John Rouse 1 Family  

John Rows/Rouze

From Martha Mewborn Marble

In Vol X of Steve Bradley's new Colonial Records books

Estate of George Henderson probably of Bertie 1737/38

Among numerous people who owed his estate money was John Rows/Rouze of Contentny in Craven Precinct. John became indebted to Henderson on 21 Feb 173 blank for the sum of 72 pds. by 30 Mar 174 faded, Rouse had discharged his obligation by a mortgage.

There should be a deed in the Bertie Records for this mortgage if any of you have the early Bertie abstracts and some indication of when the mortgage was paid off and by whom.

Guess my question is why was Rouse indebted to someone in Bertie Co which was a long way away. Had he made a stop by there on the way to Dobbs Co? Henderson appears to have had no children and left his estate to Hugh Scott son of Andrew of Glasgow - left him all the real & personal estate of David Henderson decd which was 1/7 th undivided part. Appears to be no family relationship and Henderson may have been a money lender.

From Sarah Corneliussen corneliussen@nfx.net

72 pounds must have been an enormous sum of money back then--one thing I remember about the deeds at Duke was how cheap land was to buy. I THINK I remember this correctly--the land John Rouse purchased in 1756 cost him five pounds. Also, there is a good record of various people discharging debt through mortages in the Noah Rouse collection. I remember there were many instances of that. Noah Sr. acquired a lot of land that way.

Interestingly, I am descended from Abner Eason who was Justice of the Peace in Bertie Co. in 1776. Anybody else related to the Easons?

From Martha Mewborn Marble

Was a fair amount of money so he must have had something to back it up. From the way this reads, a mortgage was not put on the land until after Henderson died. If there is a deed in Bertie it should give the land description. It could have been in Dobbs. Will check the Cross Index. Below is what I did from the Cross Index years ago and it was probably done from the Grantee Index so who knows what I missed. Don't see any indication of anything from the Henderson estate but that would be in the Craven deeds, not Dobbs.

What I haven't done is cull from Hoffman's books or Craven deeds the early entries for these people.

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