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Lucy Person

Female Abt 1737 - 1829  (~ 92 years)


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  • Name Lucy Person 
    Born Abt 1737  of Umbia, Durham, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1829 
    Person ID I1425  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Arthur Mangum,   b. 2 May 1741, Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 24 Mar 1789, Dials Creek, Orange, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 48 years) 
    Married Abt 1766  of, Granville, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F899  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Probably connects back quickly to our earlier Person family. Father may be a Francis Person.

      2. FHL film 2056023-2056026, especially film 5 which contains Mangum-Adair materials. Title is "George Addison Mangum's Genealogical Collection" which is his lifetime work donated to library in 1998; he was born in Utah in 1922, of Blackfoot, ID and is perhaps a brother to Ivey Mangum Hale. One of the pages in his notes state: "Child #2 son of William Mangum and Mary b. 2 Apr 1734. I put him as the James Mangum of Granville Co., N. Car. Call No. 478500 N.C. 132 Administration Bond 6 Dec 1757 Sarah Mangum administrator; William Mangum and Joseph Person surety to Bond. Inventory returned to court 6 Dec 1757 recites James Mangum deceased Sept 15th last left a widow and one son. Among other items "a parcel of books;" some of the books sold to William Mangum, Arthur Mangum and Samuel Mangum. The only other James I find contempory to this James is James Mangum Jr. with a wife Betty or Elizabeth in Albemarl Parish in 1762. I find James Mangum son-in-law to Philip Burrows in Philip Burrows' will 13 Oct 1777. The Virginia Genealogist, Vol 14, #4, p. 150 will recorded in Dinwoodie Co., Virginia now on file in Orange Co., N. Carolina. 47850 N.C. 132 Genealogies of Granville Co., N.Car. 3 vols. by Thomas McAdvag Owen. In this same reference William Mangum appears on court records September 1757. Also a will of Mary Person 20 May 1761 probated 11 Aug 1761 in Granville Co. mentions son Jesse, daughter Lucy Person, son John, dau. Martha Person and dau. Sarah Jones. Household goods in Virginia. Son Joseph Person executor. This might be Lucy who married Arthur Mangum. 8123 pt. 3 Surry Co. Court Orders p. 540 William Mangum vs. Jeffries 18 apr 1749 (my note William Mangum Sr. in Surry County, Virginia, as late as 18 Apr 1749 and in Granville Co., North Carolina by 3 September 1751."

