John Sims was a son of George Sims (d. 1738-40) of Locust Creek, Hanover County, Virginia and a grandson of William Sims (d. 1726) of Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia. He relocated to Nutbush District, Granville County (present-day Vance County), North Carolina.
Blacksmith and planter.
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There were three contemporary men named John Sims living in St Paul's Parish, Hanover County, who have been confused over the decades by several researchers. The John Sims who migrated to Granville County, North Carolina, was a blacksmith; take a look at the inventory of his personal property taken after his death for confirmation. Before he left Hanover County for North Carolina, John was clearly identified in an extant land record as a blacksmith and the son of George Sims. He has usually been identified by others as a son of his uncle John, but that gentleman seems to have died without direct heirs.
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Will of JOHN SIMS — 1765
Granville County Loose Wills 1749-1771
In the Name of God Amen. I JOHN SIMS of the parish of Granville in Granville County of the province of No. Carolina being sick & weak of body but of perfect mind & memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and that there is an appointed time for all men once to die have made ordained and constituted this my last Will and Testament, that is to say first and principally I recommend my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executors and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it has pleased God to bless me I give bequeath demise and dispose of in manner & form following.
Imprimis. I give to my son WILLIAM SIMS his heirs & assigns forever five hundred acres of land more or less within the bounds following (viz) Beginning where my lower line crosses Great Nutbush Creek thence joining HARGROVES lines, BULLOCKS line or lines and VANDYKEs to the head of a branch called the Long Branch thence down the sound to Reedy Branch thence down the Reedy Branch as it meanders to great Nutbush Creek and thence down the same as it meanders to the first station
Item. I give & bequeath to FRANCES KEELING her heirs & assigns forever one hundred acres of land on the Northside of the Reedy Branch beginning where my upper line crosses this Branch thence down the s'd branch so far as to include the plantation where AGNES KEELING did live and to make out the s'd hundred acres in a suitable square form.
Item. I lend to JAMES WADE SEN'R and DOROTHY WADE his wife during their continuance of their natural lives and no longer the use of fifty acres of land joining ROBERT MITCHELL's line to be laid off in a suitable square form & to include the plantation whereon the s'd JAMES WADE now lives.
Item. I give and bequeath to my sons ELISHA SIMS his heirs and assigns forever one certain tract piece or parcel of land containing by estimation Six hundred acres be the same more or less - beginning where my line crosses the Long Branch thence down the s'd Branch to the Reedy Branch thence up the s'd Reedy Branch as it meanders to a large poplar blazed on two sides near the mouth of a small branch thence a straight course to be marked to cross the path that goes to HENDERSONs at the first branch and thence down the s'd branch to MITCHEL's line thence along MITCHEL's line and my out lines to the Reedy Branch thence down the same as it meanders to where FRANCES KEELING's line make off thence joining s'd KEELING's & my out lines to the beginning.
Item. I leave the land that I had of NATHANIEL BULLOCK to the child that my wife is pregnant with if it lives it & its heirs forever and if in case it should please God that it should die before it be of age or marriage that then the same to be sold and the money to be equally divided among all my children & their heirs.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son ELISHA SIMS his heirs & assigns all my smithie tools & my Negroe man SAM also one bay mare that he has in possession and one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son WILLIAM SIMS my Negroe girl ESSIE to him & his heirs & assigns forever also one young horse one mare about five pounds in value at the age of sixteen years if required likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter AGNESS & her heirs my Negroe girl AMY.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter DORCAS SIMS my Negroe wench JANE to her & her heirs forever, likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter SALLEY SIMS & to her heirs my Negroe girl TAMAR likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give and bequeath to my son LEONARD SIMS my Mill and my will is that my sons ELISHA SIMS & WILLIAM SIMS have their grain ground toll free at the same likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. The rest of my Children, to wit, SUSANNAH, MARY & LUCRETIA SIMS & the infant to be born each of them a feather bed & furniture.
