Sampson County Wills and Estates

Sampson County was organized in 1784 and taken from neighboring county of Duplin. Land from neighboring Wayne County and New Hanover counties would be annexed later. The settlers were Scotch-Irish immigrants from North Ireland, many of who came to the colony of North Carolina under the protection and inducements of Henry McCulloch, a wealthy London merchant. The community of Taylors Bridge, located about halfway between Clinton and Harrells in lower Sampson County (at the time Duplin County), was one of the earliest European settled areas of the county, with pioneer families living there as early as the 1730s or 1740s. The Swiss from New Bern came into this area during the mid-eighteenth century. The county was named after Lieutenant General John Sampson, the first mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Indexes to Wills and Estates

1821 to 1860

Images of Sampson County Wills and Estates

Bass, Joshua
Bell, Robert
Blackburn, William
Bradshaw, John
Brown, Arthur
Bunting, David
Buttar, Robert
Fisher, John
Frederick, James
Fryers, Jonathan
Gaines, Batholomew
Gates, John
Gates, Mary Ann
Godwin, Nathan
Gregory, Lott
Grigory, Lott
Henderson, William
Ivey, Thomas
Jackson, Richard
Johnson, Joshua
Kennada, Patrick
Lanier, John
Lee, Burchet
Matthew, Joel
Merrit, Gabriel
Peterson, Aaron
Register, Joseph
Ridgeon, Matthew
Royal, Owen
Stevens, John
Strickland, Molly
Thornton, Berry
Thornton, Nathaniel
Thornton, Susannah
Treadwell, John
Williamson, Wright

Indexes to Wills and Estates1821 to 1860Images of Sampson County Wil

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