John Parrott Deed 11 April 1752
(Transcribed by Dorothy White)

 
John Parrott received a patent 11 April 1752 for 640 acres in Duplin Co. (now Sampson), NC, 
on Six Runs Creek.  [Sampson Co. Deeds, 10:276-277.] [Six Runs Creek rises in northeast Sampson 
Co. And flows south and southwest to join Coharie River in forming Black River. {William S. 
Powell, The North Carolina Gazetteer (Chapel Hill: U of NC Press, 1968), 456}]  Jacob Perrit 
and Agnes Perrit deeded to Edmund Mathis, 16 July 1772, 400 acres on the east side of Six Runs, 
a branch of Black River, about six miles above the fork above Thomas Devaugh's land. [Sampson 
Co., Deeds, 23:353.]  All 640 acres of the original patent, 11 April 1752 to John Parrott, were 
deeded to Joshua Parrott, "brick layer, of Lenoir County" by Ezekiah Bell on 16 November 1796.  
Ezekiah Bell had received the land from his father, George Bell, by his will [Sampson Co. Deeds, 
10:276-277.]  [The county seat of Duplin was in Sampson Co., when Sampson Co., NC, was formed 
in 1784.  Thus, the deed books of Duplin up to that time are found in Sampson Co. This leads to 
some confusion in research.]






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