William Paschal - Born 1693 Woodbridge, New Jersey

OUR PASCHAL FAMILY HISTORY

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BEGININGS
Our first provable ancestor is William Paschal of Warren County, North Carolina. He was born about 1693 and he died there in NC in May 11, 1774. William had thirteen children, and his first son Samuel is our ancestor.

William seems to have been a man of property, and left a good sized estate which he divided out with his children before he died. He came to North Carolina on land grants in 1740-42, settling along the Smith River in Butte Co, This was a very fertile ground where he could raise good crops and send them down the river to market. William was a highly respected member of the community, and his children were well off as well. He would have been about 47-49 when he made this trip to take a land grant.

We know our William Paschal was from Woodbridge, New Jersey. His first wife we believe was Reliance Dennis, daughter of Samuel Dennis, and he purchased a 100 acre tract of land outside of the town of Woodbridge where they raised their children. William seems to have had a bit of legal problems about 1735, because we find a law suit against him for failure to pay a debt, which was because he refused a shipment of goods which he said was of poor quality. His brother in law and family signed the bail bond for him.We believe she died about 1736 in Woodbridge, NJ. She had five sons.

After Relaince died, William remarried. The Pike family history shows that he married Sarah Pike, daughter of John Pike of Woodbridge. In 1740 Lord Granville opened his lands in North Carolina for land grants, and William with his family would have traveled down the Kings Highway to Fredericksburg, Va, and then down the Falls Linde Road to the NC state line. Sarah apparently dies in NC after the children are grown and William them remarries a final time to Tabitha King.

To truly appreciate who William Paschal was and our heritage, we will need to go back in time where we do not yet have certain proofs, and we must make assumptions that may or may not be completely accurate. Often times I find myself working both sides of the problem to reach the middle before looking for the absolute proofs.

We find William Paschal first mentioned in 1700, living in the home of Samuel Parker and his wife Jana Inglis. He would have been about 7 years old at the time. The only reason for him to be living in thier home at this age would be if he was related and they had taken responsibility for him. The first mention of children born to Samuel and Jana is with the birth of their first son John born 18 October 1711. Samuel was born in 1674, so this would make him 37 at this event. We do not know when Jana was born. If John is truly their first born, then it is likely than both Samuel and Jana had been married previously. This train of thought leads us to conclude that William Paschal was Jana's son by a previous marriage.

Both the Parker family and the Pike family had a rich heritage. To understand that heritage we have to begin in England with the Reverend John Lothrop in England. The reverend was appointed curate of a local parish in Egerton, Kent.In 1623, he renounced his orders and joined the cause of the Independents.

In 1624 he was appointed the pastor of the first Independents church. They were forced to meet in private to avoid the scrutiny of the Bishop of London, William Laud, but he group was discovered on April 22, 1632, by officers of the King. They were jailed in the Clink at Newbury until the spring of 1634 when all but Lothrop were released on bail. Rev. Lothrop was considered too dangerous to be set at liberty.

While in jail his wife died of sickness, and his 6 children were turned out onto the streets to beg for their food, as was the custom of the day. Finally the Bishop told Lothrop he would be pardoned on condition that he accept the terms of exile, and permanently leave England for America, along with his family and all of his congregation who would not swear allegance to the Church of England. He accepted the offer, and sailed for Plymouth, Massachusets aboard the ship "Griffin" Sept 18, 1634.

The reverend came with 30 members of his church and the were joined by 13 others who had previously arrived. Among them was John Parker along with two small boys, Robert and Elisha Parker, whose parents had died in the persecution. John was their uncle.

The Protestants of England were devided into three sects; The Conformists, the Puritans, and the Seperatists. Reverend Lothrop lead the Puritans. The boys grew up in the Puritan community until a split in the church caused the Parker family, the John Pike family, John Bishop family, Henry Jaques family, and the Hugh March family led by Rev Woodbridge, nephew and assistant of the Rev Lothrop to break away from their Puritan relatives in the autumn of 1664. Roger Williams had previously been banished from Massachusets for "new and dangerous opinions" calling for religious and political freedoms including seperation of church and state in 1636, and had founded Providence and Rhode Island.

