Capt. Gardner Harwell’s District, 1804

Robert C. Carpenter, Contributor

Kathy Gunter Sullivan, Transcriber, 2010

Robert C. Carpenter:

Harwell’s Company is located near Sherrills Ford; part of the company area now is under Lake Norman. I suspect Harwell’s Company included parts of first and tenth companies in the 1790 Lincoln County census.

The residents are predominately English speaking people including Rev. Asbury, the famous Methodist preacher. Linebargers, Kinder, Turbyfill, and Holdsclaw are a few probable Germans in the company. It appears to be a prosperous region since there were two cotton gins which were taxed. This is before King Cotton became the predominate crop in the south. There was significant ownership of slaves, with black polls being only eleven less than the number of white polls. The relatively high number of black polls suggests a region involved in cash crops and industry.

Kathy Gunter Sullivan:

At April Sessions 1805, Justice of the Peace John Turbyfill was appointed to receive the taxpayers’ information in Harwell’s Company. In 1791, Turbyfill purchased land on the west side of the Catawba River neighboring Francis Cunningham, Reubin Simpson, the Beaverdam Branch [of Mountain Creek], John Hawkins, and Adam Perkins; see Lincoln County deed book 16: 230. This land is in present-day Mountain Creek Township of Catawba County. By 1806, the company captain was James Wilkinson; see Wilkinson’s 1806 Tax List.

In 1792, John Turbyfill was a trustee of a Methodist Episcopal Church on the head of Grassy Creek. The other trustees were Daniel Asbury, Samuel Harwell, William Mays, Harbert Harwell, John Edwards, and Rawley Harwell; Lincoln County deed book 32: 257. This may be present-day Bethel United Methodist Church across the existing county line in Denver, Catawba Springs Township, Lincoln County.

Map links:

<http://www.ncfloodmaps.com/firm_indexes/pdf/effective/catawba_index_map.pdf>.

< http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncglgs/currenttownships.htm>

List of Taxables in Capt. Gardner Harwells Destrict

March 21^st 1804

Lincoln County Tax Lists 1805 [sic]-1806; box no. CR.060.701.4, North Carolina State Archives.

[Names]	White	Black	Land
Benjamin Cornelius	1		192
John Cronkleton	1		280
William Clark	1
Henry Partain	1		174
Temple Shelton	1	1
Thomas Harwell	1		50
Nathaniel Edwards	1		220
James Loften	1	2	483
Harbert Abernathy	1	2	148
John Limbarger	1		135
Lewis Day	1
Jacob Gabril			480
James Loller	1
Frederick Harwell	1		46
Cornelus Conner	1		40
Smith Miller 1 Stud Horse	1
Richard Hunter	1
James Lee Jr	1
Henry Kinder	1		300
John Wilkerson	1	1
Thomas Gilliland	1		560
Samuel Harwell	1	5	125
Benjamin Stiles			120
William Mayes and 1 Cotton Gin 4 Saws	1	2	100
Mathew McCortle	1	1
Elisabeth McCortle widow		1	270
David Clark	1	1	380
Richard Hunter	1
Aron Mayhew	1		60
Lodowick Turbyfill	1
Littlebeary Turbyfill	1
Abram Gabril	1
Benjamin Fisher	1
Charles Connor		6	558
Henry Dillon	1		218
Alexander Work		6	1350
Leonard Long	1		60
Jonathan Long	1	1	280
Daniel Asbury Minister		1	165
Thomas Kerr	1
James Lee Cotton gin 24 Saws			350
Elisha Stacy	1		100
Aron Stacy	1		100
Robert Knox		1	294
John Stiles	1		100
Tinch Carter	1
James Pitts	1
John Robertson	1		208
Isaac Williams	1		100
James Holdsclaw		1	260
Harbert Harwell	2	5	200
Robert Abernathy	2	6	350
Buckner Abernathy	1
Francis Harwell	1	1	183
John Edwards			130
Wheeler Edwards	1
Benjamin Edwards	1
Gardner Harwell	1	1
James Wilkerson	1		200
Alexander Sherril	1	1	130
Nicholas Sherril	1	2	100
Wesley Shirril	1
Jeptha Sherril	1
Moses Sherril	1	1	232
Elisha Sherril	1		339
Aron Sherril	1	1	163
Levi Sherril	1
Jessey Sherril	1
Joshua Sherril	1		113
Adam Sherril		4
Joshua Sherril		1	1131
Even Sherril	1	1	158
Eli Sherril	1		141
Absalom Duncan	1	1	150
Nichol Limbarger	1		100
Alexander Clark	1	1	153
John Fisher	1		100
Ezekiel Fisher			100
George Little			240
William Fisher	1		225
Richard Fisher	1

Land 12,944

White Polls 69

Black Polls 58

Studs [blank but Smith Miller is recorded with one]

Cotten Gins 28 Saws

Duplicate Made Out