Family Group Record

Husband: Elie\Elias Bergeron
Born: ABT. 27 JAN 1716/17 Place: New York, New York
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Father: Jacques\James Bergeron
Mother: Judith Peletan
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Child 1 (M): Elisha Bargeron
Born: ABT. 1748 Place: North Carolina
Died: BEF. 1820 Place: probably Burke County, Georgia
Buried: Place:
Spouses: probably Elizabeth Unknown
HUSBAND NOTES:
!PARENTS: Paper titled "Connecting Bergerons in North Carolina to Bargerons in Georgia" dated 6 October 1993, given to Tommy Bargeron by Kathryn Bargeron Wilson, December 1995. Original author C. Brent Bargeron, 5209 Farm Pond Lane, Columbia, Maryland 21045, phone 410/997-0366.

!PROBATE-PARENTS: ABSTRACT OF NORTH CAROLINA WILLS, compiled from original and record wills in the Office of the Secretary of State by J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, E.M. Uzzell & Co., State Printers and Binders, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1910. The Will cites "Bergeron, Judith. Beaufort, Co. November 14, 1742. December Court, 1742. Sons: Elias, John. Daughters: Judeth Wilkins, Jean Barrow, Margret Giddins. Executor: Elias Bergeron (son). Witnesses: Mikel Ward, Jacob Mercer, Thomas Mercer. Clerk of Court: John Forbes."

!PARENTS-RESIDENCE-RELIGION: COLLECTIONS OF THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF AMERICA, vol. I, pages 7, 123, 130, 134, 141, 150, The Huguenot Society of America, New York, 1886. From 1711 to 1719 there are records that Jacques and Judith Bergeron had five children in New York who were baptized in the French Church of New York. These children's names were: Jeane, Anne, Jean, Elie, and Marguerite. In 1725 a petition dealing with the French Church of New York list a signer by the name of James Bergeron, Jacques generally translates to James.

!LAND-RESIDENCE: COLONY OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1735-1764: Abstracts of Land Patents, Volume One, by Margaret Hofmann, Abstracts, Patent Book Two, p. 29. The reference cites "413 pg 74 ELIAS BERGERON 20 April 1745 200 acres in Craven County on th S. side of Little Contentnea, joining CORNELIUS TYSE, the White Oak swamp, and a Branch.

!MILITARY: Murtie June Clark, COLONIAL SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH, 1732-1774, page 633 & 729, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1983. "Elias Bergerson" is listed as a lieutenant in the North Carolina militia in Johnston County. No date was given. (Page 633) Bergeson, Elias listed as lieutenant on muster roll of Colonel Lewis DeRosset's regiment of Johnston County, North Carolina, officers, 1754. (page 729)

!LAND-RESIDENCE: INDEX AND ABSTRACTS OF DEEDS OF RECORD OF PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, vol. I, (1761-1785) compiled by Judith DuPree Ellison. (North Carolina State Library, Raleigh) From 1761 to 1785 Elias Bergeron is listed 13 times as a witness in the deeds of Pitt County, North Carolina. He was once listed as a grantee (buyer) of 690 acres which he purchased from Earl Grandville for 10 shillings on 7 January 1763.

!LAND: INDEX AND ABSTRACTS OF DEEDS OF RECORD OF PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, vol. II, (1782-1801) compiled by Judith DuPree Ellison. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia).

!CHILDREN: OLD DOBBS COUNTY RECORDS, compiled by Mary E. Spiron,Published by AccuCopy, Goldsboro, N.C., 1986, Microfiche 6048809 from SLC/FHCL, section VIII, tax records, poll tax records for 1769, p.1. The 1769 poll tax list of Dobbs County, North Carolina, lists "Elias Bargeron and son Elisha". Elisha was probably at least 21, (born 1748 or earlier) or he would not have been mentioned.

!CHILDREN-RESIDENCE: Holcomb, Brent. NORTH CAROLINA TAXPAYERS 1701-1786, Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979. Cites in 1769: Bargamon, Elias Dobbs County [directly under listing is] Bargamon, Elisha, son of Elias, Dobbs County.

