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	<title>Echoes from the Dismal Swamp &#187; North Carolina Families</title>
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		<title>Probable Identity of David O&#8217;Sheal&#8217;s wife</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Conner was born abt. 1649, in Ireland. He was apprenticed to Thomas Noell in Bristol, England 27 Jun 1668 for passage to Virginia. He settled in Nansemond County and married Elizabeth Daines daughter of Sir William Daines. Lewis Conner and Elizabeth Daines had 7 children, Lewis Jr.; Cader; John; James; Ann; and 2 other [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lewis Conner was born abt. 1649, in Ireland. He was apprenticed to Thomas Noell in Bristol, England 27 Jun 1668 for passage to Virginia. He settled in Nansemond County and married Elizabeth Daines daughter of Sir William Daines.<br />
Lewis Conner and Elizabeth Daines had 7 children, Lewis Jr.; Cader; John; James; Ann; and 2 other daughters.  His widow, Elizabeth, married Anthony Lawson.</p>
<p>I believe one of the two unnamed daughters of Lewis Conner, Sr. and his wife, Elizabeth Daines, was the wife of David Osheal, Sr. (b. 1690)<br />
I believe her name was Maria Theresa because I have located sources which say Lewis Conner had a daughter by that name.<br />
Lewis Conner died in 1697 leaving a plantation of 5000 acres; an estate in Virginia and one in England;  part ownership of a Brigantine.</p>
<p>Deed:  1739:  &#8220;To John Osheals, 5,000 acres in Nansemond on the Dismal Swamp beginning at a pine about two miles east of a place called Cat Neck&#8230;&#8221;(Executive Council of Virginia)</p>
<p>This 5,000 acres of land was the same land Lewis Conner, Jr. advertised in the Virginia Gazette, which he acquired from his father’s estate, Lewis Conner, Sr.</p>
<p>April 13, 1739<br />
Virginia Gazette<br />
To be SOLD, very reasonably,<br />
A Tract of Land, containing 10,000 Acres, lying on the North Branches of Nuse (Nansemond) River, in North-Carolina; and another Tract of 5000 Acres, lying on the same Branches, at a Place call’d Catacta Fort, being purchas’d Land, by Virtue of old purchas’d Warrants, and paying but Six Pence per Hundred Acres annually, Quit-Rent. Any Person inclinable to purchase both or either of the said Tracts, may apply to Col. Benjamin Hill, in Bertie County, or to the Subscriber, the Proprietor of the said Land, at Sewell’s Point, in Norfolk County, and know the Terms of Sale.<br />
Also another Tract of Land, containing 750 Acres, at Sewell’s-Point, whereon the Subscriber now lives, with a good Dwelling-house, Kitchen, Barn, Stable, and all other necessary and convenient Out-houses, the Plantation and Houses being in good Repair. Any Person inclinable to purchase it, may apply to the Subscriber at his House, and treat for the same.<br />
Lewis Conner.<br />
April 6, 1739.</p>
<p>Further evidence,  John O&#8217;Sheal (son of David O&#8217;Sheal) married Ann Boush, daughter of Samuel Boush. Some of this same Boush family were related to Anthony Lawson, who married the widow of Lewis Conner, Sr., Elizabeth Daines Conner.</p>
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		<title>In Memory of John OSheal, Revolutionary War</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John OSheal, you can RIP.  I found the document which gives us your approximate date of death, and I now know your wife was not named, Lucretia. (Source: “Final Payment Vouchers Index Military Pensions” 1818-1864.) John Osheal received final payment for his service in the Revolutionary War during the Fourth Quarter of 1844; thus giving [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John OSheal, you can RIP.  I found the document which gives us your approximate date of death, and I now know your wife was not named, Lucretia.</p>
<p>(Source: “Final Payment Vouchers Index Military Pensions” 1818-1864.)<br />
John Osheal received final payment for his service in the Revolutionary War during the Fourth Quarter of 1844; thus giving us the approximate date of John OSheal&#8217;s death.<br />
John OSheal died sometime between 1 October 1844 and 31 December 1844.  I am sure John OSheal&#8217;s descendants will be happy to know I located this important document.</p>
<p>Of further interest to the descendants of John OSheal:</p>
<p>After I located the approximate date of death for John OSheal, s/o Daniel OSheal and Sarah Walker, I realized Lucretia O&#8217;Shields appearing in the 1846 Minutes of the Friendship Baptist Church could not have been the widow of John OSheal, the Rev. War soldier because in 1861 John OSheal&#8217;s grandson, stated when John OSheal died he left NO WIDOW. John OSheal died between 1 Oct. 1844 and 31 Dec. 1844, leaving NO WIDOW.<br />
Lucretia O&#8217;Shields who appears in the Friendship Church Minutes in 1846 was not the wife of John OSheal, but she most certainly could have been the wife of Jethro OSheal.</p>
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