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- NOTE 1./ By Jerome Tew <<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/dooly/bios/royal80nbs.txt>>
ROYAL (Ryal), Marmaduke, Private, NC Militia
Soldier is listed in NC Army Accounts, Vol V, Bk 180, # 40 M as receiving a pay voucher for 30/12/0 pounds. In 1781 Marmaduke gave Henry Holland 100 acres for serving on the NC Line for him. See Sampson Co. NC deed 7-394. Soldier had two NC RW pay vouchers.
Marmaduke was born about 1748 to John Royal. He married in what is now Sampson County, NC.
He sold all his property in Sampson County and started on several moves that ended in Marion County, Mississippi. It is said that he took his four youngest sons there with him. His children we know of were: 1 Lewis 1772 1855. 2 Simon Sr. (1775 1817). 3 William (1777 1810) removed to Miss. 4 Mary who married Thomas Carroll as his second wife. 5 Gideon (1785 1872) who served in the FL Indian Wars and settled in Smith Co. MS, 6 Hardy (1791 1866) who was in Marion County, Miss. in 1820. He served in the War of 1812. And 7 Willoughby 'Willaba' (1793 ?) who was in Marion County in 1820 and who married Mary Magee. Willoughby was also in the War of 1812.
Marmaduke Royal wrote his will in Marion County, MS, on 26 Feb 1820. Two Sampson County men, Fleet Magee and Willis Magee, witnessed the will. The will left all the property to the two youngest children, Willaba and Hardy Royals.
Facts presented to the DAR:
1. 1769 John Ryal to Marmaduke Ryal 200 Acres for 100 pounds. (Sampson Co. NC)
This means most likely that Marmaduke was then 21 years old or born in 1748. This is not proof that John was the father....but adds to the general idea that he has to be. NOTE an even dollar and low price. Contemporaries of John Royal were Owen and William Royal. Both left wills and Marmaduke is not listed or otherwise connected to Owen or William Royal and there is NO one else.
2. Soldier is listed in NC Army Accounts, Vol V, Bk 180, # 40 M as receiving a pay voucher for 30/12/0 pounds. In 1781 Marmaduke gave Henry Holland 100 acres for serving on the NC Line for him. See deed 7-394. Soldier had two pay vouchers.
3. 1805 Marmaduke Ryall to Lewis Ryall 200 pounds for 100+90+60 (250) acres. This adds to the idea that Marmaduke is the father of Lewis Royal. All of this land was patented by Marmaduke Royal.
4. 1810 Court Minutes of Sampson. OVERSEERS: Ordered Thomas Boykin be overseer of the Great Coharie River beginning at Nathan Peterson's Landing and up to Spell's Bridge and that Lewis Royal, Gideon Royal, Marmaduke Royal's hands, John Pope, Michael Pope, John Boykin, Bias Boykin's hands, Simon Royal, Hartwell Porter, Felix Morgan and Theophilus Peterson work under him. (The father's workers and his two sons.)
5. March 1816 Marmaduke Royal to Fleet Peterson $805 for 150 acres+ 100 acres +229 acres+100 acres. The deed states in the whole 500 acres: (but is 579 acres). This means, that Marmaduke Royal left NC in 1816. Fleet Peterson is listed as born 1793 and married Mary Matthis. It is clear that they lived near each other, but was there another reason for 579 acres being sold for $805. It is true Marmaduke was leaving NC and could get all the land he wanted for nearly nothing in MS. Fleet Peterson had a son named Haywood Peterson born 1831. Lewis Royal had a son named Richard Haywood Royal born 1827. Did Lewis Royal marry a Peterson lady? He also sold them land.
The main effort here was by Barbara Knotts Registrar of the local DAR Tallahala Chapter in MS in behalf of a lady who descends from Jane Royals and Francis Boykin. Jane was the daughter of Gideon Royals and grand daughter of Marmaduke Royals of NC and MS. NC research was provided by Jerome Tew.
NOTE: How much was the 100 acres given to Henry Holland by Marmaduke Royal for one year on the NC Line. Then 100 pds, now $100,000. Henry Holland served on the NC Line in 1781.
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1750 - 1820 (70 years)