Puckett - Surry County, North Carolina Land Entries

From the book, SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA LAND ENTRIES 1778 —1781 by JOSEPH WINSTON, at FamilySearch books.

#1208.  SAMUEL HUMPHRIS enters 100 acres of land in Surry Co. on the FLATT SHOLE CREEK above the main road including ISHAM PUCKETT's improvement for quantity —December 31, 1778. [Warrant granted]

#1243.  JOSEPH WILLIAMS enters 220 acres of land in Surry Co. on FLATT SHOLE CREEK including THOMAS PUCKETT'S improvement for quantity —January 2, 1779. [Warrant granted]

#2165.  REUBEN MATTHIAS enters 100 acres on the waters of FLAT SHOLE CREEK, including PAGE PUCKET'S improvement —July 13, 1781. [Warrant issued to THOS. WORD November 12, 1802 by J. W., C. C.]

Isham Puckett, Thomas Puckett and Page Puckett all believed to be sons of Isham Puckett Sr and his wife, Martha LNU.

Isham Puckett Jr moved north into Henry Co, VA by 1785 (tax lists), the part of Henry which later became Patrick County in 1791.

Page Puckett moved to Union Co, SC by the 1790 Census.

Thomas Puckett stayed in Surry Co, NC, though he also has records in Grayson Co, VA.  Thomas Puckett and his descendants were Quakers.

The 'FLAT SHOLE CREEK' in these records believed to the modern Flat Shoal Creek in modern Surry Co, NC, flows under I-74 near Long Hill, and flows into Ararat River.  There is another 'Flat Shoals Creek' in modern Stoke Co, NC, near Stokes Early College; this Flat Shoals Creek flows into the Dan River.  Some Puckett researchers have confused these creeks, since Stokes Co, NC is right next to Surry Co, NC, and Stokes was formed from Surry in 1789.

It was common for settlers to 'squat' on land and start improving it - clearing some if it, planting crops, building houses.  The squatter was in good position to get a land entry, which led to a grant from the state of North Carolina.  Sometimes the squatters sold the right to an entry to someone else.  That appears to be the case with the Puckett men.  Though Isham and Page moved on, Thomas stayed and eventually got a NC land grant in Surry Co, NC.

Boaz Puckett - rough notes

Boaz Puckett appears to have been a son of Womack Puckett Sr and Mabel Walthall.  His first name spelled variously in records as Bows, Bose, Booz, etc.

Bows Puckett listed as a tithe (white male over 16) in household of father Womack Puckett Sr in the 1752 partial tax list of Chesterfield Co, VA:  https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/puckett-family/colonial-tax-lists

The death of Womack Puckett Sr set off litigation until Ephraim Puckett, who was evidently the eldest son and had inherited his father's land by primogeniture, gifted that land to Womack Puckett Jr by deed.

• Chesterfield OB 2:317 img 477 - June 1757 Womack Puckett deceased more than 3 months, sheriff to administer
• Chesterfield OB 2:378 img 508 - Jan 1758 - Bows Puckett vs Womack Puckett
• Chesterfield OB 2:385 img 511 - Mar 1758 - Deed Ephraim Puckett to Womack Puckett
• Chesterfield OB 2:387 img 512 - Mar 1758 - Suit brought by Womack Puckett against Ephraim Bose & Mabil Puckett dismissed being agreed

The records don't say what the litigation was about.  Note that these records also show that Mable Walthall Puckett was alive in March 1758.  Notably, Isham Puckett, son of Womack Puckett Sr & Mable Walthall, is not mentioned; he had probably already moved away, and shows up in Lunenburg Co, VA by 1762.

Boaz had to be 16 or older in 1752 to be a tithe, and he had to be 21 or older in 1758 to sue in court.

Boaz next appears buying land in Mecklenburg Co, VA in 1777:

Mecklenburg Co, VA DB 5:112 (007895939:82) - 9 Sep 1777, John Brown Jr of MC to Booz [?] Puckett of MC, S side Avens Creek, Floyd’s line, 25 acres.  Wit:  Henry Pennington, Thomas Fowler, Philip Pennington.  Court 10 Nov 1777 ack by John Brown Jr. [OB 4:377/212]

From Deed Mapper, John Brown had a VA land patent near Pennington land patents, and within a couple miles of Isham Puckett's 1762 grant (VPB 35:55).  

