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- !PEE DEE QUEUE:Vol XXVIII, No 6, Nov-Dec 2004 pg 5 BILL OF SALE to Pations Turner a white woman:
22 Jul 1769 Thomas Wethersby, Sr of Halifax Co, NC to Pations Turner for 60L, one mulatto man John;
!DEED:22 Jul 1769 Halifax Co., NC Deed Book 11, p. 144
Thomas Weathersbee Sr, Planter of Halifax to Patience Turner of same, for £60, one mulatto man named John. Wit: Jonathan Cain, Jesse Bryan, Henry Medford, William Bryan. Pr: Aug Ct 1770.;
!CENSUS:1790 Georgetown District, SC Prince George Parish pg 56 w/John TURNER no ages (bef 1790) family listed as 10 others;
!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 803 w/John TURNER Sr no ages given, family listed as 5 Free Colored;
!CENSUS:1810;
!CENSUS:1820;
!NAMED:22 Apr 1822 Marion Co, SC Deeds K-24 Willis FINKLEA Sr sayeth he lived with a woman named Olive SIMMONS near the Cape Fear River who often told him she had seen Patience TURNERs mother, wife of John TURNER Sr, decd and Mrs. SIMMONS often told him she was a white woman of the Irish breed & the mixed blood came by a black man & heard old Mr Abraham DEW say the mother of Patience TURNER was a white woman. S: Willis (X) Finklea Sr;
!COURT:17 Sep 1860 Marion County Court of Common Pleas. Martin W. TURNER, vs Robert J. GREGG, declaration in Prohibition. John BLACKMAN Sr said he knew John TURNER, grandfather of Martin W. TURNER as a free person of color and also Patience TURNER the grandmother of said Martin W. TRUNER that John TURNER was half white and half African, that Patience was judging from her color and from reputation one fourth African blood. The father of said Martin W. TURNER, who was a son of John and Patience was named William TURNER who married Catherine MARTIN a white woman and had several children including Martin W. TURNER, who is only one eighth African blood and of very good character ...;
!COURT:31 Oct 1860 Marion County Court of Common Pleas. Martin W. TURNER, Relator vs N.C McDUFFIE, Shff, declaration in Prohibition. John BLACKMAN Sr and James LANE Sr say they knew John TURNER alias Jack TURNER and he was a free man, a mulatto, one half white and half colored, that Patience TURNER his wife passed and was received as white not having more than one fourth Negro blood. That Reuben TURNER was one of their children, and passed and received as white man, married Dolly MARTIN a free white woman with no negro blood, that Martha TURNER alias Patty TURNER was one of their children and passed and received as free white woman, that Martin TURNER who is her so is reported son of Needham WATSON a white man of no mixture. (much more);
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1740 - Bef 1819 (< 78 years)