All who were so inclined found themselves seeking to their company, including the Parkers and Rev. Woodbridge and his congregation who founded Stanton Island in 1666.They then moved in 1669 to establish Woodbridge, New Jersey in East Jersey. East Jersey was the community of disidents who seperated themselves from the Puritans, while West Jersey was the stronghold of the Quakers.

Now King Phillips war breaks out with the Indians and English colonists. It is a bloody war that rages up and down the Conneticut river valley for two years until the Indian leader, King Phillip, is killed. 600 settlors and 3000 indians have died.

The community of Woodbridge continues to grow with the first gristmill in New Jersey, and Elisha Parker has married Elizabeth Hincley in 1657 and in 1675 he receives a land grant of 187 acres in Woodbridge. He has 8 children with Elizabeth until her death in childbirth in 1676, including Samuel born 1674. Elisha marries a second time to Hannah Rolph, fathering two more children, and at her death, he marries a third time to Ursula Crage in 1697 and has 5 more children. Samuel Parker is our Parker who marries Jana Inglis. Our William Paschal would have grown up in a community and a home rich with strong moral and religious values. He lived just "next door" to the Samuel Dennes family and the John Pike family.

Inglis is a Scottish name. It is still in question whether she had possibly married a Paschal from West Jersey or from a decendent of East Jersey, and Massachusets Bay.

Samuel Dennes was town clerk, and John Pike was Captain John Pike, and a leader in the community. Samuel Parker was a very respected man and a leader in the community. Jana and Samuel Parker's son James Parker was the first printer in New Jersey.

Our William then was raised in a very important and respected family environment.

Who was our Paschal forefather? The search goes on. He was not related directly to the Thomas Paschall family of Philladelphia as far as we can tell at this time, but who knows. West Jersey is just across the bay from Philladelphia where Thomas Paschall landed as a part of the William Penn Quaker party in 1682.

STEP BROTHER
This story is about the step brother of our William Paschal. Williams mother, I believe but it is not yet proven, is Jana Ingles. She has remarried to Samuel Parker of Woodbridge, NJ after the death of Williams father. She and Samuel have three boys together, the oldest is James. When James is about 13 years old, his father dies, 1727. By this time William has married Racheal Dennis, and their first child, Samuel, is born in April of this year. Samuel is our ancestor.

After the death of his father, James seems to be unhappy at home. With the permission of his mother, he indentures himself to William Bradford of New York City, a colonial printer and newspaper editor, for eight years until he was 21. Bradford agreed to feed and provide for James in exchange for his labor. This would allow James to learn the printing and newspaper business.

By April 1733, the printing business has hit hard times, and Bradford decides to sell the remaining 21 months left on James' indenture, advertising it for sale in his newspaper. James runs away, becoming a wanted man. On May 17, Bradford offers a reward for Williams capture and return, doubling the reward a short time later.

James found his way to Philladelphia, and begins working for Benjamin Franklin as a journeyman. Franklin is impressed with his work ethic and character. Upon finding out about his predicament, Franklin convinces James to return to NYC and finish his indenture to Bradford, which he does. When completed, he returns to Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin to work for him, and live with him for several years until 1741 when he is 30 years old.

Ben Franklin saw talent in James, and in 1741 he offered to finance him in the printing business in New York City. It would be a six year agreement under which Franklin would provide all the printing equipment and printing press in exchange for a share of the profits. His paper would be called the New York Gazette and Weekly Post, and it was an immediate success. Over the next seven years, James continues his success and becomes the official printer for the King of England and the government of the New York Provence. He also becomes the first general manager of the public library of New York City.

In 1750, James returns home to Woodbridge, New Jersey to set up a printing and newspaper business, the first printer in New Jersey. He soon becomes the official printer for the New Jersey Provence, and the comptroller of the general post offices of the British Colonies, and judge of the court of Common Pleas of Middlesex County, New Jersey.

