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| PLANTATION NAME: | WHITE ROCK PLANTATION | ||
| ASSOCIATED LINK(s): | Montmorenci (owned by Gen. William Williams) | ||
| OWNER: | Joseph John Williams (1727-1818) | ||
| BUILT: | 1772 | ||
| ASSOCIATED SURNAMES: | Williams | ||
| HISTORY: | White Rock
Plantation in western Halifax County has been in the hands of the locally
prominent Williams family since 1772 when Joseph John Williams (1727-1818)
acquired a tract of 3,200 acres. Williams was a leader during the
Revolutionary period, serving as member of the Council of Safety, a delegate
to Philadelphia in 1776, a provider of arms for North Carolina troops, and a
wealthy planter Joseph John Williams I is believed to have lived in a brick
house to the rear of the present dwelling. The present late Georgian
vernacular frame house was probably erected in the late eighteenth century
for his son Joseph John Williams II (1775-1808), like his father a
prosperous planter. This house was given elaborate late Federal style
interior embellishments, probably in the 1820s for Joseph John Williams IV
and his wife Martha Kearney Davis. |
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| SLAVE POPULATION: | Joseph John
Williams Sr. had 66 Slaves in 1790; he had 55 Slaves in 1800, and his son
Joseph John Williams Jr. had 36 Slaves in 1800; In 1810 Elizabeth Williams
(widow of J. J. Jr.) had 63 Slaves ========================================================== Joseph John Williams III (1800-1833) grandson of Joseph J. Williams (1727-1818), married in 1820 to Mary Kearney Davis (1802-1887), dau/of Archibald Davis & Elizabeth J. Hilliard, of Halifax Co, NC. He died fairly young, at which time he left a will stating: ...it is my wish that my wife MARY should have the following Negroes at a fair valuation, namely, OLD HARRY, and wife POL, TURNER and wife EASTER and her children, TOM and wife SABINA and her children and AMARILLUS and her child... Halifax County, Records of Estates 1828-1835, |
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HARRY aged abt 60 |
POLL aged abt 55 |
LUCY aged abt 34 |
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Halifax County, Records of Estates 1843-1849 |
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No.1 PEGGY & three children, MINERVA, ABRAHAM & NORFLEET - 735 CLARISSA - 400 CHANEY & three children WILLIAM, DELIA, MATILDA - 800 ANNA & child, PHILLIS - 500 FANNY & child RANY - 525 LUCY - 450 JUDAS (daughter of HANNAH) - 450 NANCY - 200 PENELOPE - 450 JUDY THOMAS - 350 PETER - 600 HARTWELL - 550 JOSHUA - 475 JEFFERSON - 950 LAFAYETTE - 600 JORDAN - 335 ISRAEL - 200 Total: $8570 Lot No. 2: MARTHA & three children, FRANCES, MALISSA & CORNELIUS - 835 CAROLINE - 375 TARNER & three children, WINSOR, RALPH, & DAVY - 760 ROSE & child TRIM - 500 MARY & two children SARAH & JAMES - 600 CYNTHIA - 450 PATTY - 325 ARY - 350 JACOB JUNIOR - 550 BILLY 550 AARON - 550 ABNER - 475 RANSY - 260 SAM - 300 JERRY (SMITH) - 400 SQUIRE - 335 LUCY - 150 ELIZA HENRY - 450 BERRY - 325 Total: $8540 Lot No. 3: ALSY & four children - ANN, MARY, ELIZA & BEN} HENRY & her youngest daughter - 985 JUDY (daughter of MARIA) -425 MARINA & two children, CHERRY & BILLY - 625 MATILDA & Child JOHN - 500 CANDIS - 450 LIZZY - 450 AMY - 450 HENRIETTA - 200 AMANDA - 250 OLD JACOB & CHERRY - 125 HARRIET - 275 MARY JAN - 300 EMILY - 350 RICHARD - 600 ARTHER (Smith) -800 WM HENRY - 400 BEN (carpt.) - 850 RUM - 200 GEORGE - 575 Total: $8610 Lot No. 4: TURNER - 550 TOM - 450 SABINA & child SAM} LOUCINDA & three children, ROBERTSON, LAURA, POL} 1000 SARENA - 500 JULIA - 450 HILLIARD - 375 LEWIS - 475 EASTER - 275 TURNER JUNIOR -270 SALLY (sick) - 150 DANIEL - 550 AMARILLIS & child JOHN - 650 PLUMMER - 475 SUSAN - 300 ALTIMORE - 600 BRANCH - 600 MANSFIELD - 550 Total: $8670 Lot No. 1 Amts to $8570.00 Lot No. 2 Amts to 8540.00 Lot No. 3 Amts to 8610.00 Lot No. 4 Amts to 8670.00 Total: $34390.00 - divided by 4 = $8597.50 Each one share In
accordance with the Will of the late JOS. JNO. WILLIAMS, I have this 24th
day of Dec. 1844 valued the Slaves belonging to his Estate & arranged them
in Lots as above represented each ones share being $8597.50. MARY K.
