| 11. | Martha Ivey (or Ivy) was born about 1755 (daughter of William Ivey (or Ivy) and Martha Fischer Pope); died in Jun 1828. Notes:
Note: Sibling relationship not verified.
Hayes, Bosman (William & Marie Forman) b 1755 m Martha Ivy succ.: June 1828 (Opel. Ct.Hse.: Succ. #471)
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Summary of information re Ivey family in and around Bladen County, North Carolina per Bob?s Geneological Cabinet, http://www.genfiles.com/ivey/RobesonChronology.htm
July 1741
The Onslow County court clerk notes a presentment for some unknown offense against ?Adam Ivie, a melottoe?. [Onslow County Court Minutes 1732-43, p25]
This is probably the first sighting of the Adam Ivey who died twenty years later in Edgecombe. Although he is not elsewhere identified as a mulatto, his sons frequently were, making this too much of a coincidence not to be the same person. The brief court record is presumably a grand jury presentment for some offense, likely a moral one since that is mainly what grand juries dealt in. This is the only Onslow record of a mulatto Adam Ivey. However, Adam Ivey II, son of the immigrant Adam Ivey who had earlier been in Virginia, was in Onslow Precinct by 1726 when he appeared in court and when he sold land in Brunswick (later Greensville) County as an Onslow resident ten years later in late 1736. He failed to appear to answer a suit a month later.
1750s
Adam Ive (sic) appears on an Edgecombe County militia list in Capt. Solomon Alston?s company, probably dated sometime in the 1750s. [Colonial Soldiers of the South, Murtie June Clark, p672]
The list in the NC Archives is undated with no clues to when it was taken other than the names on the list, which place it somewhere between 1749 and 1757. Militia service was compulsory for men 16-60 at this time, so the list is likely datedefore Francis and Benjamin Ivey reached 16, thus very early 1750s.
23 Oct 1754 Granville Grant: Adam Ivey, 285 acres in Edgecombe County on Contentnea Creek joining Ivey?s Meadow and John Haywood. Survey for Adam Ivey dated 4 September 1753, chain carriers: Joshua Lee, Peter Bass. [Patent Book 11, p211]
This is actually on Little Contentnea Creek. ?Ivey?s Meadow? clearly implies that he already owned adjoining land.
1754 With the French-Indian War looming, Governor Dobbs requested reports from the militia commanders of North Carolina?s counties. The Bladen militia submitted the following: ?Col. Rutherford?s Regimt. of Foot in Bladen County 441, a Troop of horse 36... Drowning Creek on the Head of Little Peedee, 50 families, a mixt Crew, a lawless People, filleth the Lands without patent or paying quit rents. Shot a surveyor for coming to view vacant lands being inclosed in great swamps. Quakers to attend musters or pay as in the Northern Counties. Fines not high enough to oblige the militia to attend musters. No arms stores or Indians in the county.? [Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. V, p161 and a slightly different version inState Records of North Carolina, Vol. XXII, p314]
9 May 1757 Granville Grant: Adam Ivey, of Edgecombe County, 165 acres in Johnston County on Aycock Swamp, adjoining John Weaver. Survey dated 6 June 1755. Chain carriers: Robert Sims, John Redgester. [NC Patent Book 14, p221]
This appears to be just a few miles south of his Edgecombe County land, very near the border of present Wilson and Wayne Counties. According to the surviving Grantee/Grantor Indices this was recorded in the lost Johnston County Deed Book 22, p292.
c1757 Deed: Adam Ivy to Adam Ivy
This is another lost deed of Johnston County. The Grantor Index show this deed recorded in Deed Book 5, p566 which is lost. This was probably recorded in late 1757 or 1758. This might be a deed of Adam Ivey?s Granville grant in Johnston County to his son Adam Ivey Jr.
19 Oct 1758 Land Entry: James Ivey enters 100 acres in Anson County on north side of Pee Dee River in the forks of Gum Swamp; includes his own improvements. [Colonial Land Entries in North Carolina, A. B. Pruitt, Vol. 3, Part 1, p24, Entry #359]? Note also that a William Driggers was living on Gum Swamp at about the same time [see entry #3447 for instance].
