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Carney & Wehofer Family
Genealogy Pages
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 1653 - 1719 (66 years)
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| Name |
William SPEIGHT |
| Born |
1653 |
Speights Run, Nansemond, Virginia, British Colonial America  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
G3PK-J6W |
| Name |
William SPEIGHT [1] |
| _UID |
6796C57B1FD44B68949C6C4508C9BFEA3E0D |
| Died |
26 Mar 1719 |
Speights Bridge, Greene, North Carolina [1] |
| Person ID |
I29759 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2023 |
| Family |
Elizabeth TAYLOR, b. 16 Oct 1654, Rappahannock, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. Abt 1730, Sunbury, Gates, North Carolina (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
Perquimans, North Carolina [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Honorable Thomas SPEIGHT, Esquire, b. 1670, Perquimans, North Carolina , d. 1737, Perquimans, North Carolina (Age 67 years) |
| | 2. Thomas C SPEIGHT, b. 1674, Sunbury, Gates, North Carolina , d. 9 Apr 1737, Perquimans, North Carolina (Age 63 years) |
| | 3. William Francis SPEIGHT, b. 1674, Chowan, North Carolina , d. 16 Jan 1749, North Carolina (Age 75 years) |
| | 4. Elizabeth SPEIGHT, b. 1678, North Carolina , d. 1740 (Age 62 years) |
| | 5. Francis C SPEIGHT, b. 1684, Probably Chowan County, North Carolina , d. 1749, Sunbury, probably Chowan County (now Gates County) North Carolina (Age 65 years) |
| | 6. John Thomas SPEIGHT, b. 1687, Isle Of Wight, Virginia, Colonial USA , d. 1738, Somerton Creek, Virginia (Age 51 years) |
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| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2023 |
| Family ID |
F14017 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Cannot prove correct "John Speight" father... at this time.
William Speight, son of John Speight, was born about 1665 at Speights Run, Virginia. When William was about eighteen years old his family moved to Somerton Creek (now Pittmantown), Virginia. In 1686 he left home and settled in nearby Isle of Wight County, Virginia. William worked for Henry Southen as a cooper (barrel maker). William was the first Speight with the occupation as a barrel maker and not a planter. William married and had one son, John. William and his family lived in Isle of Wight County for about five years. William and his brother, Francis lived a short distance from each other then in 1691 the Speight families played "musical chairs" with their land. William left the Isle of Wight County and returned to the manor house that his father had left him at Somerton Creek. His brother, Francis, went to the Speights Run plantation, father, John, left Somerton Creek and went to Sunbury, where he and his wife lived at the old home place of our immigrant ancestor, Francis. William continued to expand his land holdings at the Somerton Creek farm. Between 1701 and 1711 he had acquired five hundred and fifteen acres and eleven indentured servants. When William's brother, Francis, died the courts appointed William as guardian of his nineteen-year-old nephew, Moses Speight.
In 1728 the legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina commissioned a surveying team to lay off the line. William Byrd of Virginia and Colonel Edward Moseley of Edenton were appointed Surveyor Generals. Mr. Byrd published his famous book, William's Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina mentioned William Speight and his cousin, Thomas. In 1733 when Colonel Moseley published a map of North Carolina, William's plantation was divided, leaving his house and orchard in Virginia and his tobacco house in North Carolina. This is how William became known as State Line William. William resided at the Somerton Creek plantation in Virginia until his death in 1735. The grave of William and his wife have not been identified, but most likely they were buried on the Somerton Creek farm.
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- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for William SPEIGHT, person ID G3PK-J6W. (Reliability: 3).
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