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| John Coggin and Isham Meadows were sworn chain carriers and Christopher Haynes was surveyor for a North Carolina land grant to Thomas Person, 10 May 1762. The land was 700 acres in Halifax County, North Carolina, on both sides of Butterwood Creek, adjoining Person’s corner, Alston’s line, and Roper’s line. The land was surveyed 22 February 1762.41
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| | William Person, Jr., Thomas Person, and John Coggin, Sr. paid taxes in 1762 in Granville County, North Carolina, Little Fishing Creek District taken by Daniel Harris. Little Fishing Creek District adjoined Babtist District where Isham Meadows lived.
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| | In the Granville County, North Carolina, tax list for 1762, Babtist District: John Medors lived in the household of Wm. Byrd. Daniel Meadows and Isham Meadows, No. 46, were together in same household paying two polls42
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| | The Babtist District of Granville County, became Bute County, when it was created from Granville County in 1764. In 1779, Bute County was abolished and it’s territory became Warren and Franklin Counties. Isham Meadows lived in Warren County, North Carolina, after 1779.
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| | Isham Meadows was a witness to the will of John Meadows, 10 November 1773, in Bute County, North Carolina. Isham proved the will 9 August 1774, in Bute County.43 Isam (^) Meadows witnessed the will of Nathan Willeford in Warren County, 30 January 1780.44
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| | On 6 August 1787, Isham Meadows of Warren County, North Carolina, was grantee of 70 acres, adjoining Anthony’s Branch, Jno. Ward, Ginetto Swamp, and Westcot.45
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| 41 Ibid, #3002, Patent Book 14, p. 161. (signed) Thos. Person. Wit: B. Person.
| | 42 Ransom McBride, “List of Taxables for 1762 in Granville Co., N.C.,” The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, XII, #3 (Aug. 1986), p. 154, Babtist Dist. All white males over age 16 were liable for this tax.
| | 43 Bute–Warren Co., N.C., Will Book 2, pages 22–23.
| | 44 Warren Co., N.C., Will Book 3, p. 39.
| | 45 Halifax Co., N.C., Deed Book 17, p. 357.
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