Re: John and Hanna of S.C. 1750
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John and Hanna of S.C. 1750
9/19/00
I believe that your John Courtney is most likely a grandson of Robert Courtney (b. aboyut 1790?, died 1751 in Onslow County, NC). However, Hanna Curtis may be Robert's grandaughter as his daughter Phoebe married his bondsman Richard Curtis - - cousin to cousin marriages were not uncommon then. Alternatively, Hanna was the daughter of Richard Curtis by another marriage. I would tend to doubt it since the name Phoebe appears in the next generation. Also, Robert's wife, presumably John and Phoebe's grandmother, was named Hannah.
It is very likely that Robert COurtney was the son of William Courtney who came to NC from the island of Barbados in 1680:
"On November 6th, 1679, William Courtney left the Caribbean Island of Barbados on the sloop Hopewell in route to Antigua in the West Indies. He subsequently arrived in the new land of Carolina in 1680, shortly after the turn of the new year, and immediately began to look for a place to settle. Soon thereafter he applied for, and received, a grant for 900 acres of land a short way inland on the New River in what is now North Carolina. The exact site is not known today, but it was bordered on one side by Half Moon Creek.”
Very little is known of the circumstances surrounding the Courtney family life for the next 70 years. However, in 1751 a Robert Courtney died in Onslow County, North Carolina. His executors filed a will in which Robert bequeathed, among other things, “a Tract of Land Lying on the East Side of the Northwest beach of the New River, on the half moon creek, Containing, one Hundred and fifty Acres.” Given the location of this tract, Robert almost certainly was a son of William Courtney, but nothing else is known of William Courtney's family in Carolina.
Robert Courtney was a planter with considerable holdings in Onslow County. His wife’s name was Hannah, and they had five children — four sons (John, Robert, Jonathan, and Rowland) and a daughter (Phoebe). Phoebe was married to Richard Curtis at the time of Robert Courtney’s death. Your John Courtney almost certainly was not this John, the son of Robert, but most likely was the sone of one of thesefour brothers, for Robert would have been about 60 at the time your John was born.
I have no other record of Robert Courtney’s sons until 1769 when Rowland was granted land in “Craven County” in what is today the northeastern part of South Carolina. Robert Courtney’s remaining sons subsequently moved to that part of South Carolina and took out land grants as follows: Jonathan Courtney, 150 acres on December 21st, 1769; John Courtney, 105 acres on December 21st, 1769 and 200 acres on February 21st, 1772; Robert Courtney, 200 acres on February 21st, 1772. Their lands, like Rowland’s, were in the Sparrow Swamp area of Lynches Creek. John apparently had acquired some land in this area prior to his December 21st, 1769 grant, for that grant describes his 105 acres as bounded on the “South Eastward and South Westward by the said John Courtneys (sic) land.” It is not entirely certain exactly where in South Carolina these properties were located. If “Lynches Creek” was today’s Lynches River, then the land was likely in Chesterfield County.
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