The Thomas Howell "Senior" (3) Family

Children:

1. John Howell

2. William Howell

3. Thomas Howell "Junior" (4) (m. Rebecca ____)

Known Localities:

• Isle of Wight County, Virginia

• Edgecombe County, North Carolina

• Halifax County, North Carolina

• Granville County, North Carolina

On 11 Jan 1719 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Matthew Howell wrote his last will and testament. He named his father[-in-law] Joseph Lane Senior, Joseph Lane Junior and his wife Mary Howell as executors, with Thomas Jarrell and Arnale Pew as witnesses. The will bequeathed the following:

• wife Mary: use of negro man Harry and negro girl Moll during her widowhood & at the day of her marriage I do give the negro man to my son Thomas and girl to my son Joseph; 2,000 pounds of pork it is due to me from John Gent and 1,000 pounds of pork it is due to me from Richard Braswell, 5 pounds in cash it is due to me from Jno. Edwards, 3 pounds it is due to me in cash from Henry T. Cowers Jur; and I desire this pork and money be put to the use to purchase a plantation for my wife during her life and after her decease to my son Thomas Howell and if he died without heir to fall to the next heir, this bed that I do now ly upon and furniture belonging to it, rest of my whole estate to be equally divided between my wife and my children & if my wife does marry and should get a husband that should be harsh & unkind to my children I do desire that my father Josh Lane shall take them in his care to look after

• son Thomas Howell

• son Joseph Howell

• unborn child [wife pregnant in will]: the first child the said negro girl brings and lives to the child of my wife is now with child with

NOTE: I suspect this unborn child to be William Howell, who also appears in early land grants and records alongside Joseph and Thomas Howell.

SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9P6-K9XB

On 5 Nov 1735, Thomas Howell received land warrant for 300 acres of land in Edgecombe County, on the South side of Tar River being the plantation he was currently living on. The grant was ultimately issued on 21 Feb 1738, though it is unclear when the land was sold.

On 26 Feb 1743 in Halifax County, North Carolina, Samuel Williams sold 150 acres of land to Thomas Howell of Edgecombe County for 20 pounds Virginia money. The property was described as being originally granted to William Alston on 21 Jul 1741 and was located in Halifax County on Haw Tree Creek, beginning at a white oak on the West side of the said creek at the mouth of the first branch below where the main road crosses to Eatons quarter, running thence N 70 W 240 poles to a red oak standing on the creek, thence with the creek to the first station. The witnesses to the deed were William Walker and John Clerk.

NOTE: This is the same tract of land that Thomas Howell sold to Richard Coleman on 7 Feb 1752 in Granville County, North Carolina.

SOURCE: Halifax County, North Carolina deed book 5, page 247
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On 21 Aug 1745 in Halifax County, North Carolina, both Joseph Howell and Thomas Howell were witnesses to a deed from Benjamin Lane to his son Joseph Lane.

SOURCE: Halifax County, North Carolina deed book 5, page 413
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On 16 Jan 1747 in Halifax County, North Carolina, Thomas Howell and Richard Homes were witnesses to a deed from Thomas Goodwyn to Robert McKinne, both of Edgecombe County.

SOURCE: Halifax County, North Carolina deed book 3, page 239
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On 7 Feb 1752 in Granville County, North Carolina, Thomas Howell sold 150 acres of land to Richard Coleman for 15 pounds Virginia money. The property was described as being on Haw Tree Creek, beginning at a white oak on the West side of the said creek at the mouth of the first branch below where the main road crosses to Eatons quarter, running thence N 70 W 240 poles to a red oak standing on the creek, thence with the creek to the first station. It further stated the tract of land was granted by patent to William Alston dated 21 Jul 1741 and conveyed to Samuel Williams by deed, and from the said Williams to Thomas Howell. The witnesses to the deed were James Paine and Benjamin Ward.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book B, page 415
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On 4 May 1752 in Granville County, North Carolina, Peter Day sold 300 acres of land to Thomas Howell for 30 pounds Virginia money. The land was described as being part of a tract of 640 acres and lying on Fishing Creek, beginning at a marked red oak on Meads line together with all that part of the aforesaid tract of 640 acres on the North side of the said Fishing Creek. The witnesses to the deed were James Paine and Henry day.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book B, page 63
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On 3 Mar 1755 in Granville County, North Carolina, hatter William Jordan sold 180 acres of land to Thomas Howell for 23 pounds Virginia money. The property was described as being in Granville County joining upon James Reeves line, beginning at the Cattail Branch running thence West to a white oak Roanes corner tree, thence North 80 poles to a red oak, thence West 140 poles to a black oak, thence South to a black oak, thence East to a hickory in the Cattail Branch a corner tree, thence down the said branch to the first station. This tract of land was originally granted to William Jordan on 29 Apr 1752. The witnesses to the deed were J.W. Sallis and Jacob Perry.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book B, page 416
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On 12 May 1757 in Halifax County, North Carolina, Thomas Howell, William Hurst and Patrick Garland were witnesses to a deed from Nathan Joyner to his son Joshua Joyner.

