Person:Richard Dearman (2)

Richard Dearman is first found with his name spelled "Deerman" when he received a land patent of 500 acres in Craven County North Carolina at a Council held at Bath Town on February 5, 1743. 1

    This land later fell into Johnston County, North Carolina, and Richard Dearman sold the land or his interest in the land to Nathaniel Hawthorne.  It was in this area of Craven County  on the Neuse River that Richard Dearman received a patent for land in 1707.( 2)

    On September 1756 Richard Derman Received Land Grant No. 1311 for 300 acres situated on the North Side of the Pee Dee River on a branch at Hitchcocks Creek called Falling Creek. (3)

    On October 24, 1757 Richard Darmond, Laborer of Anson County, North Carolina, sold a

track of land on Mill Creek to John Lewis, trader. Signing the deed with her husband was Eleanor Dearmond. Richard's name was also spelled "Dearmond" and Daremond" in the body of the conveyance

    Several deeds were found in Anson County showing the owners of land adjoining Richard Dearman. On March 18, 1761, Jesse Bounds Convoyed to Richar Yarbrough 75 acres on the north side

of the Pee Dee River and west of Falling Creek adjoining Richard Dearman. (4)

    The last documented record of Richard Dearman that we have found was the deed in 1775.

He did not appear in the 1786 North Carolina State Census and it is believed that he and probably his wife died between those dates. The land granted to Richard Dearman was situated in that part of Anson County From Which Richmond County was formed in 1779.

    The different spelling of the name in these land records of  Richard Dearman points out one of

the difficult problems in researching early records. If a common link can be found between such records, they can be safely assumed to be one and the same person. The links between these records are the location of the land, the adjoining land owners, and the known connection between the other parties named and our Richard Dearman.

1.Colonial Records of North Carolina- Council Journal (Saunders), Vol IV, Page 675. Land Grant in Craven County North Carolina to Richard Dearman. 2. Deed, September 19, 1732 Martin Franks Sells to Thomas Pilson 640 acres on the north side of

   the Neuse River, Land that had been patented by Richard Derham in 1707.

3. Anson County, N. C. Abstracts of Early Records (McBee). 4. Deed Book 5, Page 154 Anson County N.C. Richard Darmond to John Lewis. 5. Deed Book __, Page 3366 Anson County N. C. July 11, 1775 John Bounds to John Wilson.

Source: Ancestors and Descendents of the Dearman-Deerman and Related Families.