JOSEPH MILLSAP
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BIOGRAPHY
BORN: About 1747 at Augusta County, Virginia _
MARRIED: About 1766 at Rowan County, North Carolina
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SPOUSE: Nancy Ann Martin ______________________
BORN: About 1751 at Raleigh, North Carolina __
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ACHIEVEMENTS
HIS two sons, Thomas and Joseph, Jr. migrated to Wayne County, Kentucky. After 19 September 1816, Joseph, Jr. along with his daughter, Elizabeth and her husband, William Montgomery, moved to new lands in Howard County, Missouri. In Missouri, Joseph, Jr. died in 1820 without a will.
JOSEPH, Sr. must have heard the news of his namesake's severe illness and subsequent death. Hence, in his will, he left his son, Thomas, only five shillings and "all that he owes me," and that he made no provisions for Thomas' children or their heirs. But he did make a bequeath to Joseph, Jr. or his heirs. He left him 150 acres of land in Iredell County, North Carolina. He also left him "my Negro hirl named Kaat and all her increase." He also gave him an equal share of his undivided estate.
THIS provision in Joseph, Sr.'s will is supported by an entry in a land Deed Book D on page 137 of Wayne County, Kentucky. There is a document whereby Andrew Millsap sold his interest on 29 April 1822 in the estate of his grandfather, Joseph of Iredell County, North Carolina, for the sum of $23 to his uncle Hiram Millsap. William Montgomery, as executor of Joseph, Jr.'s estate, sold the Negro girl, Kaat, for $236 in Macon County, Missouri on 7 October 1850.
Contributed by: Colleen Hunter
Edited by: Dennis P. Arntzen
A Touch of the Irish
