1. It is not known what Mary Bray/Seabrook/Whitlock's maiden name was. The key to that lies in England, in all probability. It is most likely that Richard and Mary emigrated from Southwest England, where the Bray name is concentrated, as others have noticed. But the fact that Richard and John are the two most common names in the Bray familes of England doesn't help any! [Remarks of Shirley Stanton]
1. Shirley Stanton lists Anna's parents as Nehemiah Seabrook and May.
1. Earl L. Jones has known this family since about age 5 (1939).
2. Sam worked at Wickham Packing Plant for a number of years before going to work for Reeves Packing Plant.
1. In his father's Will RHD (Roland or Richard) received 1 Negro Girl named Jean.
2. A June 1773 Mecklenburg County, Virginia deed from Rowland Andrews to Sylvanua Walker indicates that there was an unnamed wife. Therefore, we would expect children to be born beginning at least b y 1774.
3. Rowland Andrews is listed on the 1782 Mecklenburg County, Virginia Census with 6 whites in his household.
4. The 1850 Randolph County, North Carolina census indicates Harmon Andrews' age to be 71. Harmon is indicated in the Rowland Andrews Will as being the eldest son.
5. Randolph Co, NC Loose Wills File, NC Archives.
In the Name of God Amen, this thirty first day of December one thousand seven hundred and Eighty five. I, Roland Andrews of the county of Randolph in the State of North Carolina being weak in body but of sound & perfect mind and memory do make and declare this to be my last will & testament in manner & form following, that is to say, first that my body be decently buried at the cost of my Executors and that all my just debts be by them honestly paid and as to my worldly estate both Real & personal my will and desire is that my Wife Henrietta have the whole in her possession for the purpose of supporting herself & children and educating them the personal estate until the youngest child shall live to the age of twenty one years or married and the Real Estate until the eldest shall arrive to the same age or married and then to be divided in the following manner among My wife and five children Harmond, Asa, Richard, Bevoley & Lucy or such of them as shall be then living at the time appointed for the Division of my Estate that is to say when my Eldest son who may or shall live to the age of twenty one or marries then my lands to be equally divided amoung my wife and children then living according to quantity & quality Each one part to him or her or his or her heirs & assigns forever and when my youngest child shall arrive to the age of twenty one or marries then the personal Estate to be Equally divided amoung my wife & children then living and I hereby constitute & appoint my Trusty friend Thomas Ingram & my Eldest son Harmond Executors of this my last will & testament hereby Revoking all former wills by me made. Signed: Roland Andrews. Signed Setled & Acknowlege in the presents of Tho. Satterwhite. Signed Tho. Burton, Jno Williams. The Execution of the above will ?? duly proved in open Court by the Hon. Judge Williams one of the Subscribing Witnesses thereto ordered that the same be administered and recorded October Tem 1786.
1. The 1830 Randolph County, North Carolina Census lists Roland Andrews as Head of Household...Henrietta is obviously deceased at this time.
1. List of people in the poor establishment, December 1844: Beverly Andrews, 68 years. (Miscellaneous Records, Williamson County, Tennesse, Vol. 2, Louise Gillespie Lynch, 1978, p. 1)
2. The above record dates Beverly Andrews as being born abt. 1776.
1. The 1800 Randolph County, North Carolina, census lists the widow (Henrietta) Andrews, 1 male 10-16 years old, which would be consistent with Rowland Andrews' 1850 Carroll County, Georgia, census record. The older boys appear to be split between the households of Harmon & Henrietta in 1800. Harmon's household (enumerated next to Widow Andrws) shows 2 males 16-26 & Henrietta's household shows 2 males 16-26. That accounts for all the male children. Lucy appears to be either married or deceased in 1800. The fact that 3 children under the age of 10 also were living in the Widow Henrietta's household might indicate that Lucy was deceased at that time.
1. Roland Jr. was reputed to be a posthumous son of Rowland & Henrietta Andrews.
2. His move to Georgia can be documented as 1838 due to the fact that he was on the 1838 Randolph County, North Carolina tax list.
1. Hilva is listed as "Hilvy" and Head of Household on the 1860 Paulinding County, Georgia, with daughter Henrietta and her future husband, John A. Mills. Roland was obviously decease by the enumeration of that census.
1. The 1850 census indicates Richard's age as 70 and is consistant with him being the 4th son born to Rowland & Henrietta.
1. The Randolph County, North Carolina tax lists show Harris Andrrews as paying tax on the land on which the younger Rowland Andrews had lived, after Rowland's move to Georgia.