[John Riddick 1600.GED]
[friddick.FTW]
OWNED LAND IN UPPER NANSEMOND PARISH, IN 1704 LISTED ON QUIT RENT ROLLS WITH 400 ACRES
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Name: Elizabeth RIDDICK
Given Name: Elizabeth
Surname: Riddick
Sex: F
Birth: 1710
Death: 9 May 1781
Note:
Notes for Elizabeth Riddick: (source: Phil Norfleet , Panama City Beach,
Flordia)
BISHOP ASBURY AND ELIZABETH NORFLEET
Buckland Plantation lies a few miles west of the Corapeake area, where
John Norfleet and his first Cousin, Marmaduke Norfleet, had their
plantations. From about 1769
to1805, this plantation was owned by a certain William Baker (1743-1805
William was a grandson of Captain Henry Baker (d. 1739) and the son of
"Lame Henry" Baker (d.
1769). In about the year 1768, this same William Baker had married Judi
Norfleet, daughter of Marmaduke Norfleet (1700-1774). In 1795, William
Baker built the great
plantation house that is, today, known as "Buckland." The home is still
standing and has been designated as a national historical landmark.
William and Judith Norfleet Baker were early converts to Methodism. The
famous itinerant preacher and the first Bishop of the Methodist Chur
America, Francis
Asbury (1745-1816), was a frequent visitor to their house when he was
traveling in their vicinity. Knotty Pine Chapel, located near Buckland,
was one of the earliest
Methodist churches in North Carolina, and Asbury frequently preached
there. On 17 March 1799, Judith Norfleet Baker wrote a letter to Bishop
Asbury wherein she
reported the names of people from the area who had converted to
Methodism, but were now deceased. The first name she mentioned was
Elizabeth Norfleet. I quote:
"When you were with me last, you desired I would give you an account of
the dear saints who are fallen asleep in Jesus, in this place. I will
give you a list of their names
with a sketch of some of their characters.
"Elizabeth Norfleet, one of the first that embraced religion after the
gospel was preached here; she was one of the meekest women, a pattern of
piety to the end of her
days"
I am quite certain that the Elizabeth Norfleet mentioned in Judith's
letter was Elizabeth Riddick Norfleet, widow of John, who had died many
years previously, in May 1781.
Francis Asbury had first preached in the Nansemond County, Virginia and
Gates County, North Carolina areas in the summer of 1780, hence it was
probably in that year
that Elizabeth Norfleet was converted.
Father: Abraham RIDDICK
Mother: Elizabeth PLEASANTMarriage 1 John NORFLEET b: 21 Jul 1699 in Nansemond Co., Va
Married: 28 May 1727 in Nansemond Co., Va
Children
Abraham NORFLEET b: 28 May 1728 in Nansemond Co., Va
John NORFLEET b: 30 Oct 1729 in Nansemond Co., Va
Pleasant NORFLEET b: 14 Aug 1732 in Nansemond Co., Va
James NORFLEET b: 18 Mar 1732/33 in Nansemond Co., Va
Esther NORFLEET b: 13 Jan 1734/35 in Nansemond Co., Va
Hezekiah NORFLEET b: 30 May 1739 in Nansemond Co., Va
Elisha NORFLEET b: 19 May 1741
Jacob NORFLEET b: 17 Aug 1743
Mary NORFLEET b: 23 Aug 1747
Elizabeth Ann NORFLEET b: 28 Mar 1751 in Chowan County,NC
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Name: John NORFLEET
Given Name: John
Surname: Norfleet
Sex: M
Birth: 21 Jul 1699 in Nansemond Co., Va
Death: 26 Sep 1753 in Chowan County,NC
Note:
in 1740, John Norfleet patented 633 acres of land in Chowan County, NC,
near Corapeak Swamp and established a grist/saw mill on the site. This
was very near the plantation of his first cousin Marmaduke Norfleet. For
severall years, he continued to also own land in Nansemond County and w
referred to, in the 1747 land processioning notes contained in the Upper
Parish Vestry Book, as "John Norfleet at the mill." His widow , with
children, took over the operation of the mill. In 1779 that part of
Chowan County where he lived became part of the newly formed Gates County.
