John Henderson, Father-in-law, of John Davis wrote his Last Will and Testament on 4 June 1793 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. His daughter, Mary Henderson, had married John Davis about the year 1762 in Marion County, South Carolina. John Henderson, in his will, left his Grandson James Davis 200 acres of land situate and lying in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. James Davis was born December 1769, the 4th Child of John Davis, Sr. and Mary Henderson.
John Henderson’s Last Will Bequest.
Item I give & Bequeath at my wife decease to my grandson James Davis the plantation on which I now live containing two hundred acres including my buildings, a spring & improvements the half of my Meadow (reserving the half of my orchard for the use of my son William, a young negro wench named Fan two horse creatures of her own choosing & as many plantation implements as will be sufficient to carry on his farm a good feather bed & furniture thereto belonging a large chest & cupboard, the half of all utensils of Cookery with one hundred acres of Western land & if the said James Davis should decease before Twenty One all above mentioned to him to descend to my son William son John Otherwise to be The said James Davis & his heirs & assigns forever---
The exact date of John Henderson death is unknown but we are certain it occurred between the Written WILL (4 June 1793) and 7 May 1800 the date the land was sold by James Davis to his Uncle William Henderson, the son of John Henderson.
James Davis to William Henderson Land Deed
This Indenture made the 7th of May 1800 between James Davis of the County of Mecklenburg & State of North Carolina of the one part & William Henderson of the same State & County affoSd of the other part WITNEFSETH that for & in consideration of the sum of 200 Dollars federal currency in hand paid by the Sd William Henderson the receipt & payment whereof is hereby acknowledged before the Sealing & delivery of these presents doth grant bargain Sell & confirm unto the Sd William Henderson his heirs and assigns forever a tract of Land lying & being in the State and County afforSd being granted to the Sd James Davis by the Last Will and Testament John Henderson his Grand Father being part of three small tracts of Land that Sd John Henderson died seized of surveyed measured & cornered by on Joel Knitt Alexander BEGINNING at a small B. O. near the fence of an old field then running S 21 E 36 poles to a post oak in Sd old field then S 81 Et 24 polls crofsing a small branch to 3 W., O. Saplins then S 3 E 36 poles to a pafsimon and B. O. Saplin thence crofsing Sd Meadow branch leaving the old house, spring & spring house on hand & to the right hand the now swelling house spring & spring house of William Henderson Junier to the left hand S 19 E 120 poles to a Stake on thee line of the old 200 Acre Deed near 2 blazed W. W. on the W side & near 2d ???ch thence Nor 82 W 8 poles to a B. O. saplin at the old corner B. O. of old Deed then with sd old line S 68 W 56 poles with the old fence to the old corner B. O. then S 35 W 8 to a large forged W. O. a corner to Archibald Henderson grant of 165 acres then with a line of the same Xing a small branch S 67 W 12 poles to a B. O. William Henderson Senior old corner then with a line Xing a small branch N 25 W 115 poles to a stake near 3 Cornered Small Saplins & then Crofsing a branch nearby about N 43 E 222 poles to the Beginning containing 200 Acres be the same more of lefs the Sd Lands granted or intended to be granted with all the premises thereof or thereunto belonging & every part or parcel thereof & all remaining services & profits to them or any part or parcel of them belonging or appertaining & all & every the Estate, rights titles & demand whatsoever of him the Sd James Davis into or out of Sd Lands tenements granted or intended to be granted or any part or parcel of them To Have and To Hold the Sd Lands & tenements to the Sd William Henderson his heirs and afsigns forever and the Sd James Davis for himself his heirs Executors Administrators & afsigns doth hereby promise covenant & agree that him his heirs Executors Administrators or afsigns Shall & will at all time Warrant & defend the Sd Land And Tenements thereto or thereunto belonging from him the Sd James Davis his heirs Executors Administrators and afsigns them or any of them their heirs Executors Administrators or afsigns forever unto the Sd William Henderson his heirs Executors & afsigns forever against all claims of any of them which may incumbers Sd Land or premises contrary to the true intent & meaning of these presents. In Witnefs whereof the Sd James David hath hereunto set his hand & seal the 19th day of [May] 1800. James Davis {Seal}
Joel Alexander} acknowledged
Wm. S. Henderson} Mecklenburg County Fs Jan’y Term 1801
The execution of the within Deed was acknowledged in Court and recorded.
March 12th 1801} Test:Isaac Alexander Com
Deed Book 17, page 533, 534, 535 [Image 270]
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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James Davis is my 1st Cousin 5X Removed
John Davis, Sr. is my 4th Great Grand Uncle
Rev. David Davis is my 5th Great Grandfather
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1. Enclosed Land Deed -- Deed Book 17, page 533, 534, 535 [Image 270]
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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2. John Henderson WILL -- WILL BOOK "D" pages 43, 44 and 45; Image 305
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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3. Mary Henderson Marriage-- "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 June 2019), Marriage: John Davis & Mary Henderson; Marriage Year: 1762 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/561149:7836
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