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Joseph Pavey (Victualler)

• In 1733, Joseph Pavey was apparently one of James Oglethorpe's Indian Trader’s and Ranger’s. Joseph Pavey applied for a land grant in South Carolina (on the Congaree River) and bought land from George Haig, Sr.

George Haig, Sr., took a Native American, of Keowee for a wife and was married to Elizabeth Seawright Likewise, Joseph Peavy took a Native American Dial, Waccamaw Siouan, for a wife, and he married Jane Dyall.

• Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), and Albert Berry Saye. A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia. (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, c1949 (1967 printing)), Part II., Page 92, No. 958.

Part II. Persons Who Went from Europe to Georgia on Their Own Account.

"PAVEY, Joseph (#958) - Victualler, embarked 1736: lot 172 in Savannah, Georgia.

14 June, 1736 – Augusta, Georgia - James Olgethorpe orders a surveyor: That a house in town and a 500 acre Lot Should be mark’d out to the following Indian Traders -- Saml. Brown, George Currie, Cornelius Doehorty, Gregory Haines, Lochlane Macbane, Kenedy Obryen, and Joseph Pavey.

16 Aug 1736 – Augusta, Georgia – Joseph Pavey had leave of absence to purchase the lot of Arthur Johnston...and paid 3 negroes with 10 £ sterling valued at 73 £ sterling.

2 Dec 1736 – Joseph Peavy had a License to Keep A Public House.

• In 1737 - George Haig, Sr. bought 400 acres of land on the west side of the Congaree from Joseph Pavey. See:Fort Congaree II: British Outpost in the South Carolina Midlands, 1748-1756, by Daniel J. Tortora of the History Department, Colby College, (2013).

In 1738 he left Savannah, Georgia to settle in Augusta, Georgia.

• Ready, Milton. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia: Journal of Colonel William Stephens, Secretary to the Board of Trustees at Savannah. Supplement to Vol. 4. Containing All of His Journal Not Embraced in Vol. 4 of this Compilation. (Atlanta, Georgia: Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1908), Vol. 4, Pages 98, 99, 282.

Pages 98, 99

3 Mar 1741 – Tuesday – Joseph Peavy, a Freeholder of this Town, at present employed as one of those that keep Garrison at Fort Argyle, coming hither this Morning, acquainted me, that he believed they were all breaking up there (which All was no more than Four) the Time they being engaged for being near expired; andthat I might expect the Boat with two of them from thence, soon after he got back, for that he came on Horseback, and was to return tomorrow. I asked him what was the Reason of such an unexpected Deseration; to which he answered, that he believed Lachlan McIntosh (who was chief) had wrote to the General at Frederica, somewhat or other which his Excellence was not well pleased with, probably concerning their Pay, &c. Mr. Hird being not gone out of Town, I understood that the General had declared, as to Fort Argyle, he would not concern himself about it, but that Col. St. (meaning me) might do what he pleased with it, either maintain it, or give it up, as he saw good; which Mr. Hird assured me, he heard the General say. This must needs appear very strange to me, who had no Power given me in my Commission, to intermeddle with any Forts or Garrisons, much less to dismantle them, if I thought fit: Could I then dare to do it? All that was in my Power therefore at present, was to ask Peavy, whether or not he was determined to quit with the rest, or would be content to stay there with one more, till I cold know the General’s Pleasure, and have his positive Orders (for I had often heard his Excellence declare, that no Orders from him were to be deemed valid, unless in Writing signed by him) and I was old enough to take Caustion, not to exceed Orders, but to fulfill them only when I had them. Pevey engaged with me, that he and another of the four would abide there, and take the best care they could of every Thing, when the others were gone, till I had Instructions concerning it, upon my promise to see him paid for that Time, which I could not refuse him.

4 March 1741 – Wednesday – Peavy returned to Fort Argyle, well satisfied; and Hird went off again for Frederica, by whom I wrote to the General, intreating to have his Directions what I was to do relating to the Matter above-mentioned. Nothing observable that came to my Knowledge.

Page 282, Index - Pevey, Joseph - his Account of the Garrison at Fort Argyle, intending to desert it, Pages 98, 99.