In 1755, James decides to establish a third printing and newspaper office in Connecticut, the first printer in the state. His paper will be called the "Connecticut Gazette".
Benjamin Franklin and James remained close friends all their lives.

In 1770, James prints a controversial paper by the "Sons of Liberty" leader Alexander McDougall for which he is arrested. He dies shortly thereafter before the case can be heard.
By this time our William and his family have moved to Butte County, NC about 1742.

NORTH CAROLINA BOUND

Woodbridge, New Jersey, lay just off the coast and across from Richmond, New York, in Kings County on the direct route to Philadelphia, Penn. By 1700 the town has several large plantations on the north side of the river that divides Elizabethtown and Woodbridge. The town now has about 120 families living here, and in 1702 East Jersey and West Jersey are combined into New Jersey. The Community is closely knit, and a genealogist’s nightmare because there are so many intermarriages between the families here, and few records that have survived. The town is incorporated, has a court house and a jail, which for the time put them way ahead of most colonial communities.



William’s mother and his Stepfather Samuel Parker have three boys together and our William grows up in their home. Samuel Parker is a wealthy businessman and a community leader. Samuel’s uncle and grandfather were ministers and he is a man with strong moral values as well as well educated with a strong business sense.

William reaches adult age, and we next find him marrying Reliance Dennis, daughter of Samuel Dennis, in @ 1726. Her father was also a wealthy businessman and town clerk for many years. He has died shortly before their marriage in 1719. Appropriate to the occasion, a small earthquake hits Woodbridge that year, shaking people out of their beds, but doing little real damage. A year later William’s stepfather dies in January,1727, and their first child is born, Samuel Paschal, April 1, 1727. Samuel is our direct ancestor. In 1729, William’s mother Jana remarries to Nathan Pain, and William and Reliance’s second son John is born.



By 1730 William purchases a tract of 100 acres from Joseph Allin, Jr between the mountains bounded on the north and south by Mr. Allin in the parish of Elizabethtown. Their third son Isaiah is born that year, and five years later in 1735 the fourth son Elisha is born. To make such a purchase at such a young age would mean our William was a successful man with good business acumen, and it probably indicates that he had received a good amount of inheritance when his step father passed away. William and Reliance raise their children and build their lives here.

By 1736/1737 William has been a good provider and successful businessman, but he now has legal problems resulting from his business activities. We find three lawsuits filed against him at this time. Two never go to trial, but the third one does. William has refused to take possession of inferior goods shipped to him by Samuel Cohen of New York City. His brother in laws Samuel and John Dennis sign his bail bond. No record yet has been discovered of the results of the trial.

7th December 1737, at night, a large earthquake accompanied by a loud rumbling noise occurred. People were thrown out of their beds, doors flew open, bricks fell from the chimneys, creating great consternation and fear in the community. Again though very little real damage was done.

William seems to continue to do well with a successful farm and he has slaves to help him work it. He is close to the river so he can send his produce downriver to market. In 1739, we find an entry in the court books that a runaway slave belonging to William has been caught, and William must go the New York to retrieve him.

1740, another son is born to Reliance and William, and either at childbirth or shortly afterward Reliance dies. With several small children at home, William will remarry we believe to Sarah Pike, daughter of John Pike, of Woodbridge in @1741. As if in seeming approval on 22 February 1741 a comet appears in the sky for 6 weeks, a blazing star with a long bright tail.


 In 1663 King Charles II of England granted land in the Carolinas to eight men who had helped him regain the throne. These men were called the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, and they had the right to grant land to others. The boundaries of their grant extended from the present-day North Carolina-Virginia border on the north to a line drawn across present-day Florida on the south. During the time when they controlled the land, North Carolina was a proprietary colony.




