Adam Keeling

Notes:

Adam Keeling was born prior to 1640 as Capt Adam Thorowgood remembers him in his will dated 1640... "to godson Adam Keeling one breeding goat."Adam died between 25 Apr & 17 Dec 1683; the date and prof of his will.

WILL

County of Lower Norfolk, dated 25 Apr 1683, proven
15 Dec 1683, recorded in Bk. 4-155.

"...to my loving wife Ann Keelinge that plantation I now live & Inhabit upon to possess and enjoy for & during her natural life and after her death I bequeath unto my Sone Thomas Keeling & to his heirs and assigns forever. ..with all land and marshes there unto belonging and also to have liberty to use timber from London Bridge land for his use
and for the use of my wife Ann Keeling during her natural life.

...unto my Sone Jno. Keeling that plantation of land he now liveth upon being about 1400 acres, formerly belonging unto my father in Law Jno.Martin. to my said son Jn0 Keeling when hee attains ye age of 21 years, provided (he) make over to his brother Adam Keeling, all that devident or tract of land being about 2000 acres lately pattented in the
name and to the use of my said sone Jno. Keeling being that land that now my mother lives on and called London Bridge and also adjoyning lands added thereunto. If Jno refuses the above request then the 1400 acres to go to Adam.

...unto my above mentioned Sone Thomas Keeling that prcell of land commonly known by the name of Dudlies land joyning upon that belonging to my Brother Alexander Keeling being neere 400 acres to him my sd sone Thomas Keeling.

..unto my daughter Elizabeth Keeling a parcell of land about three or foure hundred acres by mee Entered with Rights towards ye Southward neere Matchepongo, and doe desire ye Same bee surveyed and pattented in my said daughter Elizabeths name.

...unto my daughter Ann Keelinge a certaine tract of land joyning unto Rudee commonly knowne by ye name of Black Walnutt Ridge and lately bought of Anth Lawson being about 1200 acres.

...to my sone Adam Keeling...

...my above named Children.. .as they attaine Each of them to ye age twenty one years..daughters att ye age of sixteene years or day of marriage... one whole years schooling.

...wife Ann Keeling my whole and Sole Exequetrix.. . .My Brother in Law, Lt. Col. Anthony Lawson & my friend Mala. Thruston, overseers.. unto each.. .25 shillings Sterling each to buy each of them a ring to weare in rembrance of mee..."

Wit: Jno. Ferebee, Jno. Sandford Adam Keeling & Seale Francis Sayer,

Tho. Hodgis Inventory of Capt: Adam Keeling was dated 2 June
1683. Slaves are listed4 Jan 1683/4; account of cattle att that Plantation that was Mrs.Martins. "Sworn to by Mrs. Ann Richason als Keeling now ye wife of Jno: Richason Att Ye Nowe Dwelling House."


The VA Genealogist, Vol 17, pg. 287.

Adam Keeling, will 1683, m Ann Martin who m 2nd by 18 Dec 1683 John Richardson.

"Gateway to the New World," by Turner.

Thomas Keeling's will has never been found, but his son Adam's has. Adam Keeling's will was written in 1683. From it we have learned that his mother, Anne, married Robert Bray after Thoma s died, and that his wife,also Anne, had been Anne Martin, daughter of John Martin from whom
he had bought 1,400 acres. He left those 1,400 acres to his son John, "provided John makes a deed to his brother Adam for 2,000 acres, the plantation know as 'London Bridge' where his mother now lives, after her death." His eldest son (don't think this is right), Thomas, was left 400
acres and 'the home plantation.' The Keelings had the habit of naming the eldest son after his grandfather, so it was Thomas to Adam, Adam to Thomas and Thomas to Adam for generations.

