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Thomas Howell, Jr.[1]

Male 1725 - 1795  (70 years)


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  • Name Thomas Howell  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Suffix Jr. 
    Birth 1725  prob Halifax Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID LDYZ-FN7 
    FamilySearch URL https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDYZ-FN7 
    Death 1795  Halifax County, NC or Bertie Edgecombe Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7
    Person ID I7268  Main
    Last Modified 26 Jan 2020 

    Father Thomas Howell,   b. 1703, Bertie-Edgecombe County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1777, Halifax County, NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Ann   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F2754  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family McKinney   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Y  [2, 5
    Children 
     1. McKinne Howell   d. Prob Bef 1795
     2. Patience Howell   d. Yes, date unknown
    +3. Sarah Howell   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Jane Howell   d. Yes, date unknown
    +5. Matthew Howell, II,   b. Abt 1747, Halifax County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1802, Hanckock County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 55 years)
    Family ID F2752  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Sep 2009 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1725 - prob Halifax Co., NC Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Will of Thomas Howell - 1794
    Will of Thomas Howell - 1794
    Name: Thomas Howell
    Probate Date: 10 Feb 1794
    Probate Place: Halifax, North Carolina, USA
    Inferred Death Year: Abt 1794
    Inferred Death Place: North Carolina, USA
    Item Description: Wills, Vol 3, 1781-1824

    (Abstract) Will of Thomas Howell of Halifax County - dated 10 February, 1794 - To son, Matthew Howell - 2 negroes, Davie and King, and a bed and furniture - To son-in-law, James Ward, 2 negroes, Dick and Tom, and a bed and furniture - to grandson, William Skinner, land bought of Thomas Shanks, a bed and furniture, one mare, and negroes, Dick, Sallie, Edye, and Pat, all to revert to testators children if Willaim Skinner die withour heirs - to daughter Patience Pearce, 20 shillings - to daughter Jane Butcher, 20 shillings - to son-in-law Elisha Pitman, husband of daughter Sarah, 10 shillings -remaining estate to be equally divided between above mentioned children and grandson, William Skinner - son, Matthew Howell and James Ward to be executors - witnessed by John Pitman, Mathew Howell (Jr?) and Samuel Pitman - proved by oaths of Matthew Howell (Jr?) and Samuel Pitman and Matthew Howell (Sr?) and James Ward qualified as Executors, at February 1796 term of Halifax Court.

    Halifax County, North Carolina, Wills; Author: North Carolina. County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (Halifax County); Probate Place: Halifax, North Carolina

    From Ancestry.com

    https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9061/004755347_00295?pid=2031185&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D9061%26h%3D2031185%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DsLZ95%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=sLZ95&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true

    Histories
    Lundie W Barlow's Howell File
    Lundie W Barlow's Howell File
    Letter from Lundie W. Barlow describing the Howell line starting with Matthew Howell of Isle of Wight County, Virginia who died 1720, to McKinne Howell of Halifax County, North Carolina. Total includes 19 pages of transcribed letters, deeds and will abstracts and notes. From Sidney Howell's collection provided by Jim Brittain, Jr. Sections for surnames: Cavanah, Johnson, Howell,

  • Notes 
    • Lundie W. Barlow notes:

      "That the Thomas who died in 1795 was the son of the Thomas who died in 1777 is strongly evidenced by the fact that Patience Pierce, daughter of the former, witnessed the will of the latter, her grandfather.  Patience was a McKinne name."

      (Abstract) Will of Thomas Howell of Halifax County - dated 10 February, 1794 - To son, Matthew Howell - 2 negroes, Davie and King, and a bed and furniture - To son-in-law, James Ward, 2 negroes, Dick and Tom, and a bed and furniture - to grandson, William Skinner, land bought of Thomas Shanks, a bed and furniture, one mare, and negroes, Dick, Sallie, Edye, and Pat, all to revert to testators children if Willaim Skinner die withour heirs - to daughter Patience Pearce, 20 shillings - to daughter Jane Butcher, 20 shillings - to son-in-law Elisha Pitman, husband of daughter Sarah, 10 shillings -remaining estate to be equally divided between above mentioned children and grandson, William Skinner - son, Matthew Howell and James Ward to be executors - witnessed by John Pitman, Mathew Howell (Jr?) and Samuel Pitman - proved by oaths of Matthew Howell (Jr?) and Samuel Pitman and Matthew Howell (Sr?) and James Ward qualified as Executors, at February 1796 term of Halifax Court. [3, 8, 9]

  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com).

    2. [S1338] Lundie Barlow - Sidney Howell - Havila Howell Chart, LBSH Chart, (A photocopy of a handwritten document given to John S. Howell, Jr. by Elizabeth Howell Traver.).

    3. [S1378] Halifax County, North Carolina, Will of Thomas Howell d. 1795, Halifax, NC, (Page 260).

    4. [S1394] Lundie Weathers Barlow, Lundie Weathers Barlow - 1944 Letters, (Letters dated Aug 8 and 14 Dec 1944 with research attached, 19 pages transcribed by Alfred Sidney Howell, provided to JSH by Jim Brittain. Scanned to LWBsHowellNotes.PDF Feb 2007.), "2. Thomas Howell of Bertie-Edgombe-Halifax County, N. Carolina; born 1703; married Ann _____; died 1777; issue son William and son Thomas Howell".

    5. [S1394] Lundie Weathers Barlow, Lundie Weathers Barlow - 1944 Letters, (Letters dated Aug 8 and 14 Dec 1944 with research attached, 19 pages transcribed by Alfred Sidney Howell, provided to JSH by Jim Brittain. Scanned to LWBsHowellNotes.PDF Feb 2007.), "3. Thomas Howell of Halifax County, N. Carolina; born 1725; married _____; daughter of ( ? John McKinne); died 1795; issue: 5 daughters, (? son McKinne), and son Matthew Howell".

    6. [S1338] Lundie Barlow - Sidney Howell - Havila Howell Chart, LBSH Chart, (A photocopy of a handwritten document given to John S. Howell, Jr. by Elizabeth Howell Traver.), "1795".

    7. [S1685] Florence Howell Pollard, Forty-Four Families, (This book is a history of the Pollard Family researched and written by Florence Howell Pollard, wife of Clarence Owens Pollard. Published circa 1975), p. 109 "died in Bertie-Edgecombe.".

    8. [S1376] Forrest Clark Johnson, III, Clark Johnson Tree rc'd June 2006, (LaGrange, GA).

    9. [S1394] Lundie Weathers Barlow, Lundie Weathers Barlow - 1944 Letters, (Letters dated Aug 8 and 14 Dec 1944 with research attached, 19 pages transcribed by Alfred Sidney Howell, provided to JSH by Jim Brittain. Scanned to LWBsHowellNotes.PDF Feb 2007.).