!RESIDENCE: Ratcliff, Clarence E., compiler, NORTH TAX PAYERS, 1701-1786, Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984. List Elias Bargamon in Craven County in 1744.

!RESIDENCE: NORTH CAROLINA TAX PAYERS, 1679-1790, vol. II, page 16, compiled by Clarence E. Ratcliff, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1987. In 1780 Elias Bergeron and John Bergeron were listed as tax payers in Dobbs County, North Carolina. It is perhaps significant that no Elisha Bergeron was listed. He likely was fighting in the Revolutionary War at this time.

!RESIDENCE: Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., EARLY RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME I, Probates, Administrations, Inventories 1753-1790, page 6. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) "Elias Bergoson" listed in Beaufort County, North Carolina, May 1763 in Probate records and "Elias Bergarun" listed in Pitt County Feb 1764 in Will and Administration Records.

!RESIDENCE-CENSUS: JOURNAL OF NORTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY (MAGAZINE), Winter 1966, Number 48. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) Colonial Census on page 205, 10 Nov 1743, list "Elias Bargeroon" in Craven County with 3 whites and no blacks. This listing was based on the North Carolina system for granting land which was based on the number of people in the household. The reference gives a complete discussion of this record.

!COURT: Haun, Wynette Parks, compiler, CRAVEN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY COURT MINUTES 1742-1748, BOOK III (Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions), Durham NC: Published 1978-1987. cites: Court at Newbern 18-20 June 1745 cause wherein Elias Burgeroom is appelt and James Cooke appelee. A jury of 12 good and lawful men duely panneled withdrew in some short time returned. There verdict in these words - We find for appelant. Adjourned then met 2 pm after adjournment. Fran. Stringer and John Carruthas, John Irons.

!RESIDENCE: JOURNAL OF NORTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY (MAGAZINE), Summer 1966, Number 46. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) Lists "Elias Bergeron" in District 7 of Dobbs County on 1780 tax listing.

!MILITARY: Walter Clark, THE STATE RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME XXII, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1994. page 310, 331. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) In the Johnston Regiment, under Captain William Speight, list "Elias Bergeron" as Lieut'n.

!LAND-RESIDENCE: THE NORTH CAROLINIAN, Volume 1, Number 2, June 1955. page 49. Cross index to Johnson County Deeds, Book 2, 1750-1754. Elias Bergeron purchased land from Benjamin Lamberson and listed in deed records (book 2, page 407) which indicates the year 1754.

!RESIDENCE: Ronald Vern Jackson, EARLY AMERICAN SERIES, NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME 3 and VOLUME 7, Accelerated Indexing Systems International, North Salt Lake, Utah. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library, Moultrie, Georgia). Shows Elias Bergeson on Dobbs County North Carolina early tax list in 1780 and 1782.

!RESIDENCE: Walter Clark, THE STATE RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME XIX, 1782-1784, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1993. page 43, 47. ) The Senate Journal on Wednesday, May 1 1782 mentions John Ward, Elias Burguon, Joshua Rains, and Solomon Ward of Dobbs and Pitt Counties.

!CENSUS-RESIDENCE: William L Saunders, THE COLONIAL RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME IV, 1734-1752, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1993. page 640. List "Elias Bargeroon" in Craven County, with 3 whites in his family on 11 Nov 1743.

!LAND: Holcomb, Brent. BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA ABSTRACTS OF EARLY DEEDS 1738-1804, Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979. page 24. James White, late sheriff of Bladen County, at an interior court held for Bladen County. 1st Tuesday in August 1768 - recovered by Elias Burgeson against James Baggot for L2 s8 proc. money - 300 acres on Saddel Tree Swamp on the NE side of Browning Creek - 26 March 1772. James White (seal). Whit: James Council, William Salter. Acknowledged in open court, May Court 1772. Maturin Colvill, County Clerk.

!RESIDENCE: Murphy, William L., Jr., TWO 1780 DOBBS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, TAX LIST. Raleigh, NC, 1987, page 15. List Elias Bergeron in Captain William Speight's District, 1780 L2364 (pounds) -23.5 Indian Corn. Also list Elias Bergron, L2364 (pounds) for year 1780. This is a listing of inhabitants with valued estates liable by law to taxation.