The Keeling house, know as 'Ye Dudlies', on Great Neck Point, is a large two-story brick house and has many interesting features. The bricks are laid in the Flemish bond pattern, and there is an unusual design of blue headers in the north wall. There are cupboards on the inside of that wall on each side of the fireplace, and there is a small window in each. To the left of the eight-foot-wide hall there is another large room with a huge fireplace. That was the kitchen, dining hall and
general family living room. In the 17th century, there was no outside kitchen building for summer cooking, and food was cooked over an open fire or in a pit.The two bedrooms upstairs seem inadequate for a man of Keeling's means with four children, but people were indifferent in those
rough times as to where they slept, and in winter, the choice spot was near the kitchen fire. Children were bedded down three, four or more to a bed.


From 'A history of Virginia Beach, Virginia

In 1635 Captain Thoroughgood (he held a commission in the county militia) earned a land grant of 5,350 acres in colonial Virginia Beach for having persuaded 105 people to settle in Virginia. Interestingly, included in these 105 immigrants was Augustine Warner, progenitor of
George Washington, and generations later Robert E. Lee. During the following year, 1636, Thourough good built a modest but substantial brick home for his family on the western branch of the Lynnhaven River. This house, still standing and fully restored, is believed to be the oldest surviving brick home in America. Thoroughgood died suddenly
at the age of 36, but his character and ideals had been embedded in the land and people of Lynnhaven. During the ensuing years the Lynnhaven area began to flourish under the leadership of prominent families such as the Keeling, Cornicks, Woodhouses and Strattons.

Because of the abundance of fish in the Chesapeake Bay area, seine hauling was one of the early profitable vocations taken up by the residents along the shores of the Lynnhaven. At this stage in history the only entrance into the Lynnhaven River from the Chesapeake Bay was by way of Little Creek and was reported to be a tedious journey of three miles. It did not take the fishermen long to realize that a shorter, faster route to the bay would greatly enhance the profits of those associated with the fishing industry. Adam Keeling, whose plantation, "Ye Dudlies," was situated right at the mouth of the Lynnhaven River, organized a group of people to work out a solution for this situation.

At the mouth of the Lynnhaven there was a huge sandbar about a half-mile wide, separating the River and Bay. Keeling's group dug a trench across the sandbar wide enough to permit the passage of a canoe. Almost immediately after this feat was accomplished, a severe storm out of the
northeast caused unusually high tides in the Chesapeake to rush through the ditch into the Lynnhaven River. The force of the tides enlarged the ditch to the size of an inlet, and today this inlet is known as the famous Lynnhaven Inlet.

WITCHCRAFT IN VIRGINIA

Lower Att a Court held the 15 January 1678/9, Norfolk Capt Wm Robinson, Mr Adam Keeling, Mr Henry Spratt, Justices
Capt Anthony Lawson,

"Upon the pett and Complaint of Jno Samon agt Alice the wife of Thomas Cartwrite Concerning the death of a Child of the sd Samons who It is Suposed was bewitched, It is orderd that the Shrife doe forthwth Summonds an able Jury of women to attend the Court to morrow and Serch the s+ Alice according to the derection of the Court.

"16th. In the diffl betweane Jno Salmon plaintif agt Alice the wife of Thomas Cartwrite defendt a Jury of women (Mrs Mary Chichester forewoman) being Impaneled did in open Court upon their oathes declare that they haveing delegently Searched the body of the sd Alice Cann find noe
Suspitious marks whereby they Can Judg her to bee a witch; buttonely what may and Is usuall on other women. It is therefore the Judgmt of the Court and ordered that Shee bee acquitted & her husbands bond given for her apearance to bee given up."

Birth:
Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Name: Adam Keeling
Spouse: Anne Martin
Parents: Thomas Keeling Ann
Birth Place: Lower Norfolk, VA
Birth Date: 1644
Marriage Place: Lower Norfolk Co, VA
Marriage Date: 1668
Death Place: Norfolk Co, Princess Ann, VA
Death Date: 25 Apr 1683

Adam married Ann Martin 1668, Norfolk, Norfolk Co. VA. Ann was born 1640, Norfolk, Norfolk Co. VA; died 1683, Norfolk, Norfolk Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Elizabeth Lovett 25 Oct 1700, Virginia. Elizabeth was born 1678, Princess Anne Co. VA; died 1769, Prince William Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Margaret and John were second cousins. Her grandmother, mary Carraway Lovett, and his grandfather, John 2 Caraway were brother and sister.

