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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. From the book "Pleasant Mangum and All His Kin, the Story of the Bennetts, the Mangums, and the Parhams," comp. by James Lynn Parham, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1997, Chapter 7, Samuel Mangum:
"Samuel Mangum has always been a puzzle. We now believe he was an older son of William Mangum Sr. His birth was not recorded in the Albemarle Parish like several other children of William Mangum Sr. Still, the public records show a closeness with William Sr. usually indicative of close kinship. Samuel, along with his supposed parents, William and Mary Mangum, were godparents in the parish to James Mangum born 22 Jan. 1734 to James and Mary Mangum. Samuel would have been only about 11 years old but godparents did not have to be adults. If this elder James Mangum was brother of William Sr., which we believe he was, then Samuel was probably an uncle of the child. Aunts and uncles were frequently godparents to children whose births were recorded in the Albemarle Parish.
Samuel migrated into North Carolina with the William Mangum Sr. family and he appears to be of the same generation of William Sr.'s other children, although maybe older than the others. Samuel likely was one of the two polls in William Sr.'s household in when the Granville Co., N.C. tax list for 1749 was taken. The first, of course, is William Sr. If the second male is Samuel, then he was at least 16 years old. Before the revolution, males were taxed at age 16. None of the other known children of William Sr. were of taxable age in 1749. Samuel was listed separately in the 1750 Granville County tax list with one poll. This shows that he moved out of his father's household between 1749 and 1750. The tax lists indicate that Samuel was born about 1733, one year earlier than James, whose birth was the first of William Sr.'s children recorded in the Albemarle Parish.
Samuel witnessed several deeds and paid poll taxes in Granville County over the next few years after 1750. In 1754 he was in the Regiment of Militia under Capt. Daniel Harris, along with his father and brothers, William Sr., William Jr. and James. In 1755 he took in an orphan named Burgess Reeves to teach him the carpenter's trade.(1) We don't know when Samuel married, or to whom, but it is likely that he married shortly after the N.C. migration. Probably he married when he left his father's household in 1749-50. It was only in 1756 that Samuel obtained his first land. He received a land grant of 640 acres on the south side of Reedy Creek in Granville County. The land had been surveyed in 1751 for his father William Mangum (Sr.).
Samuel never bought or sold any other land during his lifetime although he witnessed many deeds. He was a purchaser to the estate of James Mangum, his brother, in 1757. Samuel apparently died in 1758.(2) An administrator bond for his estate was granted to David Meadows on 20 Dec. 1758 in Granville Co., N.C. An inventory of his estate, valued at 77 pounds, was returned to court in 1776. That inventory showed that his widow got a third and that two of his six children had received their amounts. Unfortunately, no names were given. We have been able to positively identify only one child, Howell Mangum. This was because Howell eventually disposed of Samuel's land grant acreage in 1773 and 1774. Since we have found no deed for that land to Howell, we assume that he inherited it from Samuel.(3)
There were other individuals in Bute County, North Carolina with Howell which may be sons of Samuel. They include Joseph Mangum born about 1752 and another Samuel born about 1758.(4)
If Joseph Mangum was indeed a son of Samuel, born 1752, then this causes a slight problem. It means that he was the eldest, older than Howell. Under English law it is the eldest son who is usually entitled to the deceased father's estate. It presently is not known why Howell, if he was not the eldest son, inherited his father's property.
The records indicate that Samuel died young, at about age 25. That is probably why we know so little about him. One is moved to pity the young widow, left alone to care for six young children in a primitive land.
References
I. Granville Co., Apprentice Bonds, 1751-1795,2 Sept, 1755.
2. Granville Co., Court Records, Vol. '1, page 118. See Mangum Family Bulletin, issue13, page 16.
3. Bute County, North Carolina deeds, microfilm at North Carolina Archives. See also Mangum Family Bulletin, Issue I, page 12 and Issue 17, page 2. Granville County, North Carolina tax lists, from original records at North Carolina Archives. Items printed in Mangum Family Bulletin, Issues 2-7.
4. See the chapter on Pleasant Mangum, Appendix G, and the lineage section for additional information on Joseph Mangum and his descendants."
2. From the website <http://lynn.parham.home.comcast.net/DLD58b.htm>:
"THE Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue Number 56, July 2005: "THE Old Mangum Records - PART 14 (Renamed from "John Mangum - Immigrant Ancestor; an Analysis of the Records"):
Below are images of court records relating to the deaths in 1757 & 1758 of two sons of William Mangum Sr., James and Samuel Mangum of Granville Co., N.C. These images were obtained from the N.C. Archives in Raleigh, N.C. through the efforts of Judith Ryston, paid researcher. Her -mail is "indyjudy@bellsouth.net". [Kerry's note: The article has images of the actual documents which I cannot duplicate here.]