The area that became the Granville District had been a part of the Province of Carolina. In 1729, seven of the eight heirs to the original Lords Proprietor decided to sell their shares back to The Crown. Granville refused to sell his territory back to King George II, and his one-eighth of Carolina became the Granville District. He retained his interests and, from 1729 until 1742, representatives of Earl Granville and the Crown met sporadically to address Granville’s claim. In September 1742, King George II and the Privy Council officially approved the Granville grant. Although Granville’s claim was to one-eighth of Carolina as a whole, it was decreed that it be measured from the southern border of Virginia. Therefore, the Granville Grant included lands within sixty-five miles of the southern Virginia border, comprising the northern half of present-day North Carolina.



In this year, 1742, word arrives that Lord Granville who holds possessions in North Carolina will offer land grants. It is a tremendous opportunity to purchase large tracts of good productive land for the person who is in a position to purchase it. It is a major to decision to leave where he was born and raised and has raised his family, and move to a wild and undeveloped area. The opportunity might never come again though, and William was good at spotting opportunity at the right time. He makes a momentous decision, they will move to North Carolina.

 They will travel down the Fall Line Road, breaking off from the King's Highway at Fredericksburg, Va, and leading  into the interior of Virginia and the Carolinas, crossing the river into North Carolina through Warrentown. This road passes by  the Smith Creek and it's rich bottom land just across from Virgina.

In 1742, Lord Granville, appointed agents to operate on his authority for the district. The task of surveying the grant was given to Samuel Warner, a London surveyor. In order be one of the first to take advantage of these land grants, William would need to temporarily settle his family just across the border in Virginia while he awaited the land to become available. The Surveying is completed by 1744, and land is made available for sale.

William has found a site for his new home place along Smith Creek, across from the Virginia border, in Butte Co with good bottom land and easy access to send his produce down the Roanoak river to markets along the coast where the best prices could be found. His first purchase is a grant of 100 acres in St John’s Parish. By head rights William could own a maximum of 640 acres, which he soon had purchased, but once a person obtained title to the land he could sell or transfer his property to others and William set about accumulating a large estate.

When the Granville District was originally founded it was still home to a large Tuscarora Indian population. With the defeat of the Tuscarora’s in the war of 1711-1713, this band of Indians had migrated north to become the sixth of the six nations of the Iroquois League. Now with the opening of the land grants the county had increased it’s population ten fold. Both tobacco and cotton plantations would thrive here along with spring health spas.

By 1746, William and Sarah have a son Dennis born in their new home, and two years later the eldest son, Samuel, will marry Phereba Ward on 4 July, 1748.

Samuel is our direct line ancestor.

Up until now North Carolina had been populated by adventurous settlers from New England, and poor white settlers from Virginia. They were poor, turbulent, and democratic with few slaves and a community of small farms. North Carolina had become the refuge of the discontented of Virginia and it had filled up rapidly with Scots-Irish and Germans streaming down through the great valley. Now with the land grants came plantation owners who could own large land holdings with slaves to work the land.

Our William was one of these.

Developed as tobacco and cotton plantations, the county generated considerable wealth for white planters in the antebellum years, wealth built on the labor of slaves. Its county seat of Warrenton became a center of commerce and was one of the wealthiest towns in the state from 1840 to 1860.

While South Carolina had been populated by wealthy plantation owners who built fine homes and schools, North Carolina was probably the most backward of all the English colonies. Schools were established through the efforts of the Anglican Church, but the net results for the general population were small. We can assume though that our William saw the need to well educate his children.

By 1746, William and Sarah have a son Dennis born in their new home, and two years later the eldest son, Samuel, will marry Phereba Ward on 4 July, 1748. Samuel is our direct line ancestor. I believe the Ward family are neighbors and a part of the group that came with them on the road from Richmond, Va.

While South Carolina had been populated by wealthy plantation owners who built fine homes and schools, North Carolina was probably the most backward of all the English colonies. Schools were established through the efforts of the Anglican Church, but he net results for the general population were small. We can assume thought that our William saw the need to well educate his children.
People of German descent begin migrating in large numbers from Pennsylvania and resettle throughout the western Piedmont.

