Descendants of Isaac Farmer of North Carolina

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Isaac (0Research) Farmer of Edgecombe Co NC (Conjecture)

Research Notes

a. This branch of the Braswell family (who married into the Farmer family in Virginia and then the Overstreet family in Georgia) is important for later research. From the many records, we find that the Braswell Family was from the part of Virginia which would become Bertie Co NC after the boundary shift in 1728.
b. Then we find that the Farmer family (who married into the Braswell and the Lee families in Virginia) was from the part of Virginia which would also become Bertie Co but then split and become Edgecombe Co NC in 1741.
c. Then we find that the Lee family (who married into the Farmer family in Virginia and the Overstreet family in Mississippi) was from the part of Virginia which would become Bertie Co but then split and become Edgecombe Co NC in 1741.
d. Then we find that the Overstreet family (who married into the Braswell family back in Georgia and then the Lee family in Mississippi) was from the part of Virginia which would become Bertie Co NC after the boundary shift in 1728.
e. From these adjacent locales, we come to understand that the Braswell/Overstreet family of Georgia ( who would marry into the Lee family of Mississippi in the 1820s and 1830s) was originally connected through intermarriage with the Farmer family way back in 1740 Virginia.

In two generations, we find three families:
a. Elizabeth Braswell b. c. 1714 Isle of Wight Co VA married c. 1740 in Virginia to Isaac Farmer b. 1711 Surry Co NC. . .
b. Then Isaac's son, Thomas Farmer b. c. 1741 Edgecombe Co NC married 1760 in North Carolina to Elizabeth Lee (sister of Zachariah Lee), b. 1746 Bertie Co NC. . .
c. Then, Isaac's daughter, Lucy Farmer b. c. 1745 in Halifax Co NC married 1763 in Edgecombe Co NC to Zachariah Lee b. c. 1745 in Edgecombe Co NC.

Isaac Farmer was born in 1711 in Surry Co VA. And in about 1740 in Virginia, Isaac married Elizabeth Braswell born c. 1714 in Isle of Wight Co VA.

Isaac is first found in records in 1744 in Edgecombe Co NC. He may have migrated to Halifax Co or some of his property may have been in the part of Edgecombe Co that was split off to form Halifax Co NC.

Isaac and Elizabeth lived the remainder of their lives in Edgecombe Co NC. Isaac died in about 1770.

Edgecombe County Court Minutes ( 1744 thru 1762), Book I, p. 10:
Feb. 20, 1744. Isaac Farmer ordered to assist work & clear main road from Mr. Blounts to the Tarr River Road..

Edgecombe County Court Minutes ( 1744 thru 1762), Book I, p. 50:
Aug. 1745. Ordd that Wm. Merict be and he is hereby appointed Over seer of the Road in the room of John Whitaker & that all the hands from the mouth of the Caney branch to the Mill & form thence to Deep Creek Bridge & from Isaac Farmers to Archibald Stinson . . ."
Abstract of North Carolina Wills, p. 320:
December 1761. Isaac Farmer was ordered to be on a jury to lay out a Road from Wm. Godwins Bridge on Tosenott Swamp into Dews Road near Dew Mill.. 
Edgecombe County, North Carolina Court Minutes (1763 thru 1774), Book II, p. 177:
January 1768. Isaac Farmer Overseer of the Road in the Room of Nathl. Hickman.
Edgecombe Co NC Deeds:
February 25, 1770 Isaac Farmer Sr., deeded to Isaac Farmer Jr., for 40 pounds proclamation money, the home plantation of 200 acres north of Tossnott, witnessed by Jesse Farmer, Zachariah Lee, and William Blackburn.

    Children

    1. Thomas Farmer

Edgecombe Co NC Deed Book C, p. 381:
10/5/1765. Joshua Lee to his son-in-law Thomas Farmer, for love and affection - 220 acres on Little Swamp on Gay's Branch. Wit: Demsey Watson, John Brand, Mary Lee.
Edgecombe Co NC Will:
Nov. 16, 1784. Probate Date, 1785. Sons: Thomas, 128 A(cres) plantation whereon I live; Joseph, 250 A(cres) (This being newly entered); sons & excrs: Jesse, 250 A(cres) (This being newly entered), and Joshua.
Wit: Joshua Farmer, Aziel Barnes, Daniel Highsmith.

    2. Lucy Farmer b. 1744 Halifax Co NC

    3. Jesse Farmer

Edgecombe Co NC Deeds:
February 25, 1770. Isaac Farmer Sr., of Edgecombe deeded to Isaac Farmer Jr., for 40 pounds proclamation money, the home plantation of 200 acres north bank of Tossnott Swamp, witnessed by Jesse Farmer, Zachariah Lee, and William Blackburn.
Edgecombe Co NC Will Book E, p. 38:
July 9, 1808. Probate 8/1812. Wife (not named), lend 1/3 plantation, 4 slaves, all stock, furniture, utensils; reversion to son and exr: Joseph, also remainder estate.
Exr: Charles Coleman. Wit: none. Proved in Ct., by oaths of Frederick Cotten, Spencer S. Hart.

    4. Isaac Farmer Jr.

    5. Joseph Farmer

    6. Priscilla Farmer b. c. 1752 Edgecombe Co NC

    7. Samuel Farmer

Edgecombe Co NC Will Book E, p. 158:
May 21, 1814. Probate 4/1817. Wife: Jerusha, plantation whereon I live, remainder of slaves. Son & Exr: Samuel, 1 slave, $100; dau: Rhoda, 1 slave; son & exr: Moses, 1 slave, land on Miry Swamp known as Parish Place; dau: Ann Sharp, 1 slave; son: Isaac, 1 slave, plantation whereon I live after his mother's death. Wit : ___ Farmer, Isaac Farmer.

    8. Benjamin Farmer

Generation #2

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