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- NOTE 1./ While James was serving his indenture in Bertie Co, his older brother John, had received a land grant in Duplin Co NC and had settled there. There is some indication that John went back to Bertie Co and bought James out of his indenture and took him to Duplin Co. In any case, James Sr did end up in Duplin/Sampson Co where he married Sara Hester of Bladen Co in the late 1750's. Sara was the daughter of Thomas Hester Sr of Bladen Co who was the ancestor of most of the Hesters in Bladen and Robeson Counties.
Around 1770 James received a land grant for several hundred acres in southwestern Bladen Co in the Dublin/Bladenboro area and near the area that became Robeson County. During the next thirty to forty years he became a successful planter with a number of slaves and many hundreds of acres of land.
James' wife, Sarah, died just before 1820. Around that time, James Sr's daughter, Sarah, and her husband, William Bryan Jr, moved to Georgia to homestead some of the free land available and around 1825 James Sr and some of his children took off to join their kin in Georgia. That left two of his sons, James Jr and William in Bladen Co. By about 1832, William had moved to Georgia as well. James Jr remained in Bladen Co where he was doing well as a planter on a large acreage in the Bladenboro-Dublin area.
James Sr and his sons, Jasper Evers and William Evers, as well as daughters, Rebecca Evers, Sarah Evers, and Elinor Evers, and their growing famililes were all living in Monroe County, Georgia, newar Macon. James Jr, the only one of his children still in Bladen Co, apparently owed James Sr money for land he had purchased. James Sr sent son William back to try to collect the debt, He later signed power of attorney to Durram Lewis, who made the long trip back to Bladen Co to collect the debet from James Jr. There is no indication the debt was ever paid. James Sr died in Monroe Co Ga on June 15, 1837. He was 96. The estate papers show that James Jr of Bladen Co received a slave valued at $700 and $352.39 in cash
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1740 - 1837 (96 years)