10 Jun 1762
Will: Adam Ivey of Edgecombe County (proved 28 September 1762). To sons Francis Ivey and Adam Ivey 5s each "for I have advanced them as much as I can afford." Daughter Elizabeth Ivey household goods; daughter Sarah Ivey £ 25; daughter Martha Ivey £ 25 to be paid when she reaches age 21; daughter Mary Ivey £ 25 when she reaches age 20; son Lewis Ivey the 200-acre plantation "I bought of William Regerster" at age 21. To unnamed wife, household goods, the use of dwelling house and land for five years, and a loan of £50 until son George Ivey comes of age; George to receive £30 at age 21 and the other £20 at the death of "his mother." Son Benjamin Ivey the 285-acre plantation "where I now live". Son Benjamin Ivey named executor. Signed: Adam (x) Ivey [by his mark, a stylized "A"] Witness: Robert Simms, Nathan Barnes, Joseph Simms [Edgecombe County Will Book A, p208]
Note that four of the children are under 21 and all four daughters are unmarried. From later records, it appears that Adam, Francis, and Benjamin were relatively young, suggesting that Adam Ivey had married not much more than 25 years earlier. The unnamed wife was probably a second wife, for this will is unusual in specifically abrogating her dower right.
It is interesting that Adam Ivey could not sign his name, but (as far as we know) his sons could.
1763 Bladen County tax list:
Thos. Ivey & two sons ? 3 white tithes, no blacks
Anson County tax list:
James Ivey ? 1 white tithe?white tithes were males who were 16 or older as of January 1
26 Jul 1766 Implied Deed: Benjamin Davis to James Ivey [see 15 Sep 1769]
1768 Bladen County tax list: [all on list of Archibald McKissack]
Benjamin Ivey - 1 white tithable [consecutive with next entry]
Simon Cox & Adam Ivey ? 2 mulatto tithables
Thomas Ivey - 1 white tithable
Joseph Ivey - 1 mulatto tithable
Some districts are missing from this tax list. We know Francis Ivey was there at this time, as well as James Ivey and probably Isham Ivey.
15 Sep 1769 Deed: James Ivey, planter of Bladen County, to James Adair, doctor [of Dobbs County], £30 proclamation money, 200 acres in Bladen County in the fork of the Little Pee Dee, on east side Mitchells Creek... granted to Jordan Gibson 1 July 1758, conveyed to John Wootan 25 Sept 1761, then to Benjamin Davis 16 July 1762, and by Davis to James Ivey 26 July 1766 and proved in Bladen County by the oath of John Dunbar in November 1767... Signed: James (mark) Ivey. (The mark a capital I or vertical line, with horizontal line.) Witness: John McLean, Archd. McKissack. [Bladen County Deed Book 23, pp85]
This deed was among the lost deeds, and was re-recorded many years later. Mitchell's Creek is nearly 20 miles west of the nearest other Bladen County Ivey (except perhaps Joseph) and is practically on the state line. It begins just west of what is now the town of Rowland about two miles above the state line and flows across the line into Dillon County, South Carolina. It joins two other creeks roughly on the state line and the result is called Hayes Creek in Dillon County.
Until 1777, when it was moved to the present Scotland-Robeson line, the county line between Bladen and Anson started where the Little PeeDee (aka Shoeheel Swamp) crossed the South Carolina line. James Ivey's land ws therefore only about three miles from Anson County at the time he owned it.
It appears that this land was adjacent to a 1762 patent by Benjamin Davis, which Davis sold to Phillip Chavis at about the time James Ivey owned the adjacent land. [See Robeson County Deed Book B, pp161] Archibald McGirt later lived on Mitchell?s Creek, for he sold patented land there in 1782, which he sold in 1786 (Robeson DB A, p279).
1770 Bladen County tax list:
Barnes' Dist:
Adam Ivey 1 mulatto tithable
Benjamin Ivey (1 white) & John Phillips (1 mulatto)
[these entries consecutive]
McKissack?s Dist: Thomas Ivey 1 white tithable
James Ivey 1 white tithable
Joseph Ivey 1 white tithable
[these last two entries consecutive]
1772 Bladen County tax list:
McKissack's Dist: Adam Ivey 1 white tithable
Thomas Ivey 1 white tithable
Isom Ivey 1 white tithable
[Thomas & Isom consecutive]
James Ivey & Gideon Grant 2 mulatto tithables
Joseph Ivey 1 mulatto tithable
[one name between James & Joseph]
Benjamin Ivey 1 white tithable
May 1772 Land Entry: John Turner enters 100 acres in Bladen County on the north side of Leith?s Creek; includes improvements be bought of James Ivey. [Colonial Land Entries in North Carolina 1769-1774, A. B. Pruitt, Part 2, p1, entry #2375]
What is now called Bridge Creek was then known as a continuation of Leith?s Creek in Anson County. It ran from Anson through a tiny sliver of the southwestern corner of Bladen (now Robeson) County and on across the state line. This is just a couple miles west of Mitchell's Creek. I?d note that William Sweat, another of the mob of 18 free negroes and mulattos, had a 1775 patent for land on Leith's Creek in ?Bladen or Anson? as well.