SOURCE: Halifax County, North Carolina deed book 6, page 212
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On 2 Dec 1757 in Granville County, North Carolina, planter Thomas Howell sold 150 acres of land to Jeremiah Frasier for 10 pounds. The property was described as being in Granville County lying on the head of Fishing Creek, beginning at a hickory then down the branch South to a white oak, then down the said creek to a red oak, then North along a line of marked trees to a hickory corner tree, then West along a line of marked trees to the first station a hickory. The witnesses to the deed were Jacob and Judah Perry.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book C, page 480
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On 25 Mar 1759 in Granville County, North Carolina, Jonathan White sold 180 acre of land to Thomas Howel for 60 pounds. The property was described as being part of a survey for 490 acres lying in Granville County on Fishing Creek, beginning at a hickory James Reeves corner thence North along the said Reeves ling to an oak a corner of marked trees to a black oak corner tree, thence South along a line of marked tree to a black oak Jacob Perrys corner, thence East along a line of marked trees to a meadow branch to a hickory James Bandys corner, then down the branch to the first station. This land was originally granted to Jonathan White on 4 May 1752.

On the same day, Thomas Howell sold the same tract of land to William White for 60 pounds. The witnesses to that deed were Robert Hicks, Jacob Perry and William Jordan.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book D, page 62 and 243
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On 23 Jan 1764 in Granville County, North Carolina, Thomas Howell gave 150 acres to his son John Howell for the "natural love & affection I bear to my eldest son." The property was described as being in Granville parish and lying on the North side of Fishing Creek, being part of the tract whereon I [Thomas Howell] now live and bounded by the lands of Jeremiah Frashers, Martin Wheeler, Jonathan Parker and my own by the aforesaid Creek being the land whereon the said John now lives. The witnesses to the deed were Phil. Taylor, Jeremiah Frasher and Jesse Parker.

John Howell sold this tract of land several years later, on 4 Aug 1767 in Granville County, North Carolina, to Jeremiah Frazier for 45 pounds. The witnesses to that deed were John Verner, Christopher Hunt and Thomas Howell.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book F, page 515; deed book H, pae 339
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On 4 May 1768 in Granville County, North Carolina, Thomas Howell gave 140 acres to his son William Howell for the "natural love and affection which he hath and doth bear unto his son." The property was described as being part of a tract of 200 acres in Granville County lying on the South side of Fishing Creek, beginning at a sweet gum markd with three natches? standing on the third drain from a hickory to the running branch which drain issues out of the branch near against John Varners spring, thence West to the running creek, thence up the said creek to a balzed white oak, thence North along a line of marked trees to Jeremiah Fraizers line, then down the said Creek to the first drain up the drain to the head, thence on a line of marked trees to the head of the drain that leads to Varners spring down that drain to the first station. The witnesses to the deed were Philip Lock and James Kanaday.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book H, page 418
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On 25 Jun 1772 in Granville County, North Carolina, Thomas Howell Senior sold 140 acres of land to Thomas Howell Junior for 60 pounds. The property was described as being in Granville County on the South side of Fishing Creek, beginning at a red oak in Mr. Meeds line on the side of the creek, thence along the said line to his corner in the center of three white oaks, thence South along a marked line to a hickory John Vernors corner, then West along the said Virginia line to a gun, thence North to the said Creek __ down the creek to the first station. The witnesses to the deed were John Verner and Jeremiah Frasure.

SOURCE: Granville County, North Carolina deed book K, page 54
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