William Pinchback was the father of four known children with Eliza Stewart, an enslaved woman. Among those children was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, who served as governor of Louisiana for 36 days in 1872/73.
This William Pinchback did NOT have a legal known wife. Lavinia Rudd is listed on this site as his wife, but she was married to a DIFFERENT William Pinchback.
William Pinchback was born in Rowan, North Carolina, and moved as a young man with his father and siblings to Chester, South Carolina. He engaged in multiple property transactions, both real property and human, in Chester and Newberry, South Carolina, between 1807 and 1816. He identified in several of these as William Pinchback, cabinet maker. He was named one of the executors of his father, John Pinchback's estate, in 1811 in Chester, South Carolina. William Pinchback resided in Abbeville, South Carolina in 1830 per census records. His household consisted of two white males and 53 enslaved people.
William Pinchback, late of New Orleans, secured a mortgage in Holmes County, Mississippi in 1840, where he is also recorded in the 1840 census. Pinchback made a deed in Holmes County on 5 April 1845, wherein he sold "the following Negro Slaves to wit: Eliza a woman now about thirty five years of age, and her children Napoleon now about fifteen years of age; Mary Louise about {?} years of age, Pinkney Belten ten years old and Adeline five years old." The deed provides instructions for securing their freedom and relocation. The purchase price was $100. See Deed Book H, page 5 in Holmes County ,Mississippi records. They were sold to David Holman of Carroll Co Mississippi and William P. Jacobs of Holmes County. David was the son of William's sister Lydia and Willam P. Jacobs was the son of William's sister, Mary.
Soon after William's death the administrator of his estate, David Holman, sold all of Pincback's real estate in Holmes County. Pinchback owned additional property in Davie County, North Carolina. This was formerly part of Rowan, North Carolina and the property is described as the Burnt Tavern tract. This was probably his family home, inherited from his father, John. William Pinchback's legal heirs are identified as his siblings and their children. There is no mention of a wife or children for William Pinchback. This information is available in a Davie County, North Carolina estate file for William Pinchback available on both Ancestry and FamilySearch.
Eliza and her children could not legally be identified as heirs of William Pinchback and it appears that Pinchback made arrangements with his nephews to secure their freedom and relocation.
Many trees on Ancestry attribute a legal wife and children to this William Pinchback. The trees state Lavinia Rudd married William Pinchback in Chesterfield County, Virginia about 1800 and that the couple resided in Caswell County, North Carolina, following the death of Lavinia's father, Hezekiah Rudd about 1803. Lavinia died in 1849, Person County North Carolina and was survived by four children.
Obviously, there were TWO William Pinchbacks. Had Lavinia been married to this William Pinchback, her children would have been the legal heirs and inherited his entire estate in both Mississippi and North Carolina. He was a wealthy man and even if separated, Pinchback had a legal obligation to maintain them and the children would certainly have tracked their wealthy father. Furthermore, his administrators would have been legally required to identify Lavinia and her children as his heirs.
The William Pinchback who married Lavinia Rudd is an entirely different person. He was born in Virginia and purchased property in Chesterfield County, Virginia in 1800. He and Lavinia sold this property on 8 Jan 1803. See Chesterfield Co VA, DB 16 p 272 - 274.
This William Pinchback did NOT have a legal known wife. Lavinia Rudd is listed on this site as his wife, but she was married to a DIFFERENT William Pinchback.
William Pinchback was born in Rowan, North Carolina, and moved as a young man with his father and siblings to Chester, South Carolina. He engaged in multiple property transactions, both real property and human, in Chester and Newberry, South Carolina, between 1807 and 1816. He identified in several of these as William Pinchback, cabinet maker. He was named one of the executors of his father, John Pinchback's estate, in 1811 in Chester, South Carolina. William Pinchback resided in Abbeville, South Carolina in 1830 per census records. His household consisted of two white males and 53 enslaved people.
