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.
