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- (Research):St. John's Parish Records (Need to check these)Daniel Linyard and his wife left three girls, the oldest in a "declining state of health." Linyard's wife, before her death, asked that the middle child be bound to John Shackleford, Sr., and the vestry approved. Richard Rustell agreed to take the youngest girl, and the vestry ordered the churchwardens to find "some careful person" to nurse the oldest girl
Carteret County Court Minutes - June 1749
Whereas Daniel Lynard, lately decd, left three children at his death vis: Mary Blandiana, and Elizabeth, and Mary is since dead, and by desire of the said Lynard's wife, who survived her husband, the court appointed that John Shackleford Sr. should take Blandiana and Edward Shepard should take Elizabeth. This court hath ordered that the girl Blandina be and is bound unto the said John Shackleford according to act of assebly, and that Elizabeth be and is bound unto the said Edward Shepard and that the said Shackleford and Shepard take the estate of the said Lynard into their hands and sell the same at Public Venue and pay such lawful debts and charges as is due from said estate and make return of the account of all this proceedings to the next court. The aforesaid Shackleford and Shepard to give security in the sum of ten pounds proclamation money.
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- Bef 1749