Item. I lend unto my loving wife SARAH SIMS during her natural life thereto as followng Negroes viz, BESS, JACK, PATT & DICK at her decease them & their increase if there be any, to be equally divided among all my children save that my son LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNAH SIMS, MARY SIMS & LUCRETIA SIMS & the Infant to be born shall have each of them a Negroe apiece & the remainder to be equally divided among all of them.
Item. I leave the money that is due to me from MR. RICHARD BULLOCK's Estate to be equally divided among five of my children viz, LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNA SIMS, MARY SIMS, LUCRETIA SIMS, & the Infant to be born.
All other debts due to me I leave at the discretion of my Executrix & Executor to support the contingent uses of the family as occasion shall serve.
Item. My Will is that at my wife's decease the stock of cattle, hoggs & horses & likewise all the household furniture be equally divided among all my children.
Item. I leave appoint & constitute my loving wife SARAH SIMS & LEONARD SIMS Executrix & Executor of this my last Will & Testament hereby disannulling, revoking & abolishing all other & former Wills, Testaments, Legacies & bequests whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Tenth Day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & sixty five.
JOHN SIMS
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
Acknowledged in presence of
ROBT. MITCHELL
JAMES WALLACE
G. SIMS
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Blacksmith and planter.
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There were three contemporary men named John Sims living in St Paul's Parish, Hanover County, who have been confused over the decades by several researchers. The John Sims who migrated to Granville County, North Carolina, was a blacksmith; take a look at the inventory of his personal property taken after his death for confirmation. Before he left Hanover County for North Carolina, John was clearly identified in an extant land record as a blacksmith and the son of George Sims. He has usually been identified by others as a son of his uncle John, but that gentleman seems to have died without direct heirs.
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Will of JOHN SIMS — 1765
Granville County Loose Wills 1749-1771
In the Name of God Amen. I JOHN SIMS of the parish of Granville in Granville County of the province of No. Carolina being sick & weak of body but of perfect mind & memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and that there is an appointed time for all men once to die have made ordained and constituted this my last Will and Testament, that is to say first and principally I recommend my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executors and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it has pleased God to bless me I give bequeath demise and dispose of in manner & form following.
Imprimis. I give to my son WILLIAM SIMS his heirs & assigns forever five hundred acres of land more or less within the bounds following (viz) Beginning where my lower line crosses Great Nutbush Creek thence joining HARGROVES lines, BULLOCKS line or lines and VANDYKEs to the head of a branch called the Long Branch thence down the sound to Reedy Branch thence down the Reedy Branch as it meanders to great Nutbush Creek and thence down the same as it meanders to the first station
Item. I give & bequeath to FRANCES KEELING her heirs & assigns forever one hundred acres of land on the Northside of the Reedy Branch beginning where my upper line crosses this Branch thence down the s'd branch so far as to include the plantation where AGNES KEELING did live and to make out the s'd hundred acres in a suitable square form.
Item. I lend to JAMES WADE SEN'R and DOROTHY WADE his wife during their continuance of their natural lives and no longer the use of fifty acres of land joining ROBERT MITCHELL's line to be laid off in a suitable square form & to include the plantation whereon the s'd JAMES WADE now lives.
Item. I give and bequeath to my sons ELISHA SIMS his heirs and assigns forever one certain tract piece or parcel of land containing by estimation Six hundred acres be the same more or less - beginning where my line crosses the Long Branch thence down the s'd Branch to the Reedy Branch thence up the s'd Reedy Branch as it meanders to a large poplar blazed on two sides near the mouth of a small branch thence a straight course to be marked to cross the path that goes to HENDERSONs at the first branch and thence down the s'd branch to MITCHEL's line thence along MITCHEL's line and my out lines to the Reedy Branch thence down the same as it meanders to where FRANCES KEELING's line make off thence joining s'd KEELING's & my out lines to the beginning.