• 12 Mar 1741 - At a Meeting of the president and Assistants for the County of Savannah...A Petition was presented to the Board by Joseph Pavey desiring to have 500 acres of Land on the South of Ogeechee River.

• Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina: from the colonial period to about 1820. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., c2001), Vol. 2, Pages 914, 915.

Descendants of Joseph Peavy (Victualler) and Native American Wife

1. Joshua Pavey, born say 1725, was called Joshiah Pavee on 20 June 1745 when he made a successful appeal to the Craven County, North Carolina court [Haun, Craven County Court Minutes, III:463]. He was listed in the 27 November 1752 muster of the Wilmington Compay commanded by Captain George Merrick [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 683]. He was called “Pavey” in the 1755 New Hanover County, North Carolina List of Taxables in which he was taxable on 4 “Negro Males.” [N.C. Archives File T. O. 105]. He purchased 200 acres on the east side of the mouth of Nichols Creek and the sound in New Hanover County on 28 April 1764, and sold half this land to Daniel Webb on 1 October 1764 [DB E:272, 274]. He was called a “Mulatto” and Daniel Webb was called a “free Negro” when the deed was proved in New Hanover County on 2 September 1766 [Minutes 1738-69, 274]. He was taxable in Bladen County, North Carolina (in the list next to John Webb) on 4 “Mixt Blood” males and a female in 1774 and taxable on 4 “Black” taxables (his wife and two sons) in 1775 and 1776 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:124; II:36, 47, 90]. He was head of a household of 1 male “Molatto” 21-60 years of age in the state census for New Hanover in 1787. He was probably the ancestor of

i. Charles Peavy, taxable in Bladen County on a male and female “Mixt Blood” in 1774 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:124], head of an Onslow County, North Carolina household of 11 “other free” in Brunswick County in 1800 [NC:13A].

ii. James Pevee, head of a Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cumberland County, North Carolina household of 1 “other free” in 1790 [NC:42].

iii. Caleb / Calop Peavy, entered 200 acres on the west side of Slap Arse Swamp in Bladen County on 11 November 1771 [NC Archives, SS call no. S.108.494, location 863-9, file no. 774]. He was head of an Onslow County household of 4 “other free” in 1790 (abstracted as Colop Perry) [NC:197], 3 “other free” in Brunswick County in 1800 [NC:13], and probably the C. Peavy who was head of a Brunswick County household of 7 “other free” in 1810 [NC:236]. Administration of his Marlboro County, South Carolina estate was granted to Ephraim Sweat on 3 April 1818 on $500 bond [Minutes of the Court of Ordinary, 125].

iv. Thomas Peavey, head of a New Hanover County household of 1 “Molatto” 21-60 years old with 3 “Molatto” females for the state census in 1787, probably the T. Peavy who was head of a Brunswick County household of 4 “other free” in 1810 [NC:234].

v. J. Peavy, head of a Brunswick County household of 3 “other free” in 1810 [NC:234]. This was Probably Reverend Joshua Peavy, born 3 July 1784 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Although he was scarcely able to read, he started preaching in South Carolina and was ordained by Bishop Enoch George in 1821 in Alabama. He was described as being of “very dark complexion” (for a white man) [West, Rev. Anson, History of Methodism in Alabama, Nashville (1893): 206-209]. He married Martha Smith [Owen, Thomas McAdory, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Chicago (1921): IV:1334], probably a daughter of H. Smith, head of a Brunswick County, North Carolina household of 8 “other free” in 1810 [NC:234]. In January, 1818, he pitched his tent at Burnt Corn, Alabama in that part of Monroe County, Alabama which was, by an act of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Alabama Territory, passed 'February 13, 1818, made Conecuh County. He brought with him to Alabama Territory a wife and five daughters, and his eldest son. The Rev. Joshua Peavy was of very dark complexion, and in his youth was destitute of edicational facilities. It was said that when he commenced preaching he commenced to educate himself.

vi. N. Peavy, head of a Brunswick County household of 2 “other free” in 1810 [NC:236].

In June 1856 a member of the Peavey family in North Carolina accused an election inspector of refusing to receive his vote. He claimed that his mother and grandmother were white women and that: his father was dark colored man with straight hair, his grandfather a dark red-faced mulatto, with dark straight hair. He lost his case [Catterall, Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery II:198].

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