His will, which was dated June 23, 1800, was proven in the Granville County court in May, 1804. He was also a co-executor of William Buchanan’s will in 1788 and brother Thomas’s will in 1786. was listed as one of the nine justices of the Granville County court when that group convened in August, 1793. Philemon Bradford Junior, however, left a few more footprints than some of John I’s other siblings. Prior to that time, White had been a commission of the peace. 235 White, incidentally, was such a well respected member of the Granville County militia that the members of that unit requested that colony’s governor to appoint him captain of that military unit in 1755. Thomas Bradford inventoried and sold the contents of White’s estate in May of 1774. Her husband is believed to have been the Jonathan White who died in Granville County in 1774 and had his estate settled by John Bradford’s brother Thomas Bradford in August of that year. White sometime before Philemon drafted his will in 1769. I know very little of John’s sister Mary other than that she married a Mr. (will filed in Granville County on July 19, 1780) (4) Benjamin Hudspeth (5) Charles Hudspeth (married to Elizabeth Glenn in Surry County on July 18, 1788, died after June 1, 1830, in Madison, Alabama) (6) Elizabeth Hudspeth (7) Jemima Hudspeth (8) Ralph Hudspeth (9) Martha (Patty) Hudspeth (married Thompson Glenn) (10) Hannah Hudspeth (born about 1770, married Absalom Holman in Surry County on January 27, 1794, died about 1848 in Overton County, Tennessee). They had eleven children, including: (1) Mary Ann Hudspeth (born 1772, married Caleb William Webb in Surry County on December 11, 1797, moved with her three sons to Overton County - now Clay County - Tennessee in 1830, she died there in about 1842) (2) William Hudspeth (will filed in Surry County on March 4, 1778) (3) Giles Hudspeth Jr.
233īoth Giles and Elizabeth died in Surry County, North Carolina: him in September 1796 and her sometime after the drafting of her November 15, 1802, will. Hence, both of them appeared in Captain Andrew Hampton’s Company during the October 8, 1754, Granville County militia’s general muster before Col. 232 Giles and Carter both served in the Granville County militia in 1754. 231 Carter Hudspeth died in Granville County in either late 1795 or early 1796 and his will, dated September 4, 1795, was proved in the Granville County court in February 1796. Philemon sold 150 acres in Granville County on the north side of Fishing Creek to Carter Hudspeth for fifty pounds on June 2, 1759. 230 If so, that record provides further evidence of how the colonists’ inability to travel far resulted in their marriage to surrounding neighbors. 229 Interestingly, a neighbor of Philemon’s in 1758 was reportedly named “Ralph Hedgspeth” - probably a misspelled reference to one of the Hudspeths. For example, one of the earliest records of Philemon in North Carolina, his sale of 400 acres on Persimmon Creek in the Edgecombe Precinct to William Williams for twenty-five pounds “current money of Virginia” on Februwas witnessed by Giles’s brother Carter Hudspeth.
Carter Hudspeth, a man with unknown connections to Giles, had a long and close relationship with the Bradford family. 228 The Hudspeths and the Bradfords remained close for many years.
On October 9, 1793, Giles and Elizabeth’s son Charles Hudspeth “farmlet” 208 acres in Surry County, North Carolina, to Giles (spelled Jiles) and Elizabeth Hudspeth (Giles’s wife) in which those parents were given a lifetime claim to that land for the low price of ten shillings per year. Giles and Elizabeth moved to Surry County, North Carolina, in about 1770. Giles, who was born in Henrico County, Virginia, to parents Ralph Hudspeth and Mary Carter in 1727, lived in Granville County’s Fishing Creek area for several years during the mid 1700s. John I’s oldest sister, Elizabeth, married Giles Hudspeth sometime before the date Philemon’s will was drafted in 1769 (some say that they were married in 1750). Incidentally, since I am also a direct descendant of John’s grandson John Bradford (again, neither of which had identifying middle names), I will refer to Philemon’s son as John Bradford I and to the latter as John Bradford II. Before I set forth what I know about that son, however, I will share what I know about John’s siblings. I am a direct descendant of Philemon’s son John Bradford.