      3. FHL Film 1697868 and book "The Mangums of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Utah, and Adjoining States," by John T. Palmer, Ph.D. Santa Rosa, CA 95409, 1993, 3rd ed., pp. 37-39: "Arthur Mangum, Sr., b. 22 May 1741, Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA, d. ca 12 Mar 1789, at Umbra, on Dyals Creek, Durham, NC, m. Lucy Person b. ca 1741 d. aft 1829, dau. of John Person and Mary (Sarah?) ___. (Arthur was the grandfather of the US Senator Willie Person Mangum.) Some believe that Arthur migrated into NC with his parents in the late 1740s. Arthur obtained public land grants as early as 1763 in the St. Mary's District of Orange County in the Flat River District which was to become the tobacco growing area of North Carolina. Family tradition is that he chose this area because there was less chance of contacting chills and fever. He built his home near the intersection ot he Hillsboro-Oxford Highway and called it "The Mountain." At the time of his son's death in 1837 (William Person Mangum), his estate included 2500 acres. Arthur's name appears several times in the abstracts of minutes of Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange Co., NC. He was also named as a juror, and was ordered to lay off a road from the Davis Shop on Flat River to Hillsboro. According to the Controller Records in the State Historical Library in Raleigh, Arthur sold 63 pounds of bacon to the Revolutionary Army." [Extensive descendancy follows. The following footnotes are of interest:]
      "Following Arthur's death, his widow, Lucy Person Mangum, and her seven children: William P., Holly Cozart, Clarimond (Clara) Parker, Sarah Bobbit, Arthur Jr., Chaney, and Willie Mangum filed a petition with the Court in Orange Co., NC, asking that at the November term, 1795, the estate of Arthur Mangum, Sr., be divided among his widow and Children. John Carrington, the father of Dicey Carrington Mangum and appointed administrator of the estate in August, 1790, had failed to distribute the estate to the widow and Children, claiming that debts to himself and others had assumed both the property and monies of Arthur Sr. Arthur's will also identifies his three sons and four daughters (Orange Co., NC Wills, Will Book 6, p. 100)."
      "Arthur Mangum is the grandfather of the well-known Senator Willie Person Mangum of North Carolina. A street is named after the Senator in Raleigh, Durham, and Winston-Salem, NC. The records show that Arthur had considerable contact with his brothers in surrounding counties and with the U.S. Government during the Rev. War. (Mangum Family Bulletin #23, 17) A handwritten chart of the Mangums of NC, found in the "Arthur Mangum" file at the NC Archives notes "Arthur came to N.C. Warren Co., then probably Granville Co., then Orange (now Durham... by 1763. His wife lived until 1829, 92 years old."
      "When William Mangum purchased land from Henry Temple of Granville Co., NC, on 4 Aug 1761, paid for in Virginia money, Lucy Person and John Person were witnesses to the purchase. Lucy was a niece to Col. William Person (born 1700, died 1789) of Granville Co. and sister or cousin of Genreal Thomas Person."
      "Lucy Person was niece of Col. William Person of Granville (1700-1778) and as such a cousin of Gen. Thomas Person. Following Arthur's death between 12 and 24 Mar., 1789, Lucy remained a widow for 40 years and died about 1829, age ca 92 years. Lt. Col. James Person and Capt. Joseph Person, who were loyalist and fought with the British, may have been members of the Person family."
      "Arthur and William Mangum signed a petition in North Carolina in 1773. Jonthan Mangum took the oath of Allegiance to the Colonial Government in NC, according to NC DAR Records. Mangum Turner in his "Reminiscences..." that appear in "The Mangum Papers," writes of Arthur: 'family tradition had it, the first member of the Mangum family to come to Orange County was Arthur Mangum the grandfather of Willie P. Mangum. His forbears resided in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia. He came on horseback, first looking into the purchase of the wide bottom land near the confluence of Eno, Little and Flat Rivers, which form the Neuse River. He decided that the section which was eight miles north of where the town of Durham is now located and which became a part of Faiorintosh Plantation, home of the Cameron family was too flat and therefore he feared chills and fever. This observation, as he learned in later years, was correct. Arthur Mangum rode eight miles north to the more hilly section of what was then Orange County and which later became a part of Durham County. It was known as the Flat River Section. He was evidently looking for land suitable for the growth of Tobacco as he chose the section that, along with Granville County, became the first great tobacco-growing part of North Carolina. For genrations following the arrival of Arthur Mangum, the members of that family were extensive tobacco growers. The location of his plantation was on Dial's Creek, the first deeds dating from the early 1760s. The first home of Arthur Mangum was located near a large spring at the foot of what was known on the plantation as "The Mountain, " which was about three-fourths of a mile north of the home of Willie P. Mangum. After some years Arthur Mangum built a short distance west of a crossraods on the plantation and about 200 yards north of the Hillsboro-Oxford highway. In after years, his son William P. Mangum built south of the crossroads on the intersecting highway."
      "In November of 1795, six years after his death, the heirs of Arthur Mangum, his seven children and widow, Lucy, filed a petition with the Court of Pleas and Quarters in Oragne Co., NC, requesting the court to force John Carrington, the appointed administrator of Arthur's large land holdings and personal property, to divide the estate. They expressed great dissatisfaction with John Carrington as adminstrator. All seven children of Arthur Mangum and his wife, Lucy, are identified in the documents. In 1779 taxes in the amount of 11,388 poounds and 16 shillings were paid on Arthur's estate. In 1784 Arthur's estate consisted of 2200 acres, 7 negroes, 10 horses, and 33 cows, noted as being in St. Mary's District."
      "Alma Cheek Redden in her "Minutes Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions," published in 1966, notes that on 24 Nov 1789, Arthur Mangum filed his will in Orange Co, NC, naming his wife Lucy and William and Arthur Mangum, and daughters Sally Bobbitt, Clarey Mangum, Chaney Mangum, and Holley Mangum."

      BIRTH:
      1. Per Ancestral Quest v4.19 and Ordinance Index. Various places noted as Isle of Wight Co., VA; Granville Co., NC, or Durham Co., NC [Durham is next to Granville]. Dates seem to center around about 1737 to 1741.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Ordinance Index 1.02. Has many nonconsise varying dates and includes both North Carolina and Virginia.

      DEATH:
      1. Mentioned as Arthur Mangum's wife "Lucy" and living in his will dated 24 Mar 1789. See his notes for full will transcription.