Avens Creek is now called Evans Creek, a tributary of Meherrin River in Mecklenburg Co, VA:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/W6HSc6fjgSpAroV87 

Note it is near Taylors Creek, where Isham Puckett's land patent was, and near Interstate 85, Exit 12 interchange with US Route 58,   On the west side of I-85, and south of the town of South Hill is Flat Creek, where Thomas Taylor had a patent; Thomas Taylor's patent just west of Isham Puckett's patent.

Next records for Boaz Puckett are from Mecklenburg Co, VA order books:

OB 6:57 img 48 - June 1784 - Boaz Puckett exempt from levies, being old and infirm

OB 6:553 img 286 - July 1786 - Bannister Puckett orphan of Boaz Puckett deceased to be bound out.  Boaz Puckett died intestate with small estate which no person will administer, sheriff ordered to dispose of estate.

There are a couple other Mecklenburg records that might be related to Boaz Puckett.  

OB 6:4 img 22 - May 1784 - Grief Puckett apprentice to Stephen Mabry bound out

OB 7:72 img 432 - Aug 1787 - Susannah Puckett vs Senior Douglass

Note that Grief Puckett was bound out before Boaz Puckett died, but sometimes children were taken from homes where parents could not provide.  Grief Puckett may be the son of Boaz.  More on Grief Puckett:  https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/puckett-family/chester-county-south-carolina

Susannah Puckett was possibly the widow of Boaz Puckett.  This was a "quiet period" for Puckett activity in Mecklenburg Co, VA.  Ephraim Puckett and Isham Puckett had left.  Shippy Allen Puckett had moved away as well, but just across the state line in what is now Warren Co, NC, though some of his daughters married in Mecklenburg.  It is possible Susannah Puckett was somehow related to Shippy Allen Puckett.  Later, around 1800, Abraham Puckett would move from Chesterfield Co, VA and buy land in Mecklenburg Co; Bannister Puckett has been mistakenly attributed as Abraham's son.

Note that William Smith Puckett's mother was supposedly Susannah Smith, married to an unknown Puckett.  William Smith Puckett seems somehow related to Grief Puckett, see link above.

If this Susannah Puckett was the widow of Boaz Puckett and the mother of William Smith Puckett, then she had William Smith Puckett out of wedlock, since he was born circa 1795 in SC.

I will do a future post on Bannister Puckett, son of Boaz Puckett.

David Puckett, Frances Butler - rough notes

Working mostly off memory, so probably a few mistakes -  David Puckett married Frances Butler in Prince Edward Co, VA in 1771, she the daughter of Aaron Butler, mentioned in his will.  David Puckett had at least 2 daughters, both married McDearman men in PE Co, VA (see PE marriage records), before David left.

David Puckett had a son and grandsons  named Douglas, but unsure if he was the son or nephew of the original Douglass Puckett.

Tax records show David in PE Co, VA to about 1806, near Aaron Puckett and Edmund Puckett, his sons.  Other Pucketts in PE in late 1700s/early 1800s include Peter Puckett (son of original Douglass, moved to Wilkes Co, GA by late 1780s), James & Joel Puckett (sons of Thomas Hobby Puckett of Lunenburg Co, VA).

David likely moved to Georgia since his sons were there.  There was a PE Co, VA chancery case trying to sue David Puckett (1808-007) and Edmund Puckett, but it appears they had already left Virginia.  David possibly the David Puckett with 1825 land grant in Franklin Co, GA.

Sons of David Puckett & Frances Butler:

Edmund Butler Puckett married Betsey Gray, 1812, Putnam Co, GA.  1830 census Jasper Co, GA.  1841 administrator bond, Stewart Co, GA for estate of Edmund Puckett by Elizabeth Puckett and David G Puckett.

Aaron Butler Puckett married Sarah H LNU, records in Pulaski Co, GA.  Won land in Gwinnett Co, GA in one of the GA land lotteries.  Widow Sarah on 1830 census Gwinnet Co, GA, next to son Edmund D[ouglass?] Puckett, one of several confusing Puckett lines in Gwinnett/Hall Co area.  Edmund D Puckett had married Nancy Pulliam in Franklin Co, GA.  Widow Sarah married next William Richardson 1848 in Gwinnett.  By 1870, listed in Bartow Co, GA as Sarah H R Puckett, age 83, born in VA with son Ed[mund] D Puckett, age 60, GA.  Sarah interred in Puckett Cemetery (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8752677/sarah-richardson), along with grandson Edmund Douglass Puckett Jr and others of this family.

