Asa Thomas Mills Sale

Caswell County, North Carolina

Deed Book M, Page 279

Asa Thomas of Caswell County to Thomas Jeffreys of same, for $1500, 2 acres on Country Line Creek near Milton with a grist mill and two saw mills. 27 July 1802. Acknowledged in open court.

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I have not found information on the purchaser, Thomas Jeffreys. However, there are two possibilities in my database:

1. Thomas Jeffreys (1769-1832), married Mildred Elizabeth Mitchell

2. Thomas Jeffreys (1796-1846), married Keziah B. Watlington

There also is a Thomas Jeffreys who married Kesiah Donoho, about whom I have little information.

Note the Thomas "Jeffrey" mentioned in the following:

One of the earliest references to the Thomas Mill is in a 1796 act of the North Carolina Legislature authorizing an inspection warehouse and the laying out of a town at the site of the warehouse. It was to be located near the mouth of the Country Line Creek at the Dan River on the property of Asa Thomas. Commissioners Thomas Jeffrey, Archibald Murphy, William Rainey, Archibald Samuel, and James Saunders were empowered to lay off thirty acres at or near the Thomas Mill into half acre lots and to establish a town to be named Milton. See When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell County, North Carolina 1777-1977, William S. Powell (1977) at 100.

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Newspaper Article: "Asa Thomas Mills and Property for Sale." The North-Carolina Journal (Halifax, North Carolina), 15 March 1802