HUSBAND FACTS:
Residence: 1769 Dobbs County, North Carolina 1

WIFE NOTES:
!PARENTS: Paper titled "Connecting Bergerons in North Carolina to Bargerons in Georgia" dated 6 October 1993, given to Tommy Bargeron by Kathryn Bargeron Wilson, December 1995. Original author C. Brent Bargeron, 5209 Farm Pond Lane, Columbia, Maryland 21045, phone 410/997-0366.

!PROBATE-PARENTS: ABSTRACT OF NORTH CAROLINA WILLS, compiled from original and record wills in the Office of the Secretary of State by J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, E.M. Uzzell & Co., State Printers and Binders, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1910. The Will cites "Bergeron, Judith. Beaufort, Co. November 14, 1742. December Court, 1742. Sons: Elias, John. Daughters: Judeth Wilkins, Jean Barrow, Margret Giddins. Executor: Elias Bergeron (son). Witnesses: Mikel Ward, Jacob Mercer, Thomas Mercer. Clerk of Court: John Forbes."

!PARENTS-RESIDENCE-RELIGION: COLLECTIONS OF THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF AMERICA, vol. I, pages 7, 123, 130, 134, 141, 150, The Huguenot Society of America, New York, 1886. From 1711 to 1719 there are records that Jacques and Judith Bergeron had five children in New York who were baptized in the French Church of New York. These children's names were: Jeane, Anne, Jean, Elie, and Marguerite. In 1725 a petition dealing with the French Church of New York list a signer by the name of James Bergeron, Jacques generally translates to James.

!LAND-RESIDENCE: COLONY OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1735-1764: Abstracts of Land Patents, Volume One, by Margaret Hofmann, Abstracts, Patent Book Two, p. 29. The reference cites "413 pg 74 ELIAS BERGERON 20 April 1745 200 acres in Craven County on th S. side of Little Contentnea, joining CORNELIUS TYSE, the White Oak swamp, and a Branch.

!MILITARY: Murtie June Clark, COLONIAL SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH, 1732-1774, page 633 & 729, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1983. "Elias Bergerson" is listed as a lieutenant in the North Carolina militia in Johnston County. No date was given. (Page 633) Bergeson, Elias listed as lieutenant on muster roll of Colonel Lewis DeRosset's regiment of Johnston County, North Carolina, officers, 1754. (page 729)

!LAND-RESIDENCE: INDEX AND ABSTRACTS OF DEEDS OF RECORD OF PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, vol. I, (1761-1785) compiled by Judith DuPree Ellison. (North Carolina State Library, Raleigh) From 1761 to 1785 Elias Bergeron is listed 13 times as a witness in the deeds of Pitt County, North Carolina. He was once listed as a grantee (buyer) of 690 acres which he purchased from Earl Grandville for 10 shillings on 7 January 1763.

!LAND: INDEX AND ABSTRACTS OF DEEDS OF RECORD OF PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, vol. II, (1782-1801) compiled by Judith DuPree Ellison. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia).

!CHILDREN: OLD DOBBS COUNTY RECORDS, compiled by Mary E. Spiron,Published by AccuCopy, Goldsboro, N.C., 1986, Microfiche 6048809 from SLC/FHCL, section VIII, tax records, poll tax records for 1769, p.1. The 1769 poll tax list of Dobbs County, North Carolina, lists "Elias Bargeron and son Elisha". Elisha was probably at least 21, (born 1748 or earlier) or he would not have been mentioned.

!CHILDREN-RESIDENCE: Holcomb, Brent. NORTH CAROLINA TAXPAYERS 1701-1786, Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979. Cites in 1769: Bargamon, Elias Dobbs County [directly under listing is] Bargamon, Elisha, son of Elias, Dobbs County.

!RESIDENCE: Ratcliff, Clarence E., compiler, NORTH TAX PAYERS, 1701-1786, Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984. List Elias Bargamon in Craven County in 1744.

!RESIDENCE: NORTH CAROLINA TAX PAYERS, 1679-1790, vol. II, page 16, compiled by Clarence E. Ratcliff, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1987. In 1780 Elias Bergeron and John Bergeron were listed as tax payers in Dobbs County, North Carolina. It is perhaps significant that no Elisha Bergeron was listed. He likely was fighting in the Revolutionary War at this time.