William Pinchback, late of New Orleans, secured a mortgage in Holmes County, Mississippi in 1840, where he is also recorded in the 1840 census. Pinchback made a deed in Holmes County on 5 April 1845, wherein he sold "the following Negro Slaves to wit: Eliza a woman now about thirty five years of age, and her children Napoleon now about fifteen years of age; Mary Louise about {?} years of age, Pinkney Belten ten years old and Adeline five years old." The deed provides instructions for securing their freedom and relocation. The purchase price was $100. See Deed Book H, page 5 in Holmes County ,Mississippi records. They were sold to David Holman of Carroll Co Mississippi and William P. Jacobs of Holmes County. David was the son of William's sister Lydia and Willam P. Jacobs was the son of William's sister, Mary.
Soon after William's death the administrator of his estate, David Holman, sold all of Pincback's real estate in Holmes County. Pinchback owned additional property in Davie County, North Carolina. This was formerly part of Rowan, North Carolina and the property is described as the Burnt Tavern tract. This was probably his family home, inherited from his father, John. William Pinchback's legal heirs are identified as his siblings and their children. There is no mention of a wife or children for William Pinchback. This information is available in a Davie County, North Carolina estate file for William Pinchback available on both Ancestry and FamilySearch.
Eliza and her children could not legally be identified as heirs of William Pinchback and it appears that Pinchback made arrangements with his nephews to secure their freedom and relocation.
Many trees on Ancestry attribute a legal wife and children to this William Pinchback. The trees state Lavinia Rudd married William Pinchback in Chesterfield County, Virginia about 1800 and that the couple resided in Caswell County, North Carolina, following the death of Lavinia's father, Hezekiah Rudd about 1803. Lavinia died in 1849, Person County North Carolina and was survived by four children.
Obviously, there were TWO William Pinchbacks. Had Lavinia been married to this William Pinchback, her children would have been the legal heirs and inherited his entire estate in both Mississippi and North Carolina. He was a wealthy man and even if separated, Pinchback had a legal obligation to maintain them and the children would certainly have tracked their wealthy father. Furthermore, his administrators would have been legally required to identify Lavinia and her children as his heirs.
The William Pinchback who married Lavinia Rudd is an entirely different person. He was born in Virginia and purchased property in Chesterfield County, Virginia in 1800. He and Lavinia sold this property on 8 Jan 1803. See Chesterfield Co VA, DB 16 p 272 - 274.
William Pinchback was the father of four known children with Eliza Stewart, an enslaved woman. Among those children was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, who served as governor of Louisiana for 36 days in 1872/73.
This William Pinchback did NOT have a legal known wife. Lavinia Rudd is listed on this site as his wife, but she was married to a DIFFERENT William Pinchback.
William Pinchback was born in Rowan, North Carolina, and moved as a young man with his father and siblings to Chester, South Carolina. He engaged in multiple property transactions, both real property and human, in Chester and Newberry, South Carolina, between 1807 and 1816. He identified in several of these as William Pinchback, cabinet maker. He was named one of the executors of his father, John Pinchback's estate, in 1811 in Chester, South Carolina. William Pinchback resided in Abbeville, South Carolina in 1830 per census records. His household consisted of two white males and 53 enslaved people.
William Pinchback, late of New Orleans, secured a mortgage in Holmes County, Mississippi in 1840, where he is also recorded in the 1840 census. Pinchback made a deed in Holmes County on 5 April 1845, wherein he sold "the following Negro Slaves to wit: Eliza a woman now about thirty five years of age, and her children Napoleon now about fifteen years of age; Mary Louise about {?} years of age, Pinkney Belten ten years old and Adeline five years old." The deed provides instructions for securing their freedom and relocation. The purchase price was $100. See Deed Book H, page 5 in Holmes County ,Mississippi records. They were sold to David Holman of Carroll Co Mississippi and William P. Jacobs of Holmes County. David was the son of William's sister Lydia and Willam P. Jacobs was the son of William's sister, Mary.
Soon after William's death the administrator of his estate, David Holman, sold all of Pincback's real estate in Holmes County. Pinchback owned additional property in Davie County, North Carolina. This was formerly part of Rowan, North Carolina and the property is described as the Burnt Tavern tract. This was probably his family home, inherited from his father, John. William Pinchback's legal heirs are identified as his siblings and their children. There is no mention of a wife or children for William Pinchback. This information is available in a Davie County, North Carolina estate file for William Pinchback available on both Ancestry and FamilySearch.
