Death: JUN 1769 in Triton County, North Carolina Probate: JUL 1769 Triton County, North Carolina Note: His bequeathed the following:
to Margaret WELSH my Dear beloved wife the best young creature of horse kind allso her sadle and bed and furniture belonging thereto ____ the house goods . . . five pounds for her in childbearing
to my oldest daughter Rebecca two pewter dishes and six plates and one mare
to my son John one mare and sadle allso my working tools except two says one croscut and one whipsaw to be left to my wife and children on the plantation allso two hors creature to be left for to work the plantation one tract of land to be should by my executors Namely camp creek
to my daughter Margreat one you mare and price of a sadle out of the esstate
and my plantasion to be sould if my executors can agree or should move out of the Province and to be equally divided between my wife and children and allso all the cattle sheep and hogs to be execpted if there is enoff to pay my debts and said cattle all the rest of my esstate to be sould to pay my debts and funerael charges
Executors: Margreat WELSH, Thomas WELSH, Nicholas WELSH
In July 1774, John's plantation where his widow lived in Rowan County, North Carolina, was ordered sold at auction to settle debts. The sale took place in October and it was sold to the highest bidder, Nicholas WELCH.
John married Elizabeth in Quittapahilla Township, by Casper STOEVER, Lutheran Minister. About a year before the marriage, John received a land grant in Lebanon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 150 acres of land.
[Jessye Ann Welch High, "Times and Trails of My Welch Family" (1989), p. 15]
"In February 1746/7, John sold the 150 acres granted him in 1737.
On 24 October 1759 John received a Majesties' Patent for land on the Catawba River in Anson County, North Carolina (24 34 acres). In 1761 he received Land Grant No. 1966 for 200 acres of land in Anson County, North Carolina on Clarke Creek. When this land was surveyed his son, Nicholas, was one of the chain bearers.