Phillip Willheit

• General Notes
  • On 16 March 1756, Philip and his wife sold the land he inherited from his father to Adam Wayland and appears to have moved south into the former Granville District of North Carolina shortly thereafter;
    
    [See The Germanna Record #13, page 53]
    
    Philip entered 640 acres “Neare the Mouth of Lick branch” along both sides of the branch on 26 November 1756.
    
    [See Hofmann, Margaret M., The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763 Abstracts of Miscellaneous Land Office Records IV: 348. Granted 25 August 1760. Surveyed by Sherwood Haywood by warrant dated 4 January 1757.]
    
    Philip may have obtained an additional 639 acres the same year on both sides of Sandy Creek, adjoining Theophlus Goodwin, the Martins’, the Butts’ and the Fussels’.
    
    [See Hofmann, Margaret M., The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763 Abstracts of Miscellaneous Land Office Records IV: 348. Surveyed by Sherwood Haywood; Hezekiah Terrell served as a sworn chain carrier; plat dated 17 March 1757. Granted 25 August 1760, see Granville County, North Carolina Deed Book D: 239-240.]
    
    In February 1761, Philip and wife Rachael sold 239 acres adjoining the Butts’ to Hezekiah Terrell.
    
    [See Hofmann, Margaret M., The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763 Abstracts of Miscellaneous Land Office Records IV: 348. Surveyed by Sherwood Haywood; Hezekiah Terrell served as a sworn chain carrier; plat dated 17 March 1757. Granted 25 August 1760, see Granville County, North Carolina Deed Book D: 239-240.
    
    
    On 20 December 1784, Philip witnessed a sale of land along Sandy Creek by Peter Tatum.
    
    [See Watson, Joseph W., Abstracts of the Early Deeds of Franklin County, North Carolina 1779-1797: 86.
    
    
    The September 1793 court in Franklin County, North Carolina “order’d that Phillip Wilhite’s hands work on the road under John Foster overseer.”
    
    [See Bradley, Dr. Stephen E., Jr., Franklin County, North Carolina Court Minutes Volume 2 (1789-1793): 109.]
    
    Philip seems to have lived the last forty years of his life in Franklin County. Philip penned his will in the spring of 1801 in which he “lent” his wife Rachel “the land and plantation whereon I now live, on the south side of Sandy Creek, together with houses and orchards for use during such time as she may live single, either by marriage or keeping a man in the house in all undestined manner” as well as a slave named Jude, a slave boy named Peach, a mare named Ginny, a horse named Dick, 4 cows of Rachel’s choice, 3 sows, 2 beds and furniture, 1 pot, 1 dutch oven, 1 chest, 2 basins, 1 dish, 4 plates, 6 spoons, 6 “knieves & forks,” 1 frying pan, 2 grubbing hoes, 4 “hilling” hoes, 3 plow hoes, 3 axes, 1 table, 4 chairs, 1 side saddle, 1 pair flat irons, 1 looking glass (mirror), 2 bottles, 1 jug, 2 bread trays, 1 sifter, casks, 2 meal tubs. To his son William, Philip left a slave girl named Bitha; to his son Lewis, Philip left a slave boy named Pleasant; to his son Ambrose, Philip left a slave boy named Bob; to his son Philip, Philip left a slave named Cloe; to his daughter Rhoda, Philip left a slave boy named Patrick; to his daughter Rachel, Philip left a slave boy named Doctor; to his daughter Polly, Philip left a slave boy named Jack; to his daughter Patty, Philip the slave Jude lent to his wife as well as one bed and furniture and chest; to his son John, Philip left the slave Peach lent to his wife; to his son Gabriel, Philip left a slave girl named Lillah and his land on the north side of Sandy Creek; to his daughter Nancy, Philip left a slave girl named Lucy as well as one bed and furniture and chest; to his daughter Sally, Philip left a slave girl named Hivey as well as one bed and furniture and chest; to his son Young, Philip left a slave woman named Cade and her children as well as the land and plantation on the south side of Sandy Creek. Philip willed his remaining estate to be sold and equally divided among his children. However, the non-slave personal property lent to his wife was to be divided among Ambrose, Lewis, Rachel, Rhoda, Salley, Nancy, William, Gabriel, and Polly (sons Philip, John and Young were excluded for unknown reasons). Philip also named his sons William and Young as administrators.
    
    [See Will of Philip Wilhite, Franklin County, North Carolina Will Book B: 74, as abstracted by Bradley, Dr. Stephen E., Will Book B Franklin County, North Carolina 1794-1804 Wills, Estate Records, Guardian Accounts: 21]
    ---- Above compiled by Jeff Narvil (Wilhite Family Genealogy Forum)

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