Person:Matthias Brickell (1)

Name	Matthias Brickell
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	23 Mar 1725	North Carolina
Marriage	6 Nov 1748	to Rachiel Noailles
Marriage	Abt 1772	[2nd wife - she is the widow Jones] to Ann _____
Death^[1]	17 Oct 1788	Hertford, North Carolina, United States

Research notes

his plantation Oak Villa was located on the post route between Suffolk, VA and Wilmington, NC and therefore served as a post office. It burned to the ground on Christmas Eve ???? [Note of Caution: there is a misidentified picture floating around, supposedly of Oak Villa, but actually of the Wynn-Jordan house located nearby on Murfreesboro Road.]
1762-1766 - 2nd High Sheriff of Hertford County
1768 - appointed commissioner for Winton when it was formed
21 Aug 1775 - represented Hertford at Hillsboro
pre-1776 - member of the Governor’s Council ; entry-taker for the county
04 Apr 1776 - represented Hertford at Halifax
appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Hertford County militia by state Congress
post-1776 - appointed Chairman of the old County Court
1779 Tax list, Hertford County - Matthias Brickell Esq with 250 ac + 220 ac +150 ac +320 ac + 2 lotts in Winton, also 12 negroes 10-40, 8 n 5-10 or 40-50, 10 n >10, 48 head of cattle, 7 horses + money +. He is also the Justice who signs the tax list for District 3.
1782 Tax list, Hertford County - District 3. Col. Matt Brickell 580 7 7 7 negroes 8 horses 43 cattle 2 carriage wheels ; do Jas Jones’s orphans 400 3 1 4 negroes
1784 Tax list, Hertford County - in Capt Job Yeates’s Company list taken by Jeremiah Brown, Matthias Brickell 1152 ac 2 fp 15 bp

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Copied from family record taken by Mrs. Mary Hardeman from family Bible of her uncle, James Noailles Brickell, of North Carolina, in Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson. Tennessee Records : Bible Records and Marriage Bonds. (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox, 1974)
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Matthias Brickell, my great-grandfather (of Mrs. Mary Hardeman), was born 23rd of March, 1725. ... died 17th Oct. 1788.