[CAUTION: Text translations by the editor should be considered very uncertain & tentative!]
INVENTORY of Estate of Samuel Mangum 1758. Estate File, Mangum, Samuel, 1758, Granville County Estate Records 1746-1919 Maben-Mangum J.Y. C.R. 44.508.117, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh
[It is unknown what the significance is of the note at the left side of the cover of the document. It appears to be a statement to pay or paid Phil Hawkins ten shillings five pence cash. It is dated 13 Jan. 1759. It is probably somehow related to the estate inventory. The rest seems to be additions and calculations of English money probably related to the estate. Note the statement that Samuel Mangum died 1758.]
INVENTORY of Estate of Samuel Mangum 1758. (Inventory)
Estate File, Mangum, Samuel, 1758, Granville County Estate Records 1746-1919 Maben-Mangum J.Y. C.R. 44.508.117, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh
Text of Samuel Mangum INVENTORY
An Inventory of the Estate of Samuel Manggum Decesd
1 Horse, 1 Mare. 12 head of Black Cattle 9 Hoggs.
2 Bedds & furniture Pewter 3 Dishes 2 Basons. 6 Plates 1 pouringer?
& 12 spoons - 2 Hand Jaws 1 Coopers ___. 4 Plain Irons.
1 Jointer Stock? 11 Chipsells 2 Gouges. 3 Augers. 1 Coopers Axx
1 Broad Axx. 1 Narrow D_? 1 Carpenters adege? 1 ___? 1 Howell?
1 Japer Poitt & stock 2 gimbletts 1 draw. Knife 1 ___?
1 Spinning Wheel. 1 Chest. 1 Table. 5 stools. 1 Bose 1 Box Iron
& 1 Heater 1 Trunk 1Case of Bottles. Knives & forkes. A parcel
of Books. Tubbs of Piggens a Peuter Pt Pott. & half Pint? & Iron Pott
1 Frying Pann 1 gt Mugg. 2 Butter Potts. 1 __ Mill stones 1
Riffle gunn 1 saddle & Bridle 1 hone 3 Bells 1 Lancet 1 ___.
Granville County 21st Dec br 1758
The above articles of goods to be sold by way of Publick Auction to the Highest bidder on Monday the 15th day of January Next for 6 months Credditt at the Late Dwelling house of the abovesaid Sam'l Manggum Deceas'd Pm Order of the County. Teste Danl Weldon CC
ADMINISTRATOR BOND FOR Samuel Mangum Estate. Administrators Bond, Daniel Meadows, File Samuel Mangum, Series SS XIX, N.C. State Archives. Text of ADMINISTRATORS BOND FOR Samuel Mangum Estate:
North Carolina. Know all men by these presents that we Daniel Meadows, William Williams & James Meadows all of Granville County are held & firmly Bound unto his Excellency Arthur Dobbs Esqr governor & Comander in Chief - - in the sum of two hundred pounds Proc_ money to be paid unto the sd Arthur Dobbs - his successors or assigns to which payment well & truly to be paid we Bind our Selves and every - - of us __& every of our heirs Execs & Adms jointly & severally firmly by these persons Sealed with our Seals & dated the twentieth day of December Anno Domin 1758.
The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above bound Daniel Meadows - -Adm of all & singular the goods and Chattles Rights & Credit of Samuel Mangum - -late of Granville County deced. Do make or cause to be made a trur & perfect Inventory of all & singular the Goods & Chattles Rights & Credits of the Sd decd. Which have or shall come to the hands knowledge or possession of the Sd Daniel Mangum Meadows - - or into the hands knowledge or possession of any other person for him and the same "do make" exhibit or cause to be Exhibited into the Secretary's Office & one attested Copy thereof to the County Court where Orders for Administration passed Within Ninety? Days after the date hereof and the same Goods Chattles & Credits & all other the Goods Chattles "& Credits" of the decd at the time of his death which at any time hereafter shall come into the hands or possession of the said Samuel Daniel Meadows or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him do well & truly Administer according to Law & further do make or cause to be made truly & just Acct of his said Administration within one year after the date of these presents & all the rest & residue of these sd goods Chattles & Credits which shall be found remaining upon the said Admins Acct the same being first Examined & Allowed by the Governor & Council Supreme Court or County Court shall deliver & pay unto such person or persons respectively as the same shall be due pursuant to the true intent & meaning of the Act. in that case made & provided and if it shall appear that any Will & Testament was made by the deced & the Execution or Exect. Therein named do Exhibit the same into Court making request o have it allowed & approved of accordingly if the sd Daniel Meadows - - - - being thereunto required do render & deliver up the Letters of Administration approbation of such Testaments being first had & made in such Court then this obligation to be void, else in force.