NORFLEET'S MILL (source Phil Norfleet, Panama City Beach, Florida)
In the Revolutionary War, during October and November 1780, John
Norfleet's old grist mill, then called "Norfleet's Mill," was the
encampment site for North Carolina militia forces commanded by General
Thomas Benbury, who were opposing a British force then operating in the
Suffolk and South Quay areas of Nansemond County.
Bible Record of John and Elizabeth Norfleet
John Norfleet (1699-1753) and Elizabeth Riddick (1710-1781) had twelve
children of whom six (6) sons and five (5) daughters survived into
adulthood. Primarily as the result of pioneering genealogical work by
Fillmore Norfleet (1903-1987), the identities of the eleven surviving
children were disclosed. In a letter, dated 10 September 1942,
to Nettie Hale Rand of Saint Louis Missouri, the author of Rand-Hale
Strong and Allied Families, A Genealogical Study with the Autobiography
of Nettie Hale Rand (New York: 1940), Fillmore Norfleet states that:
" … A decade ago a man employed in dismantling a barn on the Elisha Raw
farm near Box Elder, Virginia, found, after he had torn the roofing away
from one corner of the house, a Bible with one weathered page containing
the birth and death dates of the family of John Norfleet. The Elisha
Rawls farm had belonged formerly to John A.
Norfleet, and before him, to his father, Abram Norfleet (1774-1827). The
Bible was given to Edward Alston Norfleet, and at his death passed to
Mrs. John E. Martin (Virginia Jenkins), granddaughter of Wilson Norflee
It has remained in her possession, but she refuses to let me or anyone
else have an expert bring out the vanished
names beside the birth dates."
The "Abraham Norfleet (1774-1827)" referred to by Fillmore was the
brother (see page 65) of David and James Norfleet of Kentucky. At the
present time (1996), I have no information as to whom has possession of
this Bible; however, per Filmore Norfleet, the fragmentary records from
the bible provided the following information:
_____ Norfleet, son of John Norfleet and his wife, was born 21 Jul 1699
Elizabeth Riddick, daughter of Abraham and Pleasant Riddick, was born 5
Apr 1710
John Norfleet and Elizabeth Riddick were married 28 May 1727
Children of John Norfleet and Elizabeth Riddick:
1. Abraham Norfleet was born 28 May 1728
2. _____ Norfleet was born 30 Oct 1729
3. Pleasant Norfleet was born 14 Aug 1732
4. _____ Norfleet was born 18 Mar 1734
5. Esther Norfleet was born 13 Jan 1736
6. _____ Norfleet was born 30 Jun 1737
7. _____ Norfleet was born 30 May 1739
8. _____ Norfleet was born 19 May 1741
9. _____ Norfleet was born 17 Aug 1743
10. _____ Norfleet was born 06 Oct 1745
11. _____ Norfleet was born 23 Aug 1747
12. _____ Norfleet was born 28 Mar 1751
The surviving Bible record, set forth above, provides the names of only
three of the twelve children. However, the research of Fillmore Norfleet
and Clairborne T. Smith, Jr. (Ardmore, PA) conducted during the 1940's
primarily among the land records and court administration papers of Gat
County, North Carolina, identified the names of eight of the other nine
children (see below).
Also, an order of the Gates County, North Carolina Court, dated 12
February 1786, provides for the final division of the remaining monetary
portion of the estate o
Father: John NORFLEET b: 1672 in Nansemond Co., VaMarriage 1 Elizabeth RIDDICK b: 1710
Married: 28 May 1727 in Nansemond Co., Va
[John Riddick 1600.GED]
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THERE ARE DESCENDENTS OF A SOLOMON RIDDICK, GAYLE RIDDICK LISTS THEM AS DESCENDENTS THE SOLOM ON RIDDICK, SON OF ABRAHAM R., BUT BECAUSE OF DATES I AM ATTRIBUTING THEM TO THIS SOLOMON RID DICK
LIVED IN NANSEMOND CO, VA; IN 1789 BOUGHT LAND FROM JOSIAH RIDDICK IN 1789 IN CHOWAN COUNTY N C
[John Riddick 1600.GED]
[friddick.FTW]
LIVED AT "GREEN HILL"