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The names
and ages of the children of Malcolm Smith and Sarah Patterson, his wife:
Peggy
Smith was born Thursday 18th
May 1746
John
Smith was born Tuesday 20th
June 1748
Patrick
Smith was born Sunday 17th
June 1750
Anna
Smith was born Friday 17th
July 1752
Malcolm
Smith was born Thursday 4th
July 1754
Archibald
Smith was born Friday 28th
August 1756
Duncan
Smith was born Saturday 22nd
December 1758
Neill
Smith was born Friday 26th
June 1761
Daniel
Smith was born Monday 2nd
of october 1764
January the
13th 1800, Rachel began her services with W. John Smith.
Saturday 2nd
January 1813, Dick left home.
D. Brown's
ticket the amount lbs. 5-16.
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The amount
of the Gilespie's notes:
Duncan
McAlluim 4-5-0
Malcolm
Locklear 4-12-8
Duncan McMillan 3-2-20
Neill McGill 4-15-0
Duncan
McBride 6-10-0
Maurie Tuder 4-14-?
Norman
Gilles 1-?-?
Foribee
Overstreet 8-7-?
John
Overstreet 4-5-0
McAlister
Angues 6-15-0
Duncan
McDugal 7-5-0
D. McAlister 6-7-6
Mathew
Stricklen 5-0-0
Joseph
Stricklen 1-9-6
Issac Dyson 30-0-0
Bruce's note 1-13-0
D. McLacklen 2-12-0
Mathew
Stricklen 5-12-0
Isaac Dyson 3-17-0
Credit for
three dollars
McPhaul 2-14-0
Lewis
Strickland 3-5-10
Wm. Baker 3-5-0
Nat
Strickland 1-1-0
Total 95-13-8
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The names
and ages of Amey's children as follows:
Fancy born 10th June 1799
Isaac born 25th June 1801
Antony born
11th May 1803
Clarsey born 12
February 1805
Manuel born 14th April 1807
Alfred born 12th Oct or November
1810
Virgel born 20th January 1812
Jake born 10th of July 1814
Hamlet born 7th June 1819
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Dreds
foder took 230 bundles to make 100 weight
30
bundles yet to come to me. N.B.
John Smith
Jefferson
County
Greensville
Office
Mississippi Territory
Rec'd of
Levy Locklear $28
From Peter
Dial on account of Levie Locklear $4
Credit to
mending a chain that is the hook and put a link in. This account Bobs is put in
one other book.
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Archibald S.
Brown married to Ann Holmes on Monday the 3rd November 1817 by the
Rev. McIver.
In No. 37 of
the American farmer a cure for Rheumatick pains & also a remedy for
stopping blood. No. 29 of the farmer cure for yellow water in horses.
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The crop of
corn 1829 was up to the lower board of 4 from top in the far in of the crib and
nearly three feet high in the breast, which was about 5 feet from the door.
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Cure for
consumption:
1/2 an
eggshell full of good rum, the same of brown sugar, the yolk of one egg; mixed
well together. Take three times a day, morning, noon and night until well.
The 18th
day of March 1826. Planted the cotton field in corn; planted the orchard the 8th
of March 1826.
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For
Consumption:
A tablespoonful
of tar, the same of honey simmered over a slow fire 10 or 15 minutes or on hot
embers. Take a root as big as your finger of aliompaia pulverized and stir it
well in the tar and honey. After it is taken off the fire, take morning, noon
and night as much as will sit on the point of a case knife. May 1830.
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January 7,
1818
A cure for
the bite of a mad dog by making a diction of Ibelia or as some call it Indian
tobacco; by others, sculcap. It is said that it grows in fields and when eaten
by hogs, it causes saliva to come from their mouths.
Fancy
children:
George
born May 28, 1834
Manuel
born July 13, 1836
Effie
born April 6, 1838
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The names
and ages of Fancy's children:
Owen
born June 15, 1818
Madson
born February 26, 1821
Sampson
born March 15, 1823
Amey
born July 15, 1825
Robert
born November 4, 1827
Clarsey
born January 8, 1830
Antony
born October 14, 1831
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I wish Hugh
to have Madison; William to have Sampson; Clarency for Catherine's children; Robert
for young A. Buie; old Amey for Elizabeth.
Neill
Brown
July
6, 1830
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This I have
written to show you what my will is and should be done. I beg of you, my
children, to have no falling out, but live like Christian brothers and sisters.
I wish you, my dear sons, to use your sister Mary well. She labored hard to
raise the family and when I am gone, she must look to you.
Your
father,
Neill
Brown
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The summer
of 1830 was dry and light crops of corn; the fall, very favorable - no frost to
hurt anything. Cotton blossoming, corn and peas growing until the 24th
day of November, then a freeze.
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To swage
swelling in feet or body, take cider, the bark of dogwood root and holly root,
ginger, dill seed, saults. Two spoonful of cider to one of the rest. Mix in
molasses. Take half of the mixture 3 mornings, and then 3 mornings, a dram of
the rum and garlic for 9 days and then every other day.
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Presbyterian
volume the forth-number fifteen - Explains dancing what it means.
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Hugh Brown,
Sr. departed this life on Saturday, October 18th 1794, age 77 or 78.
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The spring of
the year of 1821 was very wet and the summer also. The fall and forepart of the
winter was dry and warm, favorable for gathering and housing crops. There was
no frost until the eleventh day of November, except one or two light frost the
middle of October.
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The first
newspaper established in England was entitled the English Mercury and is dated
July 28, 1538, one of which is preserved in the British Museum. The Gazette was
first published at Oxford, August 22, 1612. The first printing press established
in North America was by Samuel Green in Massachusetts in 1638. There was
printing in South America earlier than this date.
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July 1824
this was written.
