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Outlaws Bridge Road - Duplin County

13. EDWARD OUTLAW, Third, (I 1 -10) owned large tracts of land on Flat Swamp, Horse Swamp and Chowan River, in Bertie County, as shown by deed from "Edward Outlaw, gentleman, to my son Edward Outlaw," and other conveyances. The lands in Bertie County were sold to Thos. Hallowell in 1742, and he lived for a short time in Johnston County. 

During the years 1745, 1746, 1747 and 1748 he received several grants for land in New Hanover County, in that part of it which is now Duplin County, where lived until his death in 1759. 

The place of his residence was on North East River at what is known as the George Outlaw old place at Outlaw's Bridge, in said County, deeded to him by Constantine Whitfield. His original Will is in Duplin County records dated 1759, and in 1760 Patience Outlaw, widow, filed an inventory of the estate which included horses, cattle, implements, and one large church Bible, one small Bible, one common prayer book, one testament and one psalmster. His wife was Patience Whitfield of Bertie County, daughter of Elizabeth (Goodman) and William Whitfield.

Capt. James Outlaw Monument - Outlaw's Bridge - Duplin North Carolina - May 5 1936

40. Captain JAMES OUTLAW, (13-11-10) of Duplin County, was born 1744 and died April 22, 1826. His original Will is in the public records for Duplin County, North Carolina, dated 1826. He was a soldier in the Revolution, serving in the Company of his brother, Captain Alexander Outlaw, in an "expedition against the insurgents", 1776, and later as a Lieutenant (N.C. Revolutionary Army Accounts Vol. V, p. 19, folio 1);

Commissioner of the town of Sarecta (never developed), Duplin County's first established town; Captain in Duplin militia service 1787 and 1788, as shown by tax records from Captain Outlaw's District, and was for nearly thirty years, a Justice of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, serving a part of that time as Chairman of said Court. He built the crossing over North East River, which has since been known as Outlaw's Bridge, in Duplin County. 

His wife, who was Elizabeth Grady, daughter of Mary (Whitfield) and John Grady, was born February 9, 1750, and died September 3, 1830. Her will is in Duplin County records.

Outlaws Bridge  - Duplin County, North Carolina

Outlaws Bridge is a community or populated place (Class Code U6) located in Duplin County at latitude 35.139 and longitude -77.849 (Outlaws Bridge Panoramio Photos). The elevation is 141 feet. Outlaws Bridge appears on the Seven Springs U.S. Geological Survey Map. Duplin County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). Observes DST? Yes

Panoramio - Outlaw's Bridge

Outlaws Bridge Rd. Albertson, NC  Duplin County

http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/pvs/bas/bas09/st37_nc/cou/c37061_duplin/BAS09C23706100000_003.pdf

Outlaw Bridge Community - CM Outlaw Crossroads - Kornegay - Mattie Gradys Store

Duplin County District Map

The Woodpile, Civil War Records, Biography of Jesse James Summerlin

In January 1875, testimony indicates that Jesse's Mother (age 62) and one of his sisters (age 35) lived near Northeast Bridge. This could have been the old bridge that crossed the Northeast Cape Fear River about 10 miles northeast of Kenansville. It was located about 2,000 feet southeast of the junction of NC Hwy 11 and SR 1501 (Westbrook) (also Hwy 903), near the mouth of Burn Coat Branch. The bridge was about a mile southwest of the town of Kornegay and was also called Kornegay's Bridge. However, because many bridges crossing the Northeast Cape Fear River were called "Northeast Bridge," this bridge mentioned in the pension testimony could have been what is now "Outlaw's Bridge," which is much closer to White Flash.

North Carolina - Duplin County map

Post Offices - Outlaws Bridge Duplin County

Wayne County Public Library - 

Outlaw’s Bridge, Duplin Co – about 20 miles SW of Goldsboro

Unitarian Universalist Congregational Resource Files 
Seven Springs, NC. Outlaws Bridge Universalist Church. bMS 902/37(12)

OUTLAW’S BRIDGE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 4408 N.C. 111 N., Seven Springs, 919-658-5267. 11 a.m. Sunday, special music service with Jimmy Merritt, pianist and classical guitarist; and Michael Mozingo, singer

Hammitt Diggs Outlaw, Sr. - Outlaw - Family History & Genealogy 

Hammitt Diggs Outlaw Sr. born June 18, 1888,St Bethlehem, Tenn.