Ann Foster-Williamson-Carraway and Roger Williamson were parents of Mary Williamson whose great grandaughter was Elizabeth Lovett. Elizabeth Lovett married John Carraway IV. John Carraway I and Roger Williamson came to Virginia in 1634 aboard the "Sarah Constant" from England.

Birth:
Family Data Collection
Name: Margaret Keeling
Father: Thomas Keeling
Mother: Elizabeth Lovett
Birth Date: 1702
State: NC

Family Data Collection
Name: Margaret Keeling
Spouse: John Carraway
Parents: Thomas Keeling, Elizabeth Lovett
Birth Place: Princess Anne, VA
Birth Date: 1702
Marriage Place: Princess Anne, VA
Death Place: Dobbs

Margaret married John Carraway, IV 06 Mar 1722, Wayne Co. NC. John (son of John Carraway, III and Elizabeth Cannon) was born 1702, Princess Ann Co. VA; died Aft 1769, Davie, Wayne Co. NC. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

CENSUS RECORDS

North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
Name: Henry Carraway
State: NC
County: Dobbs County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1769
Database: NC Early Census Index

LAND RECORDS

Source: Car(r)away Family News Vol 2, #2, pp 15, 17,18, 19, 20, 21.

Index to burned deeds of Johnston Cty, NC Bk 5, p75 shows a deed to Henry Caraway from Aaron Smith (his brother-in-law).

Henry received a land grant on 9 Nov 1764 in Dobbs Cty, NC, 100 acres the S/sd of Neuse River on Caraway Creek.... Entered 15 Apr 1763. (Bk 18, p102 Dobbs Cty, NC)

1769 Alphabetical List of Taxables, Dobbs Cty, list Henry Caraway and son, Barrot, 2 polls. (Barrot may or may not be Henry's son, he could be a nephew as his Will does not list a Barrot. Or Barrot could have died before the will was written.)

21 Feb 1775 Henry Caraway and John Caraway witnessed the sale of a negro boy named Ned from John Oates to Adam Caraway for 30.06.00 pounds.

29 Feb 1780 Henry Caraway purchased 75 acres for 1500 pounds from Hardy Newsom. (Bk 1, p1 6 , Wayne Cty, NC)

On 9 Mar 1780 Henry Caraway out of special love and tender affection which I have and do bear my beloved son John Caraway.....140 acres... S/sd of Neuse River....(Bk 1, p17 #14 Wayne Cty, NC)

MILITARY RECORDS

The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge - American Revolutionary War Fought near Wilmington, North Carolina on February 27, 1776 Victory went to the North Carolina Patriots over Southern Loyalists

Dobbs Militia
Carraway, Henry

WILL AND PROBATE

In the will of Henry Carraway, dated 20 Feb 1784, he mentions his wife Elizabeth and his eight children: Zilpha, Mary Ann, John, Elizabeth, Civil, Molly, Eve and Adam. (bk. A-7, p.14 , Wayne Cty, NC)

WILL OF HENRY CARRAWAY:
As recorded in Wayne County, NC Wills, Book A-7, 1776-1805, p.14.

WILL OF HENRY CARRAWAY:As recorded in Wayne County, NC Wills, Book A-7, 1776-1805, p.14.

In the name of God Amen. I Henry Carraway of the State of North Carolina and county of Wayne being very sick and weak in body but of a sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be to God for it, but calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for ALL men once to die do constitute, make and Ordain this my last will and Testament in the following manner VIS:

Principally and first of all I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it me, and my body I recommend to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors, hereafter named nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Might Power of God, and Touching such Wordly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I do give and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

First my will and desire is, that all my just debts and funeral charges be cleared and discharged.

