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J. N. Bynum Letter on May/Bynum Family, 1906
This letter from Dr. J. N. Bynum to J. B. Dawson is found Tabitha DeVisconti Papers, 480.19., East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Dr. Joseph Nicholas Bynum (1832-1909) was the son of Gideon Bynum (1785-1843) and Sarah (Sally) May (1794-1841). Contributed by Roger Kammerer.
Farmville, N. C. April 26, 1906
“J. B. DAWSON
Dear Sir:
I have received a letter from you asking about the BYNUM’S and MAY’S. Well they are now a large family with the various connections. It is far enough to go back to Major Benjamin MAY, and you have mentioned in your letter as much as I know of him, so far as his war record or public record goes. He lies buried in site of Farmville. As you know this part [Eastern] of North Carolina was settled up mostly by emigrants from Virginia. When Major MAY came here he had a brother and sister with him. I have no knowledge of his brother [John MAY] but his sister married a man by the name of WALSTON and live on the land (chartered from Lord’s Proprietors] which I now own, and her descendants are in Edgecombe, Pitt, Wilson, Greene, Lenoir etc. Major Benjamin MAY married Mary TYSON an ancestor of my present wife. I do not know the date of their marriage. But his TYSON wife died about the year 1800, and he died in 1808 having married twice after the death of his first wife. The second wife was a PETERSON from over in Northampton Co., Virginia, and his last wife was a widow and was a BYNUM before she was ever married. After he died in 1808 she married a MOORE and he also died and she was always called Aunt MOORE by the family. When brother Ben first went to farming she lived with him some years, perhaps some 70 years ago. Major Benjamin MAY had no children by any but his first wife Mary TYSON.
Well now, as to the BYNUM’S—Gideon BYNUM was my father and Benjamin BYNUM was his father and Nicolas BYNUM was his father and Hezekiah BYNUM was his father who was said to have come from Connecticut down South. I have no certain knowledge though of the BYNUM’S until they also like the MAY’S came to North Carolina as emigrants from Virginia. There came two brothers of them John and Ben and settled for a short while near Wilson and then moved down in Pitt on the North side of the Tar River and from there probably 125 or 130 years ago, over here on Little Contentnea Creek where my father was born in 1785 and died in 1843. His wife was Sally MAY a grand daughter of Major Benjamin MAY and my mother. So that you see that my father was not born until after the Revolutionary War. If my Grand father BYNUM was ever in the war I have no knowledge of it. I have always heard it said and there is no reason to doubt it, that I know of, that my father was in the war of 1812-14., and was stationed down here at Beaton Island near Beaufort. I have tried to find out if that was a fact from records, but I have failed in that so far. So that I have no positive proof that any of my ancestors on either side were enlisted soldiers.
Your truly,
Dr. J. N. BYNUM
Farmville, N. C.”
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