Jamestown in
Virginia founded 207 years ago; 109 years since tobacco was made in Virginia; 105
years since the first legislator in Virginia; and or 2 years after, 150 young
ladies was sent from England for wifes or wives for the planters for which
every man was to give on 100 pounds of tobacco for his wife.
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Th same year
Negroes imported; 202 years ago, the Indians slayed 247 whites in Virginia and
100 years since the first Assembly held in Massachusetts and 94 years ago
20,000 came from England on account of persecution. The same year, slaves
brought to New England.
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The year
1669 the first legislature in No. Carolina which is 155 years ago and as there
was no ministers, they passed a law declaring that if any two persons carrying
before the governor, counsel, a few of their neighbors and declaring their
mutual assent, shall be deemed husband and wife.
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Cure for
Consumption:
Inhaling the
fumes of nitric acid have been found to cure the consumption. Under a
handkerchief, one end of which rested on the head, the other to fall down over
the breast. Inhale a glass tumbler having in it a teaspoon of the acid; and
breathed the fumes, thus prevented by the handkerchief from escaping. About
half an hour at a time, three times per day. Keep the eyes shut.
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A cure for
the tooth ache:
Nitric acid
- How to use it. The best mode of employing is by lint, put on a probe and
moisten with the acid; then to be slowly applied to the cavity of the tooth.
Take care not to touch the other teeth. The gum, checks, the mouth is next to
be washed with tepid water.
This remedy
gives immediate cure for a burn or scold. Apply Clarified honey on a rage,
which will cause pain in a short time
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Titter Worm
Blood root
(called also red root, Indian paint, etc.) to slice it in vinegar and afterward
work the place afflicted with the liquid and in a few days the dry scurf will
be removed and the disease cured.
American
Farmer - Vol 7, page 167
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John Brown
was born December 28, 1751 in North Carolina, Cumberland County, on Cape Fear
River, and departed this life the 16th day of January 1794 whose age
was 42 years and 20 days.
William
Brown died on Wednesday the 8th of March 1826, age 70 years, three
months and 16 days.
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The name and
ages of the children of Daniel Smith and Catherine Brown, his wife:
Neill Smith was
born 21 March 1777
Daniel Smith
was born 26 February 1779
Hugh Smith
was born 26 February 1779
John Smith
was born 13 October 1782
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A wonderful
light on Wednesday morning one hour or two before day on the 13th
day of November 1833. There was great drops of light falling from the skies as
great flakes of snow, every where, until day.
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A cure for
the bite of a snake:
Bathing the
part bitten with warm milk affords immediate relief. Indigo applied to the
wound will also cure if milk can not be had.
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June 1824 on
Monday 14th the weather began to turn cold until Saturday following
two or three nights. Seemed as there would be frost, but there was none.
The spring
of 1826 was remarkable forward by the 6 or 8 of March. Cattle could live on the
new grass and by the fifteenth, could fill themselves. Peach trees showed some
bloom the last days of February and in a few days of March was in nearly full
bloom. We planted corn on the 9th of March. Corn was finger high
where it fell the first of March.
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A remarkable
gust 1822, 28th September, three o'clock in the morning. The wind
began to blow and continued until daylight, when the appearance was awful.
Large timber all down. The roads filled up that there was no passing on them on
horseback. Fences all torn to pieces. A number of houses uncovered. Blessed be
God, no lives lost in this part of the world, Robeson, North Carolina.
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For the
tooth ache:
One quarter
of a pound of persimmon bark powder, one pint of French brandy, one pint of
rose water, one pint of pure water. In twenty-four hours, it is fit for use.
Hold in the mouth for five minutes. The above will preserve the tooth and gums
from disease and cure when diseased. It should be used every morning with a
brush.
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Gilbert
Murphey and Margaret Brown was married on Thursday 16th day of
December 1819 by the Rev. Malcolm McNair and died on the 26 day of November
eighteen minutes after five o'clock in the evening, 1820.
Margaret
married the second time to George McIntosh, the 7th day of October
1828.
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A cure for
the dysentery:
Take one
pint of good vinegar, 1/2 pound of loaf-sugar and simmer them together a
convenient time in a pewter vessel with a pewter cover. Let the patient drink
of this. During the day a small quantity at a time, either clear or
accommodated to the palate by diluting it with water another 10 grains of
proyspate of iron in milk every 2 hours.
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The Year 1817
was a remarkable wet summer and extraordinary good crops. The fall somewhat
dry; frost very late, about the middle of October. One light frost about the
last of October, or first of November. Two other light frosts which did no
hurt. Cotton blooming the 18th November; some pea lives and potato
vines and leaves green. No frost yet to hurt any thing.
1819
The summer
[was] dry and fall very dry. The wells naturally dried up. The mills all
stopped grinding. People went to Rockfish mills. Frost came by the 8th
or 10th October. No small grain could be sown in October---the
ground so hard.
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The winter
not very hard, the spring of 1820 and summer to tolerable dry until corn was
laid by. Then a good season until forward corn had made itself. Then the rains
pored down very heavy and about the tenth of October, three days of North east
storm with heavy rains, which hurt young corn --- broke and bent it to the
ground ---shattered the foder so as it was partly lost. 20th October
- no frost to hurt anything, but very wet.
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Each of the
children of Daniel Smith received 89 lbs., 14 shillings of their father's
estate at one time and $25 each afterward.
Daniel
received after that, five dollars for each of them again, and Hugh received
$22, which they agreed to give their brother Neill; only five Hugh kept.
Directions
to Scotland:
Alex Brown
Lickgruinart
Parish
Of Kilchoman
Island
Of Islay,
Argileshire
Original:
Bradley M. Buie
Transcribed
by Bradley M. Buie January 2000