Item. I leave the land that I had of NATHANIEL BULLOCK to the child that my wife is pregnant with if it lives it & its heirs forever and if in case it should please God that it should die before it be of age or marriage that then the same to be sold and the money to be equally divided among all my children & their heirs.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son ELISHA SIMS his heirs & assigns all my smithie tools & my Negroe man SAM also one bay mare that he has in possession and one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son WILLIAM SIMS my Negroe girl ESSIE to him & his heirs & assigns forever also one young horse one mare about five pounds in value at the age of sixteen years if required likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter AGNESS & her heirs my Negroe girl AMY.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter DORCAS SIMS my Negroe wench JANE to her & her heirs forever, likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter SALLEY SIMS & to her heirs my Negroe girl TAMAR likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give and bequeath to my son LEONARD SIMS my Mill and my will is that my sons ELISHA SIMS & WILLIAM SIMS have their grain ground toll free at the same likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. The rest of my Children, to wit, SUSANNAH, MARY & LUCRETIA SIMS & the infant to be born each of them a feather bed & furniture.
Item. I lend unto my loving wife SARAH SIMS during her natural life thereto as followng Negroes viz, BESS, JACK, PATT & DICK at her decease them & their increase if there be any, to be equally divided among all my children save that my son LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNAH SIMS, MARY SIMS & LUCRETIA SIMS & the Infant to be born shall have each of them a Negroe apiece & the remainder to be equally divided among all of them.
Item. I leave the money that is due to me from MR. RICHARD BULLOCK's Estate to be equally divided among five of my children viz, LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNA SIMS, MARY SIMS, LUCRETIA SIMS, & the Infant to be born.
All other debts due to me I leave at the discretion of my Executrix & Executor to support the contingent uses of the family as occasion shall serve.
Item. My Will is that at my wife's decease the stock of cattle, hoggs & horses & likewise all the household furniture be equally divided among all my children.
Item. I leave appoint & constitute my loving wife SARAH SIMS & LEONARD SIMS Executrix & Executor of this my last Will & Testament hereby disannulling, revoking & abolishing all other & former Wills, Testaments, Legacies & bequests whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Tenth Day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & sixty five.
JOHN SIMS
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
Acknowledged in presence of
ROBT. MITCHELL
JAMES WALLACE
G. SIMS
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John Sims was a son of George Sims (d. 1738-40) of Locust Creek, Hanover County, Virginia and a grandson of William Sims (d. 1726) of Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia. He relocated to Nutbush District, Granville County (present-day Vance County), North Carolina.
Blacksmith and planter.
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There were three contemporary men named John Sims living in St Paul's Parish, Hanover County, who have been confused over the decades by several researchers. The John Sims who migrated to Granville County, North Carolina, was a blacksmith; take a look at the inventory of his personal property taken after his death for confirmation. Before he left Hanover County for North Carolina, John was clearly identified in an extant land record as a blacksmith and the son of George Sims. He has usually been identified by others as a son of his uncle John, but that gentleman seems to have died without direct heirs.
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Will of JOHN SIMS — 1765
Granville County Loose Wills 1749-1771
In the Name of God Amen. I JOHN SIMS of the parish of Granville in Granville County of the province of No. Carolina being sick & weak of body but of perfect mind & memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and that there is an appointed time for all men once to die have made ordained and constituted this my last Will and Testament, that is to say first and principally I recommend my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executors and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it has pleased God to bless me I give bequeath demise and dispose of in manner & form following.
Imprimis. I give to my son WILLIAM SIMS his heirs & assigns forever five hundred acres of land more or less within the bounds following (viz) Beginning where my lower line crosses Great Nutbush Creek thence joining HARGROVES lines, BULLOCKS line or lines and VANDYKEs to the head of a branch called the Long Branch thence down the sound to Reedy Branch thence down the Reedy Branch as it meanders to great Nutbush Creek and thence down the same as it meanders to the first station
Item. I give & bequeath to FRANCES KEELING her heirs & assigns forever one hundred acres of land on the Northside of the Reedy Branch beginning where my upper line crosses this Branch thence down the s'd branch so far as to include the plantation where AGNES KEELING did live and to make out the s'd hundred acres in a suitable square form.
Item. I lend to JAMES WADE SEN'R and DOROTHY WADE his wife during their continuance of their natural lives and no longer the use of fifty acres of land joining ROBERT MITCHELL's line to be laid off in a suitable square form & to include the plantation whereon the s'd JAMES WADE now lives.