Item - I (Leave) to my beloved wife Elizabeth Carraway the use of all my plantation lands and tenements and like wise the use of all my estate both real and personal during her life or widowhood--and after her death or widowhood I desire that the Negro wench named Doll and all her increase, since she has been in my possession I leave to so(?) and the money arising there from to be equally divided amongst my eight children Vis: Zilpha, Mary Ann, John, Elizabeth, Civil, Molly, Eve and Adam.

Item - I give and bequeath to my son John Carraway after his mother's death or widowhood, the plantation whereon I now dwell with all the land belonging thereunto on the east side of Carraway's Creek to him and his heirs forever.

Item - I give and bequeath to my son Adam Carraway all of my lands and tenements on the west side of Carraway Creek and one negro boy named Ned to his and his heirs forever...and in case the said Adam Carraway should died before he arrives at the full age of 21 years then my will and desire is that the said land and negro may be sold and the money arising there from to be equally divided amongst the rest of my children.

Item - I give and bequeath to my daughter Eve Carraway one negro boy named Sam to her and her heirs forever..and in case she the said Eve should died before she marrys or arrives at the age of 18 years...then my will and desire is that the said negro shall be sold and the money arising there from be equally divided amongst the rest of my children...and all the rest of my estate that I have not yet bequeathed (after?) my wife's death or widowhood I leave to be equally divided amonst four of my children vis: Sevil, Molly, Eve, and Adam.

Item - I do appoint my loving wife executrix and my friends Doc and Richard McKinne Executors to this my last will and testament. And I do hereby utter revoke Disannul and make void all and every other former will or wills heretofore by me made ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 20th day of Feb anmo domini: One thousand seven hundred and eighty four (1784).

Signed Henry Caraway (seal)

Signed, seald, Declared and pronounced by the testator as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names. Joseph Slocump - Mary Slocumb; Sevil Carraway (signed with an X)

The inventory of the Estate of Henry Caraway 19 Jun 1784 was signed by Elizabeth Caraway and Andrew Bass. (CR 103.518.1 Vol 4, p70, Wayne Cty, NC)

The 1786 Tax List from Journal of NC Genealogy, Vol 8, #1, p940 for Wayne Cty, NC shows Elizabeth Caraway with 176 acres, 1 poll and no slaves.

The 1790 census Wayne Cty, NC census p149, lists Elizabeth Caraway with 1 male under 16, 3 females and 5 slaves.

Birth:
Family Data Collection - Births about Henry Carraway
Name: Henry Carraway
Father: John Carraway
Mother: Margaret Keeling
Birth Date: 1724
City: Princess Anne
State: VA


Died:
Family Data Collection
Name: Henry Carraway
Death Date: 1784
City: Goldsboro
County: Wayne
State: NC

Henry married Elizabeth Bryant 1746, Craven Co. NC. Elizabeth was born 1724, Wayne Co. NC; died 1784, Wayne Co. NC. [Group Sheet]

Henry married Elizabeth. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

According to Dr. James E. Caraway, a descendant, Elizabeth Caraway Smith of Craven County, Dobbs, and Wayne Counties, North Carolina had a tragic history. John Carroway(Caraway?), Aaron Smith Sr., and Aaron Smith, Jr. were officers in the Revolutionary War. On July 1, 1776, Aaron Sr., Elizabeth Carraway(Caraway) Smith, 3 or 5 younger children, and their male slaves were massacred by the Tories and Cherokee Indians at their home in the Old Ninety-nine district of South Carolina.

Researcher: Mrs. Thelma Landrum discovered their deaths from old GA newspapers that proved Elizabeth, Aaron Sr., a son and a daughter were killed by Indians in SC. Four sons and a daughter escaped with their lives.

Elizabeth married Aaron Smith 1745. [Group Sheet]