22 Jan 1773 Grant: Joseph Ivey, 100 acres in ?Bladen or Anson? County joining the south side of Cow Branch west of Shoeheel. [Hofman, Vol 2, p320, Grant #4227]
It seems fairly clear that both James Ivey and Joseph Ivey are both located at this time in the far western portion of Bladen County, or just over the line in Anson, both of them just over the South Carolina line.
13 Oct 1773 On 18 December 1773 the Governor sent a message to the Assembly enclosing a letter from Archibald McKissack, a justice of Bladen County, "relative to a number of free negroes and mulattoes who infest that county and annoy its inhabitants." McKissack?s letter of the same date includes a list entitled "A list of the rogues: a list of the mob raitously assembled together in Bladen County October 13th 1773." The eighteen "rogues" are listed in order as: Captain James Ivey, Joseph Ivey, Ephraim Sweat, William Chavours Clark commonly called Boson Chevers, Richd. Groom, Bengman [Benjamin?] Dees, Willm. Sweat, George Sweat, Benjamin Sweat, Willm Groom Senr., Willm, Groom Junr., Gideon Grant, Thos. Groom, James Pace, Isaac Vaun, --- Stapleton, Edward Lockelear, and Ticely Lockalear. On the list is "Harbourers of the rogues as follows Major Lockalear, Richer Groom, Ester Cairsey". At the bottom: "The above list of rogues is all free negroes and mullatus living upon the King's land." [General Assembly Sessions Records, December 1773, Box 6, reproduced in Bladen County, North Carolina Tax Lists 1768-1774, Volume I, William L. Byrd, p143]
The title of "Captain" given to James Ivey probably indicates his leadership of the mob. Note the references elsewhere to James Ivey and Gideon Grant, James Ivey and Boson Chevers, and the implied reference to James Ivey and William Sweat. The reference to "living upon the King's land" means they did not hold title to their lands and therefore didn't pay quit rents. This may have been partly intended to make the point that the titled landowners, freeholders, deserved the King?s protection. I would note, though, that this comment was incorrect in the case of a few of these men who either now or so=on afterward held patents or warrants for their lands. How Locklear, Groom and Kersey were "harbouring" the group is unclear to me but all are evidently themselves mulattos. Locklear is living very near Thomas Ivey and Richard Groom was evidently living over the South Carolina line at the time.
James Ivey and Joseph Ivey were almost certainly not living in the county at this time. Joseph Ivey's patent a year earlier was in Anson County (though it would fall into Bladen by 1779) and neither he nor James Ivey are in the 1774 or 1776 county-wide tax lists. There is some evidence that at least two of the other names on the list may have been living in Anson at the time as well.
One wonders exactly how they were annoying the inhabitants, and why they assembled as a group. Or why so few of the mulattos in the area were singled out as members of this group. I would note that October would have brought a quarterly meeting of the Bladen Court, and that the 13th fell on a Wednesday ? perhaps they assembled at the court to protest something. The fact that even those living in Anson were significantly closer to the Bladen courthouse than to their own is perhaps a point in favor of this notion. Too bad the court records are lost. At any rate, there's no evidence that either the Governor or Assembly did anything about it.
1777
Petition to divide Anson County signed by James Ivey, John Ivey. [abstracted in Anson County, North Carolina Abstracts of Early Records, Mary Wilson McBee (1950), pp136]
The signers lived east of the Pee Dee River in present Richmond and Scotland counties and, complaining about the time and expense of traveling to the Anson courthouse, requested a new county be formed to serve them. Precisely when the signing occurred is uncertain, but the petition was complete by May 1777. This places both Iveys in what would later be Richmond County ca1776-7. It would be most interesting to see the original document for James Ivey's signature or mark.
In response to the petition, by act of 23 October 1779, Richmond County was formed from all of Anson that lay east of the Pee Dee River, so that Richmond and the part of Bladen that was later Robeson adjoined. (Richmond County included what is now Scotland County for more than a hundred years thereafter.)
