Notes for Jacob Sheets: 1790 census, Salisbury District - Rowan Co. North Carolina and Cleo McBnde - Forsyth Genealogy Society. Marriage note for Jacob Sheets and Catherine Fouts: David Fouts bm W J Harper (Ann S Bernard NC); Also posted by Rowan Fairgrove, 1998) Jacob Sheets was living in Rowan County North Carolina in 1790 Bureau of the census Heads of Families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 North Carolina: Rowan County; entry 369 Name of head of family: Sheets, Jacob Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1 (Jacob) Free white males under 16 years: 2 (Andrew & David) Free white females, including heads of families: 1 (Catherine Fouts Sheets) Jacob Sheets - 1873 - Davie County, North Carolina - Estate Records From Rootsweb - submitted for use in the USGEN Web Archives by Faye Moran In the Probate Court Davie County, North Carolina In the matter of the Administration of the Estate of Jacob Sheets Before me H B Howard, Judge of Probate David Call being sworn doth say that Jacob Sheets, late of Rowan County in the Territory now in Davie County, State aforesaid is dead that he left a last will and testament which was duly admitted to probate in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Rowan County, and that Marck ----- and William Potts who were named as Executors therein and who qualified as such both dead, and that they had not completed the Official duties develed upon them as Executors of said will before their death, as appoint is informed and ---- That David Call is the husband of one of the parties interested in said Estate ---- Elizabeth Call. Further the value of said estate, so far as can be ascertained at the date of this application is about five thousand dollars and that Jacob Sheets, Jr. of Lewisville is entitled as a devised and Minerva, wife of Coleman Foster, Elizabeth wife of David Call, Nathan Call are entitled as heirs of the devises Margaret Call, formerly Margaret Sheets. Sworn and subscribed before me this 1 November 1873. H B Howard Judge of Probate
Source of information for Jacob Sheets, Catherine Fouts and Mary Woods, their children and grand-children: North Carolina marriage records Personal interviews with Cleo McBride, Winston Salem North Carolina 1850 Davie County census records Faye Moran Mentioned in will of William Pack. will book C, page 299. "(100 acres adj Jacob Sheets, Wm Howard)" February Session 1801 - Minutes of the Court: Apprentices & Orphans Indented this term. Elizabeth Hall, a baseborn child aged 3 years bound till 18 years of age to Jacob Sheets, Master to comply with the law. (Cleo McBride - Forsyth Genealogy Society) (Ann S Bernard - NC)
Received from Tom Stafford: was born Bet. 1756 - 1765 in possibly Rowan CO. NC {1D#1850-0464A), and died May 2, 1818 in Davie CO, NC (This differs from the originial information received). He married (1) CATHERINE FOUTS January 14, 1786 in Randolph Co., NC - Bondsman: David Fouts; Witness: J. Harper (Record # 01 041; Bond # 000114301) #847, daughter of JOHN (P FOUTS) and CATHERINE VARNER She was born Abt. 1760, and died 1806. He married (2) MARY WOODS March 31, 1807 in Rowan CO, NC. She was born Abt. 1760, and died Abt. 1831 in Rowan County, NC. Notes for JACOB SHEETS, SR.: The 1790 Rowan County, NC census (Salisbury District) lists Jacob Sheets as "head of household", entry #369. He also is listed (entry #369) as head of household in the 1790 US census for Rowan County: Free white males- 16 yrs and up: 1 (Jacob) Free white males under 16 yrs: 2 (Andrew & David) Free white females-all ages: 1 (Catherine Fouts Sheets) Jacob's Will, signed on May 2, 1818 in Rowan (now Davie) County reads as follows: "In the name of God amen. I Jacob Sheets of the county of Rowan in the state of North Carolina being very sick and weak but of perfect mind and memory do this Second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen, make and publish this my last will and testament in the manner and form as follows, first after all my just Debts are satisfied I leave and bequeath to my Beloved Wife Mary her maintenance during her Lifetime out of my Estate. Secondly I leave and Bequeath to my son David Twenty five dollars to be raised out of my Estate. Thirdly I leave and Bequeath to my daughter Polly Chesher twenty five dollars to be raised out of my Estate. Also I leave to my daughter Nancy, Two Hundred & fifty dollars to be raised out of my estate and my will and testament is after the Decease of my Beloved wife for all my Lands Negroes and Movable Property to be sold by my Executor and the Money Collected and Equally Divided between my Three youngest Children Margaret, Jacob and Nancy. Also I make and ordain Mack Crumb and William Potts sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament in witness whereof I the said Jacob Sheets have hereto set my hand and seal. John Phillips "X' (His Mark) Azariah Pack Jacob Sheets Seal
Jacob's Will was not probated until 1873. The following appears in the Davie County, NC Estates Records). "David Call, having been duly sworn before H. B. Howard, Judge of Probate, said that Jacob Sheets late of Rowan County in the Territory now in Davie County is dead; that he left a last will and testament naming Marck (?) and William Potts his executors, both now dead. That David Call is the husband of Elizabeth Call, one of Jacob's heirs; that the value of the estate to be about five thousand dollars; that other heirs are Jacob Sheets, Jr., of Lewisville; Minerva, wife of Coleman Foster, and Nathan Call are entitled as heirs of the devises Margaret Call, formerly Margaret Sheets. Sworn and subscribed me this 1 November, 1873."
It is noted in the February Session 1801- Minutes of the Court that Elizabeth Hall, a baseborn child, aged 3 years, bound till 18 years of age to Jacob Sheets, Master to comply with the law. Info on wives & marriages supplied by Violet Carter (violet@willowgleninn.com) and Ann S. Bernard. Comment 1: June 10, 1999, Source: Davie, NC project
More About Jacob Sheets and Catherine Fouts: Marriage: 14 Jan 1786
More About Jacob Sheets and Mary Woods: Marriage: 31 Mar 1807, Rowan County, North Carolina. {STYLE_MAKE:APPLET}
Jacob Sheets (d. date unknown)
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