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 Abt 1726 - Abt 1803 (~ 77 years)
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| Name |
Ezekial JOINES [1] |
| Birth |
Abt 1726 [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt Aug 1803 |
Wilkes Co., NC  [2] |
| Person ID |
I14301 |
Rootballs |
| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2015 |
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| Notes |
- 1.Listed in Deed Book D, p.98, January 23, 1788, Wilkes Co.. Land grant to Stephen Caudle. Listed with land immediately east Stephen Caudle. Name spelled Zekel Joines.
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2.Ezekiel Joines settled in Wilkes Co., NC in 1778 ... Source Eldon Joines.
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3.Will of Ezekiel Joines, August 1803
The first Joines to appear in records of Rowan Co. (from which Wilkes was formed) is Ezekiel Joines (spelled variously Joynes, Joines, Joins, Goins, Goines, and Jines; older people pronounced it as "Jines."). He appears on the 1778 Tax List for Rowan Co..
Ezekiel Joines apparently arrived in North Carolina with his grown sons Thomas and Major, who both fought in the Revolutionary War. Legend has it that Major was killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs near Camden, South Carolina.
Ezekiel remarried in Rowan Co. to Sarah Gunter on 14 July 1779 (North Carolina Marriage Bond No. 000125211 - Sarah Gunter and Ezekil Goins). She may also have been married before, because her son Edmund is referred to in several records, including Ezekiel's will, as Edmund Gunter alias Joines.
In the name of God amen, I Ezekial Joines of Wilkes Co. and State of North Carolina being of sound and perfect mind and memory, Blessed be God, do this 6th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two do make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say, First, I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sarah Joines all my whole estate consisting of every species of property that I am now possessed with at this time to have free and clear during her lifetime or widowhood -- and after her death or marriage, the whole property to be equally divided between Thomas Joines, Sayer [Sarah] Roberts, Piety Parsons & Edmund Joines alias Edward Gunter. The division shall be made by my Executors and if they can't agree in the division the whole property shall be sold to by Executors and the money equally divided amongst the Legatees. Under these considerations I do hereby make and order my trusty friends John R. Johnson and Edmond Joins alias Edmund Gunter Executors of this my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I the said Ezekial Joines have to this my last will & testament set my hand & seal the day & date above written.
Signed and published and delivered by the said Ezekial Joines the testator as his last will & testament in the presence of us who were present at the time of signing
Ezekial X Joines Seal mark
(wrote on the back thus)
sealing thereof her Sarah X Johnson
N Carolina Wilkes Co. }
August Term
1803
mark
Ben Johnson
Edmund Joines
The written will was duly sworn in open court by the oath of Ben Johnson & Edmund Joines
http://www.ibiblio.org/mtnivy/BAJ/will.htm
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4.(By Eldon Joines) The first record of Ezekiel Joines in North Western North Carolina is the 1778 Tax List for Rowan County. Ezekiel is listed as Ezekiel Jones. Ezekiel was living in Capt. Lyon's District.(Doc# 164) A search of the Rowan County records did not locate an Ezekiel Jones living there, during this same time period. Ezekiel's son Thomas is listed on the same tax list as Thomas Jines, living in Capt. Johnstons District.(Doc# 164)
In a letter written by Wesley Joines, Sr. on Oct. 25, 1920 and published in the book "The Ancestry of Della Blevins Graham" by Della B. Graham in 1955, Wesley states that Ezekiel Joines emigrated from Scotland and settled in what is now Wilkes County, North Carolina. Wesley was the great grandson of Ezekiel. Wesley's father Major Joines lived to be a very old man and could have related this information to Wesley.(Doc # 193)
Ezekiel Joines was listed in the 1784-1787 census of Wilkes County, NC and in the 1790 Census of Wilkes County.(Doc# 195, 82)
In October of 1789 Ezekiel Joines purchased 200 acres of land from Charles Walker of Franklin County, Georgia.(Doc# 82) There was a Joines family living in Georgia in the late 1700's, the Jabez Joines family. (Doc# 14) Could there be a connection? Also the Noah Joines family from Kentucky has connections to Georgia in the late 1700's.(Doc# 15)
In 1791 Ezekiel Joines sold 100 acres to George Payne. The deed states that this was part of a tract of land sold to Ezekiel Joines by Charles Walker.(Doc# 196)
In the 1795 tax list of Wilkes County, Ezekiel is listed as Ezekiel Gines owning 187 acres of land and having 1 poll.(Doc# 94) In the 1797 tax list of Wilkes County, Ezekiel is listed as owning 100
acres and having no polls. This meant that Ezekiel was no longer required to pay taxes. Possibly because he had turned 70 years old. If so, he would have been born about 1726.(Doc# 93) Also in the 1797 Tax List Edmund Joines now owns 87 acres of land.
Ezekiel Joines was listed in the 1800 Census of Wilkes County along with his wife Sarah.(Doc# 82)
Ezekiel Joines left a Will which was presented to the Wilkes County courts in August of 1803. Ezekiel sold his remaining 100 acres of land to Edmund Joines in early July of 1803, which means that Ezekiel probably died in July or August of 1803.(Doc# 194, 197)
In his Will, Ezekiel named his wife Sarah. He also named Thomas Joines, Sayer Roberts, Piety Parsons, and Edmund Joines alias Edmund Gunter.( Doc# 194)
In Bardsley's, DICTIONARY OF WELSH AND ENGLISH SURNAMES WITH SPECIAL AMERICAN INSTANCES; Published by the Genealogical Publishing Company in 1968, he wrote that the name Joynes originated in Cheshire County, England several centuries ago. (Doc# 211) Cheshire County is located on the border of Wales. The Joynes name is believed to be a Welsh variation of the name Johns.
The first record of the Joines (Joynes) family in America was found in Virginia on 24 July 1638 when Randell Crewe brought John Joines along with twelve others to Upper New Norfolk on the Nansemond River. There has been a Joines (Joynes) family on the Eastern Shore of Virginia since then. Could it be that Ezekiel came from this family? (Doc# 1)
In 1982 the Ancestry Research Associates of Surrey, England conducted a search of Scotland for the name Joines/Joynes.(Doc# 198) Their research located only one Joynes. George Joynes married Agnes Thomsone in Edinburg, Scotland on 24th of August 1656. They concluded that Joynes/Joines was not a Scottish surname and that there is almost no record of the Joynes/Joines name in Scotland.
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