This family of Outlaws came down to N. C. from Virginia via Bertie County. They settled in a community that today is called Outlaws Bridge community. I was reared near there. My direct lineage and apparently yours moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky in the 1840s ... Many still live there but as you know many finally wound in the Center Hills area of Florida

History of the Lost State of Franklin - Samuel Cole Williams

Alexander Outlaw was born in Duplin County North Carolina in 1738

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Alexander Outlaw is depicted as a man of large frame, six feet highm blue eyes, sandy hair and red mustache. He died in 1826 and was buried in Cahuba, Alabama, where he was at the time of his death looking after land purchaces in that region. 

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Davidson's History of Wilkinson County (GA) - Outlaw's Bridge -  Georgia
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During this time Wesley King gathered into a Company every boy, old man, and wounded soldier at home recuperating south of Big Sandy Creek who could bear arms and kept patrols at every crossing holding back the Yankees who would attempt to cross. It is said that at Lightwood Knot Bridge, at Stephensville, a mob of them attempted to cross but that Dr. J.B. Duggan, armed with a shotgun, fired into them putting all of them to flight. As a measure of safety it was deemed necessary to destroy this bridge and fire was applied to it. Throughout Lord's District the citizens were suffering severely from the pillaging Yankees. Everything that could be was stolen and carried away. So great were the injuries and insults inflicted that at the house on the road leading from Ebenezer to Outlaw's Bridge, just west of its junction with the Irwinton and Ball's Ferry road, a Wilkinson County man came upon two Yankees attempting to rob the helpless inmates. He opened fire killing one of the Yankees and the other fled. A peculiar thing about this killing is that the credit for doing so has been given to at least three separate and distinct individuals, neither of whom, so far as the writer has ever heard, ever denied being the perpetrator. We must therefore consider it an unsolved mystery as to the man who killed this yankee who was buried near Ebenezer Church and whose body after the close of the war was disinterred and sent to his native State.

The Palatine Kornegay's 

1709 - Palatine Immigrant List -  The New York genealogical and biographical record - New_Berne Colonists_New_York_pdf (see page 49)

Swiss and Palatines to New Bern - Search: Cunitz / Koonce pg 93 - Hornigh / Kornegay pg 49 -   Titschke / Teache pg 164

What can be gathered as the untold story is that Colonel Thomas Pollock was responsible for the Indian uprising against the New Berne Colony that he later ends up owning and controlling.

John George Hornigh (Kornegay) with sons and daughters:

John Titschke  with son and daughter:

John Cunitz with sons and daughter:

Carolina Governors - Thomas Pollock - Thomas Pollock, son of Thomas Pollock of Bal-Gra, was born in Glascow, Scotland, May 6, 1654, and he died in North Carolina on August 30, 1722.

He came to the Carolina Colony in 1683 as a deputy for one of the Lord Proprietors, Lord Carteret, afterwards the Earl of Granville. Pollock settled in our present county of Bertie and in time became one of the largest property owners in the Chowan district. His home, situated on the shores of this county, over-looking Salmon Creek was called Bal-Gra, after his father's residence.

After his arrival, he soon became one of the most prominent and influential men in the colony. For years he was to be conspicuous for his wealth and intelligence. A long feud existed between him and Edward Mosely and in all civil turmoil they were the real leaders of the opposite factions.

When Edward Hyde came to Albemarle in 1710 as Deputy Governor, he accepted the hospitality of Thomas Pollock and other outstanding residents of the district. In fact, the first Assembly called by the new Governor met at Pollock's home.

The short administration of Hyde's, however, proved to be a turbulent period. This was the time of the Cary Rebellion in which the disputed authority of the Governorship was involved. Pollock, naturally, gave his support to Hyde and the crown. The Rebellion was put down in 1711 and Cary captured. He was never brought to trial, however, due to the probable lack of evidence.

To Pollock, too, goes much credit for his support of the Baron Von Graffenried and his establishment of the Swiss Colony at New Bern. Von Graffenried attempted to settle his colony under most adverse circumstances. This was also during the time of the Cary Rebellion and the Indian wars which soon followed.

Von Graffenried exhausted all of his funds in his efforts and was unable to secure any aid from the company in Bern which he represented. Some individuals in other colonies supplied goods, but the chief creditor of the enterprise was Pollock who furnished both finances and goods. Naturally the heavy indebtedness to Pollock was of great influence when Von Graffenried, as leader of the largest body of immigrants to come into Carolina, allied himself with the Hyde and Pollock faction in putting down the Cary Rebellion.

The uprising of Cary and his followers was immediately followed by war, with the Tuscarora Indians and epidemics of yellow fever.

Governor Hyde fell victim to the fever and died August 8th, 1712.