Between 1748, when the granting office was established, and 1763, when John Carteret died, the agents granted land, collected rents, and surveyed for settlers.

1749
James Davis installs North Carolina’s first printing press in New Bern. His first publications are government documents.

By 1750 armed conflicts arise between the Cherokee and colonists, who continue to expand areas of settlement further into the western part of the colony.

Our William has become well established with a large farm, and has become prosperous when the French and Indian War begins in 1754. It will be a turbulent and fearful time for the residents of Butte County.

1754–1763
The French and Indian War is fought between England and France all along the frontier of North America. North Carolina troops serve both in North Carolina and in other colonies.
The militia in NC was in a very poor state at the beginning of 1754 when war begins. The Colony decided to raise a militia for use at home, and provincial soldiers in case of large scale attack. They refused to serve anywhere but in their area.

The militia has ordered each man to appear with a gun fit for service, a cartauch bos, and a sword or cutlass, and at least 12 charges of ball and powder with spare flints in the hopes they would be prepared to repel an attack or invasion. They were required to muster a couple times a year to train, learn the manual of arms, and practice military drill.

The most exposed counties were Anson and Rowan Counties. The actual number of militia men available in these two counties was less than a 1000 poorly equipped men. Barely half of the men had arms and ammunition. Gov. Dobbs sent them a 1000 lbs to buy more arms and ammunition, but it was barely enough. The western Militia was mostly disorderly, rowdy, and unmanageable. They preferred to get drunk on whiskey, and fight with each other until they were bloodied and unable to continue rather than march and drill.

Ft. Dobbs was to be the central place to join their commander when necessary to march. Now Indian raiding parties struck the back country settlements and occasionally the militia was actually able to fight them, By 1761 the back settlements were becoming deserted.

8 October 1754 The NC militia is called up. William and his son Isaac will serve with Robert Coleman, and sons Samuel and John will serve with Captain John Glover,

1755
Salisbury is founded as the county seat of Rowan County, created from Anson County in 1753 to accommodate increasing numbers of German and Scots-Irish settlers in the area.
The Reverend Shubal Stearns leads a group of 15 Separate Baptists from Connecticut to Orange County and establishes Sandy Creek Baptist Church, the “mother of Southern Baptist churches.” Sandy Creek is very near to Smith Creek district.

William’s son Thomas is born.

1758
North Carolina militia and Cherokee assist the British military in campaigns against the French and Shawnee Indians. The Cherokee decide to change sides after receiving ill treatment by the English, and they return home, where they eventually attack North Carolina colonists.

1759
The French and Indian War intensifies as the Cherokee raid the western Piedmont. Refugees crowd into the fort at Bethabara. Typhus kills many refugees and Moravians there.
A second smallpox epidemic devastates the Catawba tribe, reducing the population by half.

1760
An act of assembly permits North Carolinians serving against Indian allies of the French to enslave captives.
February: Cherokee attack Fort Dobbs and white settlements near Bethabara and along the Yadkin and Dan Rivers.

June: An army of British regulars and American militia under Colonel Archibald Montgomerie destroys Cherokee villages and saves the Fort Prince George garrison in South Carolina but is defeated by the Cherokee at Echoe.

August: Cherokee capture Fort Loudoun in Tennessee and massacre the garrison.

1761
June: An army of British regulars, American militia, and Catawba and Chickasaw Indians under Colonel James Grant defeats the Cherokee and destroys 15 villages, ending Cherokee resistance.
December: The Cherokee sign a treaty ending their war with the American colonists.

1762
Sarah, William’s wife dies, and William will remarry a last time to Tabitha King.
William begins deviding out his estate to his children. Samuel now married, age 35, with 6 children is given 2 plots of land next to his father’s place.

1763
King George III issues a proclamation that demarcates the western edge of settlement. This “proclamation line” through western North Carolina is meant to separate the Native Americans and the colonists. February: The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years’ War in Europe and the French and Indian War in North America.

William’s last child Reliance is born.

