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- !NOTES:Marty Grant's 5th Great Grand Uncle.;
!NOTE:In testimony 11 Nov 1905 Mary Tabor answered this way:
Q. Who was Nancy Graham or Grimes?
A. My father's sister. I have seen her.
Q. Who was John Graham?
A. My father's brother. Never seen him.
Q. Where did they live?
A. In Wilkes County, N.C.
!CENSUS:1790.
* Moses Grimes in Wilkes had three sons under 16 (1774/84). That could be Jeffrey, Lewis and John;
!COURT: 6 May 1796 Wilkes Co., NC
Ordered by the court that John Grimes, the son Moses Grimes be bound unto Reuben Parkes till he attains the age of 21 years old now aged 4 years.
This record may indicate that Moses was dead by then.
Link to actual record on FamilySearch.org:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS79-17CS-L?cat=271373&i=234
!CENSUS:1800 Wilkes Co., NC, p. 57, Reuben Parks, 21010-20010-1-0
* The free colored person is certainly John Grimes;
!COURT:Feb 1803 Wilkes Co., NC
At the request of Reuben Parks he was released from the Indenture binding John Grimes to him. Ordered by the court that John Grimes be bound unto James Reynolds until 21 years old;
!INDENTURE: 4 Feb 1803 Wilkes Co., NC Wills 1800-1812
John Grimes to James Reynolds
John Grimes, orphan, bound to Reynolds until the age of 21 ...;
!COURT:30 Jan 1809 Wilkes Co., NC
Ordered that John Grimes be bound until John R. Johnson until arive to the age of 21 years.
Ordered that all the Indentures of John Grimes previous to this date be rescinded.
!COURT:Feb Term 1809
Ord that John Grimes bound to John R. Johnson this term be bound to Joel Chandler who is to give said boy One Hundred Dollars in a house when he is free. Aged now 17 or 18 years.
!CENSUS:1810 Wilkes Co., NC, p. 276/885
Joel Chandler 20010-21110-1-3.
The one free colored person is probably John Grimes.
!CENSUS:1820 x
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1792 - Aft 1810 (> 19 years)