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Robert Locklear's Children: John, Margaret, Sarah, Rachel, Mary, and Major Major Locklear's Children: 1 Thomas ("Big Tom") b 1780d 186? married Annis Quick; 2 Robert married Rhoda "Mud" Quick; 3 Rhoda married James Cricket Locklear; 4 William;5 Malcolm

1738, Dec. 10. Robert Lockalear is mentioned as a legatee in Benjamin Rawlings’ will in Edgecombe precinct p. 306. Rawlings allowed him to purchase the plantation he was then living on for 10 pounds. Abstract of N.C. Wills 1690-1760. 1685 8 August: "Robert Locklear came over on the ship called "Blessing" from England to Charleston, SC. He was probably an indentured servant of Stephen Bull at Charleston, SC. Captain John (Jack) Barnwell and Captain Stephen Bull came into this area to fight theTuscarora Indians. Captain Bull was the Commander of a company of Indians. As a reward for his service, Robert Locklier received land in Edgecombe County, NC and Indian slaves from the market at Boston, Charleston, etc. The local Indians would have escapted at that time. Robert had two sons, John and Major Locklier. He lived in Quanky Creek in Edgecombe County, NC. In 1738, Major and Dudley Locklier were in court in Edgecombe County, NC. He was also a landowner in Upper South Carolina which is now a part of Robeson County, NC".

1749:ABSTRACTS OF DEEDS EDGECOMBE PRECENCT, EDGECOMBE CO., N.C. 1732-1758

Robert Locklere of Edge. Co. to John Locklere of Edge. Co. 24 May 1749 for the love and affection I bear unto my dutiful son all my goods and chattles with this proviso: that sd. son shall maintain myself and his mother during our lives. Wit: Nathaniel Cooper, William Cooper. Reg. Edge. Co. May Ct. 1749 B. Wynns C. Ct.

https://tuscaroranationnc.com/tribal-history In 1764, by and through the Tuscarora Chief William Pugh and Chief James Blount, certain paternal ancestors; John Braveboy, David Braveboy, Joshua Braveboy, John Locklear, and Major Locklear with their families secured adjoining lands to their Tuscarora Chiefs Pugh and Blount's land in Back Swamp, Saddle Tree, Drowning Creek and Flowers Swamp in Robeson County, North Carolina.

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Major Locklear's Children: Thomas ("Big Tom") b 1780d 186? married Annis Quick; Robert married Rhoda "Mud" Quick; Rhoda married James Cricket Locklear; William; Malcolm

1753, 27 August: Major Locklear was living on the northeast side of Drowning Creek on White Oak Swamp in what was then Bladen County, NC. (mentioned in Land Entry 470, #793). He was living on 100 acres on the north side of Drowning Creek on White Oak Swamp when this land was surveyed for Dennis McLendle about 1753 (Papers of Colonial Governors 1753-4, #CGP 4, by NCGSJ Vol. VI, No. 2, p. 174).

1755 , Major Lockaleer was a taxpayer and taxed as a "Mulatto" in Cumberland Co., N.C.

1773, October 13: Major Locklear was listed as a harborer of the "free Negors and Mullatus living upon the Kings Land" in what was then Bladen County, NC. (G.A. 1773, Box 7)

Major Locklear's Children: Thomas ("Big Tom") b 1780d 186? married Annis Quick; Robert married Rhoda "Mud" Quick; Rhoda married James Cricket Locklear; William; Malcolm

1753, 27 August: Major Locklear was living on the northeast side of Drowning Creek on White Oak Swamp in what was then Bladen County, NC. (mentioned in Land Entry 470, #793). He was living on 100 acres on the north side of Drowning Creek on White Oak Swamp when this land was surveyed for Dennis McLendle about 1753 (Papers of Colonial Governors 1753-4, #CGP 4, by NCGSJ Vol. VI, No. 2, p. 174).

1755 , Major Lockaleer was a taxpayer and taxed as a "Mulatto" in Cumberland Co., N.C.

1773, October 13: Major Locklear was listed as a harborer of the "free Negors and Mullatus living upon the Kings Land" in what was then Bladen County, NC. (G.A. 1773, Box 7)