Person:Samuel Taulbee (1)

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY

(Seal)

This certifies that the following information is recorded in a manuscript volume located in this Department titled "Revolutionary Army Accounts", Volume XII, page 18, Folio 2:
Hillsborough dist. (Caswell, Chatham, Granville, Orange, Randolph, Wake Co.'s)
Heading: An Account of Specie Certificates paid into the comprollers Offiece by John Armstrong Entry Taker for land in North Catolina (rest of line unreadable, could be date)

Number: 2837

By whom granted: Melbane & Nichols

To whom granted: Sam Talbey

Date: June 1783

Sum: 60 pounds, 6 shillings

Interest: 3 pounds, 10 shillings

To what time: 35th May 1784

Total amount principal and interest: 63 pounds, 16 shillings

Other information: None




Raleigh North Carolina State Archivial




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In the name of God Amen.

I Samuel Talbey of Orange County and State of North Carolina being of sound mind and

memory, and calling to mind the uncertainty of this Transitory? life, do make and ordain this my

last will and Testament. First it is my will that my Funeral expenses and just debts be paid by

my Executors.

2nd I give and bequeath unto Elizath Faddy, one heifer, two Ewes, One Sow, one small chest

and one flax wheel, to her, her heir, and  ? forever. Item I give and bequeath unto my loving

wife Elizabeth, all the rest and residue of my Estate, for and during the term of her natural life,

and after her deceace to be equally devided between my children, Isael, William Hitchcock

Tolby, Milly Whittaker, Mary Kennady, and Elizabeth Rhodes, hereby Authorizing my Executors

sell and dispose of such part of my Estate, as they may think necessary, and apply the same or

as much thereof as may be necessary for the Support and maintainance? of my said wife. And

thusly I do appoint James Kennady and Richard Rhodes Executors to this my last will and

testament, ratifying? this only to be my last Will and Testament

Signed, sealed, published by the) his
Testors to be his last will and) Samuel (mark) Talby (seal)
Testament, in the presence of)
God


Probated August 1791

ROY HELTON

OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING
(A Kentucky Mountain Ballad)

"Where are you coming from, Loney Carter, "Said, Lord Jesus forguv your Taulbe;
So airly over the snow? But he told me another word:
And what's them pretties you got in your hand, He said it soft when he stooped and
And where you aiming to go? kissed me.
That were the last I heard."
"Step in, Honey: Old Christmas morning
I ain't got nothing much; Taulbe ain't to home this morning."
Maybe a bite of sweetness and corn bread,
A little ham meat and such. "I know that, Sally Anne,
For I kilt him, coming down through
"But come in, Honey! Sally Anne Barton's the meadow
Hungering after your face. Where Taulbe kilt my man.
Wait till I light my candle up:
Set down! There's your old place. "I met him upon the meadow trace
Where the moon were fainting fast,
"Now where you been so airly this morning?" And I had my dead man's rifle gun
"Graveyard, Sally Anne. And kilt him as he come past."
Up by the trace in the salt lick meadows
Where Taulbe kilt my man." "But I heard two shots."

"Taulbe ain't to home this morning . . . ""Twas his was second:
I can't scratch up a light:
Dampness gets on the heads of the matches; He shot me 'fore he died:
But I'll blow up the embers bright." You'll find us at daybreak, Sally
Anne Barton:
"Needn't trouble, I won't be stopping: I'm laying there dead at his side."
Going a long ways still.?

"You didn't see nothing, Sally Ann Barton?" By------ROY HELTON
Up on the graveyard hill?"

"Well, sperits do walk last night."

"There were an elder bush a-blooming January 5, the date on which Christ-
While the moon still give some light." mas was celebrated until about 1750,
in some places in the South,
"Yes, elder bushes, they bloom, Old Christmas, particularly in the mountain regions
And critters kneel down in their straw, the tradition continued and was
Anything else up in the graveyard?" called "Old Christmas!!"
"One thing more I saw: SANG: Southern mountain word for Gin
Seng. TRACE: a trail or footpath
I saw my man with his head all bleeding PRETTIES: any sorttt of toy or decoration
Where Taulbe's shot went through." USES: lives.
"What did he say?"
"He stooped and kissed me."
"What did he say to you?"