Person:Thomas Poindexter (14)

Notes

• Name given as Thomas Willing/Willin Pledge Poindexter ^{Citation needed}
• called "Pledge" during settlement of father's estate.

• 12 Feb 1800 - Thomas Flynn vs. Edward Lovill. Jury impannelled and sworn; find for defendant. Pledge Poindexter, wit for pltff proves 30m and 1 day. [Surry Co NC Court Minutes, 1796-1800, 2:187]

[Edward Lovill was probably Pledge's father-in-law.]

• Feb Term 1816 - Thos. W P Poindexter overseer of road from Lovill's Ore Road to Yellow Bank Ford on Mitchells River. [Surry Co NC Overseers of Roads 1807-1833, 24]

• 1838 - Individuals who purchased land in Cherokee Co NC in 1838 as a result of the removal of the Cherokees to OK: Francis Poindexter (Dist 9 & 12) 556 acres for $517; Thomas W. P. Poindexter (Dist 8 & 11), 697 acres for $627

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Douglas, William. The Douglas register: being a detailed record of births, marriages and deaths together with other interesting notes, as kept by the Rev. William Douglas, from 1750-1797. An index of Goochland Wills : notes on the French-Hugeunot [sic] refugees who lived in Manakin-Town. (Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Ferguson & Sons, 1928)
   275.

   Tho: Poindexter & Eliz: Pledge a son named Tho: Wentworth born Jan: 3 ... Baptized Nov. 5 1771. p. 90.

2.   United States. 1800 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M32)
   Surry, NC.

   Pledge Poindexter [His father Thomas was still living].
   2m under 10,
   1m 16-26.
   1f 16-26.

3.   United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252)
   Surry, NC.

   Thomas W. Poindexter.
   2m under 10,
   2m 10-16,
   1m 26-45.
   2f under 10,
   1f 16-26.

4.   .

   Nealon Rhea Agee, Poindexter Family History, 5th Edition. (Nashville: Privately Published, June 2004) [Note: Loose Leaf reprinting of 4th Edition]
   Page: p.454f; Chapter on Thomas Pledge Wentworth Poindexter
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   [says that about 1838, Pledge went out to the Indians and was buried on the reservation in Macon, now Cherokee Co, NC. He did purchase land there along with his son Francis. Descendants later tried to enroll in the Cherokee Nation but were denied for lack of proof. Descendants who applied for enrollment with the Cherokee Indians referred to him as Pledge Poindexter.]

5.   Comstock, Mary Jane. Comstock-Haggard and allied families. (Chicago [Illinois]: Adams Press, 1973)
   116.
6.   .

   Mary Courtright Pettitt and Robert J. Pettitt, Thomas M. Pettitt's Family (Self Published. Highland CA: c1996. Out of print but available on LDS Microfilm #1750818, Item 13.)
   Page: The Poindexter Family, p.B-71
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   [says there were three sons and several daughters but only lists a son Thomas Pledge (1800-1873) and daughter Mary who married George N. Hughes in 1832.]

7.   L7JD-KF9, in FamilySearch Family Tree.
8.   Poindexter-80, in Wikitree.com.
9.   .

   Poindexter Descendants Association, Inc. "Newsletter"; 8 (4, Oct 1999):17.