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Note: kes Emilia Sikes Elizabeth Sikes Delilah Sikes Note: SOURCE: Revolutionary War Records, Duplin and Sampson Counties, North Carolina, Contributions to Genealogy, Virginia L. & Oscar M. Bizzell. Note: Sikes (Sykes), Joshua, Private, N.C. Militia - Soldier served at the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge under Capt. John DeVane and Col. Alexander Lillington where he helped throw up the breastworks. At that time he was living in Bladen Co., N.C. In N.C. Army Accounts, Vol. V., Bk 180, he received voucher #457 M for 1/3/6 pounds. In the 1784 special census for Sampson Co., Joshua was taxed for 920 acres and 3 free white polls. He did not appear in the 1790 National Census for Sampson. His son John wasappointed to administer the estates of both his father and mother (Joshua and wife Esther) at the Aug 1808 term of Sampson Court. When John made his report to the Court on 13 Feb1809, he stated that his parents estate amounted to 693/1/8 pounds. Son John, born in 1778, married Roda C.A. Herrington. From early New Hanover County records we learned that Joshua Sikes was a planter on the east side of Black River and sold much land in that area before coming to Sampson Co. In these deeds his wife is referred to as Emery. (One source tells that Joshua married Mourning Brown, daughter of the Rev. Edward Brown and that Joshua was an elder of Great Cohera Baptist Church ( Note:Mourning was the wife of Joshua Sikes, son of the Private Joshua Sikes above). Marriage 1: Emery BAKER Children: Cornelius SIKES Joshua Sr. SIKES Delilah SIKES Emery SIKES Elizabeth SIKES ---------------------------------- Spouse 1 Emery Baker Born: abt 1745 in [city], [county], Virginia, USA Died: Marriage: abt 1772 in [city], [county], North Carolina, USA View Info Children Sex Birth Emery Sikes F Needham Sikes M Rhoda Sykes F Emilia Sykes F Jane Sikes F Deliah H Sykes F Elizabeth Sikes F Joshua Sikes M abt 1760 Cornelius Sikes M 1761 in Sampson, [county], North Carolina, USA John Sikes M 1777 Elizabeth Frances Sisk F 1786 in [city], Surry, North Carolina, USA Spouse 2 Elizabeth Pridgen Born: abt 1751 in [city], [county], North Carolina, USA Died: Marriage: abt 1785 in Bladen, [county], North Carolina, USA View Info Children Sex Birth Luke Sikes M 1797 in Bladen, New Hanover, North Carolina, USA Other Children Sex Birth Elizabeth Frances Sisk F 1786 in [city], Surry, North Carolina, USA Source: Electronic http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=28393770&st=1
Note: Married: Abt 1760 Children: Cornelius Sikes Joshua Sikes II b: ABT. 1760 John Sikes b: BET. 1775 - 1780 Rhoda Sikes Jane Si
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