Sealed and Delivered in presence of Danl + Meadows (Seal)
Dan Heldon Wm + Williams (Seal)
James + Meadows (Seal)
COVER of Samuel Mangum'S ADMINISTRATOR'S BOND. (Cover for bond on previous page '30'). Text:
Saml Mangum, Danl Meadows At a Court held for Granville County 20 December 1758
Adm Bond This Bond was Executed in open Court & Ordered to be Recorded
Decr 1758 Teste Danl Waldon CC
Recorded
ADMINISTRATORS BOND FOR James Mangum Estate. Administrators Bond, Sarah Mangum, File James Mangum, Series SS XIX, North Carolina Archives. Text of Adm. Bond for James Mangum Estate: North Carolina: Know all men by these presents that we Sarah Mangum, William Mangum & Joseph Person - - -are held & firmly bound unto his Excellency Arthur Dobbs Esq, Governor and Comander in Chief in and over the ___ of North Carolina aforesaid - - -in the sum of fifty pounds proclamation Money - -to be paid unto the said Arthur Dobbs his successors or Assigns to which payment well & truly to be made we bind our selves & each of us, our & each of our heirs Execs & Adms jointly & severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals & dated the Seventh day of December Anno Domn 1757.
The Condition of this Obligation is such that if the above bound Sarah Mangum Administr of all & singular the Goods & Chattells, Rights & Credits of James Mangum late of Granville County decd. Do make or cause to be made a true & perfect Inventory of all & singular the Goods & Chattells, Rights & Credits of the said Deced. Which have or shall come to the hands knowledge or possession of the said Sarah Mangum or into the hands knowledge or possession of any other person for her of the same so made do Exhibit, or cause to be Exhibited into the Secretary's Office & one attested Copy thereof to the County Court where Orders of Admin'n passed within ninety days after the date of these presents, & the same Goods Chatells & Credits & all other the Goods Chattells & Credits of the deced. At the time of his death which at any time hereafter shall come into the hands or possession of the sd Sarah Mangum or into the hands or possession of any other person for her do well & truly Administer according to Law and further do make or cause to be made a true & just Acct of her sd Administration within one year after the date of these presents & all the rest & residue of the sd Goods, Chattells & Credits w'th shall be found remaining upon the sd Admin Acct the same being first examined & allowed by the Governor & Councile Supreme Court, or County Court shall deliver & pay unto such person or persons respectively & the same shall be due pursuant to the true intent & meaning of the act in that that case made & provided and if it shall appear that any Will & Testament was made by the deced. & the Execr or Execr therein named do exhibit the same into Court making request to have it allowed & approved of accordingly if the sd Sarah Mangum being thereunto required do render & deliver up the sd Letters of Adminn approbation of such Testament being first had & made in such Court, then this Obligation to be void, else in force.
Sealed & Delivered her
In presence of Sarah + Mangum (Seal)
John Waldon mark
his
Wm W Mangum (Seal)
mark
Joseph Person (Seal)
COVER PAGE of ADMINISTRATORS BOND FOR James Mangum
Text
Sarah Mangum At a Court held for Granville County
Adm Bond ____ Sept. 1757
Decd 1757 This Bond was Executed in open Court & Ordered to be
Recorded & Exd D. W. CC Recorded Teste Danl Waldon CD
DISCUSSION:
It has been widely accepted that James Mangum, son of William Mangum Sr., died in 1757 leaving a wife Sarah and one son unnamed. In spite of considerable research, personally and by a paid researcher, no additional information has been found relating to the name of the son. However, with the assistance of the paid researcher, we have found several court records relating to James Mangum's estate. One of those records is printed above. Others will be printed in later issues of the Journal.
There has been considerable confusion concerning the death of Samuel Mangum, another son of William Mangum Sr. In the late 1960's I found a microfilm in the N.C. State Archives that listed the death of Samuel Mangum in 1758. It also showed that there was an inventory of an estate of Samuel Mangum in 1777, but it had debt listing that went back to 1755. We have always assumed that these two records refer to the same Samuel Mangum who died in 1758. Unfortunately, we could never be sure because we had never found any of the actual court records [only obscure secondary sources] concerning the death & estate of this Samuel Mangum. The information I found in the 1960's came from a microfilm of research notes by Thomas McAdory who researched the old Granville County, N.C. records in the late 1800's. He was preparing to publish a book on the Granville Co., N.C. records, but died before it was published. His notes were microfilmed and placed in the N.C. Archives. In recent years his notes were published in book form posthumously. His notes specifically show that Samuel Mangum died in 1758 but there were no clear references to the actual Granville County records where he obtained the information.
