From Mavis Parrott Kelsey:

"Benjamin Parrott, Sr. is recorded in Guilford (later Rockingham) County, North Carolina first on 18 August 1778 when he obtained a land grant for 500 acres on both sides of Wolf Island Creek, the water of Dan River, 'Beginning at the mouth of Gum Branch,' adjoining Jesse Hammons, W. Hills N.W. corner, Farlows and Fenlies. This grant is part of the land in the estate of Abner Parrott, which Benjamin Parrott, Sr. sold to Abner 9 May 1789 in an area which became Rockingham County in 1785. In 1779 Benjamin Parrott, Sr. owned a plantation originally granted to John Graves by patent and recorded in Orange County, North Carolina in 1750 and later conveyed to Benjamin Parrott by deed (date not stated). On August 1779 he obtained a note for a 500 acre land grant on Wolf Island Creek. On 13 November 1779 he purchased a three-and-a-half acre tract from Jacob Stillwell on Wolf Island Creek. He bought twenty acres on Wolf Island Creek from Ambrose Nichols on 29 December 1783.

"Old Guilford County, North Carolina Records, p 8, note that on 20 May 1783 Benjamin Parrott was appointed overseer of the road from the Virginia state line to Owen's Ferry, to Richard Marr's. The Benjamin Parrott plantation was on both sides of Wolf Island Creek in the northwest quadrant of the county near Caswell County, North Carolina and Pittsylvania County, Virginia, near Danville. Benjamin was appointed assessor for Challis District, Guilford County, North Carolina 1781-1782."

Benjamin disappears from the North Carolina record after selling his land to Abner. Thought to have moved to Georgia, with his son, Benjamin Jr.

Both appear in the reconstructed census for 1790 for Washington Co., Georgia.

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• Change Date: 8 Jul 2006

1. Abner Parrott b: ~ 1750 in Virginia
2. Benjamin Parrott b: Abt 1760