THE HUCKLEBERRY HISTORIAN
JUNE 1998
SAMPSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY is starting an associate membership for the internet readers for $5 you will get the full Issue of the Newsletter by E-mail. For more information E-mail Jerome D. Tew.
"The Huckleberry Historian", News and Announcements of the Sampson County Historical Society. Usually seven pages per issue. Published four times a year since 1979. Features local history, genealogy and folklore items by the members. Includes membership in the Society. $7.50 for regular members and $5 for email or associate members
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE SAMPSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Volume XX, Number 2 .......... 15 June 1998
President: Virginia L. Bizzell, P.O Box 194, Newton Grove, NC 28366 Phone 594-0577
First V.P.: Jerome D. Tew, 600 Gloucester Rd., Goldsboro, NC 27534 Phone 735-4848
Second V.P.: Robeania Hobbs, 112 Harmony Church Rd. Clinton, NC 28328 Phone 564-4745
Secretary: Evelyn Taylor, Rt. 3, Box 75, Roseboro, NC 28382 ....Phone 531-3574
Treasurer: Leta Bass, 319 Underwood St., Clinton, NC 28328 ..... Phone 592-2693
Editor: Huckleberry Historian, Oscar Bizzell - same as for Virginia Bizzell above
Associate Editor: Micki Cottle, 99 Pike Dr., Clinton, NC 28328 .. Phone 592-6705
NEXT QUARTERLY MEETING ON SATURDAY,
11 July 1998, starting at 2:00 PM.
The next quarterly meeting of the Sampson County Historical Society will be held in the auditorium of the Clinton City Hall, 309 Lisbon Street, starting at 2:00 PM. The speaker will be J. Frank Carroll of Danville, Va., and his subject will be "CONFEDERATE TREASURE STILL IN DANVILLE"?.
A native of Reidsville, NC, Frank first heard rumors of the missing treasure in 1951. However, the chase to find it had to wait until retirement years provided the time. Since 1978 Frank has researched the mysterious fortune, traveling thousands of miles, pouring over National Archive records, public documents, special collections, nearly 100 books, private letters and listening to scads of tales.
COURTHOUSE RECORDS ABOUT JOHN SAMPSON AND RICHARD CLINTON
by Oscar M. Bizzell
Over the past few months, there has been consider-able interest in the Clinton name and its origin. The President bears the name, as well as does our county seat. We have had inquiries asking for court-house documentation of the Clinton family lineage. We know there was a northern branch and a southern branch, so these lineage’s will be about the southern branch. Moreover, we will distinguish be-tween Richard Clinton of North Carolina and Richard Clinton of South Carolina who lived during the approximate same years.
The following records are "public documents" available to anyone who wishes to look up and read them.
- New Hanover County, NC: sixteen leaves from old deed Book B containing pages from 213 to 246 were cut out and lost or destroyed. However, the names on them (to and from whom given) were not destroyed in the index. These are transcribed in Mrs. Elizabeth F. McKoy's book. (See EARLY NEW HANOVER COUNTY RECORDS, by Elizabeth F. McKoy, Wilmington, NC. See her page 192.)
Names from the missing pages show that a deed from John Sampson to William Faris once appeared on page 226. This is the first recorded appearance of John Sampson in America, and also tells some interesting facts about William Faris. Faris was in partnership with one David Lindsay. As a firm they owned property on Front Street in the town of Wilmington - a lot that ran 300 feet to the river where stood their wharf, ready to receive goods from sailing ships newly arrived from foreign lands, or ready with goods to re-load those ships. This firm of Faris and Lindsay acted as agents for their customers, and in other places as attorneys.
- On 14 March 1738, Ralph Sampson and John Sampson gave bond to the New Hanover County Court to "discharge said precinct and parish from all charges on account of a bastard child which Catherine McDaid charges the aforesaid Ralph Sampson to be the father of". Reference: New Hanover County Court minutes.
- In March 1738, Roger Leonard was ac-cidentally drowned in the Cape Fear River. Rachel Clinton gave a deposition to the New Hanover County Coroner stating that a fortnight ago Roger Leonard came to the house of Mr. Ralph Sampson and told her he wanted a passage to Brunswick and that he intended to go from there to Ireland. (It appears that Rachel Clinton was living in the home of Ralph Sampson as an indentured servant). Reference: Secretary of State - Committee of Claims, Coroner's Inquest, 1738 - 1775.
- On 7 August 1762, John Sampson gave land to Richard Clinton, as follows: For affec-tion, love, and good will and five shill-ings for 507 acres (of land) on the east side of Great Coharie and on both sides of the Beaverdam Swamp, being part of the same survey where the said John Sampson now hath his dwelling" (called Sampson Hall. This area is in present-day north-east Clinton.) Reference: Deed from John Sampson to Richard Clinton, on file at Sampson County Court-house, Clinton, N.C.
- In Colonial North Carolina, a person had to be 21 years old to legally enter into land. If we subtract 21 from 1762, we find that Richard Clinton was born about August 1741.
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