!RESIDENCE: Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., EARLY RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME I, Probates, Administrations, Inventories 1753-1790, page 6. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) "Elias Bergoson" listed in Beaufort County, North Carolina, May 1763 in Probate records and "Elias Bergarun" listed in Pitt County Feb 1764 in Will and Administration Records.

!RESIDENCE-CENSUS: JOURNAL OF NORTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY (MAGAZINE), Winter 1966, Number 48. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) Colonial Census on page 205, 10 Nov 1743, list "Elias Bargeroon" in Craven County with 3 whites and no blacks. This listing was based on the North Carolina system for granting land which was based on the number of people in the household. The reference gives a complete discussion of this record.

!COURT: Haun, Wynette Parks, compiler, CRAVEN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY COURT MINUTES 1742-1748, BOOK III (Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions), Durham NC: Published 1978-1987. cites: Court at Newbern 18-20 June 1745 cause wherein Elias Burgeroom is appelt and James Cooke appelee. A jury of 12 good and lawful men duely panneled withdrew in some short time returned. There verdict in these words - We find for appelant. Adjourned then met 2 pm after adjournment. Fran. Stringer and John Carruthas, John Irons.

!RESIDENCE: JOURNAL OF NORTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY (MAGAZINE), Summer 1966, Number 46. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) Lists "Elias Bergeron" in District 7 of Dobbs County on 1780 tax listing.

!MILITARY: Walter Clark, THE STATE RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME XXII, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1994. page 310, 331. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, Moultrie, Georgia) In the Johnston Regiment, under Captain William Speight, list "Elias Bergeron" as Lieut'n.

!LAND-RESIDENCE: THE NORTH CAROLINIAN, Volume 1, Number 2, June 1955. page 49. Cross index to Johnson County Deeds, Book 2, 1750-1754. Elias Bergeron purchased land from Benjamin Lamberson and listed in deed records (book 2, page 407) which indicates the year 1754.

!RESIDENCE: Ronald Vern Jackson, EARLY AMERICAN SERIES, NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME 3 and VOLUME 7, Accelerated Indexing Systems International, North Salt Lake, Utah. (Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library, Moultrie, Georgia). Shows Elias Bergeson on Dobbs County North Carolina early tax list in 1780 and 1782.

!RESIDENCE: Walter Clark, THE STATE RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME XIX, 1782-1784, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1993. page 43, 47. ) The Senate Journal on Wednesday, May 1 1782 mentions John Ward, Elias Burguon, Joshua Rains, and Solomon Ward of Dobbs and Pitt Counties.

!CENSUS-RESIDENCE: William L Saunders, THE COLONIAL RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME IV, 1734-1752, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1993. page 640. List "Elias Bargeroon" in Craven County, with 3 whites in his family on 11 Nov 1743.

!LAND: Holcomb, Brent. BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA ABSTRACTS OF EARLY DEEDS 1738-1804, Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979. page 24. James White, late sheriff of Bladen County, at an interior court held for Bladen County. 1st Tuesday in August 1768 - recovered by Elias Burgeson against James Baggot for L2 s8 proc. money - 300 acres on Saddel Tree Swamp on the NE side of Browning Creek - 26 March 1772. James White (seal). Whit: James Council, William Salter. Acknowledged in open court, May Court 1772. Maturin Colvill, County Clerk.

!RESIDENCE: Murphy, William L., Jr., TWO 1780 DOBBS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, TAX LIST. Raleigh, NC, 1987, page 15. List Elias Bergeron in Captain William Speight's District, 1780 L2364 (pounds) -23.5 Indian Corn. Also list Elias Bergron, L2364 (pounds) for year 1780. This is a listing of inhabitants with valued estates liable by law to taxation.


SOURCES:
 1Internet Web Site - http://c-23.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archive/nc/dobbs/taxlists/dobbs2.txt - 25 Nov, Records Elias Bargeron and son Elisha.

Posted By:
Tommy Bargeron
721 West 12th Street
Tifton, Georgia 31794

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