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| Name |
Paul Bunch |
| Born |
1658 |
Virginia, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
10776 |
| Died |
USA |
| Person ID |
I10776 |
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| Notes |
- Paul Heinegg..http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Brooks_Byrd.htm
Paul1 Bunch, born say 1658, bought 150 acres in King William County near Sweet Hall Road from John Claiborne on 29 July 1695. He purchased a "Mulatto Servant Man" named John Russell from John West, Gentleman, of St. John's Parish, King William County, on 27 January 1700/1 and on the same day assigned his rights to Russell unto Eliza Bunch. He witnessed (making his mark "P") the St. John's Parish, King William County deed of John Claiborne on 20 May 1704. A "Mullatto" boy named Thomas Russell was valued at 5 pounds in the 17 January 1706/7 inventory of the estate of William Claiborne, Gentleman [Record Book 1, 1702-7, 129-30, 172-5, 402; Book 2, 1702-6, 109]. Paul Bunch was taxed on 150 acres in the King William County, Virginia Quit Rent Roll in 1704 [des Cognets, English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, 157]. On 11 July 1719 he was living in the part of New Kent County that later became Hanover County when Gilbert Gibson patented land adjoining his [Patents 10:437]. He received a patent for 400 acres on both sides of Black Haw Swamp in Hanover County on 9 July 1724 [Patents 12:28-9]. He patented 265 acres in North Carolina on the south side of the Roanoke River adjoining Quankey Pocosin and Gideon Gibson on 1 January 1725/6, and he bought a further 300 acres adjoining this land from Thomas Wilkins [Halifax County DB 8:283].
He made a Chowan County will (making his mark) on 16 November 1726 which was probated on 10 March 1726/7. He left his son John Bunch the land that they were both then living on as well as slave Dick; left Fortune Holdbee, apparently his common-law wife, his land (adjoining John Bunch) and slave Frank during her lifetime as long as she remained single, to descend to her daughters Keziah and Jemima after her death or marriage. And he gave "Eliza Bunch one Shilling Sterling and my Daughter Russell I give one Shilling Sterling" (apparently identical to his daughter Elizabeth Russell). He left Keziah Holdbee a "Mullatto" slave named Peg in the care of her mother until she reached age eighteen and left slave Betty to Jemima Holdbee in the care of her mother until she reached age eighteen. He gave Joseph Meacham the land on the Roanoke River (in Halifax County, North Carolina) he had purchased from Thomas Wilkins as well as slaves named Moll, Fortune and Rose. He gave 100 acres and two cows and calves to Thomas Holdbee. He divided his household goods, livestock and slave Daw between Joseph Meacham and Fortune Holdbee and appointed Fortune and Meacham as his executors [Secretary of State Record of Wills, 1722-1735, SS 876, 3:138-9]. (A Joseph and a Paul Micham were heads of "other free" Halifax County, North Carolina households. She the Micham/ Mitcham family history). Fortune Holdebee sold her land, the "plantation where I now live...formerly Paul Bunches," on 5 July 1727 [Bertie DB B:276] and received a patent for 640 acres in New Hanover County in August 1735 [Saunders, Colonial Records of North Carolina, III:52].
The May 1734 Bertie court minutes referred to Keziah as "an orphan Child Entitled to a considerable Estate...(by the will of Paul Bunch) bound to Capt. Thos. Bryant till the age of Thirty one contrary to law," and the August 1735 Bertie County court minutes referred to the estate of "a Mulatto woman, Keziah Holdebee, and three children [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, I:135, 154]. Paul1 Bunch had the following children:
i. John4, born say 1692.
ii. Elizabeth Russell, a daughter, received 1 shilling by her father's will.
iii. ?Joseph Meacham.
iv. ?Keziah Holdebee.
v. ?Jemima Holdebee.
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