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1. Per website of Lynn Parham quoted from Mangum Family Bulletin, Vol. 13, Page 24 at
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lynn.parham/migrate.htm: "William Mangum Sr. was a probably a son of John the immigrant. We first know of him in 1734 when he and his wife Mary record their son James' birth in the Albemarle Parish of Surry County, Virginia. This couple also recorded the births of other children in the parish. The early records concerning William Sr. and his family are very uncertain. William was born about 1709 although we have no direct evidence of his birth or his parentage. His wife Mary, according to one genealogy, may have been a daughter of Job Person and wife Lucy although we have not been able to document that theory. Another source says she was daughter of John Person who's will was probated in Surry Co., Virginia in 1738, but that theory presently seems doubtful. The available records do suggest that the Person family was close kin to the Mangums. William Mangum Sr. and his family remained in Virginia until at least June 1747 when William helped appraise the estate of Arthur Sherrod. By May 1748 the family was in North Carolina.
William Mangum Sr. and family apparently made the trek to the Southwest in 1748. In May of that year William Mangum witnessed a deed in that part of Edgecombe Co., N.C. that is now in Halifax County. They did not stay long there but continued on west into that part of Granville County that is now Warren County. William witnessed a deed there in June of 1748 and obtained land in 1749 when 350 acres were surveyed for him. The land was granted to him in 1751 by John Earl Granville. The grant calls him a planter of St. John's Parish. The tax lists for William begin in 1749 when he list two polls. One poll is William himself and we suspect the other is his son Samuel Mangum. William's last land grant was in 1760 and thereafter he began to sell his land. We have no definite proof as to when and where William Mangum Sr. died."
2. The book "The Mangums of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, and Utah and Adjoining States," by John T. Palmer, Santa Rosa, 1992, FHL film 1697868, pp. 4-5, issue of John Mangum and Frances Mangum, second Child: "William, the ancestor of the author was b. ca. 1706, Albemarle Parish, Surry Co., VA, d. Orange or Granville Co., VA, aft 1787, m. ca. 1731 Mary Person, b. 1709, Albemarle Parish, Isle of Wight Co., VA, dau. of John Person III, b, ca 1668, Albemarle Parish, Isle of Wight, VA, and Mary or Sarah Partridge, b. abt. 1670, Albemarle Parish, Isle of Wight, VA, dau. of Thomas Partridge. It has been well established that the family of William Mangum, Sr. migrated to NC from Virginia by June 1748 where sons Solomon and Joseph were born. (Footnote 13.) William received a land grant of 150 acres from Lord Carteret, Earl of Granville, in 1751. He settled near where the Roanoke River crossed the Virginia line in what is now Warren Co., then Granville Co., NC. (Footnote 14.) William had joined the great migration of tobacco planters who came from Virginia south to find more fertile land for cultivating the 'golden weed.' (By the time of the 1790 Census of North Carolina, Absolom, Howel, James, Joseph, and William Mangum were identified as heads of household in NC, all residing in Granville and Orange Counties. Another Absolam Mangum was found in Union Co., SC, 96th District in 1790.)
Footnote 12: Will of John Person III, dated 8 Aug 1721, proved 21 Mar 1738, Surry Co., VA, identified in John Person's will included John Person, Thomas Person, Elizabeth Person of Joseph Tuke, Francis Person, Joseph Person, Benjamin Person, Samuel Person, William Jacob Person, and Mary Person who m. William Mangum.
Footnote 13: "Mangum Family Bulletin," #15, 1974, p. 17. William Mangum witnessed an indenture on 1 June 1748, Granville Co., NC (MFB #3, p. 36) James L. Parham, a Mangum descendant, has written this family builletin since March 1969, having published 28 issues of this journal dedicated to preserving and publishing Mangum family information. He has solicited and published Mangum family information from throughout the US and has made it possible for many Mangums to identify their early Mangum ancestors. Subcriptions can be arranged by contacting him at 324 Cumberland Drive, S.E., Huntsville, AL."
Footnote 14: MFB, #22, 1985.
Footnote 15 of this chapter provides a strong argument that John Mangum, the Revolutionary War soldier, is probably NOT the son of 1706 - William Mangum and Mary Person.) Foot note 15: Mrs. Joann Mangum Hoagland of 301 24th St., Silver City, NM, tel 505-38-4789, a descendant of John angum b. ca. 1732, wrote the author "I cannot tell you how strongly I feel about this relationship - that is 1732 John is not the son of 1706 William... I have studied carefully the documentation, which is pretty scarce, for placing 1732 John as the son of 1706 William. It just does not hold water... That Albemarle Parish register put me on to this. When the Parish entries are palced in chornological order, we see that 1706 Wm. entires end about 1747-8 when he moved to North Carolina. 1732 John entries begin and go until 1761, jus before he moved to Lunenberg, VA. In 1747-8 when 1706-Wm. moved, 1732 John is a teenager. He would surely have gone with his father to North Carolina. That, in itself, tells me that 1732-John is not the son of 1706-William. Instead, 1732 John stays in Surry-Isle of Wight. Nor does 1732 John seem to align himself with different people, at least on the Albemarle Parish register, than had his supposed father William." Mrs. Hoagland requests that those interested in this relationship write her at the address noted above. She has obviously made a strong agrument that this undocumented relationship is tenuous. By the process of elimination she systematically eliminated Joseph, whose sons are Micajah, Elisha, and Josiah; Nicholas; James, whose sons were all born too late to be 1732 John; and Henry whose sons were also later than her 1732 John. "That leaves us," she wrote, "with 1703-1744 John and wife Olive Savage as 1732 John's parents... I have not proof - process of elimination."
3. Some report parents as John Person, b. abt. 1684 and died 1728 in Sussex Co., VA, and Sarah Partridge.
SOURCES_MISC:
1. On family group sheets prepared by Delta I.M. Hale, Rt. 1, Blackfoot, Idaho, she reports sources as follows for this family; however, I am not sure if they are specific to this child or not:
Albemarle parish records pp. 29, 40, 44.
Correspondence in No. Carolina and So. Carolina.
John Person's will dated 8 Aug 1721, proved 21 Mar 1738, will proved in Surry County.
2. Pedigree Chart of Enid Willardson [deceased].
3. The book "Births and Deaths 1717-1778 from the Albemarle Parish Register of Surry and Sussex Counties, Virginia," by John Bennett Brodie, 1958, Genealogical Publishing Co., copy in Courtland, Virginia library.
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