Before 1663 a few settlers from Virginia had filtered down to the Albemarle Sound of present-day North Carolina. None of the Virginians held land by grant from an English authority, but some had made formal or informal agreements with the American Indians who already occupied the area.

1764
On June 10, 1764, the North Carolina General Assembly formed Bute County from part of Granville County. The new county was incorporated to provide the residents in the eastern parts of Granville County, specifically St. John’s Parish, better access to county government. Bute County was expanded in 1766, when part of northwestern Northampton County was annexed.

1765
Parliament passes the Stamp Act. It requires that paper items such as licenses, playing cards, wallpaper, newspapers, pamphlets, and almanacs be stamped with a tax. Colonial assemblies protest.
October: Two public protests over the Stamp Act take place in Wilmington. After November 1, with no stamped paper available, ships cannot clear North Carolina, and newspapers cease publication. Governor Tryon reports that “all Civil Government is now at a stand.”

1766
The North Carolina Assembly appropriates £5,000 for the construction of a governor’s mansion in New Bern. Previously, the seat of government has not been permanent but has moved up and down the coast with the governor. The assembly, controlled by wealthy coastal landowners, chooses New Bern over Hillsborough, the site preferred by residents of the backcountry.

February: North Carolina “Sons of Liberty” offer armed resistance to the Stamp Act at Brunswick. They coerce officials to reopen the port.

March: The Stamp Act is repealed.

The Sandy Creek Baptists played a key role in the Regulator Movement 1766-1771. The tremendous growth of the Baptist denomination in the south and their free will philosophy influenced the changing views regarding the common man in America
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1767
English Parliament passes the Townsend Act which imposes duties on imported glass, paper, pigments, and tea. Calls to boycott these goods circulate throughout the Colonies.

1768
The Hillsboro Confrontation—The Piedmont farmers protested—call for government to perform it’s proper role.

Farmers in Orange County, adjourning Butte Co., organize the Regulator Movement which spreads to surrounding counties. The movement protests excessive taxation and abuses by public officials, The movement gains strength over the next two years. Edmund Fanning is considered the most corrupt official.

1770
Regulators storm the Hillsborough Superior Court and assault several public officials, including Edmund Fanning. The assembly passes reform measures designed to address some of the Regulators’ concerns. It also passes the Johnston Riot Act, authorizing the governor to put down the Regulators by military force if necessary.

The NC Assembly passes reform measures to address the problems. It also passes the Johnston riot Act authorizing the government to put down the Regulator Movement.
Iron is being mined and ironworks are established on Troublesome Creek, in present-day Rockingham County.

1771
May 16: North Carolina militiamen under the command of Governor Tryon defeat the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance in Orange County, ending the Regulator movement.

1773
Daniel Boone on 25 Sept 1773 leaves his family home on Yadkin river to begin exploring Kentucky.
Approximately 4,000 Highland Scots arrive to settle along the Cape Fear River, bringing the total Scottish population in the colony to 20,000.

September 25: Frontiersman Daniel Boone leaves his Yadkin River home to begin exploring Kentucky.

December 16: The Boston Tea Party takes place in Massachusetts.

1774
Scottish heroine Flora MacDonald, who helped Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) escape from British forces in 1746, immigrates to North Carolina. In accord with her forced oath to the Crown, she remains a staunch Loyalist during the Revolutionary War. Her husband is captured by Patriots early in the war, and she returns to Scotland in 1779.

 11 May 1774 William dies, St John’s Parrish, Butte Co, NC.

August: The First Provincial Congress meets in New Bern. It adopts a resolution criticizing the acts and policies of the British government. In addition, the members adopt a non-importation and non-exportation agreement and elect delegates to the First Continental Congress.

August: The First Provincial Congress meets in New Bern. It adopts a resolution criticizing the acts and policies of the British government. In addition, the members adopt a non-importation and non-exportation agreement and elect delegates to the First Continental Congress.