John H Puckett married Tabitha Richards in Greene Co, GA, 1811.  Family bible lists birthdates of 9 kids, who by their names are obviously descendants of David Puckett & Frances Butler.  Bible link at ancestry (2 pages).  Tabitha buried in Rockdale Co, GA (formed from Newton).  John H Puckett on 1860 census of Newton Co, GA, then moved to Camp Co, TX where he died: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43305509/john-h.-pucket 

Douglass Puckett moved to Alabama.  In the Rev War Pension Application for Edmund Butler of Monroe Co, AL for naval service, Douglass Puckett signed a statement in 1829 saying he had known Edmund Butler for 40 years.  Douglass Puckett had BLM land grants in Dallas Co, AL, which he sold, one to a John B Butler.  Apparently then moved to Newton (later Rockdale) Co, GA, near brother John H Puckett.  Douglass Puckett apparently never married or had children.  Buried in same cemetery as sister-in-law Tabitha Richards Puckett, and mistakenly attributed as her husband on find-a-grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31756320/douglas-puckett 

In several GA counties where these Pucketts lived, other Puckett lines wee in the same county, making it hard to separate these lines.  The descendants of David Puckett & Frances Butler are a significant portion of the early Puckett records in Georgia.

Slowly documenting this here:  https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/puckett-family

This is just rough notes, but maybe enough for another researcher to follow.

Book 'Pucketts and Their Kin' - Some Serious Mistakes

The book 'Pucketts and Their Kin' is on Internet Archives here:  https://archive.org/details/somepuckettsthei00garr.

This book was privately compiled and published by Hester Elizabeth Garrett in 1960.  It certainly has some great research, but in double-checking the records cited, there are some serious mistakes which have thrown off Puckett researchers for decades.

I will eventually try to make a full list of the mistakes, but a few in particular are the most egregious.

Page 2 - Marriage of James Westbrook and Elizabeth Westbrook did NOT happen ca 1678-9.  Garret cites the wrong record book, but correct page number.  The record is in record book Henrico Co, VA Wills, Deeds, etc. (which I abbreviate WD) 1697-1704, page 96.  My full abbreviation is Henrico Co, VA WD 1697-1704:96.  This book is sometimes erroneously called WD 1697-1699, but that is just the 1892 copy, which only copied records before 1700 (In the late 1800s, genealogy was becoming popular, and the old record books were falling apart from being handled so much, so Virginia had many of the pre-1700 records hand-copied.  The copies of Henrico records were made in 1892.)

The marriage record of James Westbrook and Elizabeth Westbrook is in Henrico Co, VA WD 1697-1704:96.  FamilySearch has images of the original (digitized film 007645094:51) and the 1892 copy (007676115:171).  The original is too difficult to read, partially due to the original record fading, and partially due to poor microfilm photography.  The 1892 copy is legible.  There is a list of probates and marriage licenses under the heading 'An Acct of Probat admcon Returned to Mr Sectys office Aprill ye 13th 1698' (An Account of Probate Administration Returned to Mr Secretary's office 13 Apr 1698).  One of the lines below that heading is for a marriage license:

Jany 3rd 97 James West Brook with Eliz. Puckett

This license was granted 3 Jan 1798 the way we reckon dates now.  See my article on Old Style Dates for why it was written as 3 Jan 1797.  James Westbrook and Elizabeth Puckett may have married the same day the license was granted, but likely the wedding was a few days later.

Note that Garret also says the marriage of Thomas Jefferson with Mary Field was in 1678-9 on the same page as the James Westbook & Elizabeth Puckett marriage.  However, the marriage license for Thomas Jefferson & Mary Field was granted 20 Nov 1697, which is a well-known fact given these were the grandparents of President Thomas Jefferson.  In the 1892 copy, the marriage license is recorded 3 lines above the Westbrook license with date '9br ye 20th 1697'.  9br was an old abbreviation for November.

Page 23 - Reported record for "Tyree Puckett" was actually for Gyll Furkett (Gill Fuquett).  Garret cites Henrico Co, VA WD  1672-1692:70, which is a bad citation, because the book is actually WD 1677-1692.  Garret must have got her notes confused, because she says the record is something about Tyree Puckett being a neighbor of Abraham Womecke (Womack) and Richard Kennon, dated 9 Mar 1678.  

