Philemon Lacy/Lacey Sr.

Philemon Lacy/Lacey Sr.

o Sold his plantation to Robert Reade

o Philemon Lacey, of Chatham Co, North Carolina: Philemon Lacey came from Brunswick County, Virginia, There is a deed in Orange County, North Carolina that states "Joatham Harder sells 250 acres of land on both sides of Collinses Creek, joins the land where James Collins now lives to Philemon Lacy of the County of Brunswick and province of Virginia." Witnessed by Nathaniel Robson, John Lindsey and William Edwards. The agreement to sell in consideration of $ 40 to be paid by December 1768. (It was proved and recorded January Court 1769.) This indicates that Philemon Lacy, Sr, did not move again after moving from Virginia to North Carolina. The land that Philemon Lacy, Sr. purchased was included in that part of Orange County that was cut off to form Chatham County in 1771. Philemon Lacey and his wife Ann, sold land in Brunswick County, Virginia (Deed Book 9, page 173-176), which was in St. Andrews Parish, to Robert Reade on August 20, 1768 for $ 150. The deed states "404 acres sold to Robert Reade of South Farnan Parish, Essex County. It being the tract of land whereon the said Philemon Lacey now lives and also being the land his father, Benjamin Lacey, purchased, containing 404 acres." Signed, Philemon Lacy and Ann X Lacey, his wife. Recorded September 26, 1768 (Note two different spellings of his last name) The two documents mentioned indicate that Philemon Lacey must have moved from Brunswick County, Virginia to Orange county, North Carolina in 1768. Philemon Lacey received a patent for 225 acres of land in Brunswick County on March 3, 1760 on the branches of Cedar Creek. His father, Benjamin Lacey, received a patent for 404 acres of land on August 16, 1856 on the lower side of Little Cedar Creek in Brunswick County. This is evidently the 404 acres of land that Philemon Lacey sold to Robert Reade on August 20, 1768. Cedar Creek is in the extreme northwest corner of Brunswick County. It is very close to the county lines joining Nottoway County to the north and Luenberg County to the west.

Deed Book??, page 132, Chatham County, NC. Philemon Lacey, Sr,

This indenture made the seventh day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nine, between Mary Lloyd, widow of the County of Orange and the State of North Carolina, John Brown and Martha, his wife, of the County of _____, and the State of Georgia, Joseph Moutrey and Lucy, his wife, of the County of Randolph and State of North Carolina, Jesse West and Sarah his wife, and Stephen Justice and Anna his wife, of the County of Chatham and the State of North Carolina, of the 2nd part and Philemon Lacey, Jr. of the County of Chatham and the State of North Carolina of the other part, witnessed that the said Mary Lloyd, John Brown and his wife, Joseph Moutrey and his wife, Jesse West and his wife, and Stephen Justice and his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars each, to them in hand paid by the said Philemon at the sealing and delivering to them presents through receipts with brief, they do hereby acknowledge hath grantor and sealed and by their presents doth grant, bargain and sell unto the said Philemon his heirs assign track of land lying in the County of Chatham aforesaid, supposed to contain three hundred and seventy acres or there about it being the land whereupon Philemon Lacey, Sen'r. lived before his death and which he died seized and possessed of, in which said grantors were entitled to distribution shares as heirs to said deceased and also all rights in reversion to their shares in the widows dower, firmly by those presents relinquishing all rights title, interest and claims in and to the said track of land of any part thereof as well in equality as in law, and the said grantors for themselves, their heirs, Exec’s, Admi'n, and assign doth Covent (page 2 missing)

CALEB LINDSEY'S PETITION

To the Worshipful, the Justice of the County of Chatham, North Carolina: The petition of Caleb Lindsey respectfully showeth that Philemon Lacey, Sr. late of the County of Chatham, in or about the year 1809, died intestate leaving nine children, Benjamin Lacey, William Lacey, Philemon Lacey, Mary Lloyd, Elizabeth Adcock, Martha Brown, Lucy Moutray, Sarah West and Anna Justice; who were the only lawful heirs and heiresses of the said Philemon, deceased. That the said Philemon, Sr at the time of his death, was seized and possessed of a track of land in fee simple containing 364 1/2 acres lying in the county of Chatham, aforesaid, on Collin's Creek, bounded on the North by the lands of your petitioner, on the West by lands belonging to David and Allen Justice, and on the South and East by the said Creek. To which said track of land, the above named heirs were equally entitled to a distributive share. That sometime after the death of the said Philemon, one Richard Stanford, purchased all the shares of the above named heirs in and to the said track of land, except the share of part of Benjamin Lacey, and afterwards took possession of the whole of said land, without having the same divided. That the said Stanford has since died and that his representatives still retain possession of the land purchased from the said Benjamin Lacey, his undivided part or share of the said track of land, and has obtained a legal title for the same. Your petitioner therefore prays your worship to appoint commissioners, agreeable to allot and lay off to him, one ninth part of the said track of land, to which he is entitled by purchase from the said Benjamin Lacey and your petitioner will, as is duty bound ever pray ye. Caleb Lindsey Dated November 9, 1819.