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| John Williams and James Medowes were sworn chain carriers and Sherd Haywood was surveyor for a North Carolina land grant to John Shearman, 13 May 1757, for 219 acres in St. John’s Parish, Granville County, on both sides of Stoney Creek, adjoining Shearman’s corner and John Langston.23
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| | Thomas Goss and James Meadows were sworn chain carries, 3 March 1760, for a grant of 633 acres in Granville County, to John Shearman, adjoining Shearman, Johnston, and Rose. Thomas Person was surveyor.
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| | James Meadows paid taxes in Granville County, North Carolina, in 1762 in Pryor’s District as did his brother, William Meadows, and father–in–law, John Shearman.24
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| | In Orange County, North Carolina, 5 October 1768, James Meadows of Granville County, sold to Joseph Read of Bute County, North Carolina, 350 acres on Camp Creek, part of a larger tract granted to Thomas Collins, Collins to Thomas Glass, Glass to Daniel Meadows. This deed was witnessed by H. Pendleton and Thomas Person.25
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| | The will of James Meadows was dated 1812, filed 1815, Granville County, North Carolina. It named, wife, Ellenor. Blackman Pardue was to receive 5 shillings. It named sons, Jesse (decd.), Daniel, Isaac, Michael, and Ephraim Meadows. Also mentioned were: Abram Meadows and Thomas Lewis.26
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| | Children of James Meadows and Ellenor Shearman:
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| Jesse3Meadows, born circa 1752, died by 7 August 1811, Granville County, North Carolina, married circa 1770, Elizabeth ——, born circa 1756, died circa 1835, Granville County.27
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| 23 Margaret M. Hofman, The Granville District of North Carolina 1748–1763, Abstracts of Land Grants, Vol. 2, (Weldon, N.C.: Roanoke News Company, 1987), #2695, Patent Book 14, p. 65.
| | 24 Ransom McBride, “List of Taxables for 1762 in Granville County, N.C.,” The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, XIII, #2 (May 1987), p. 103. Pryor’s Distrist by Phil Pryor.
| | 25 (signed) James (H) Meadows. Proved by Person, 24 March 1769.
| | 26 Granville Co., N.C., Will Book 7, p. 508.
| | 27 Ancestors of Maryland Meadows Campbell, Phoenix, Arizona.
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