STEPHEN BARTON OF ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Date: 1-2003
Researcher: Michael
2. STEPHEN2 BARTON (JOHN1) was born Bet. 1793 - 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, and died Bef. 1855.
Child of STEPHEN BARTON:
i. JOHN3 BARTON.
Notes for JOHN BARTON:
This indenture from Orange County, North Carolina records establishes John Barton as the son of Stephen Barton and grandson of John and Eleanor Thompson Barton:
This indenture, made this, the 28th day of February A.D. 1855, between John
Barton of the County of Shelby and the State
of Tennessee, of the first part, and William F. Strayhorn of Orange and State
of North Carolina, of the other part, witnesseth that the said John Barton
in consideration of the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to him, in
hand, paid by the said Strayhorn, the receipt, where of is hereby acknowledged,
hath and by these presents, he doth hereby bargain, and sell __ and confirm
unto the said Strayhorn, his heirs, and assigns forever the following tract,
or parcel of land, lying in the County of Orange on the waters of New Hope
and Eno, adjoining the lands of William F. Strayhorn, Samuel Faucett, David
Craig, and William Crabtree and containing Two hundred acres, more or less,
the same is a part of a 300 acre tract, granted by the state on the 13th
of March A.D. 1781 to William Kennedy and sold by him to Samuel Thompson,
late of Orange County and fore which tract, Samuel Thompson, by deed bearing
date the 28th of February 1798, sold to William Bailey, 100 acres and reference
is here made for boundaries to said grant, registered in Orange County Book,
from 1761 to 1785, according to new arrangement, pages 326 and 329, and the
said deed from Thompson to Bailey, is registered in Orange County, A &
B, 1797 and 1798, page 389, and said Samuel Thompson, by his will proved
in about 1827, devised the said tract of 200, to his daughter Nelly Barton,
for life, and after death to her son Stephen Barton, and said Stephen Barton
is dead, and the said John Barton, is his true, and only heir at law, being
his only legitimate child, and he sells the said land, subject to the life
estate of his grandmother Nelly Barton.
To have and to hold said tract of land to said Strayhorn and his heirs forever,
and said Barton covenants with said Strayhorn and his heirs, and assigns,
that he has the title which he here undertakes to sell and perfect right
to sell the same, and that he will forever warrant, for himself, and his
heirs the said land to said Strayhorn , his heirs, and assigns forever, against
the lawful claims of all persons whatsoever.
In witness, whereof he hath hereunto set his hand and seal, the day and year first, above written.
John Barton
Test.
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John M. Faucett
Orange County Court, February Term 1855. The execution of the foregoing deed was duly acknowledged in Open Court, by John Barton, subscriber, and ordered to be registered.
Nothing is known for certain about John Barton, son of Stephen. A search of Shelby County, Tennessee records yielded the following:
Marriage Record: John Barton to Eliza J. Bateman, 30 November 1848
Census Record: 1850, 4th Civil District, p. 102
Household headed by Hosea Bateman. Members of the household include Eliza Barton, age 26, and John Barton, age 30.
Cemetery Record: The Shelby Forest Baptist Church Cemetery has a listing for: Eliza J., consort of John Barton; born 11 February 1826; died 14 May 1854. (Hosea and Jane Bateman, probable parents of Eliza, are also buried in this cemetery.)