Seven Tory Prisoners Taken at the Home of Mrs. Mary Devane
By Jeannette Holland Austin

During the Revolutionary War many Americans served terms of three months, then returned home to plow or harvest crops. Also, they hired substitutes for various reasons. Such was the case of Britain Powell who first enlisted under Colonel James Kenon, Major John Moulton, Captain Shadrack Stallings and Lt. Elijah Bowen during the Spring of 1777/1778 as a Lieutenant Horseman. He rendezvoused at the Duplin County Court House for about two years when his wife became ill and hired Lewis Penear as substitute. Afterwards he volunteered again and was serving under Captains Aaron Williams and H. Holmes when he helped to take seven prisoners at the home of Mrs. Mary Devane on the Black River (New Hanover County). He was in the army of Colonel Hawkins serving as a minuteman during the pursuit of Tories up and down the North East River. Later, joined the regiment of Colonel William Washington of the Continental Line and marched to South Carolina.

The Black River is a tributary of the Cape Fear River

Duplin County Images of Wills and Probate Records

Duplin County is rich with genealogy records. The first will book begins in 1760. If you are researching Wilmington, North Carolina, you should also take advantage of examining all of these last wills and testaments as there is much data about family members and places of origin. It is wise to view all of those surnames in your families because parents, grandparents, siblings and cousins also provide information will helps to complete the genealogy puzzle.

Duplin County was formed in 1750 from New Hanover County and was named after Sir Thomas Hays, Lord Dupplin, a member of the Board of Trade and Plantations for the Crown during the 1740s. Its immigrants were Welsh, Scotch-Irish, French Huguenot, English and German Palatines. Kenansville is the county seat.

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Images of Wills, Book A, 1760 to 1848

