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David Lee apparently made several moves before settling on the Black River in New Hanover County. It has been suggested that he was born about 1690/95 in southeastern Virginia. He is likely the David Lee who purchased a 150 acre plantation called Wallowing Root (B-l:400) from John Marks and wife Margaret in Chowan County, N. C. on October 17, 1716. He sold this land to William Fallaugh the following October 28 (B-l:401).
Further south on the coast in Beaufort County, N. C. on August 10,
1720 David Lee of "Bath County, N. C. " (which at that time included Beaufort as a precinct) purchased land on the southeast side of Duck Creek from
Thomas Worsley (1:329, witnessed by Thomas______________ay, Collum F. Flyn, Thos.
Boyd).
The name of David Lee's wife is confirmed by the following deed of
1721:
(Beaufort, 1:393): N. C. Bath County:
To all to whom these presents shall come we David Lee of Beaufort precinct in the County and province aforesaid planter, and Mary his Wife, Daughter of Darby Sullivan deceased send ^?Greetings fire.
Know ye that we the said David Lee and Mary his wife, as well for the great affection and Brotherly love, the we bear & owe to our Brother in law Thomas Devaughan (Devane dll)...have given...unto the said Thomas Devaughan ...all that one moiety, half part or full share of one certain plantation... in the precinct of Hyde at Severn on Pongituck Creek, the whole containing Two hundred and forty four acres...as it is bounded by a patent Granted to Darby Sullivan, late of Hyde precinct, Deceased... Date... the twenty fourth day of November one Thousand seven hundred and fifteen, and being all that the undivided half part...which fell to the aforesaid Mary Lee...as one of the Daughters of the above said Darby Sullivan and coheir with Margaret Devaughan wife of the aforesaid. Thomas Devaughan...In witness whereof we... have hereunto set our hands and affixed our Seals this third day of January anno Dom. 1721.
(signed) David ^ Lee, his mark.
Mary i?t Lee, her mark.
Witness: Robt . Forster, Roger Kenyon, Thomas Uerslay (?).
This deed shows that David Lee was the brother in law of Thomas Devane (Devaughan), Sr. who later moved to New Hanover County, N. C. where he became a prominent planter on South River, dying in 1760. Thomas, Sr. was
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