This was actually a list of people accused of various infractions by sheriff Samuel Knibb; these infractions occurred at various times in 1678 and early 1679.  Many of the people were accused of public drunkenness, including Abraham Womack.  One of the lines in the list says "Aprill ye 21st [1678] Gyll Furkett told me that he was drunke" (007645093:18, 1892 Copy: 007642295:21).  I guess Garret misread this as Tyree Puckett.  

The pre-1700 records of Henrico Co, VA have mostly been fully indexed.  There are a few other references to Gill Fuquett or Gyll Furquett.  This appears to be a French name, and there were many French Huguenot refugees in Henrico Co, VA.  In old handwriting of the time, F at the beginning of a word was often written as a double-f, so it looks like "ffurkett" which looks kind of similar to Puckett.  However, this was not a Puckett reference, and there was no 'Tyree Puckett'.

Page 23 and Page 7 - William Puckett did NOT have a will dated 20 Nov 1682.  This stems from a badly abstracted deed record, Chesterfield Co, VA DB 1:534 (008578886:272, note you need to go to the Tools button and adjust the image contrast and brightness to read it).  In the deed, Lewis Puckett of Amelia Co, VA sells land to William Walthall on 17 Feb 1753.  The deed states “which said tract of 108 acres of land was given to the said Lewis Pucket by the last will and testament of his father William Pucket as more fully appears by one patent bearing date 20 Nov 1682”.  This does NOT say that William Puckett's will was dated 20 Nov 1682.  It says there was a patent dated 20 Nov 1682, meaning the land in the deed was part of that patent.

This was a reference to VPB (Virginia Patent Book) 7:200 (008570201:205), dated 20 Nov 1682 for 757 acres to William and Thomas Puckett.  A close reading shows that 500 acres was from the patent to John Puckett (father of William and Thomas), VPB 5:482 (008570200:780), copy in VPB 5 (Copy):589 (008570199:595); patent in 1665.  The other 257 acres was new land.  

It was quite common to reaffirm old patents when getting new patents as a way to remind the colonial government that one had legal title to the land.  An agreement contract between William Puckett and Thomas Puckett in Henrico Co, VA WD 1688-1697:3, dated 12 Oct 1688, states that Thomas and William inherited the 500 acres by the will of their father, John Puckett.  The will itself is lost, but is mentioned in Henrico Co, VA court records.

Anyhow, Lewis Puckett was the son of William Puckett Jr, son of William Puckett who, along with brother Thomas, had the 1682 patent.  Lewis Puckett was merely stating that the 108 acres he inherited from his father William Puckett (Jr) was part of the 1682 patent granted to Lewis's grandfather, William Puckett Sr, and great-uncle, Thomas Puckett.  William Puckett (Jr) died in Henrico Co, VA in June 1739 (see Chesterfield Co, VA Chancery Case Case 1764-002, William Walthall vs Thomas Pucket).  William Puckett (Jr) made a will which is mentioned in a few records, but the record book with the actual will is lost.  In any case, his will was not dated in 1682.

Puckett genealogy

 After many years of tracing all the Womack lines in America, I am doing research on my Puckett line.  I am revisiting a lot of old research on Puckett lines, and finding many individuals who were missed, and several mistakes in abstracted records.

Like Womack, Puckett is a big family, but not impossibly big, like Smith.  With Womack, I took all the Womacks (of all spelling variations) in the 1850 census, and tried to trace them back to the ancestral home in Virginia.  For the most part, I have traced most Womack lines.  I am not sure I will ever go into such depth with Puckett.  Just enjoying finding records.

I don't trust anything on the internet.  I do my own research, and draw my own conclusions.

I have gathered lots of Puckett info to organize and type out.

See my page on Puckett Y-DNA testing.  Gary Curtis Puckett published DNA results about 15 years ago.  I have studied these results, and combined them with my research to reach a very different conclusion than Gary.

Most of the Pucketts in America come from the Chesterfield County, Virginia Puckett family.  Chesterfield County was formed from Henrico County in 1749, and the Puckett family was in Henrico by 1655 and likely several years earlier.

