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| Birth: | About 1730 in Isle of Wight, VA. |
| Death: | 1810 in Chatham, NC |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | William, Sr. Bynum b. 1690 in Surry Co., VA |
| Mother: | Mary Fort b. About 1690 in Surry Co. VA. |
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| Martha Patterson (Wife) b. About 1734 in Chatham, NC
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| Marriage: | 1757 in Chatham, NC |
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 Tapley Bynum b. 20 Apr 1761 in Chatham, NC
- Mark Bynum b. 1764 in Chatham, NC
- William Bynum b. About 1766 in Chatham, NC
 Polly Bynum b. About 1768 in Orange Co., North Carolina
- Milly Bynum b. About 1770 in Orange Co., North Carolina
- James Bynum b. About 1770 in Chatham, NC
- Edith Bynum b. About 1774 in Chatham, NC
- Sarah Bynum b. About 1776 in Chatham, NC
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Individual:
BIOGRAPHY: Possibly named after Luke Mizell. First appears in records of Orange County NC i
n 1755. Remained in the part of Orange that became Chatham until his death there in 1810. (Luke Bynum wrote his will on 7 December, 1809. It was entered for probate at May Court, 1810, Chatham County.) Eight children all named in his will.
BIOGRAPHY: Occupation: Planter Religion: Methodist.
Luke Bynum appears to have been living on the Haw River by 1750, in current Chatham County, t hus two years before there was an Orange County. Though he is not a proven son of William Bynum Sr. of Edgecombe County, there is a preponderance of evidence which shows that he was a younger son of William and Mary (Fort) Bynum. There were no land transactions for Luke in Edgecombe County but his presumed brother, William Bynum Jr., is proven by deed to have been a son of William Bynum, Sr. William Jr. lived near Luke in current Chatham County, and Luke named sons William and James, no doubt for his father and grandfather. His own name, Luke, appears to have originated in his Luke Mizzell line. We find Luke's Granville Grant of 700 acres on New Hope Creek in old Orange County, dated 23 June, 1761. From a paper entitled "History of the Bynum and Ward Family as Related to me by my Uncle Mark Bynum (III), July 14, 1893"....written by Alvis J. Bynum:
Luke "...settled on the Haw River which is now known as the William Snipes Place. Near the ol d graveyard he built a residence. He was of English and Irish descent; in religion he was a Methodist. He had a barn that was used by the Methodists to hold quarterly meetings in. Indians were inhabitants then of the section. They were peacable and lived by hunting turkey and deer. He (Luke) had two brothers who immigrated with him. One went to Stokes County and one to Edgecombe. (The Edgecombe reference no doubt relates to Luke's place of origin in North Carolina). Luke Bynum was a strong Whig; his company (?militia) was mustered at Fearrington's (Chatham County P. O.), now Joe Baldwin's grounds, which was a strong Tory section, so much so he had his place of muster changed to New Hope (Luke's father in law, John Patterson, lived in this New Hope Creek area), a Whig section He was arrested and carried to Hillsboro and held for a time by Cornwallis, as was also his neighbor. He was guarded by a Tory neighbor named Tatum, whom he gave a good thrashing after peace was declared, for his treatment of him".
BIOGRAPHY: "Luke's oldest son, Tapley, served in the War of Independence. Luke's other sons w ere James, *Mark, and William. Once he (Luke) went to New Bern to get salt, the Tories found it out and threatened to take it from him; he had some horses taken from him by the Tories. He exclaimed on hearing that they expected to get his salt his favorite cuss word " Seize my foal, if you come, I will kill some of you!" My grandfather's name was Mark. He said he had known his father to feed as many as two companies of Whigs at one time and remembered seeing them at his father's (Luke Bynum) He had to keep his horses hid out from the Tories. Tapley would sometime get home (from Revolutionary service) and would bring in the horses to help gather the crops. One time a party found Tapley in the field with a Negro man, they resisted the Tories and they treated Tapley pretty roughly, thrusting a bayonet at him on account of the resistence he offered. One night the Tories found the horses in a pasture and were calling them. Tapley heard them and hollered out "I'll be damned if that ain't Sam Dark!" and Dark cried out "You're a damn lier!" The Bynum's had to bar up the shutters of the house that night for protection".
BIOGRAPHY: He first appears in the 1755 tax list of Orange County, NC with one white poll an d two slaves. This indicates a birthate prior to 1735 and raises the interesting question of whether he acquired the two slaves from the estate of his father, whose inventory listed six slaves.
BIOGRAPHY: Orange County was partly formed from Johnston County in 1752, and Luke appeared i n that part of Orange which had beed in Johnston. He may therefore have been in that vicinity several years before 1755. Unfortunately nearly all early deeds of both counties were destroyed in courthouse fires, and that will probably prevent us from ever establishing the circumstances ofhis early years in the area; It may be that he lived with his older brother William; Certainly, what records do exist seem to point to a relationship of some sort; if only geographical. There are a few deed references in the court and other records which indicate that Luke purchased land from Benjamin Clements before 1756 and that he sold land to Clements sometime before 1762. We note that Clements was a neighbor of William Bynum's and that William sold his land to Clements in 1761. It may be that they were neighbors and that both sold out at the same time to move southward in the county.----On 30 June 1762 Luke recorded a patinet of 700 acres between the Haw and New Hope Rivers in the part of Orange County which later became Chatham County. The land appears to have adjoined the land William Bynum purchased from Hatley and Falconer in 1763. Both Luke and William thus appear to have lived as neighbors from about 1763 through about 1775 when William sold out and left the county. They were again nearby one another when William returned in 1783. Curiously, they never appeared together in any extant record--though they appear on dozens of occasions with common third parties. Luke sold his 700 acre grant in three pieces over the next twelve years. He sold 300 acres to John Hatley Sr. on 5 May 1765, 175 acres to William Blythe sometime before 1768, and the final 175 acres to Daniel and Mary Murphee on 15 May 1775 (who then sold it to Hatley and moved temporarily to Wilkes County, GA).
BIOGRAPHY: Luke appears frequently in the Orange and Chatham court records. He was a Superio r Court juror in Both 1757 and in 1760 for Orange. He was again a juror in 1765. In August 1765 he was a member of a road jury ordered to lay out a roed from Redfield's ford on the Haw River to New Hope Chapel (later renamed Chaped Hill). Luke served on another road jury in May 1777 and as a grand juror in February 1775, August 1777, May 1779 and early in 1778. On 12 May 1778 he recorded his stock mark; "a swallow fork in the right ear and a crop in the left and his brand LB". On 6 June 1779 he purchased from William Hatley 84 acres on the Haw River. He apparetly already owned a small parcel on the Haw, but the deed is not extant. He purchased an adjoining 177 acres at public auction on 8 August 1785;... His final land purchase was some years later, 84 arcres from Mary Dennis in 1793. He appears in the 1790 census of Chatham County, which had been formed from Orange several years before, with two other males over 16, one male under 16, four females and 15 slaves. His son Tapley appeared separately, thus this census accounts for all Luke's children named in hes will and estate papers. It does suggest the existence of one additional daughter, however. Luke also appears in the 1800 census of Chatham with one male 16-26 and one female 10-16. His sons Tapley, Mark and James appeared as heads of their own households.
BIOGRAPHY: Luke made his will on 7 Dec 1809 and it was proved at the May 1810 court of Chatha m County. It named most of his children, and selected Mark and William as executors. The will and subsequent records identify a total of eight children. Perhaps coincidently, he named two sons after his wife's two brothers (Mark and Tapley) and two after his own presumed brothers (James and William).
Will/other: WFT Vol.1 #833
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