEXT DEALY WILLIAMS, ON LICK CREEK AND DOWN IT TO THE RIVER AND DOWN THE RIVER, FOR $1600.00, WITNESSED BY THOMAS VARNER AND DAVID COX, AND PROVED BY THE LATTER IN AUG. 1816.

DEED FROM EDWARD SHEPPARD TO CHRISTOPHER STOKES FOR 150 ACRES DEC. 5, 1794 IS PROVED BY DAVID COX.
BOOK 14 PAGE : DEC. 5, 1794, EDWARD SHEPPARD AND WIFE SUSANNA OF CAMDEN, S.C. LET CHRISTOPHER STOKES OF ROWAN CO. NC, HAVE 150 ACRES OF LAND ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE YADKIN RIVER ON ELLIS CREEK FOR 15 POUNDS.

SUSSEX CO. VA. WILL BOOK "C" 1772-1785                            (.341) JEAN DAVIS...14 SEP 1779/21 OCT 1779...SON EDWARD DAVIS. SON
CHARLES DAVIS. SON HARDIMAN DAVIS THE MONEY HE OWES ME. SON IN
LAW JOHN SPAIN AND HIS WIFE. SON WIATT DAVIS. SON IN LAW BURREL
WILBURN. SON THOMAS DAVIS. DAUGHTER SUSANNA DAVIS. TOMMY DAVIS,
SON OF WIETT DAVIS. CHRISTOPHER STOAKES. DAUGHTER ELIZABETH
PORCH. GRANDDAUGHTER JEAN PORCH. DAUGHTER JEAN STOAKES. EXORS: SON WIATT DAVIS AND CHRISTOPHER STOAKES. WIT: WILLIAM
HARDIE., CLEMENT HARTLEY AND CHARLES STOAKES.

NOV 10, 1791: " CHRISTOPHER STOKES APPOINTED CONSTABLE, GAVE BOND WITH JAMES MORGAN SECORITY AND QUALIFIED".

NOV 7, 1794: "CHRISTOPHER STOKES QUALIFIED AS A CONSTABLE. GAVE BOND WITH DAVID BARKLEY SECURITY IN 200".

NOV 5, 1794: CHRISTOPHER STOKES MARK: A CRAP OFF THE LEFT EAR AND
AN UNDER BIT OUT OF THE SAME".
THE ABOVE MARK IS THE MARK USED TO IDENTIFY HIS CATTLE, ETC. NOT HIS
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.

ABSTRACTS FROM ROWAN COUNTY, NC DEED BOOKS 1786-1797
BY JAMES W, KLUTTZ
560. P. 417. 5 MAY, 1788: ROBERT SHIPTON AND WF SARAH TO THOMAS
DAVIS FOR 35 POUNDS, 80 A ON E SIDE OF DAVIS CRK ADJ JAMES DANIEL.
BEING PART OF A STATE GRANT DATED 4 NOV 1784 10:085. WIT: \\
CHRISTOPHER STOAKES, JOHN ELLESS. PRVD BY STOAKES AT MAY CT 1788.

921. P. 743. 17 NOV, 1784. ASA ADKINS/ADKIND, PLANTER, TO THOMAS DAVIS
FOR 285 POUNDS, 332 A ON E SIDE OF YADKIN RIVER ADJ THIS GRANTEE,
ROBERT SHIPTON, DANECKBORN, AND DAVIS CREEK. WIT: JAS DANIEL, JOHN
JOHNSTON, CHRISTOPHER STOKES, JNO VARNER. FRANKY ATKINS ALSO
SIGNED. PRVD BY STOKES AT AUG CT 1789.

1782-1783 ROWAN COUNTY TAX LISTS
CHRISR: STOKES : 1 SL, H&M, C

1794 ROWAN COUNTY TAX LISTS
STOKES, CHRISTOPHR: 300 A, 1 WP, 2 BP

1796 ROWAN COUNTY TAX LISTS
STOKES , CHRISTOPHER: 300 A, 1 WP, 3BP

ABSTRACTS FROM DEED BOOK 14 ROWAN CO. NC
2581. P. 1. 5 DEC 1794. EDWARD (+) SHEPPERD AND WIFE SUSANNA OF THE
DISTRICT OF CAMDEN, SC, TO CHRISTOPHER STOKES OF ROWAN FOR 15
POUNDS, 150 A ON E SIDE OF YADKIN R, ON GRISES FORK OF ELLIS CRK ADJ
JOHN VARNER. WIT: DAVID COX, MOSES COX. PRVD BY DAVID COX AT MAY CT
1795.