There are at least three other Puckett lines in America, though I think they all come from the Chesterfield Puckett family:

1) Timothy Puckett who had a South Carolina land grant in 1736.  Probable son Ephraim had a SC grant in 1756.  The three Puckett men on the 1790 census of Orangeburg District, SC are likely grandsons and/or great-grandsons of the Timothy Puckett with the 1736 SC grant.  Part of this Puckett family went to Barren Co, KY (the part which became Hart Co, KY); the rest went to Amite Co, MS.  I believe the Timothy Puckett who got the 1736 SC grant was the same Timothy Puckett who was the son of John Puckett III and Elizabeth Allen.  DNA testing supports this theory.

2) Peter Puckett, who married Amie Keith on 27 Dec 1775 in St Paul's Parish, King George Co, VA.  This is far north of most of the Puckett family activity in Virginia.  Peter appears to be the father of a few Puckett men who later appear in marriage and tax records of Spotsylvania Co, VA.  Two of the Puckett men moved to Kentucky, and some descendants were there in 1850.   The Peter Puckett who married Amie Keith may be the same as the Peter Puckett from a 1762 Chesterfield Co, VA court record, in which a child Peter Puckett was bound out as an apprentice; no information was given regarding his parents.

3) Parham Puckett was born about 1775, the son of an unknown Puckett man and Mary Ezell who later married William Night/Knight.  In court records of Duplin Co, NC, Feb 1787, Parham Puckett was bound to Edward Dickson to learn to read and write.  Mary Ezell who married Mr Puckett was the daughter of Michael and Sarah Ezell, who sold their land in Mecklenburg Co, VA and moved to Duplin Co, NC, where it appears at least one Ezell son was already living.  The Ezell land was very near the Virginia land patent of Isham Puckett in Mecklenburg Co, VA.  Isham Puckett and Michael Ezell lived in western Mecklenburg Co, very near the line with Brunswick Co, VA.  The Parham family was nearby, perhaps the source of Parham Puckett's first name.  Solomon Puckett, likely son of Isham, signed the 10,000 Name Petition (for religious freedom for Baptists) in Virginia in 1776; his name appears in the same column as Benjamin Ezell and Richard Ezell and other men with surnames from western Mecklenburg and eastern Brunswick..  A Solomon Puckett was a Revolutionary War solder in NC, and his Captain had earlier been part of a unit based in Wilmington, NC, very near Duplin Co, NC.

Lots more Puckett info coming soon!

Streetman connection

 Richard Wommack, with descendants in Lincoln Co, MO, was Catherine; her maiden name supposedly Streetman.

In a bio of son Hiram Wommack, she was listed as Catherine Street - History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri , p.501 - Hiram Wommack

In 1904 bios of Wommacks in Yakima Co, Washington state, their father was listed once as William Streetman Wommack - An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties With an Outline of the Early History of the State of Washington, 1904, p.476.  In other bios for others of his children, he was referred to as William L Wommack and William F Wommack.

Boykin, Alford, Rogers, Cade

These are not my lines, just an interesting puzzle I ran across.  Also, I am not the first person to find these records, but I may be the first to link them and interpret them correctly (IMHO).

I believe these records will prove:

Thomas Boykin Jr, who died circa 1749 in Northampton Co, NC married Martha LNU (maiden/last name unknown) and had 3 daughters before he died:

1. Celia Boykin who married Michael Rogers
2. Winifred Boykin who married Drury Cade
3. Lurana Boykin who married James Alford

Northampton Co, NC Deed Book 7:77 - (LDS Film # 007517523, image 233) 27 June 1781, Michael Rogers, James Alford, Drury Cade of Wake Co, NC who married "Celia Boykin, Winefred Boykin and Susannah Boykin co-heirs with Thomas Boykin". 420 acres to Benjamin Branch.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8983-X3Z8?cat=296804

This would have been easier had the deed said:  "Celia Boykin, Lurannah Boykin and Winefred Boykin co-heirs of Thomas Boykin".

There are at least three odd things with this deed:

1. The wives, who are only named once in the deed, aren't in the same order as the husbands are listed.
2. When the clerk copied the original deed into the deed book, he apparently mistook Lurannah, a spelling variation of Lurana, for Susannah.
3. The deed says the women were co-heirs with Thomas Boykin, when I will show below, they were heirs of him.

The deed describes the land as 420 acres on Meherren river, and mentions Rebecca Braswell's corner and Thomas Moye's line.