Item. I give and bequeath to my sons ELISHA SIMS his heirs and assigns forever one certain tract piece or parcel of land containing by estimation Six hundred acres be the same more or less - beginning where my line crosses the Long Branch thence down the s'd Branch to the Reedy Branch thence up the s'd Reedy Branch as it meanders to a large poplar blazed on two sides near the mouth of a small branch thence a straight course to be marked to cross the path that goes to HENDERSONs at the first branch and thence down the s'd branch to MITCHEL's line thence along MITCHEL's line and my out lines to the Reedy Branch thence down the same as it meanders to where FRANCES KEELING's line make off thence joining s'd KEELING's & my out lines to the beginning.
Item. I leave the land that I had of NATHANIEL BULLOCK to the child that my wife is pregnant with if it lives it & its heirs forever and if in case it should please God that it should die before it be of age or marriage that then the same to be sold and the money to be equally divided among all my children & their heirs.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son ELISHA SIMS his heirs & assigns all my smithie tools & my Negroe man SAM also one bay mare that he has in possession and one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son WILLIAM SIMS my Negroe girl ESSIE to him & his heirs & assigns forever also one young horse one mare about five pounds in value at the age of sixteen years if required likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter AGNESS & her heirs my Negroe girl AMY.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter DORCAS SIMS my Negroe wench JANE to her & her heirs forever, likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter SALLEY SIMS & to her heirs my Negroe girl TAMAR likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give and bequeath to my son LEONARD SIMS my Mill and my will is that my sons ELISHA SIMS & WILLIAM SIMS have their grain ground toll free at the same likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. The rest of my Children, to wit, SUSANNAH, MARY & LUCRETIA SIMS & the infant to be born each of them a feather bed & furniture.
Item. I lend unto my loving wife SARAH SIMS during her natural life thereto as followng Negroes viz, BESS, JACK, PATT & DICK at her decease them & their increase if there be any, to be equally divided among all my children save that my son LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNAH SIMS, MARY SIMS & LUCRETIA SIMS & the Infant to be born shall have each of them a Negroe apiece & the remainder to be equally divided among all of them.
Item. I leave the money that is due to me from MR. RICHARD BULLOCK's Estate to be equally divided among five of my children viz, LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNA SIMS, MARY SIMS, LUCRETIA SIMS, & the Infant to be born.
All other debts due to me I leave at the discretion of my Executrix & Executor to support the contingent uses of the family as occasion shall serve.
Item. My Will is that at my wife's decease the stock of cattle, hoggs & horses & likewise all the household furniture be equally divided among all my children.
Item. I leave appoint & constitute my loving wife SARAH SIMS & LEONARD SIMS Executrix & Executor of this my last Will & Testament hereby disannulling, revoking & abolishing all other & former Wills, Testaments, Legacies & bequests whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Tenth Day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & sixty five.
JOHN SIMS
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
Acknowledged in presence of
ROBT. MITCHELL
JAMES WALLACE
G. SIMS
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Blacksmith and planter.
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There were three contemporary men named John Sims living in St Paul's Parish, Hanover County, who have been confused over the decades by several researchers. The John Sims who migrated to Granville County, North Carolina, was a blacksmith; take a look at the inventory of his personal property taken after his death for confirmation. Before he left Hanover County for North Carolina, John was clearly identified in an extant land record as a blacksmith and the son of George Sims. He has usually been identified by others as a son of his uncle John, but that gentleman seems to have died without direct heirs.
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Will of JOHN SIMS — 1765
Granville County Loose Wills 1749-1771
In the Name of God Amen. I JOHN SIMS of the parish of Granville in Granville County of the province of No. Carolina being sick & weak of body but of perfect mind & memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and that there is an appointed time for all men once to die have made ordained and constituted this my last Will and Testament, that is to say first and principally I recommend my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executors and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it has pleased God to bless me I give bequeath demise and dispose of in manner & form following.