August 4: Rowan County freeholders adopt resolutions opposing Crown taxes and duties, favoring restrictions on imports from Great Britain, and objecting to the “African trade.”

September–October: The First Continental Congress issues a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances” against Great Britain.

October 25: The Edenton Tea Party takes place at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King. The 51 women in attendance, led by Elizabeth Barker, resolve to support American independence.


November, William’s will is probated. He leave his wife Tabitha his remaining lands, and his youngest daughter, Reliance, he leaves money in the hands of Archer and Glover, attys, and cows in the possession of Richard King, who is to have ½ the increase, and to be raised by his wife. William’s son Isaac is the administrator of his father’s will.

William was a very successful, wealthy farmer who raised a large family on Smith Creek, North Carolina. All indications show that he and his family are community leaders, and very involved in the politics of the time.
We should remember that William’s step brother has become a very influential and wealthy printer and publisher in New Jersey, New York, and Conneticut, and whose very close personal friend Benjamin Franklin is very involved in the coming American Revolution movement. In a last act before his death he published a revolutionary paper by Alexander Mcdougall for which he was arrested.

William's farm is on the main road that would make access to Virginia and New Jersey, and places back east very accessible. This was also the route used to deliver mail to the Colony. It should not escape us that the Edenton Tea Party takes place at the home of Mrs Elizabeth King, the relative of his wife Tabitha (King).
The family are well settled and well off at the time of the events of our American Revolution.

  FAMILY GENEALOGY

1. William PASCHALL [scrapbook] was born about 1703. He died in Aug 1774 in Bute, North Carolina.

[Notes]

William married Reliance DENNIS, daughter of Samuel DENNIS and Mary CROWELL, about 1726 in Middlesex, New Jersey. Reliance was born about 1708 in Middlesex, New Jersey. She died after 1739.

[Notes]

They had the following children.

+	2	M	i	Samuel PASCHALL was born on 1 Apr 1727. He died in 1805.
+	3	M	ii	John PASCHALL was born in 1729. He died in 1776.
+	4	M	iii	Isaiah PASCHALL was born in 1731. He died in 1795.
+	5	M	iv	William PASCHALL was born in 1733. He died after May 1818.
+	6	M	v	Elisha PASCHALL was born in 1735. He died after 1812.
+	7	M	vi	James PASCHALL was born about 1739. He died in 1792.

William also married Sarah? Ruth? Rachel? PIKE ? about 1743. Sarah? was born before 1733. She died about 1768 in Bute, North Carolina.

[Notes]