This same land was sold in 1722 to Thomas Boykin Sr.

Bertie Co, NC Deed Book A:102 (LDS Film # 007510477, image 105)- John Bryan Junr for 11 pounds to Thomas Boyken of Chowan precinct, 23 May 1722, witness Henry[?] Roads, John Gray.  May Court 1723 acknowledged by John Bryan.  John Sutton Clerk.  420 acres in Chowan Precinct on south side of Meherren river.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Z1-GWN?cat=330667

The description of the land is almost verbatim the same as the description from the 1781 deed.  It was common to copy the "metes and bounds" of a property from an earlier document, even if the neighbors from the earlier deed were all gone.  It was cheaper than paying for a new survey.  Other than the usage of "the" rather than "ye", there were just two differences, likely copying errors:  "his line" rather than "her line" (for Rebecca Braswell's line), and "No 58 Wt 68 pole" was "No 38 Wt 68 pole" in the earlier deed.

Notably, this deed was written when this land was part of Chowan Precinct, shortly before Bertie County was formed 2 Oct 1722.  The deed was proved and recorded in Bertie Co, and the land fell into Northampton Co, which was formed 31 Dec 1741 from Bertie.

Thomas Boykin Sr of Northampton Co, NC made his will 13 Apr 1748 (LDS Film # 007640346, image 372), in which he mentions wife Mildred, son Thomas Jr, and the following women, presumably his daughters:  Ann Craford, Martha Thornton, Eliz[abeth] Strickland and Patience Strickland.  The deed gave 1/3 of the estate to wife Mildred, and 2/3 to son Thomas, he to pay one shilling each to the above mentioned women.   Wife Mildred and son Thomas were named as executors.  One of the witness was Joseph Rogers, father of the Michael Rogers, above, who married Celia Boykin.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99GC-F9Q3-8?cat=457752

However, tragedy struck, because the will was presented in Northampton Co, NC Feb 1750 Court by "Martha Boykin relict widow of Thomas Boykin Junr who praying administration with the will annexed which was granted, both ye Executors nominated in ye sd [said] Will being dead..."

Since Thomas Boykin's Jr mother died, he inherited her 1/3 of the estate as eldest son by primogeniture.  So, Thomas Boykin Jr had all 420 acres his father bought in 1722.  Then Thomas Boykin Jr died, and since he had only daughters, they were co-heirs.  Had Thomas Boykin Jr had a son, the son would have inherited all the land.  Thomas Boykin Jr and wife Martha LNU were the parents of the three Boykin women in the 1781 deed.

Who married whom?

Michael Rogers married Celia Boykin - his 1793 will in Wake Co, NC names his wife as "Cele".

Drury Cade married Winifred Boykin.  Drury died intestate in Wilkes Co, GA, but on 2 Dec 1796, his heirs made 'article of agreement' to split his estate.  

Sorry, this record is on Ancestry (paid site) rather than FamilySearcch.

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8635/images/005756824_00179?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=339784

The articles of agreement name the heirs, and state Robert Cade and Drewry B Cade "to give their mother a good and reasonable maintenance during her natural life".

Though not named, their mother was Winifred Boykin Cade.  She signed her will in 1812, Wilkes Co, GA, naming my "two youngest sons namely Robert Cade and Drewry B Cade".

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/340406:8635?gsfn=Win*&gsln=Cade&ml_rpos=2

Since Robert and Drury B Cade must have been adults to enter into the article of agreement in 1796, they were born before the 1781 deed above, and from the 1781 deed, and Winifred Cade's will, she was the Boykin sister who married Drury Cade.

Which leaves us with "Susannah Boykin" - in the original deed given to the county to record, I am certain this was something like Lurannah,  Some people wrote cursive capital L like an S, and lower case r similar to n.  This is similar to the problem of distinguishing the names Samuel and Lemuel in old hand-written records.

James Alford made his will (Hancock Co, GA WB H:57) in 1812 naming wife 'Luraner'.

James Alford's wife was never Winifred Boykin, or Lurana Winifred Boykin.  It was just Lurana Boykin, mistaken for Susannah.

Also, Drury Cade who married Winifred Boykin was NOT Drury Boykin Cade, as seen in many trees.  The use of Boykin as a middle name by Drury's descendant comes from Winifred's maiden name.