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| PLANTATION NAME: | BUCK SPRING PLANTATION | |
| ASSOCIATED LINK(s): | ||
| ORIGINAL OWNER: | Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837) | |
| BUILT: | House built in 1781 | |
| ASSOCIATED SURNAMES: | MACON, PLUMMER | |
| HISTORY: | Nathaniel Macon was
born December 17, 1758, Granville County, the area of which would later
become Warren County, where his father had a home on Shocco Creek. His
parents were Gideon Hunt Macon (1720-1761) and Priscilla Jones (1729-1802)
who had moved from Virginia to North Carolina in the 1730s. Nathaniel
married on September 29, 1783 in Granville Co. to Hannah Plummer who was
born Aug. 25, 1760, and died Jan. 11, 1790, the daughter of William Plummer
& Mary Hayes. Gideon's 1761 will, left Nathaniel part of a tract of
land "lying on both sides of Thomas Creek," and another "five hundred acres
of land, lying and being on both sides of Hobquarters Creek". The land on
Hobquarters Creek were the beginnings of what became his Buck Spring
Plantation, which eventually grew to contain 1945 acres. Nathaniel
Macon served in the House of Representatives from 1791 to 1815, and from
1801 to 1807, he was the Speaker of the House. He served as a U.S. Senator
from 1815 to November 1828 when he resigned from his seat. He retired
from politics, but in 1835, he became president of the state constitutional
convention, and in 1836, he served as a presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket of Van Buren and Johnson. He died June 29, 1837 in
Warren Co. and is buried next to his wife and son, on his old plantation
land, in a gravesite which was covered with a large heap of flint stones so
that the land would be left uncultivated, which he believed no one would go
to the trouble of removing all of the flint in order to use the land,
thereby preserving the burial site. The house and the seventeen hundred &
twenty-four acre plantation were sold by Macon's executor, Weldon Edwards,
to Francis A. Thornton in 1839. Thornton's executors conveyed the property
to Robert L. Jones on Dec. 10, 1852, and the executor of the Jones estate
transferred the property to George W. Robinson on Jan. 10, 1857. One
thousand and fifty-three acres, including the homestead, were sold by
Robinson's trustees to Simon Green on Dec. 19, 1860. The same tract was sold
to the trustees of J. Herbert Taylor on June 7, 1889. Taylor divided the
property further, selling 191 1/2 acres on which the house and outbuildings
stand to Hilliard T. Howard (1856-1907) on Sept. 8, 1894. Howard was the son of James &
Bettie Howard, Free African Americans living in Warren County; Bettie, who
was said to have been the daughter of Nathaniel Macon and a slave woman
according to family tradition, and was in the possession of his
grandson, Nathaniel Macon, who sold her to John Nicholson after Macon's death. There are a
couple of women by that name among the Macon slaves, one of whom may have
been her. Hilliard Howard died in 1907, and his will devised that his Buck Spring land be divided up between his 9 surviving children, who were all
minors at the time. Nathaniel and Hannah had 3 children: Nathaniel Macon had 20 Slaves in 1790; by 1830, he had 56 Slaves. He also kept a family bible with the names and ages of his slaves.
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| SLAVE POPULATION: | From
the Will of NATHANIEL MACON, dtd Aug 10, 1833: To my grandson WILLIAM EATON JUNIOR: HARRY and his wife HESTER old man FRANK and his wife DOLLY To my grandson NATHANIEL M. MARTIN: PHIL and his wife CHINA I lend to my grandson in law Drury S.MARTIN: GINNY and her daughter Slaves EPHRAIM and LUCY to which grandchild they prefer Half of remainder of Slaves to go to all the children of my late daughter BETSY K. MARTIN (except NATHANIEL M. MARTIN) The other half, one third part to my grandson WILLIAM PATON JUNR. The other two thirds to my grandchildren BETSY K. M. FIELD (wife of EATON FIELD) BUCKNER EATON and CHARLES PATON (children of my daughter SEIGNORA) to be equally divided between them. An Inventory of the Estate of NATHANIEL MACON dec'd returned by