Eliza and her children could not legally be identified as heirs of William Pinchback and it appears that Pinchback made arrangements with his nephews to secure their freedom and relocation.
Many trees on Ancestry attribute a legal wife and children to this William Pinchback. The trees state Lavinia Rudd married William Pinchback in Chesterfield County, Virginia about 1800 and that the couple resided in Caswell County, North Carolina, following the death of Lavinia's father, Hezekiah Rudd about 1803. Lavinia died in 1849, Person County North Carolina and was survived by four children.
Obviously, there were TWO William Pinchbacks. Had Lavinia been married to this William Pinchback, her children would have been the legal heirs and inherited his entire estate in both Mississippi and North Carolina. He was a wealthy man and even if separated, Pinchback had a legal obligation to maintain them and the children would certainly have tracked their wealthy father. Furthermore, his administrators would have been legally required to identify Lavinia and her children as his heirs.
The William Pinchback who married Lavinia Rudd is an entirely different person. He was born in Virginia and purchased property in Chesterfield County, Virginia in 1800. He and Lavinia sold this property on 8 Jan 1803. See Chesterfield Co VA, DB 16 p 272 - 274.
This William Pinchback did NOT have a legal known wife. Lavinia Rudd is listed on this site as his wife, but she was married to a DIFFERENT William Pinchback.
William Pinchback was born in Rowan, North Carolina, and moved as a young man with his father and siblings to Chester, South Carolina. He engaged in multiple property transactions, both real property and human, in Chester and Newberry, South Carolina, between 1807 and 1816. He identified in several of these as William Pinchback, cabinet maker. He was named one of the executors of his father, John Pinchback's estate, in 1811 in Chester, South Carolina. William Pinchback resided in Abbeville, South Carolina in 1830 per census records. His household consisted of two white males and 53 enslaved people.
William Pinchback, late of New Orleans, secured a mortgage in Holmes County, Mississippi in 1840, where he is also recorded in the 1840 census. Pinchback made a deed in Holmes County on 5 April 1845, wherein he sold "the following Negro Slaves to wit: Eliza a woman now about thirty five years of age, and her children Napoleon now about fifteen years of age; Mary Louise about {?} years of age, Pinkney Belten ten years old and Adeline five years old." The deed provides instructions for securing their freedom and relocation. The purchase price was $100. See Deed Book H, page 5 in Holmes County ,Mississippi records. They were sold to David Holman of Carroll Co Mississippi and William P. Jacobs of Holmes County. David was the son of William's sister Lydia and Willam P. Jacobs was the son of William's sister, Mary.
Soon after William's death the administrator of his estate, David Holman, sold all of Pincback's real estate in Holmes County. Pinchback owned additional property in Davie County, North Carolina. This was formerly part of Rowan, North Carolina and the property is described as the Burnt Tavern tract. This was probably his family home, inherited from his father, John. William Pinchback's legal heirs are identified as his siblings and their children. There is no mention of a wife or children for William Pinchback. This information is available in a Davie County, North Carolina estate file for William Pinchback available on both Ancestry and FamilySearch.
Eliza and her children could not legally be identified as heirs of William Pinchback and it appears that Pinchback made arrangements with his nephews to secure their freedom and relocation.
Many trees on Ancestry attribute a legal wife and children to this William Pinchback. The trees state Lavinia Rudd married William Pinchback in Chesterfield County, Virginia about 1800 and that the couple resided in Caswell County, North Carolina, following the death of Lavinia's father, Hezekiah Rudd about 1803. Lavinia died in 1849, Person County North Carolina and was survived by four children.
Obviously, there were TWO William Pinchbacks. Had Lavinia been married to this William Pinchback, her children would have been the legal heirs and inherited his entire estate in both Mississippi and North Carolina. He was a wealthy man and even if separated, Pinchback had a legal obligation to maintain them and the children would certainly have tracked their wealthy father. Furthermore, his administrators would have been legally required to identify Lavinia and her children as his heirs.
The William Pinchback who married Lavinia Rudd is an entirely different person. He was born in Virginia and purchased property in Chesterfield County, Virginia in 1800. He and Lavinia sold this property on 8 Jan 1803. See Chesterfield Co VA, DB 16 p 272 - 274.
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