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Joseph Willis Biggs

Male 1766 - 1844  (77 years)


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  • Name Joseph Willis Biggs  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Birth 12 Nov 1766  Edgecombe, Edgecombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7] 
    Gender Male 
    Religion 1796  Skewarky, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 31 May 1844  Lewiston, Bertie, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8] 
    Notes 
    • bJoseph Biggs /bII, son of Margaret Eastwood and Joseph Biggs I, was born 12 November 1766 in Tyrrell Co NC. He was a Baptist minister, and died on 31 May 1844 in Martin Co NC. Joseph married Elizabeth Gregory on 27 August 1784. She was born in Camden Co and died on 9 October 1786. Joseph then married Ann Phillips on 20 February 1787, She was born in Beaufort Co and died on 25 October 1807. Joseph then married Chloe Daniel (source 59) on 4 February 1818 (or 1808?) of Martin Co NC. She died in 1845, at the age of 70. He had fifteen children. b

      Joseph Biggs Will
      /bWill, 9/16/1837: Will Book 2 Martin County N. C. page 308: "Will of Joseph Biggs Sen. [Joseph Biggs II] of Martin Co. N. C. Item. I lend unto my wife Chloe Biggs (for her and the families use) all and singular, all of my property both real personal both in and out doors, during her natural life or widowhood and at her death or marriage I give and bequeath unto my daughter Louisa F. Biggs at the death or marriage of my wife Chloe Biggs the half lot on which I now live that I bought of George Rogers and a lot adjoining the same that I bought of Susanna Brogden and my negro woman Hannah to her and her heirs forever. Item. My will and desire is that at the death or marriage of my wife Chloe Biggs after my just debts are paid that the remainder of my estate be equally divided between my sons Joseph D. Biggs, Asa Biggs, William Biggs and Kader Biggs and my daughter Louisa F. Biggs to them and to their heirs forever . . . . I appoint my son Joseph D. Biggs and Asa Biggs as executors hereunto this 16th day of September 1837. Signed & sealed in presence of us D.M. Bagley, Wm. Henderson."

      bHistory of Bear Grass Church
      /bHISTORY OF THE CHURCHES COMPOSING THE KEHUKEE ASSOCIATION IN
      1885.
      1. iBeargrass, Martin County./i This church is situated in Martin County, about seven miles southwest of Willianiston. She was for several years a branch of the church at Skewarkey. A meeting-house was built by the brethren and neighbors not far from a water course by the name of Bear Grass, from which the name was derived. Conferences were held and gospel ordinances administered for several years by Elder Joseph Biggs, pastor of the church at Skewarkey. In the year 1839 the members of the church at Skewarkey, convenient to this place, petitioned for dismission to form a constitution, which was grauted, and Elders Joseph Biggs and Jeremiah Biggs and Jeremiah Leggett constituted a church at this place with thirty members. She then called on Elder Biggs, who consented to serve her as occasional pastor, and did so until 1833, when, from age and infirmity, he declined. After this time Elder John Ward served her as occasional pastor for some years.
      In 1833 William Whitaker, being a member of this church, was licensed to exercise his gif ts. In 1838 he was ordained to the administration of gospel ordinances by a presbytery composed of Elders Joseph Biggs and Humphrey Stallings. He was then very soon called to the pastoral charge of the church, and continued to fill that office to the period of his death, which took place on November 33,1874. After his decease the church called Elder Levi Rogerson, whose membership was at Smithwick's Creek, to take the pastoral charge of her, and he continues in that capacity till this day, giving much satisfaction to the church. This church is now in a prosperous condition, having a goodly number of brethren to transact the business thereof. She has been favored, besides the services of her regular pastors, with the ministerial labors occasionally for the last forty years of Elders C. B. Hassell, Thomas Biggs, Henry Peal, William Gray, David House, William A. Ross, John L. Ross and Levi Rogerson. Her monthly meetings occur on the third Sunday and Saturday before in each month. Her number of members at present (1885) is forty-eight.