3 Jan 1779 Petition by Jacob Alford, a justice of Bladen County, "and the inhabitants of upper Bladen County", to the Governor: "Your petitioners are in constant dread & fear of being robbed and murdered by a set of robbers and horse thiefs, which have been among us this week to the number of about forty, who have committed a great deal of mischief already, & we understand by some of them, they soon intend to ruin us altogether in the borders of our District and Anson County, some have had their houses broke and all their cloaths taken from them, even their babes and infants were stripped naked, women were knocked down with stakes & tommyhakes in their husband's absence, many had all their cattle taken away from them, & their corn robbd out of their cribs, by which many of them are entirely undone & ruined, the most part of the robbers are Molattoes, and chiefly came from the south province when the Vagrant Act came among them. We lay our distress and our unhappy case before your honourable Assembly. and hopes you will take our unfortunate situation unto your humain consideration and grant us such relief as your goodness may think proper whether you may allow us to get arms to defend ourselves, or you will order some others to protect us" [NC General Assembly Sessions, January 1779]
I am not suggesting that any Iveys are among the "robbers and horse thieves". However, I can't help but be struck by the general similarity to the 1773 "mob".
90 Census Robeson County, NC:
p144 Adam Ivey 2-3-7-0-0
p145 Francis Ivey 2-3-5-0-0
p146 Edey Ivey 1-0-4-0-0
p146 Luke Ivey 1-0-0-0-0
p147 Thomas Ivey 4-2-5-0-0
p148 Isam Ivey 2-3-4-0-0
p148 Austin Ivey 1-0-0-0-0 [consecutive]
Brunswick County, NC
p189 Lewis Ivey 1-1-6-0-0
Georgetown District, SC
p55 James Ivy 2-6-3-0-1 [Prince Georges Parish]
p51 John Ivey 1-1-1-0-0 [Prince Frederick Parish]
Cheraws District, St. Thomas Parish, SC:
p 48 Joseph Ivy (?mulatoe?) 3-0-3-0-0 [all 6 are "free other"]
0 Oct 1812
In Marion District, South Carolina Thomas Hagans refused to pay his 1809 tax levied on "free negroes, mulatoes, and mestizos" on the grounds that he was white. Three years later, at his trial, two white men testified on his behalf. Robert Coleman deposed that he was personally acquainted with Thomas Ivey and his wife Elizabeth Ivey ? eight or nine years immediately before their death that the said Thomas this deponent understood was of Portuguese descent, that his complexion was swarthy, his hair black and strait that his wife Elizabeth was a free white woman that Kesiah Ivey was the daughter of Elizabeth Ivey and always held & reputed [to be white] intermarried with Zachariah Hagans and lived with the said Zachariah as hs wife till her death? that Thomas Hagans? is the son of the said Kesiah Hagans?? John Regan appeared in court and stated that ?he was from the time he could first remember to the time he was grown (viz. for twelve or thirteen years) well acquainted with Thomas Ivey and Elizabeth Ivey? that Thomas Ivey was in appearance of sallow complexion and was generally reputed to be of Portuguese descent, his hair was long black and strait? Elizabeth Ivey the wife? was a free white woman of very clear complexion and always held and reputed to be a free white woman? Kesiah Ivey was the daughter of [Thomas and Elizabeth]? that they lived at the time this deponent knew them on Drowning Creek in what was then Bladen County? the said Thomas and his wife afterwards removed as this deponent believes to the State of South Carolina?? The court decided that Thomas Hagans was ?of Portuguese descent? and therefore not subject to the tax. [Partially reproduced in North Carolina Genealogy Society Journal, Vol. IX, pp259 and in South Carolina Indians, Indian Traders, and Other Ethnic Connections: Beginning in 1670, Theresa M. Hicks, p298-9]
The testimony of John Regan (c1740-1814), a resident of Robeson County, is particularly important. He was evidently chosen by Hagans because he had been a member of the NC General Assembly and a former clerk of court, thus had considerable credibility. And there?s no doubt he knew the family, for he lived within a mile or so of Thomas Ivey Jr. for nearly 50 years. He testified that he knew Thomas Ivey ?from the time he could first remember to the time he was grown? or for 12-13 years. John Regan, whose father had been in Bladen County since 1753, was probably born around 1740 or so as he was having children by the early 1770s, and was executor of his father?s Bladen County will dated January 1773. His testimony suggests that he knew Thomas Ivey from roughly the early or mid 1750s (when ?he could first remember?) through perhaps the mid or late 1760s (when ?he was grown?) after which he thought Thomas Ivey ?removed to South Carolina?. Note that this fits perfectly with the apparent disappearance of Thomas Ivey Sr. from Bladen County about 1767. Clearly, it would be important to confirm this with South Carolina records, but this seems to plausibly explain his disappearance from the Bladen records.