Notes
JANE WAS REFERRED TO AS JINNA AND JINNIE IN HER HUSBANDS WILL.
JANE IS BURIED NEXT TO HER HUSBAND IN NEWSOM, NC ABOUT .25 MI.
BELOW STOKES ROAD ON WHAT IS NOW BOYD NEWSOMS LAND.        HER NAME IS SHOWN AS JENNY IN HER BIRTH RECORDS.

       Children of CHRISTOPHER STOKES and JANE DAVIS are:

	i.	KINCHEN STOKES, born 1780 in VA; married NANCY NEWSOM December 13, 1802 in ROWAN CO. NC.
	ii.	SUSANNA STOKES, born 1781 in VA; married JOHN ADDERTON.
48	iii.	WILLIAM STOKES, born March 03, 1784; died February 12, 1864 in ROWAN CO. NC; married ELIZABETH DANIEL.

       98. JAMES DANIEL. He married 99. REBECCA TRAVIS.
       99. REBECCA TRAVIS.

       Child of JAMES DANIEL and REBECCA TRAVIS is:

49	i.	ELIZABETH DANIEL, born October 28, 1784; died June 06, 1855 in ROWAN CO. NC; married WILLIAM STOKES.

       112. ARTHUR NEWSOM, born 1785; died May 18, 1847. He married 113. LOURANIA LOFTIN October 10, 1805 in ROWAN CO. NC.
       113. LOURANIA LOFTIN.

Notes
ROWAN MARRIAGES 1753-1868
NEWSOM, ARTHUR AND RAMY LOFTIN, 18-----1805; STERLING NEWSOM,
BONDSMAN; A. L. OSBORN, D. C., WIT.

       Children of ARTHUR NEWSOM and LOURANIA LOFTIN are:

56	i.	LEWIS NEWSOM, born January 21, 1812; died June 12, 1890 in NEWSOM, NC; married SARAH HENLY.
	ii.	CLAYBORNE NEWSOM, born May 27, 1814; died January 19, 1888; married U FRAZIER STOKES 1869 in NEWSOM, NC.

       118. JONATHAN SNIDER, born July 27, 1792; died August 03, 1859. He was the son of 236. LEWIS SNIDER and 237. ANNA GARNER. He married 119. ELIZABETH STEWART.
       119. ELIZABETH STEWART.

Notes
AN INVENTORY OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF JONAHTAN SNYDER DECD
WHICH CAME INTO THE HANDS OF JAMES THAYER HIS ADMN. THE 28TH
DAY OF NOVEMBER 1859.
CASH ON HAND ONE DOLLAR AND THIRTEEN CENTS.
6 BEDSTEADS AND FURNITURE, 1 BUREAU, 1 -----, CUBBORD, 9 CHAIRS, 5
TABLES, 2 LOOKING GLASSES, A QUANTITY OF BED CLOTHEING, A LOT OF
OLD TACKS, A LOT OF HAND TOWELS, A QUANTITY OF CANS, FARMING TOOLS, 1 CROSSCUT SAWS, 2 SMOOTHING FROWS, 3 CUTTING KNIVES,
1 SET SHOE TOOLS, 1 POT RACK, 1 LOT. OF SOAP, 1 FRYING PAN, 1 LOT OLD
SCRAP IRON, 2 GRIND STONES, 1 LOG CHAIN, 2 RIGS, A LOT OF TALLOW, A
LOT OF BEE GUMS AND OLD BARRELS, 1 RIFLE GUN AND LOTS OF PLANK, 1
WAGGON AND 1 SMALL LOT OF IRON,

       Children of JONATHAN SNIDER and ELIZABETH STEWART are:

	i.	LEWIS W. SNIDER.
	ii.	JONATHAN SNIDER, JR..
	iii.	DORCUS SNIDER, married LEWIS F. WORKMAN.
59	iv.	ANNIE SNIDER, born October 06, 1820; died July 17, 1904; married JAMES THAYER.

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