WILLIAMS widow of the said JOS. JNO. WILLIAMS drew Lot No.4 which amounts to
$8670. that being more than each one share by seventy two dollars & fifty
cents she the said MARY K. WILLIAMS has that amt to pay to me as Ex'r
together with the sum of fifty dollars her proportion of expensive Slaves
she having agreed to pay to me the Ex'r of the aforesaid JOS. JNO. WILLIAMS
that sum for supporting said expensive Slaves & DR. PETER HAWKINS who
married ELIZABETH WILLIAMS the oldest daughter of said JOS. JNO. decd.
drawing at the same time Lot No.2 which amounts to $8540 that sum being less
than each ones share by fifty seven dollars & fifty cents & after deducting
the sum of fifty dollars his proportion of expensive Slaves from the sum of
fifty seven dollars & fifty cents as above stated there is a balance due
said HAWKINS the sum of seven dollars & fifty cents from EDW'D ALSTON Ex'r
of JOS. JNO WILLIAMS, Dec'd |
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| Statement of the valuation of the Slaves belonging to the Estate of the late JOS JNO. WILLIAMS as valued by EDWD ALSTON Excr. and he calling in to his assistance, THOS. W. HARRIS this 21st November 1848. | |||
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No. 1: PETER - $600 WM. HENRY - 500 JORDAN - 475 RUM - 225 ABRAHAM - 200 LAFAYETTE - 850 MINERVA - 300 JUDAH THOMAS - 425 HARRIET - 400 MARY ELIZA - 300 LUCY - 400 PENELOPE & child WILLIAM - 500 AILSEY & two children, ANN MARIA & LUCY - 650 CHARLES - 250 FANNY & two children, RAINSY & JACOB - 750 HENRIETTA - 300 CLARISSA - 450 MARINA & child, CHERRY - 450 CANDICE - 550 BEN HENRY - 175 OLD CHERRY - 000 ANNA & child PHILIP - 600 Total: $9350 Lot No. 2: HARTWELL - 550 JOSHUA - 600 GEORGE - 475 GRACE - 200 BILLY - 350 ARTHUR (Smith) - 700 AMANDA - 350 EMILY - 400 MARY JANE - 400 DELIA - 250 AMY - 450 JUDAH & child, ISRAEL - 575 PEGGY & two children, NORFLET & AARON - 600 D_______ - 200 CHANY & three children, MATILDA, NANCY & MALISSA - 900 MATILDA & child, WILLA - 500 JUDAH RUM - 450 LIZZY - 475 RICHARD - 600 BEN (Carpenter) - 325 OLD JACK - 000 Total: $9350 Lot No. 1 Amts to - 9350 Lot No. 2 Amts to - 9350 Total $18,700 - divided by 2 = $9350 Each one share |
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In accordance with the Will of the late JOS. JNO. WILLIAMS I have this
21st day of November 1848 valued the Slaves belonging to the Estate and
arranged thm into two Lots as above represented LUCY WILLIAMS the daughter
of the late JOS. JNO. WILLIAMSS dec'd drew Lot No. 1 making the sum of $9350
& THOS. C. WILLIAMS son of said JOSEPH JNO. WILLIAMS drew Lot No. 2 making
$9350. |
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| RESEARCH NOTES: |
Early Halifax County Estate Records are lost. There is a collection
of documentation on microfilm called "Records of Estates" which start from
1828, that have brief descriptions of court transactions for estates,
including Inventories, Accounts & Settlements of Estates
Researched & transcribed by Deloris Williams |
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| MISCELLANEOUS: |
National Register of Historic Places; Will of Joseph J. Williams-1818; Williams-Polk-Davis Bible; Will of Joseph J. Williams-1808; Family of Joseph John Williams; Will of Joseph J. Williams-1833; Halifax County Records of Estates 1828-1835, p.376, 444 ; Halifax County Records of Estates 1843-1849, p.481,482 |
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