Researchers in recent years have begun to question whether the 1758 & 1777 records actually refer to a single person, and even whether the 1758 record of Samuel's death actually existed. In 2004 I hired a professional genealogist to research the 18th century Granville County records for any references to James and Samuel Mangum. She found several records, making it very clear that Samuel Mangum did die in 1758 and making it almost certain that the 1777 record was a final settlement of that estate, possibly after the last heir reached adulthood. More court records relating to Samuel Mangum will be presented in later Journals.
In this first record of James Mangum's estate (administrator bond) Sarah Mangum was administrator (widows were usually given that honor). The date, 7 December 1757, is shortly after James' death. One of the bond's sureties was William Mangum, probably James' brother William Jr. This William signed with a "W" mark while other records show that William Sr., who was probably literate, signing without a mark.
Joseph Person was the other sureties but the N.C. Person family's relationship with the Mangums has not been fully investigated. Without proof, we believe Joseph Person was related to William Mangum Sr.'s wife Mary, whose maiden name is believed to be (although not proven to be) Person. Certainly the Mangums and Persons were closely associated with each other in Virginia, as evidenced by the public records."
3. From the website <http://lynn.parham.home.comcast.net/DLD58b.htm>:
"THE Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue No. 58, July 2006: "THE Old Mangum Records - PART 14 (Renamed from "John Mangum - Immigrant Ancestor; an Analysis of the Records"):
NAMES MENTIONED IN The ABOVE Records [Kerry's note: images of these documents are included in the article.]:
Inventory of Samuel Mangum Estate 1758:
S. Mangum (Samuel)
Danl Weldon (Clerk)
Danl Meadows
Inventory of Samuel Mangum Estate 1759:
Samuel Mangum
Wm Burrow
Jn Motley
Wm Duke
Daniel Meadows
____ Madrey
Wm Williamson
Jno Williams
Edwd Carlile
Phil Hawkins
Bagh Jones
Peter Smart
ThosDaniell
Thos Williams
Henery Laughten
Wm Mangum Jr.
Thestus? Capp
Franceas Capp
Thos Hight
Richard Acock
Smith Patterson
John Williams
Sam Williamson
Richd Onadney
Inventory of Samuel Mangum Estate 1776:
___ Meadows
Saml Mangum
John Oliver
James Langston
Littleton Mapp
Richard Madry
John Person
Edward Carlile
Job Sims
Anselem Bailey
Phill Hawkins
William Bryant
Richard Eacock (Acock?)
Thomas William
Inventory of Samuel Mangum Estate 1777:
John Oliver
James Langston
Littleton Mapp
Reuben Searcy (Clerk)
Samuel Manggum
Richard Madry
John Person
Edwd Carlille
Job Sims
Anslem Baily
Phillip Hawkins
William Bryant
Richard Eacock
Thomas Williams
James Langston
Littleton Mapp
Reuben Searcy (Clerk)
Richard Madry
The Estate of Samuel Mangum (The following comments were made by the paid researcher (Judith Ryston) who found these records.):
The account of the estate of Samuel Mangum was completed and signed by "two children" on 2nd of August 1776. It states "Samuel Mangum Deceased 1758" and computes the widows thirds and divides the rest into six equal parts for the six children. The signatures John Oliver, James Langston, and Littleton Mapp, according to the abstract of court records, were the commissioners who inventoried the estate.
This account dated 1776 was 18 years past the death of Samuel, and would allow for a child of three, therefore very young when he died, to come of age. Their guardian apparently was Daniel Meadows. Daniel purchased many items at the estate sale and was probably a relative. The date of the debts, some that originated before Samuel Mangum's death, and continued through 1769, undoubtedly included the costs of maintenance of the estate and things such as schooling, and sometimes boarding of the children, all costs to his estate. Guardianship accounts containing receipts should also have been maintained in a separate file with perhaps yearly reports to the court, but those guardian accounts may not have survived. Daniel Meadows corrected some errors and submitted it to the Granville County Court in February 1777.
When Samuel Mangum died he left a widow, six young children, land, inventory, and existing debts as much as three years old. His estate was not finally settled until his children became of age in 1776, and all of the debts were subtracted from the money raised from the estate sale, the widow awarded her third, and the rest divided among his children.
(It should be noted that Bute County, N.C. was created in 1769 from parts of Granville & Franklin Counties. During the Revolutionary War in 1779, the County was decommissioned and the lands divided into Franklin & Warren counties with possibly some small area into Granville County where the Mangums lived. The records of this Mangum family are therefore found in Granville & Bute and later in Warren & Franklin. [Editor])
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Abt 1732 - 1758 (~ 26 years)