1. William PASCHALL

compiled by Clarence McDaniel...                      Paschall ID = C

1719 Midd/NJ WB Samuel Dennis names dau, Reliance Dennis, others
1727 Bible of son, Samuel Paschal, names mother as Reliance
1729 Midd/NJ WB Thomas Pike; was witness, signed; see original will
1735 Midd/NJ NJ Supreme CT #8333 deft for debt, Joseph Clark; name: Willm Paschal
1737 Midd/NJ NJ Supreme CT #8194 deft for debt, Samuel M Cohen; bail by Samuel Dennis(bro-in-law)
1737 Midd/NJ NJ Supreme CT #29325 plaintiff for trespass/debt by James Clarkson
1739 NewY/NY Ct Rec: William Paschall of Woodbridge, NJ; runaway servant; NGSQ,vol 70, p108
1744 Edge/NC Col Rec Vol 4, p703 petition for 150a, granted; Nov 19; 50a/person
1745 Edge/NC Brands Bk A;  crop & hole in each ear; Jul 18; NC Archives #37.910.1
1747 Gran/NC partial tax lists of 1747,1749 do not list him
1748 Gran/NC Survey report; 625a by Da(niel) Walden Svr(surveyor); NC Archives
1749 Gran/NC Ld grant #38, file #760, Bk 14 p19, 625a; Mar 25; (signed, 1744)
1750 Gran/NC TL by Osborn Jeffreys; William and 5 sons, 6 polls
1754 Gran/NC Militia list, William & son, William; Samuel, John, Isaiah
1754 Gran/NC TL William and sons, Sam'l, Isaiah, William, Elisha & James; by USGenWeb
1755 Gran/NC TL William and 7 sons
1756 Gran/NC Ct min William & Micajah Perry; trepass, p46/7; Dec; book:  by Zoe H Gwynn
1760 Gran/NC Ld grants, 640a; Mar 11 and 647a; Mar 13
1761 Gran/NC Ld grant, 685a; Mar 16
1761 Gran/NC DB D314 Ld to son, Samuel; May; this son called D-line
1761 Gran/NC DB D313 Ld to son, John; Jun; called E-line
1761 Gran/NC DB D327 Ld to son, Isaiah; Jun; called F-line
1762 Gran/NC TL Smith Cr has Elisha, Dennis at home
1763 Gran/NC DB F170 Ld to son, James; Mar; called I-line (early searchers missed this deed)
1765 Gran/NC DB G313 Ld to son, Elisha; Feb duplicated J4, p6; called H-line
1766 Gran/NC DB 1 p230 Ld to son, Samuel; 200a
1768 Bute/NC DB 2-45 Ld to son, Dennis; Feb; called J-line
1770 Bute/NC Ct Min Wm gdn to Parks, Mary & Tabitha King; p150; 15 Nov
1773 Bute/NC Ct Min Wm & son, Thomas-agreement; Mar 27; p200; called K-line; 9 Aug
1774 Bute/NC WB will; May, proved Nov; sons, Thomas/Dennis exec'rs; 8 Nov
1777 Bute/NC Ct Min estate acct; sermon by Rev Patillo, noted Presbyterian minister
1779 Bute/NC Ct of Pleas & Quarter Sessins, p171/ p182; Thomas Paschall, gdn to sister, Reliance; May 11
1779 Warr/NC Ct Min Tabitha, widow, died; her loaned property sold by Thomas; Aug 10
1779 Warr/NC Ct Min additional inventory by Thomas; 10 Aug
2007 Midd/NJ There is a memorial headstone at the Woodbridge 1st Presbyterian Churchyard dedicated to Reliance Denes Paschal; this is NOT an actual burial. Where/when Reliance died is unknown; see findagrave.com
Note: King ch were ch of John King; Parks King >18 by Nov 1771 when he was bound to Richard King until 21.
Note: prob marr 2ndly; Sarah Anderson or Pike?, c1745; surname is unknown
Note: prob marr 3rdly; Tabitha (Inglis?) King, widow of John King; dau, Tabitha King as ward; see dau Dianna notes
Note: son, William did not get land; called G-line
Note: 5 dau's, per will order, are called L-P lines

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Reliance DENNIS

Note:It is not likely that Reliance was mother of all of William's children as prior researchers have thought.. She likely was the mother of the older sons up to James,b 1739. Almost certainly she was not mother of youngest dau, Reliance. She could be the mother of some of dau's as their year of birth is uncertain. The time and place of her death is not known. The tombstone(see findagrave.com) in the Presbyterian Ch. cem of Woodbridge is a modern placement There is no evidence she was buried there.

They had the following children.

+	8	M	vii	Dennis PASCHALL was born in 1747. He died in Nov 1816.
+	9	F	viii	Sarah PASCHALL was born before 1756. She died before 1789.
+	10	F	ix	Dianna PASCHALL was born in 1750. She died after 1774.
+	11	F	x	Rachel PASCHALL was born about 1750. She died about 1802.
	12	F	xi	Ruth PASCHALL was born before 1756 in Granville, North Carolina. She died after 1774.[Notes]
+	13	M	xii	Thomas PASCHALL was born in 1755. He died in Nov 1821.
	14	F	xiii	Reliance PASCHALL was born about 1767 in Bute, North Carolina. She died after 1785.[Notes]

William also married Tabitha ENGLISH? about 1770 in Bute, North Carolina. Tabitha died in Aug 1779 in Warren, North Carolina.

 I have Tabitha's maiden name as King.