Malachi Burgess1

Male, #47295, (say 1763 - )

Birth*say 1763 He was born say 1763. 
Tax roll*1781 He registered to pay taxes at Bladen Co., North Carolina, in 1781. Malachi Burgess appears on the 1781 Bladen Co. Tax Exempt document and the 1784 Bladen Co. Tax List. He also appears with wife and children on the Cumberland Co. census several times.
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Marriage*say 1784 He married Martha Thames say 1784. Martha's marriage to Malachi Burges is proved by Cumberland Co. DB 16, pg. 158, a deed of gift of a slave girl "to my daughter Martha Burges and again DB 18, pg. 199, May 6, 1799..1,2 
Deed6 May 1799 A deed was granted to them and with Elizabeth Newberry as an adjacent landowner on 6 May 1799 at Bladen Co., North Carolina.
(Cumberland Co. deed book 18, page 199, May 6, 1799: Martha Theams Senr, Thomas Theames, Malica Barges (sic) & Martha his wife, John Theames & Samuel Theames of Cumberland to William Barry Grove of - whereas Joseph Theames, Senr, decd. Late of Bladen County - by his last will and testament bequeathed among other things to his wife Martha and his children Thomas, Martha, John & Samuel - a tract of land which he the said Joseph purchased from John Stevens & wife 15 November 1771, registered in Bladen Book A, page__ & Cumberland Book __, page 216 part of a patent to Henry Sims & by him conveyed to ___ Gray between Gray's & Dunn's … beginning at Newberry's lower … Newberry's upper back corner … to Dunn's line … to include all the wt (west) part … Sims old survey containing about 400 acres… for 250 dollars … 50 acres of above land to be laid off of the above tract so as to include the improvements made by Champion now owned by Elizabeth Theames widow of Jesse Theames
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Family

Martha Thames (say 1766 - 17 Jul 1799)

Last Edited 6 Apr 2003

Citations

  1. Walt Gabennesch post on Thames Forum at Geneaology.com, 6 Nov 2001: "Martha born 1765/67 Bladen Co. married Malachi Burges (CC, DB-18,Pg-199, May 6, 1799) Three children by 1790 census-Just guessing on birth year."
  2. Walt Gabennesch post on Thames Forum at Geneaology.com, 22 May 2002.
  3. Walt Gabennesch post on Thames Forum at Geneaology.com, 7 Oct 2001.