4 Aug 1835 Application for Revolutionary War pension by Adam Ivey of Montgomery County, Alabama. He states he is age 74, born in Robeson (sic) County, North Carolina near a little town called Lumberton on Drowning Creek in 1761 and there remained until 9 or 10 years, and then removed into Marion District, South Carolina. At the age of 15 he volunteered under Lt. Scott? was taken sick? joined troops under Gen. Lincoln and was taken prisoner at the fall of Charleston? joined Gen. Marion where he remained three years until peace was declared. The pension application was suspended and eventually rejected. [Pension File R5507, summarized in Alabama Records, Jones & Gandrud, Vol. 135, p47] Adam Ivey?s will dated 8 May 1836 names sons George A., Robert A., and John J. and daughters Catherine Ivey and Nancy ?bay Gints?. [Jones & Gandrud Vol. 190, p83-4] An 1852 declaration in the pension file states that Adam, John J. and Robert Ivey are the only heirs of Adam Ivey. (George A. was evidently Adam, which is how he appears in the 1840 census.)
According to this, only Thomas Ivey Sr. (or some unknown elder son of his) could have been his father, since Thomas Ivey and his sons were the only Iveys living in the county in 1761 and were the only Iveys who ever lived near Lumberton (which didn?t exist until 1787). The sons of the Adam Ivey did not arrive in Bladen County until several years later, and all the sons of Adam Ivey were in Bladen County long past 1770. Furthermore, Thomas Ivey is the only Ivey that we know of who removed to South Carolina around 1770 ? his apparent disappearance from Bladen records about 1767 and the evidence in the Thomas Hagans court case tell us that Thomas Ivey Sr. removed to Marion District in this timeframe. Although we can produce alternative theories, the only theory supported by evidence (however circumstantial) is that Thomas Ivey was his father.
This ought to be a priority for the Ivey-Ivie-Ivy DNA project. If descendants of Thomas Ivey and descendants of Adam Ivey (who died in Edgecombe) have DNA matches, the case is obviously strengthened. If Thomas Ivey named a son Adam at a time when Adam Ivey was still alive 100 miles away in Edgecombe then they were surely related.
Finally, if Thomas Ivey had a son (Thomas Jr.) born by 1740 and Isham born c1750, and was also the father of Adam born c1761, then he may have had other younger sons as well. Perhaps one of the other Iveys in South Carolina, though no candidates come to mind.
This Adam Ivey is not found in the 1790 census, though his eldest son George Adam Ivey later gives his birth year as 1787-8 meaning he should have been a head of household by then. In 1800 and 1820 he is head of an? other free? household in Sumter District, South Carolina, with son George Adam nearby. In 1830 he and the two elder sons are heads of white households. He evidently lived in Clarendon County of Sumter District and didn?t move to Alabama until after 1830. His three sons, George Adam, Robert A., and John J. later declared themselves hi sonly heirs.
Note on Geography: Bladen was formed in 1734 when settlers began moving west of the North Carolina coastal counties. As settlements progressed other counties were cut from Bladen ? Anson in 1750, part of Orange in 1752, Cumberland in 1754, and part of Brunswick in 1764. All the Ivey references appear to be in present-day Robeson County (formed in 1787) with a few in present-day Bladen County.
Note on Bladen County Records: Essentially all Bladen County records were destroyed by fires in 1769, 1800 and 1893. Records filed with the state, mainly tax lists and land grants, are all that remain. The state census of 1784-7 was not returned by Bladen County, but portions of the 1786 tax list survive and are in the format used by that census. Some lost deeds were rerecorded after 1800 when necessary to establish title, but only a handful involve Ivey grantors or grantees. The loss of court records is particularly unfortunate, since essentially all probate records are missing.
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Notes:
Married:
Name: Martha Ivey
Gender: Female
Spouse Name: Bozman Hayes
Spouse
Birth Place: PA
Spouse Birth Year: 1755
Marriage State: of LA
Number Pages: 4
Name: Martha Ivey
Gender: Female
Spouse Name: Bozman Hayes
Spouse
Birth Place: PA
Spouse Birth Year: 1755
Marriage State: of LA
Number Pages: 4
Children:
- 5. Marie Hayes was born about 1781 in Fairfax Co, Virginia; died on 17 May 1826 in Laffayette Parish, Louisiana.
- Sarah Hayes was born about 1783; died after 1826.
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1849 - Aft 1860 (12 years)