Pending the appointment of a successor by the Lord Proprietors, the North Carolina Council chose an acting Deputy Governor. Thus, it was that Col. Thomas Pollock was elected to the Governorship, four days after the death of Governor Hyde.

1710 - Blackbeard's Origin - Citizens Of Bern Switzerland, Landing Here With Swiss And Palatines, Founded New Bern, 1710
1711 - New Berne - Palatine Tuscarora Indians Massacre - George Kornegay - John George Kornegay's family, only his son George survived.  

George Kornegay, along with another young boy, George Koonce, were taken hostage by the Indians and held until the spring of 1712. Both George's were then apprenticed to Jacob Mullen (Miller)* (see note), clerk of the Craven County Court until they were of age. Jacob saw to it that these orphaned Palatine boys received their fair share of the land promised earlier to the colonist in the De Graffenreid expedition. - 

Elizabeth Outlaw, married William Kornegay, one of the sons of George Kornegay, of Craven County, N.C. - Descendants of John George Kornegay

Kornegay Reunion in Duplin County, NC - Kornegay's Bridge area - 

This is a tributary of the Cape Fear River near the location of the original Kornegay's Bridge and is just down the road from "Waterloo".  

The bridge itself no longer exists, but we believe that this is the tributary that it crossed.  The Cape Fear River drains the entire area and looking at the marshy land, it's easy to see why a bridge was necessary for the local economy to function.  The course of the river may have changed over the intervening centuries, but this is just the way our earliest ancestors would have seen it.  Their livelihood depended on it as it was the only means they had of transporting the turpentine they produced to the ports along the Carolina coast.

1710 Society DeGraffenreid and Allied Families in America

Graffenried's Drawing of the Tuscarora Encampment Where He was Held Prisoner in Fall 1711 (The original drawing is housed at the Burgerbibliothek Bern, as are many documents and objects relating to Graffenried history.)

After the Indian captivity of Baron Christoph (Christopher's father) and the Indians' concomitant uprising, the Baron's New Bern colony was in the proverbial "dire straits," with dwellings and livestock destroyed and scant supplies. Gov. Spotswood urged Christoph to travel to Europe to confront the financial backers who were seemingly oblivious to the needs of the colonists, despite their pledge to provide for them. On Easter Day in 1713 Christoph departed on horseback for New York to catch a ship.  In London, he tried unsuccessfully to present his supplication through the Duke of Beaufort, the first Lord Proprietor and Palatine of North Carolina. The duke died suddenly on 25 July 1714 and Queen Anne, herself, died a week later.

The Pollock Family will go on to become the largest land owner  in North Carolina.... but the Pollock male line died out. Though not Tories (Royalists) they seemed to keep out of the Revolution completely while retaining their plantations. 

Bertie County, NC - HISTORIC HOMES OF BERTIE COUNTY - BALL GRA

Thomas Pollock came to this country in 1683 as a deputy for Lord Carteret one of the Lord Proprietors. He was born in Glascow, Scotland, May 6, 1654, the son of Thomas Pollock of Bal-Gra. He settled in Bertie and called his plantation Ball Gra after his home in Scotland. Leslie Newsome says that Thomas Pollock of Bertie had 22000 acres of land besides 10 plantations.

When Governor Edward Hyde (cousin to Queen Anne) came to Carolina in 1710 he accepted the hospitality of Thomas Pollock and the first assembly called by Governor Hyde met at Pollock's home. During the Cary Rebellion which was then in progress, Pollock naturally gave his support to Hyde and the Crown.

To Pollock, too goes much credit for his support of the Baron von Graffenried and his establishment of the Swiss colony at New Bern. This was also during the Cary Rebellion and the Indian Wars which followed. Von Graffenried exhausted all of his own funds in his efforts and was unable to secure any aid from the company in Bern which he represented. Pollock came to his aid by furnishing both finances and good.

The Cary Rebellion was put down in 1711 to be immediately followed by war with the Tuscarora Indians and epidemics of yellow fever.

Governor Hyde fell victim of fever and died Sept 8, 1712. Pending the appointment of a successor by the Lords Proprietors, the North Carolina Council chose an acting govenor. Thus it was that Thomas Pollock was elected Governor four days after the death of Gov. Hyde. Poloock proved to be a man of force and decision. The war with the Indians lasted well into his administration as governor, but Bertie did not suffer as severely as some counties because of the friendship and influence of Governor Pollock with the Tuscarora Chief--Thomas Blunt.