his Executor W. N. EDWARDS to November Sessions 1837: |
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| Old Frank Lucy Ephraim Polly Minny Dan Harry Sally Phil Nelly Lew Mary Neaton Effy Cloe Little Polly Moses Nelson Billy Priscilla Aaron Isaiah Betty Brown Nancy Huldy Tempe Easter Katy Maria John Miranda Aggy Mansfield Owen Robert Cornelius Milly Molly Willis Eliza Essex |
William Martha Emanuel Sprigg Solomon Amy Cary Betsy Frederick Nassery Chana Lucretia Julia Ann Phil Lydia Nathan Isaac Rhody Littleton Hannah Weldon Jacob Willis Peter Perry Janet George Clary Also born since death of Testator: |
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Following list of about 123 Slaves with their dates of birth were found Nathaniel Macon Bible: |
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| KATE born 1743 HUMPHREY born 1740 GEORGE born 1755 FRANK born 20 Feby 1754 BOB born 1756 ISBELL born 1754- dead LUCY born 1759 EPHRAIM born 8 May 1765 TITUS born 1769 POLLY born 1769 MINNA born 1773 VENUS born 1772 ANTHONY born 1778 ADAM born 1782 DAN born 1782 TOM born 1783 SABRINA born 1779 NELLE born 1779 - dead HARRY born 1785 GREAT ESTHER born 1780 TANSY born 1785 FRANK born 26 Dec'r 1785 ESTHER born 20 Dec'r 1787 JANE born 1788 JAMES SPRIGG born 12 Feby 1789 BETTY born 20 June 1791 JOHN born 1793 SOLOMON born 1794 JAMES born 1795 STEPHEN born 1796 BILLEY born 1796 HANNAH born Sept 1796 SALLEY born 26 April 1798 PLEASANT born 1799 PRISCILLA born 1798 NELLE born 5 Jany 1800 ANNA born 10 June 1800 PHILL born 1799 CLAIBORNE born 8 April 1801 NORVAL born 20 April 1801 LEWIS born 10 May 1801 JOHN born August 1802 MARY born 3 March 1803 NANCY born 26 Oct'r 1804 WINNY born 2 june 1804 PATSEY born 8 July 1804 NEATON born 3 June 1805 SABRINA born 3 July 1805 OSCAR born 13 January 1807 EFFY born 1780 CLOE born 1800 POLLY born 1802 MOSES born 1804 NELSON born 1806 BILLY born 1808 SPRIG born January 1810 PHOEBE born 25 April 1810 PRISCILLA born 2 June 1812 AARON born 19 March 1814 ISAIAH 20 July 1814 MAT 1 February 1816 BETTY bought of Mr. MYRICK JONES[?] Negro of SALLY
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MILLEY 20 May 1816
dead BROWN 4 May 1817 NANCY 27 May 1817 HULDAH 28 January 1818 TEMPE 26 September 1818 ESTHER 19 January 1819 CATY 6 May 1819 MARIA 22 January 1820 JOHN 23 January 1820 MIRANDA 27 Sept'r 1820 MANSFIELD 7 Feby 1821 AGGEY 16 May 1821 OWEN 16 Jany 1822 ROBERT 14 June 1822 CORNELIUS 27 Jany 1823 RACHEL 23 June 1823 MILLEY 20 July 1823 SUSANNA 7 September 1823 CHEESMAN 8 October 1823 HARRIET 25 October 1824 LUCINDA 24 May 1825 GEORGE 31 August 1825 MOLLY 6 Sept'r 1825 PLUMMER 4 March 1827 WILLIS 1795 ELIZA 12 June 1827 ESSEX 28 July 1827 HENRY 31 July 1827 CRITTY 12 August 1827 WILLIAM 5 Jany 1828 MARTHA 15 April 1828 EMMANUEL 17 Jany 1829 SPRIG 20 May 1829 SOLOMON 3 June 1829 AMY 20 September 1829 WATLEY 28 Nov'r 1829 CAREY 1 Nov'r 1830 BETSEY 20 Feby 1831 FREDERIC 10 April 1831 NORSWORTHY 20 May 1831 CHINA 1804 MATILDA 15 Sept'r 1824 LUCRETIA 15 Oct'r 1826 JULIA ANN 25 Oct'r 1828 PHILIP 17 Apr 1830 LYDIA 29 Jany 1832 NATHAN 3 Sept'r 1832 ISAAC 17 Jany 1833 RHODA 9 March 1833 LITTLETON 22 March 1833 HANNAH 9th January 1834 WELDON 28 Nov'r 1834 LUCY 23 Jany 1835 JACOB 29 Feby 1836 WILLIS 28 March 1838 PETER 25 May 1836 GODFREY called FERRA 25 July 1836 JANETT 30 July 1836 GEORGE 29 Dec'r 1836 CLAUD[?] 18 Feby 1837 |
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****************** From the Will of GIDEON MACON, Granville Co, NC, Dec. 1761: |
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| RESEARCH NOTES: | Researched & transcribed by Deloris Williams |
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| MISCELLANEOUS: | Will and Estate of Nathaniel Macon-1837; Slaves in Nathan Macon Bible; Nathaniel Macon Family Bible; Will of Gideon H. Macon-1761; National Register of Historic Places Application; Will & Estate of Hilliard T. Howard-1907; Nathaniel Macon biography; Will & Estate of Hilliard T. Howard | |
