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John Nation
(1672-1696)
Frances Parsons
(-)
John Jr. Nation
(1697-1772)

 

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Bethiah Robins

John Jr. Nation 223,224,422

  • Born: 28 Mar 1697, North Petherton, Somerset, England 422
  • Marriage: Bethiah Robins
  • Died: 15 Dec 1772, Guildford County, North Carolina aged 75
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bullet  General Notes:

Capt. John Nation made his will on 15 December 1772, and it was proved in May 1774 in Guilford Co. court. He left the plantation "whereon I now live" to son Joseph, with the proviso that Bethiah could live there during her widowhood. He bequeathed her all the personal property. If she remarried her portion would be confined to one-third, and she was to divide the other two-thirds between sons John and Joseph. If she died without remarrying, John was to receive a bed and "furniture" [bedstead], chest and box, and Joseph was to inherit the remaining personal property. Capt. NATION left one shilling to each of the other children, Christopher NATION, Elizabeth VICKREY, Anna BULLER [BULLA], Bethiah ROBINS and Frances ROBINS. Executors were wife Bethiah and son Joseph. Witnesses were members of a family he had known since Shenandoah Valley days: Benjamin BEESON, Sr., Isaac BEESON, Jr., and Richard BEESON.
The Captain may have died closer to the 15 December 1772 date of his will than to the May 1774 date of its probate. Proving it promptly was not neessary because there was only one principle heir. Many legal transactions were delayed until absolutely necessary [or avoided all together] during this period because of the high cost of satisfying the graft built into the fee system so detested by the Regulatore [whose leaders had included Christopher NATION]. Paying officials at every step in the process was a strong disincentive to invoking any legal action. It is unlikely that NATION's will was proved upon his death and more likely that it was proved only whenthe principle heir wanted to sell his inheritance in 1774.
Marrying while indentured was discouraged, no NATION probably waited until his term expired, but he apparently married immediately afterward. His daughter Elizabeth married Marmaduke VICKREY by 1740, so NATION himself must have been a father shortly after 1719. While still in New Jersey, NATION married Bethiah Robins. When they married, John and Bethiah were twenty-two and eighteen, respectively. Bethiah Robins was born at Chestnut Brook, Upper Freehold Twp., Crosswicks, NJ, in Old Monmouth [now Burlington] Co., where he made his will in 1709. Daniel ROBINS in 1696 and where he made his will in 1709. Daniel ROBINS was one of the original freeholders of Woodbridge, NJ. Joseph ROBINS, eldest son and second child of Daniel and Hope [POTTER] ROBINS, was born there on 12 March 1670/1671. Joseph's "publication for marriage with Anna PACK" was dated 22 April 1692; they were married on 8 June 1692 in Woodbridge. Anna was a daughter of George and Anna PACK of Elizabeth, NJ.
John and Bethiah [ROBINS] NATION named surviving children JOseph after her father and bother, Anna after her mother and sister, and Frances after her great-grandmother and sister, as well as John's mother. John and Bethiah each had namesake children too. In the next generation, Marmaduke and Elizabeth [Nation] Vickrey named children John and Bethiah. [They also named one son Christopher after her brother Christopher NATION.]

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bullet  Events

• Military: Captain.

• He signed a will on 15 Dec 1772 in Guildford County, North Carolina.


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John married Bethiah Robins, daughter of Joseph Robbins and Anna (Hannah) Packe. (Bethiah Robins was born about 1701 in Chesnut Brook, Upper Freehold Twp., Crostwekes, Old Monmouth, [Now Burlington] New Jersey 422 and died in May 1774 in Guildford County, North Carolina.)


bullet  Marriage Notes:

Reference Number:3177



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