Luke Bynum (abt 1730 to abt 1810)

Born: abt 1730 in Isle of Wight, VA

Parents: William Bynum, Sr., and Mary Fort

Died: abt 1810

Married: abt 1757 in Chatham, NC, to Martha Patterson (abt 1728-abt 1757), d/o John and Sarah Tapley Patterson

Children: (see notes)

Notes:

From A.L. Bynum (via Geo. Bentley): Luke Bynum went from VA to NC about 1750.

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ID: I972

Name: Luke BYNUM

Given Name: Luke

Surname: Bynum

Sex: M

Birth: ABT 1730 in ,,VA

Death: BEF MAY 1810 in ,Chatham,NC

Burial: Williams Pon Area, Bynam, Chatham Williams Pond Area,Bynum,Chatham

Reference Number: 152

LDS Baptism: status: LIVE 1

Change Date: 29 NOV 1999 at 12:15:00

Father: William BYNUM b: ABT 1690 in ,Isle of Wight,VA

Mother: Mary FORT b: ABT 1690/1700 in ,Surry,VA

Marriage 1 Martha PATTERSON b: ABT 1730/1735 in ,Orange,NC

Married: ABT 1757 in ,NC?

Children

Tapley BYNUM b: 20 APR 1761 in ,Orange,NC

Mark BYNUM b: ABT 1764 in ,Chatham,NC

James BYNUM b: ABT 1769 in ,NC

William BYNUM b: ABT 1780 in ,Chatham,NC

Sarah BYNUM

Martha (Patsy) BYNUM

Amelia (Milly) BYNUM

Edith BYNUM

Sources:

Title: Bynum and Baynham Families of America

Author: Robert William Baird

Publication: Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD 1983

Abbrev: Bynum and Baynham Families of America

Call Number: LC 83-82272

Text: Luke Bynum was likely another son of William and Mary Bynum; quite possibly named afrer the succession of Luke Mizells in that line... There seem to be many legends in both Luke Bynum's line and in (brother-KT) William's that each came to central NC with a brother. We think it likey that William and Luke (and therefore James Bynum) were indeed brothers. Luke's name does not appear in any of the Halifax or Edgecombe County records searched, probably because he was a younger son.

He first appears in the 1755 tax list of Orange County, NC with one white poll and 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.

Orange County was partly formed from Johnston County in 1752, and Luke appeared in 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).

Luke appears frequently in the Orange and Chatham court records. He was a Superior 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.

Luke did not serve in the Revolution but is thought to have beed an active Whig and to have been briefly jailed for this inclination though we found no records of it in the records searched.

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.

Luke made his will on 7 Dec 1809 and it was proved at the May 1810 court of Chatham 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).

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BIOGRAPHY: Possibly named after Luke Mizell. First appears in records of Orange County NC in 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, thus 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 old 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 were 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 o

f 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 and 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 in that part of Orange which had been 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 of his 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 Superior 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 Chatham 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

LDS Ancestral File

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Luke Bynum 24 SmartMatches

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.

   

Changed: 9 Mar 2000 03:48:35

   Spouses & Children   

  Martha Patterson (Wife) b. About 1734 in Chatham, NC 

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Marriage: 1757 in Chatham, NC

Children:  

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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   Notes   

  

  Individual:

BIOGRAPHY: Possibly named after Luke Mizell. First appears in records of Orange County NC in 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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LUKE BYNUM* (1730-will 1810) married MARTHA PATTERSON Bertie Co. NC to Chatham Co.NC. Children:

Tapley Bynum married Ann Richman, 7 children Hickman Co. TN.

James Bynum married 1. Sarah Snipes 2. Margaret Stone.

Mark Bynum married 1. Ann Hackney 2. Sallie Ward 3. Sallie Horton 4. Mary Tatum, had 13 children by 4 wives.

William Bynum married Winnifred Horton, moved to TN 1816.

Sarah Bynum married Robert Sellars.

Martha Bynum married William Snipes II, they raised sister Milly's son.

Eady Bynum married a Richeson.

Amelia (Milly) Bynum married John Farrar, child listed above

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(from William & Mary Quarterly:

"Bynum. - Luke Bynum-Binom, settled in Orange County, NC, in 1750.  Died 1810 in Chatham Co. NC. Was his wife a Miss Tapley-Tarpley, (he named his eldest son Tapley Bynum), or was her maiden name Hatley?

William Horton came to Chatham Co. NC from Northampton Co. NC in 1798. Died there 1810, leaving wife Amy.  What was maiden nameof Amy?  Was she a Patterson? or Johnson? - Mrs. C.G. Young, Proctor, Ark". (Oct-1933)

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http://www.ncgenweb.us/orange/oc_vignettes_4.rtf

Luke b ~ 1730, probably in Isle of Wight, VA.  Married abt 1759 Martha "Patsy" Patterson, dau of Orange County Justice, John Patterson. Children Tapley (b 20 Apr 1761), Mark (b 1764), William (b ~ 1780), James (b ~ 1769), Martha "Patty", Amelia "Milly', and Edith "Eady."

Although he is not a documented son of William Bynum Sr of Edgecombe County, there is a preponderance of evidence which shows the was a younger son of William and Mary (Fort) Bynum.  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 own father and grandfather.

Luke was living by the 1740s in the Haw River area, Old Orange, current Chaham, County.

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