Name: North Carolina Furrs

Updated: 08-06-2020 20:08:45.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Henry Furr: Birth: 12 JUL 1779 in Mecklenburg County, NC. Death: 30 APR 1836 in Abbeville County, SC

  2. Martha M. Furr: Birth: 1781 in Mecklenburg County, NC. Death: 18 SEP 1852

  3. Elizabeth Furr: Birth: 1783 in Mecklenburg County, NC. Death: 26 APR 1821 in Cabarrus County, NC

  4. Rosina Furr: Birth: 1785 in Mecklenburg County, NC.


Sources
1. Title:   Rev. William Thomas Albright, History of the Widenhouse, Furr, Dry, Stallings, Teeter, and Tucker Families (Greensboro, North Carolina: privately published, 1950)
2. Title:   Steve Moore, posting on the Furr Family Genealogy Forum http://genforum.genealogy.com/furr/messages/347.html, June 28, 2000
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Notes
a. Note:   antation, married, and had four children: Mary, Elizabeth, Rosina, and Henry. However, he did not enjoy the longevity that some of his brothers did. He died at the age of 31. The court ordered that his orphan, Henry, be hired to his uncle, Henry I, until reaching the age of 21.
  "Mecklenburg County, N.C. Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1780-1800".
  Court Minutes, Book 1, 1785. March Session
 On sufficient Reasons shewn to the Court Ordered that Letters Administrative on the Estate of Jacob Furr, dec'd, issue to Henry Furr Who produces as Security Joseph Shinn, Bound in the Sum of 200, Admr. Sworn.
  Court Minutes, Book 2, 1786. December Session.
 An Inventory and Account of Sales of the Estate of Jacob Furr, dec'd, was returned amounting to 100.16.4.
  Court Minutes Book 2, 1791. July Session.
 Ordered by the Court that Henry Furr, Admr. of the Estate of Jacob Furr, Dec'd., bring to our next Court Herry Furr, Orphan of Jacob Furr, Dec'd., & to use his endeavour to provide a Master & have him Bound to a Trade & that the Said Administrator come prepared to Settle the Estate.
  Cabarrus County, NC Abstracts - Court of Pleas 1793-1797 Deed Book 1, 2, and 3 1793-1801
 3rd Monday of Jan 1795 - 1:69 HENRY FURRER, an orphan of Jacob FURRER, dec'd, shall be hired to Henry FURRER, his uncle, until he attains the age of 21 for which Henry FURRER is to pay the said Henry FURRER, the sum of 7 pounds and byside 3 pounds what the law directs for apprentices in that case.
  Wednesday Oct 22, 1794 1:65 Ordered that the Estate of Jacob FURRER, dec'd shall be brought to final settlement and Joseph SHINN and Daniel JARRET, Esqs, are appointed to settle same.
 1:84 Mathias MICHEL is appointed guardian of Mary FURRER, an orphan child of Jacob FURRER, dec'd, and was bound for sum of 50 pounds.
 1:85 Joseph SHINN is appointed guardian of Elizabeth FURRER, an orphan child of Jacob FURRER, dec'd, and ordered to give bond. Frederic MELSHER, security in the sum of 50 pounds.
 Jacob MITCHEL is appointed guardian of Rosina FURRER, an orphan child of Jacob FURRER, dec'd, and bound with John NEUSSLER in the sum of 50 pounds.
  Think the numbers "1:69" etc. mean book 1 page 69.
 
Note:   Was only 6 years old when his father died. He grew up on the family pl
b. Note:   Date of birth also shown as 1757.

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