Gates

Gates County Probate Records available to members of North Carolina Pioneers

Images of Gates County Wills 1779 to 1819

Testators: Barnes, Thomas | Barnes, William | Benson, Miles | Benton, John | Benton, John (2) | Bethey, John | Blanshard, Aaron | Blanshard, Abraham | Blanshard, Sarah | Brady, James | Brinkley, Mary | Carter, Moore | Eason, William | Costen, Demsey | Costen, James | Daughtie, David | Davis, Garrett | Davis, John | Dunn, Sarah | Felton, Mary | Freeman, William | Garrett, James | Gatling, William | Goodman, Henry | Goodman, Joel | Goodman, Joel (2) | Goodman, William | Gordon, John | Green, Samuel | Gregory, John | Gwinn, William | Harrell, Isaac | Harrell, Jethro | Hays, William | Hill, Henry | Hines, Moses | Hinton, William | Hobbs, Guy | Hunter, Alice | Hunter, Jacob | Hyat, Solomon | Jones, Joseph | King, Henry | Langston, Isaac | Lassiter, Aaron | Lassiter, Robert | Lassiter, William | Lawrence, Rachael | Lewis, Phillip | Miltear, Jethro | Nesbit, Joseph | Norfleet, Jacob | Outlaw, James | Parker, Daniel | Parker, Elizabeth | Parker, Francis | Piland, George | Powell, John | Powell, William | Pullington, Thomas | Rice, David | Riddick, Kedar | Riddick, James | Riddick, Robert | Roberts, Jonathan | Ross, John | Rountree, Thomas | Saunders, Francis | Saunders, Sarah | Spivey, Elijah | Summer, Demsey | Summer, Edwin | Taylor, Samuel | Trotman, Elizabeth | Trotman, Rachel | Tugwell, Joseph | Umfleet, William | Walters, William | Walters, Jacob | Watters, James Bray | White, John | Wiggins, Ambrose | Williams, Demsey

Names of Families in Gates County Wills, Deeds, Land Patents

The earliest known expedition down the Chowan River in North Carolina was that of the Ralph Lane Colony in 1585. Then, in 1622, another expedition led by John Pory from Virginia along the Chowan River. The bordering Virginia county of Nansemond has residents whose lands overlapped into Gates County. In fact, Colonel Henry Baker of Nansemond County was granted 2400 acres near Buckland. So it was that ultimately a mail route was established leading from Suffolk, Virginia (Nansemond County) to Corapeake and Edenton, North Carolina. The stage coach route crossed the Chowan River at Barfield. The first surviving will book of Gates County which is digitized here (1779 to 1819) was quite faded and many pages were illegitable.

Indexes to Probate Records

  • Index to Wills and Inventories 1779 to 1819

Miscellaneous Land Patents, Land Grants, Deeds

  • Brock, Thomas, deed of gift to his children, 1695
  • Cason, James, Land Grant, 1686
  • Iliffe, Richard, deed for 248 acres
  • Iliff, Thomas Land Grant, 1687
  • Illiffe, Thomas, deeds to and from, 1691
  • Keeling, Adam to Alexander Keeling, 1692 deed
  • Keeling, Alexander bond to Thomas Iliffe, 1694
  • Lynny Land Patent for the transportation of passengers, 1665
  • Medstardt to Edwards Land Patent, 1633
  • Moore and Cason Land Grant, 1684
  • Munday, William, Land Grant on the Currituck River, 1663
  • Murden, John Land Patent for transporting persons, 1686
  • Robbins and Munday Land Patent No. 4, 1652
  • Walton, John for transporting Robert Munday, 1638
  • Woodhouse, Henry, Land Grant, 1691

Miscellaneous Wills

  • Whitehurst, John, 1691
  • Woodhouse, John, Captain, 1693