Hugh Jenkins
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| Hugh Jenkins received land warrants in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 250, 50, 50, and 80
acres, with the first and largest recieved in 1749 and the
last in 1767, after he had already purchased land in North
Carolina.408 In 1759 he appears on a list of land owners in Salisbury, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania.409 According to Hugh's son Aaron Jenkins' Revolutionary War Pension Application from 1832, Aaron was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1762 and his family moved when he was very young to Rowan County, North Carolina.408 In September of 1765 William Nassery sold lot 1 of the north square of Salisbury to Hugh Jenkins of Pennsylvania for 210 pounds. That same month Robert Harden and his wife Jane sold him 597 acres in Rowan County on the Second Creek adjacent the Great Road by the White Glade for 285 pounds.408 He served as a Justice of the Peace in Rowan County from 1769 to November 1777.408 In 1772 and 1773 he purchased two lots of land in Tryon County (600 and 320 acres, respectively). In January of 1778 he gave 200 acres in Tryon County to his son Joseph Jenkins.253 Later that year he was sued by Ambrose Cobb over 400 acres, also in Tryon County, on both sides of Dutchman's Creek, Caney Branch. He was awarded the disputed property by the Tryon County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.253 In the 1778 tax list for Rowan County he was listed in Captain George Cowain's District as being worth 4,130 pounds.415 And in the 1782 tax list he was in William Bell's Company. He had 900 acres deeded and 14 entered. He also had "2 Negroes, 10 horse, 14 cattle" and 690 pounds "value".415, p. 178 In 1784 he purchased 450 acres in Rowan County from the executors of Hugh Montgomery.408 In the tax list from 1787 he was 65 years old and had living with him two white males ages 24 and 21, three white females ages 50, 25, and 18, one black male aged 21, and three black females ages 38, 8, and 6.415, p. 257,407 In the town of Salisbury that same year he was taxed on 5 lots valued at 250 pounds.415, p. 288 In the 1788 list of taxables in the town of Salisbury he hed 4 lots worth 60 pounds.415, p. 295 In 1797 he deeded lot 42 in West Square of Salisbury to his daughter Mary Stuart "out of love".408 In his will he also left her lot 44.108 According to his will, he owned at least 12 lots in the town of Salisbury as well as around 1000 acres of land in Rowan and Lincoln counties. |
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