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- Most of the information for Randolph Bracey was documented by Ed Dunn
"As for Randolph Bracey, the best information is from the late Verna Bracey of Mecklenburg Co., VA, who revised her 1955 information about him, probably in the 1970s, and which I quote:
"Randall (Randolph) Bracey, born about 1726, may have been the son of William Bracey of Prince George...[County], Virginia, and a brother of Thomas Bracey of Brunswick County. He married Mary Maclin, daughter of William and Sarah Macklin of Brunswick County before 1752. They had at least five
children:
1. Sackfield Maclin, b. 1757
2. Nanny, b. before 1762
3. William, b. c. 1767
4. child, b. c. 1768
5. child, b. c. 1769
On March 4, 1746 Randall Bracey of Brunswick County, VA, bought 150 acres of land from John Nipper in Brunswick Co., on the middle branch of Cocks Creek (DB 3, p. 277).
He was one of the processioners of land south of the Meherrin River in Nov. 1751 (St. Andrew's Parish Vestry Book, p. 48). He received several grants of land in Brunswick Co.: 273a on a branch of Cockes Creek on Sept. 5, 1749: 380a and 314a on Dec. 15, 1755 (Va. Land Bks. 28, p. 665; 32, p. 655; 32, p.
656).
On Nov. 27, 1752 Randall and Mary Bracey witnessed the will of Henry Rottingbury (Lunenburg Co. WB 1, p. 109).
Randall Bracey was made captain of a company of foot soldiers in Brunswick Co. militia and took the oath on July 24, 1753 (Brunswick Order Bk. 5, p. 33).
He was a "Labourer" and owned a "Carpenter's Rule". On March 27, 1751 the Brunswick Co. grand jury returned an indictment against ... and Randall Bracey "Labourers" for a Trespass (Brunswick OB 4, p. 13). He himself was on a jury at that or the next court (Brunswick OB 4, p. 19, 26).
On April 18, 1755 the following advertisement appeared in the Virginia Gazette: "To be sold. A tract of land containing 1123 A. lying in Brunswick Co., with good improvements viz a good Dwelling-House, Kitchen, smoak-House and Milk-House, two Barns with a good Orchard, Any person inclinable to purchase the same may know the terms by applying to the subscriber, living on the Plantation. Randall Bracey."
On Dec. 22, 1755 Randle Bracey of Brunswick County sold to Benjamin Harrison of Lunenburg County four tracts of land totaling 1117 acres (DB 6, p. 4). Then he and Mary moved to Lunenburg Co. to her father's property on
Miles Creek.
The Cumberland Parish Vestry ordered on Sept. 17, 1759 that Randolph Bracy and others meet at the mouth of Miles Creek on Tuesday the Thirteenth of November and procession all the lands between Miles Creek, Roanoak River, Cocks Creek (a different one from that in Brunswick) and Mountain Creek Road (Cumberland Parish by Bell, p. 367).
There are several court orders involving him in the Lunenburg order books from 1761 to 1764.
Randall and Mary were living in Lunenburg Co. when her father, William Maclin, of the town of Cobbam, in Surry Co., wrote his will. In it he left to Nanny Bressie one negro girl named fillis; to Sackfield Macklin Bressie one negro named Charles; to "my Daughter Mary Breasie" 400 acres on Miles Creek in
Lunenburg whereon she formerly lived and a tract of land in Brunswick on Shining Creek (Surry Will Bk.). They sold the land on Miles Creek in 1763 to Rease Brewer (Lunenburg DB 9, p. 62) and ten acres of it to John Johnson (DB 9, p. 72). The next year they sold the land on Shining Creek to Allen Love (Brunswick DB 9, p. 298).
By 1766 Randolph Bracey was in South Carolina. In December 1766 he moved from there to Georgia, with his wife, two children and six negroes. In April 1768 his petition was read at the Georgia Council meeting, in which he asked for 300 acres at Buck Head. His petition was granted (The Colonial Records of Georgia, by Chandler, Vol. X, p. 466). In Sept. 1768 he petitioned for an additional tract, this time mentioning four children instead of two (Ibid., p. 592).
In June 1769 he petitioned fro 200a and 150a on the Altamaha; this time he had a wife, five children, and six negroes (Ibid., p. 779).
Back in Virginia, Thomas Bracey had an attachment against the estate of Randle Bracey for money owed to Thomas. This was carried over from 1765 to 1771 when the following order was recorded: "The Attachment obtained by Thomas Bracey against Randal Bracey abates by the Death of the Defendant."
Aug. 28, 1771 (Brunswick OB 11, p. 403".
Verna Bracey ( revised her information on Randolph/Randall Bracey to say that he was a son of William Bracey of Prince George Co., VA, and a brother of Thomas of Brunswick Co. She said Randall was born abt. 1726, and that he married Mary Maclin of Brunswick Co. bef. 1752. Their children were Sackfield Maclin Bracey (1757), Nanny Bracey (bef. b1762), William Bracey (ca. 1767), and two other children (names unknown; b. ca 1768-9). Finally, it is known that Randolph Bracey was in South Carolina by 1766 and in 1768, he petitioned for land in Georgia.
"Kinfolks" by William Curry Harllee p. 2472.
Also called Randolph or Randle. "Kinfolks" by William Curry Harllee p. 2472, 2667, 2670, 2673-6. [4]
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1726 - 1770 (44 years)