      b1700s-1920 Bertie County, North Carolina Vital Statistics
      iName:/bBiggs, Joseph Jr.
      bDate of Birth:/b1766
      bDate of Death:/b1844
      bSpouse:/bChloe Daniels
      bMother:/bMargaret Eastwood
      bFather:/bJoseph Biggs, Sr.
      bChildren:/bCador, Others
      bOther:/bThird wife
      bPlace of Birth:/bBertie co., NC
      bPlace of Marriage:/bBertie co., NC
      bPlace of Death:/bLewiston, Bertie co., NC
    Person ID I21674  McKenzie Genealogy
    Last Modified 17 Jan 2012 

    Father Joseph Biggs,   b. Abt 1720, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Nov 1784, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Margaret Eastwood,   b. 15 Feb 1729, Tyrell, Beaufort, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1768, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Abt 1748  Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Family ID F08653  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth Gregory,   b. 1770, Camden, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Oct 1786, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 16 years) 
    Marriage 27 Aug 1784  Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Polly Ann Biggs,   b. 17 Jan 1785, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1817, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Peggy Biggs,   b. 24 Sep 1786, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 1796, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 10 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F09940  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jul 2011 

    Family 2 Ann Phillips,   b. 1766, , Beaufort, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Oct 1807, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years) 
    Marriage 20 Feb 1787  Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Daniel Biggs,   b. 2 Oct 1787, Bear Grass, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 May 1834, Bear Grass, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Martin Biggs,   b. 5 Feb 1789, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Aug 1808, Bear Grass, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 19 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Nancy Biggs,   b. 29 Jul 1790, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Elizabeth Biggs,   b. 18 Apr 1792, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Dec 1866, Dooly, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Temperance Biggs,   b. 7 Dec 1794, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Dec 1794, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. Sally Biggs,   b. 22 Jul 1796, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 May 1844, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. Milly Biggs,   b. 16 Jun 1798, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. Merina Biggs,   b. 22 Mar 1800, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. Anna Biggs,   b. 2 Oct 1807, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Oct 1807, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F09941  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jul 2011 

    Family 3 Chloe Daniel,   b. 2 Mar 1776, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1845, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 4 Feb 1808  Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 5, 6] 
    Children 
     1. Martin Biggs,   b. North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Harry Andrews Biggs,   b. North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Sally Biggs,   b. North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Joseph Daniel Biggs,   b. 1 Feb 1805, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Aug 1883, Saint Pauls, Robeson, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Asa T. Biggs,   b. 4 Feb 1811, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Mar 1878, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. Jacob Joab Harrell Biggs,   b. 11 Jan 1812, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Sep 1891, Collin, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. William Biggs,   b. 26 Feb 1813, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 May 1873, Madison, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. Kader Biggs,   b. 23 Jul 1815, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jan 1884, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. Louisa Frances Biggs,   b. 17 Nov 1817, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     10. Marian Biggs,   b. 1821, Williamston, Martin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F09942  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Oct 2011 

  • Sources 
    1. [S010649] levans9876, Sale Family Tree.

    2. [S003988] JohnPatterson1941, Biggs Family Tree, (Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah).

    3. [S007008] Harold Clinton, hrclinton.

    4. [S003883] Cynthia Herrin, Bertie County, North Carolina Vital Stastics, 1700s-1920, (Herrin, Cynthia, comp.. Bertie County, North Carolina Vital Statistics, 1700s-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Original data: Sentinel Publications. Bertie Beginnings: The Story of Our County and Its Distinguish).

    5. [S012013] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.).

    6. [S003799] Asa Biggs Family Bible, (The Comprehensive Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments, Published: New York: Robinson & Franklin, successors to Leavitt, Lord & co. 180 Broadway, 1839).

    7. [S005780] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Name: Name: Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000;;;).

    8. [S005803] Family Data Collections - Deaths, (Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.).

    9. [S004013] nicolebiggs_1, Biggsyoung, (May 2000, Ancestry.com).


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