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Samuel Whitehead appears on the 1767 Granville County, North Carolina tax list near, among others, Benjamin Stovall, James Yancey and William whitehead. Benjamin Stovall married Samuel's daughter Nancy Anne about five years later.

On 1 November 1784 in Granville County, North Carolina, Samuel Whitehead obtained custody of Agnes (age 12) and Mary (age 6) Wright, orphans of Thomas Wright.

10 April 1790 Samuel Whitehead bought land: Reuben Parrott of Caswell County to Samuel Whitehead of Caswell County, 14lb, 10 shillings for 29 acres adj Carter Lea, Bostick, VanHook. Witnesses: George Darby, Ambrose Arnold.

The 1794 Person County, North Carolina Tax List shows Samuel Whitehead assessed for 102 acres of land and a poll tax for two blacks (slaves).

Samuel Whitehead will abstract: Dated 20 March 1794. Daughter Elizabeth; wife Ursula; 6 children: Nancy, Ursula, Samuel, Susannah, Ebenezer, Elizabeth. Executors: wife Ursula and Carter Lea. Witnesses: Carter Lea, Fowler and Jeremiah Scoggins.

Person County, NC Record Books, Book 1-- Taxables for 1795, St. Lawrence District: Samuel Whitehead.

Person County, NC Record Book abstracts: Inventory of the estate of Samuel Whitehead by Ursula Whitehead and Carter Lea, executors. 28 November 1795.

Person County, NC, February Court 1808: Inventory of the estate of Samuel Whitehead.

Person County Record Book, February Court 1809. Legatees of Samuel Whitehead, deceased: Benjamin Stovall, Robert Melone, Samuel Whitehead, Robert Burlington, Elizabeth Whitehead, Ursley Newton. Power of attorney to Moses Bradsher, Major Henry Sargent, and James D. Hanley to settle accounts of Carter Lea, adm. 10 December 1808.

Sale of the Whitehead land where Samuel Sr. had lived adjacent to Carter Lea. Benjamin Stovaul & Samuel Whitehead of Oglethorpe County, Georgia; Robert Malone of Sumner County, Tennessee; Robert Bullington of Union County, South Carolina; & Ursula Newton of Davidson County, Tennessee-- to Ebenezer Whitehead of Person County, for 160 lbs 11/3, 103 A on Richland Creek adjacent Carter Lea, Charles Winstead, Vanhook on wagon road. 14 December 1808. Witnesses: Ira Lea, Carter Lea.