Charles Merritt Sr^[1]

1652 - 1718  (66 years)

• Name	Charles Merritt Sr
  Birth	1652	Surry, Surry, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Jun 1718	Chowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America
  Person ID	I1357	Merritt Family
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2025

  
  

  Family	Elinor Mary Evans,   b. 1652, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 1727, Chowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America (Age 75 years)
  Children	+ 1. John Merritt Sr,   b. 1680   d. 1757 (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F361	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] Data collected and researched by Dan SULLIVAN:, Will of Charles MERRITT; listed in Historical Perspectives of Charles MERRITT by Dr. KING MERRITT; W-S library has copy; NC 929.2M . Abstract from North Carolina Will: Chowa Abstract from North Carolina Will: Chowan County, North Carolina 6th April 1718 - 21 October 1718, sons - Charles, Nathaniel and John, - daughters - Ann, Sarah, and Hardy. Witnesses: James Bryant and Peter Evans, Clerk of courts: R. Hicks SOURCE: Will of Charles Merritt; listed in Historical Pers pectives of Charles Merritt by Dr. King Merritt;W-S librar y has copy;NC 929.2M Notes: Merritt book says he came to V A in 1666 when he was about 14 years old; Charles worke d 5 years as overseer for Benjamin Harrison's plantation o n Blackwater river; bought 300 acres on Deep Creek in Chowan/Bertie County area in March 1707; see copy of map in Dan Sullivan files In Chowan Precinct (later Chowan County) N C 1699 to 1723 by Margaret Hofmann, the following deed abstracts are found: #241, pg. 112: Peter Evans of CHowan Prec t. carpenter to Charles Merritt and Eliner, his wife, 10 ma rch 1707 for sundry causes and considereations, one half o f a tract of 600 acrees at ye mouth of Deep Creek and runni ng up Chawanock River. All houses houses, gardens, orchard s etc. Wit: Samuel Suklemore, William Stevens, his XMark . A 385. Charles Merritt and wife Eleanor & Peter Evans t o Richard Barefield of Virginia. April 16 1715. 30 pds. f or 280 acres on the south side of the Chowan on Deep Cree k by patent of Peter Evans. Adj. James Peek, John Fieryben t. Wit: William wilson, Peter Evans. See book The Merritt Families of NC by Lynn Slater Turner, (Dan Sullivan has a copy) for more information.