Thomas TYSON

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John Tyson was born in 1723 in Bath Co. NC. He died in 1787 in Pitt Co. NC, and is buried there. He married in 1743 to Bethany Hines, born 1725 and died 1792 in Pitt Co. NC. Her death was verified by Pitt Co. NC Deed Book O, page 121.John was a Colonel in the Pitt Co. Colonial Militia in 1773. At a council meeting held at Newbern in March , 1747, we find where John received a land grant of 350 acres in Bladden County. This was from Lord Granville Land Allotment. Following is a land deed found in the Pitt Co. NC Deed Book O, page 284, dated Nov. 13, 1786. "To all people to whom these presents shall come: I, John Tison of Pitt Co. send greeting in Our Lord God Everlasting. Know ye, that I the said John Tison for the natural love and affection I bair unto my son Jehu and towards his advancement in the worth doth give grant bargain sell alien afect and confirm unto ye said Jehu Tison and to his heirs and assigns forever, one tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and sixty six acres lying and being in Pitt Co. and on both sides of the meadow branch, it being part of a deed obtained from Lord Granville the Sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred fifty seven, beginning at a stake where the line crosses the main road running so. 46 East to a black jack thence So. two hundred and eighty pole to a pine on the south side of meadow branch from thence W cours of the giving line to the road on the south side to the first station, together with all houses clear ground woods waters and water courses and all other priviledges thereunto belonging to the said Jehu Tison his heirs and assigns forever, and to the only proper use to the said Jehu Tison his Heirs and Assigns forever and to for no other use intent or purpose whatsoever in witness whereof I have set my hand and fixed my seal this 13 day of Nov. 1786.John Tison (Seal) Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of usFrederick TisonBryant TisonGeorge Moye Jr. Pitt Co. Jan. Term 1799:This deed was proven in open court on Oath by George Moye as evidence thereto let it be registered. Henry Ellis, C. C.John Tyson was a Justice of the Peace. In Sketches of Pitt Co. by Henry T. King, we find this account: The Governor's Council met at Wilmington in 1764. Feb. 28, Edward Salter presented a remonstrance against the illegal conduct in office of John Hardee, John Tyson, George Moye and Abraham Tyson, all Justices of the Peace. George Moye made a counter remonstrance against Edward Salter, who was also a Justice of the Peace. This was referred to in the Court of the Justices at New Bern, and then dropped.John Tison, among others, was appointed by the Committee to help relieve and support the poor of Boston, and assist the gentlemen of the vestry of St. Michael's parish in collecting the support of the said sufferers in the town. He was accused with others of obstructing the contribution for the relief of the poor of Boston; and an order was given that the chairman address the said gentlemen, so that they may appear at the next meeting of the Committee and justify themselves in that particular situation. May 1, 1775; "It having been represented to this committee that John Tison hath frequently spoken disrepectively of the proceedings of the Congress in general and of this committee in particular, on a supposition that such charges is true, it must be owned that the said Tison highly deserves to be stigmatized; but as it is not yet reduced to a certainty whether he is guilty or not or if he is may have proceded from unguarded heat or ignorance and as it is the firm attention of this committee to proceed in their ensures with charity and circumspection, it is therefore ordered that Mr. George Evans, Mr. James Lockhart, and Mr. Benjamin May or either two of them do attend committee when it shall next sit on the 13th day of present Inst., then and there to answer the above charge. The committee met on the 13th and simply adjourned to the 20th, at which time it met and among other business, resolved that John Tison be advertized in the public papers."#At an Inferi
or Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for the Co. of Pitt, April term, 1775. Present, John Hardy, George Moye, and John Tyson--- a new commission of the Peace was produced and read in court, whereby it appeared that several of the most respectable gentlemen in the county aforesaid, who were in the former commission, were designedly omitted; for which reason every gentlemen nominated in the new commission aforesaid, then in court, except John Tyson expressly refused to qualify to the same, being all of opinion that such qualification would be a dastardly condescension which would for ever have disgraced them. December 22, 1775: "I John Tyson, from the fullest conviction, solemnly and sincerely declare that I have been pursuing mean____of the liberties of America in general, and ____of this colony, and truly conscious of the heinousness of my guilt____now publicly confess the same and solemnly promise that I will for the future support and defend the constitutional rights and liberties of America. John Tyson."