In the posting focusing on Charles and Esther, I had foolishly stated that, as far as I was aware, he doesn’t appear in Stokes County, North Carolina, deed records from 1789, when that county was created from Surry County, up to his death in 1814. My reason for concluding this is that I cannot find the surname Whitlock in the grantor-grantee index for Stokes County deeds.
Perhaps I am just not looking in the right place, but when I look at the key to both indices for surnames starting with the letter W in the digitized copies of these indices at FamilySearch, I don’t find the Whitlock surname. And I don’t find the surname when I page through the W- names in either index. It’s not where I’d expect to find it in Wh- names grouped together.
But I now find from a number of good sets of notes I’ve discovered in Ancestry trees and at the Whitlock Family One-Name Study site abstracts of Stokes County deed records in which Charles Whitlock was either a buyer or a seller. I’ve hunted down each of these deeds in the digitized collection of Stokes County deed books at FamilySearch, and have now added information about them to the posting about Charles Whitlock linked above.
Several of these deeds contain important information about Charles and Esther’s children, including information about when their son William went from Stokes County, North Carolina, to Adair County, Kentucky. I had previously written in the posting about Agnes, Alexander, and William linked above that William’s move to Kentucky took place sometime between 1800 and 1806.
I now find that the move of William Whitlock and his family to Kentucky took place sometime between 10 November 1804, when he and his brother Charles witnessed a sale of land by their father Charles Whitlock in Stokes County, and 7 August 1805, when William gave power of attorney to Isaac Vernon in Stokes County to sell land in Stokes County belonging to William, with a notation in the power of attorney that William Whitlock was living in Kentucky.
If you’ve read the previous two postings and are relying on them for accurate information about these families, I wanted you to know about the corrections and additions I’ve made to them.
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