Albertson, Samuel | Alderman, David | Alderman, David Sr. | Alderman, John | Allen, Henry | Andrews, Abraham | Ashey, Dante | Atkinson, John | Barbrie, Peter | Bardin, John | Barns, William | Bass, Richard | Beck, William | Beek, William | Bell, Archibald | Beesley, Austin Bell, John | Beney, Jacob | Bennett, Thomas | Bennett, William | Best, Catharine | Best, John | Best, William | Bird, John | Bird, John | (2) Bizzell, James | Bizzell, Mary Bizzell, William | Blackbone, William | Blackman, Joseph | Blackmore, Harrell Bland, William | Blanton, Richard | Blount, Warren | Bowzer, Emanuel| Bowzer, Mary | Boyet, Moses | Boyt, Samuel | Boykin, Joseph | Branch, Archibald | Branch, Edelph | Brice, Joseph | Bright, William | Britton, Thomas | Broadwell, Adoriram | Brown, Edward | Brown, Jacob | Brown, John | Burch, Joseph | Bryan, Rigdon | Bryant, Jacob | Byrd, Robert | Camady, Patrick | Carill, John | Carleton, Thomas | Carr, James | Carr, John | Carr, Joseph | Carter, John | Cavenaugh, Silvester Chasen, Richard | Cherry, Willis Clark, Archibald | Clark, Dianna Cole, Robert | Connelly, Cullin Cook, John | Cook, John | Cottle, Robert | Crawford, John | Cummins, Thomas | Dail, Elizabeth | Daniel, Alexander | Davis, John | Davis, Rachel Dickson, Alexander | Dickson, Bernadick Dickson, James | Dickson, Lewis Dickson, Morris Dickson, Robert | Dickson, William | Dickson, William | (2) Dobson, Lewis Doumit, Alexander | Duacks, William | Duncan, Edmund Duncan, Isaac Dunkan, Jacob | Edwards, Matthew | Egill, Mikel | Ellison, Jesse | Erorguin, Jacque | Evans, James | Faison, Henry | Farrior, John | Farrior, Margaret | Farrior, Martha | Garrison, Ephraim | Gavin, Samuel | Gibbs, John Sr. | Gillispie, James | Glisson, Bryan Glisson, Jacob | Goff, John | Gore, John Sr. | Graddy, John | Grady, Alexander Sr. | Gray, John | Green, John | Green, Lott | Guince, Hugh | Gulley, William | Gurgrum, Eurias | Guy, Samuel | Guy, William | Hall, Sarah | Hall, Thomas | Hall, William | Hariot, Jesse | Harvall, William | Hauchey, Martin Herring, Alexander | Herring, Samuel | Herring, Stephen | Hicks, Thomas | Hill, John | Hix, Thankfull Hodges, Benjamin | Hodgison, Aron | Holar, Levis | Holder, Jeremiah | Holley, James | Hollingsworth, Elizabeth | Hollingsworth, Jacob | Holmes, George | Homes, Edward | Hooks, Thomas | Hooks, Whitmel | Hunter, Howel | Hunter, Isaac | Hunter, Nicholas | Hurst, William B. | Ingram, Abner | Ivey, John | James, James | James, Joseph | James, Rebecca | Jernigan, Thomas | John, Thomas | Johnson, Thomas | Johnson, Amos | Johnston, James | Johnston, Benjamin | Johnston, Hannah | Johnston, John | Johnston, Joseph | Jones, Jesse | Jones, John | Jones, Robert | Jones, Solomon Keatley, Jonathan | Kenady, Dunsey | Kenan, Elizabeth | Kenan, James | Kenan, Thomas | King, Henry | Knoles, John | Knoles, Robert | Kornegay, Abram | Kornegay, George | Kornegay, Luke| Kornegay, Mary | Land, Robert | Lane, Ruralee | Lanier, Jesse | Lanier, John | Lanier, Thomas | Lee, Josiah | Mairgroves, John | Mallard, George | Mallard, John | Mallard, Joseph | Mallard, William | Matchet, John | Matchet, Sarah | Mathews, James | Mathis, Edward | Maxwell, James | Maxwell, John | McCann, William | McCann, William | McCurdy, William | McGee, William | McGowen, William | McLendon, Jesse | McLendon, Jesse | Mercer, John | Merit, Joseph | Merrit, Absalom Middleton, Davidl | Middleton, Isaac Sr. Middleton, James | Middleton, James Jr. | Middleton, Susannah | Millard, Jerry | Miller, Sarah | Mills, Elizabeth | Molton, Abraham Molton, John | Molton, Tamer Morr, John | Murray, Arthur Murphy, Barbara Murphy, Timothy Murray, Betholmy Murray, James | Murray, James | (2) Neal, John | Sr. New, John | Newton, Isaac Newton, Mary Newton, Patrick | Newton, Sarah | Norman, Richard | Norment, Thomas | Norris, Isom | Norris, Jessy | Oats, Jethro | Olive, Francis | Outlaw, Edward | Outlaw, James | Parish, William | Parker, John | Parker, William | Pearce, Sarah | Pearsall, James | Pearsall, Joseph | Pegford, Timothy | Pettus, Samuel | Phillips, John | Picket, Dawson Pierce, Snodon Pomphrey, Silvanus Pope, Thomas | Powell, Patrick | Prowse, John | Quince, Joseph | Rhodes, Benjamin | Rhodes, Joseph | Thomas | Rhodes, Solomon Rogers, Fanny Rogers, John | Rogers, Stephen | Rogers, William | Rouse, George | Rouse, Phillip | Routledge, Thomas | Routledge, Thomas | Runnels, Shadrack | Scott, Joseph | Sholar, Solomon Shuffield, John | Sikes, Willis Sloan, Davidl | Sloan, Davidl | (2) Sloan, John | Sloan, Robert | Slocumb, Samuel | Smith, George | Smith, Roger Snell, James | Snow, William | Southerland, Robert | Stallings, John | Stallings, Meshack Stroud, Lutson Sullivan, Daniel Taylor, Catharine | Taylor, Jacob | Teachey, Davidl | Teachey, Jacob | Teachey, Timothy | Thally, Andrew | Thomas, Isaac | Thomas, William | Thigpen, John | Thomson, John | Turnamer, Cader | Tutle, Ann | Underhill, William | Wade, Joseph | Waller, James | Ward, John | Ward, Luke| Watkins, Lewis | Watterman, William | Webb, Samuel | Wells, Jacob | Weltz, Joseph | Weston, Abelson |Weston, Edward | Whitfield, John | Wilkins, John | Wilkinson, Margaret | Williams, Edward | Williams, Elizabeth | Williams, George | Williams, James | Williams, John | Williams, John | Williams, Richard | Williams, Robert | Williams, Shadrack | Williams, Stephen | Williams, Thomas | Wills, Jacob | Wilson, John Sr. | Witts, Elizabeth | Wood, Priscilla | Worsley, John | Worley, Ann | Wright, David | Wright, John | Wright, Robert | Young, Peter

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