Imprimis. I give to my son WILLIAM SIMS his heirs & assigns forever five hundred acres of land more or less within the bounds following (viz) Beginning where my lower line crosses Great Nutbush Creek thence joining HARGROVES lines, BULLOCKS line or lines and VANDYKEs to the head of a branch called the Long Branch thence down the sound to Reedy Branch thence down the Reedy Branch as it meanders to great Nutbush Creek and thence down the same as it meanders to the first station
Item. I give & bequeath to FRANCES KEELING her heirs & assigns forever one hundred acres of land on the Northside of the Reedy Branch beginning where my upper line crosses this Branch thence down the s'd branch so far as to include the plantation where AGNES KEELING did live and to make out the s'd hundred acres in a suitable square form.
Item. I lend to JAMES WADE SEN'R and DOROTHY WADE his wife during their continuance of their natural lives and no longer the use of fifty acres of land joining ROBERT MITCHELL's line to be laid off in a suitable square form & to include the plantation whereon the s'd JAMES WADE now lives.
Item. I give and bequeath to my sons ELISHA SIMS his heirs and assigns forever one certain tract piece or parcel of land containing by estimation Six hundred acres be the same more or less - beginning where my line crosses the Long Branch thence down the s'd Branch to the Reedy Branch thence up the s'd Reedy Branch as it meanders to a large poplar blazed on two sides near the mouth of a small branch thence a straight course to be marked to cross the path that goes to HENDERSONs at the first branch and thence down the s'd branch to MITCHEL's line thence along MITCHEL's line and my out lines to the Reedy Branch thence down the same as it meanders to where FRANCES KEELING's line make off thence joining s'd KEELING's & my out lines to the beginning.
Item. I leave the land that I had of NATHANIEL BULLOCK to the child that my wife is pregnant with if it lives it & its heirs forever and if in case it should please God that it should die before it be of age or marriage that then the same to be sold and the money to be equally divided among all my children & their heirs.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son ELISHA SIMS his heirs & assigns all my smithie tools & my Negroe man SAM also one bay mare that he has in possession and one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son WILLIAM SIMS my Negroe girl ESSIE to him & his heirs & assigns forever also one young horse one mare about five pounds in value at the age of sixteen years if required likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter AGNESS & her heirs my Negroe girl AMY.
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter DORCAS SIMS my Negroe wench JANE to her & her heirs forever, likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give & bequeath to my daughter SALLEY SIMS & to her heirs my Negroe girl TAMAR likewise one feather bed & furniture
Item. I give and bequeath to my son LEONARD SIMS my Mill and my will is that my sons ELISHA SIMS & WILLIAM SIMS have their grain ground toll free at the same likewise one feather bed & furniture.
Item. The rest of my Children, to wit, SUSANNAH, MARY & LUCRETIA SIMS & the infant to be born each of them a feather bed & furniture.
Item. I lend unto my loving wife SARAH SIMS during her natural life thereto as followng Negroes viz, BESS, JACK, PATT & DICK at her decease them & their increase if there be any, to be equally divided among all my children save that my son LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNAH SIMS, MARY SIMS & LUCRETIA SIMS & the Infant to be born shall have each of them a Negroe apiece & the remainder to be equally divided among all of them.
Item. I leave the money that is due to me from MR. RICHARD BULLOCK's Estate to be equally divided among five of my children viz, LEONARD SIMS, SUSANNA SIMS, MARY SIMS, LUCRETIA SIMS, & the Infant to be born.
All other debts due to me I leave at the discretion of my Executrix & Executor to support the contingent uses of the family as occasion shall serve.
Item. My Will is that at my wife's decease the stock of cattle, hoggs & horses & likewise all the household furniture be equally divided among all my children.
Item. I leave appoint & constitute my loving wife SARAH SIMS & LEONARD SIMS Executrix & Executor of this my last Will & Testament hereby disannulling, revoking & abolishing all other & former Wills, Testaments, Legacies & bequests whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Tenth Day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & sixty five.
JOHN SIMS
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
Acknowledged in presence of
ROBT. MITCHELL
JAMES WALLACE
G. SIMS
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Presumably buried at the parish church. The alternate burial site would have been a family farm, location unknown.
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