Pollock remained in office until the arrival from England of Governor Eden in 1714, after which he continued most active in the affairs of the colony. He was a member of the General Court and also of the Governor's Council. Upon the death of Gov. Eden in March 1722, Col Pollock was again elected to fill the vacant post. Pollock's second administration as governor, though, lasted only a few months, for he died Aug 30, 1722.

As when he first came to Bertie he was still Lord Carteret's deputy. He was interred with his wife and other members of his family at Bal-Gra, where he lived and died. About 1850, the Vestry of St. Paul's Church in Edenton, removed his remains and placed them in the cemetery there.

Augustus Holley obtained possession of Ball Gra in 1855, and it was left in the will to Mary Isabel Woodley who sold it to Dr. Wiliam Capehart who left it to his daughter Clara C. Harney. Mr. Steve Askew purchased it from the Harneys and left it to its present oweners, the Cooper Brothers.

Pollock died on August 30, 1722 and was buried next to his first wife at his plantation; their remains were later moved to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edenton

THOMAS POLLOCK - Bertie County, NC
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Thomas Pollock had been married twice. His first wife was Martha Cullen, daughter of Thomas Cullen, who was a member of the Governor’s Council in 1670. She was born in Dover, England in 1663 and was the widow of Robert West. Pollock’s second wife was Ester Sweetman of Maryland. Her previous husbands had been John Harris and Col. Wm. Wilkerson. Pollock had no issue by his second wife. His first wife, Martha Cullen, he was the father of Martha Pollock, who married Thomas Bray of New Kent County, Virginia; Thomas Pollock, Jr., who married Elizabeth Sanderson; Cullen Pollock who married Frances West; George Pollock, who married, first, Sarah Swann and second, Elizabeth Whitmell. George Pollock had no issue by either marriage. The children of Cullen Pollock and wife, Frances West, were: George Pollock, Cullen Pollock (both died without issue); Martha Pollock, who married first Stevens Lee, and second, Clement Crock; Frances Pollock, who marred Dr. Robert Lenox.

Thomas Pollock, Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth Sanderson, were the parents of three sons, namely, Thomas, Cullen and George Pollock. 

Cullen and George of this marriage also died without issue. 

Thomas, son of Thomas Pollock, Jr., married Eunice Edwards, daughter of the renowned New England minister, Jonathan Edwards. They were the parents of Thomas Pollock, George Pollock, Elizabeth Pollock, who never married, and Frances Pollock, who married John Devereux. 

Eunice Edwards by another marriage was the mother of Sarah Pierpoint Hunt, who married John Fanning Burgwyn. Thus Sarah Hunt Burgwyn and Frances Pollock who married John Devereux were half sisters.

An interesting point of law was determined in 1841 when the children of the sisters of the half blood brought an action in the North Carolina Courts concerning the inheritance of certain Pollock property. The out-come of the trial was that heirs of the half blood inherit equally with heirs of the whole blood.

The two sons of Thomas Pollock and wife, Eunice Edwards, died without issue and thus the male line of Governor Pollock passed out of existence and the surname Pollock became extinct.

Salmon Creek And Eden House Seedbed Of The Colony in Windsor, North Carolina

Along the banks of the Chowan River and Salmon Creek, the seeds were planted for the colony and state of North Carolina. From these roots in the 1600s emerged the refined plantation life of the ruling colonial gentry in the 1700s, made possible by the displacement of Indians and with slave labor. The earliest settlers in this region, largely natives of the British Isles, transplanted their folkways, building techniques, agricultural methods, and adventurous spirit to these shores.
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Thomas Pollock, who had been jailed by Sothel, served as acting governor, 1712-1714 and again in 1722. His plantation house, “Balgra,” was two miles south on the north side of Salmon Creek. There he and Hyde withstood a small naval attack in 1711 during Cary’s Rebellion.
*     Charles Eden, governor from 1714 to 1722, purchased the property in this immediate vicinity in 1719 and constructed “Eden House” a few yards north. His home in time became an elegant center of social life for the Albemarle aristocracy. Following his death in 1722, the “Town on Queen Anne’s Creek” was renamed Edenton and soon supplanted this area as the social and political center.
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Over time the colonial estates along the Chowan River and Salmon Creek have been lost to shoreline erosion, fire, or decay. The area south of Salmon Creek, owned through most of the 1700s by three generations of the Duckenfield family, was acquired by the Capeheart family in 1829 and afterwards known as “Avoca.” Pollock’s grave at “Balgra” and those at Eden House were moved to Edenton around 1890.  

In 1996, prior to construction of the improved US 17 bridge, archaeologists excavated an area a short distance southeast uncovering remnants of two houses constructed in the late 1600s and later owned by the Eden family.