Key Facts

Snapshot:	weaver
Parents:	unknown
Born:	unknown
Died:	sometime between late September 1786 and 9 May 1787 probably Rowan County, North Carolina
Buried:	unknown

On 28 January 1772, 1866Thomas Job wrote a brief note consenting to the marriage of his daughter 933Sarah to 932William Douthit.1 The note is filed among records from Rowan County, North Carolina, so I presume it was written there. The note is the earliest record I've found of 1866Thomas.

1772: 1866Thomas wrote this note, apparently in Rowan County, North Carolina. This is the earliest record I've found pertaining to 1866Thomas. Bigger copy.1

1866Thomas must have been a professional weaver, since on 2 August 1775 he was ordered by a Rowan County court to take a 13 year-old orphan under his wing until he turned 21 to train him to become a weaver.2

1775: 1866Thomas is ordered to train an orphan how to weave. Full page.2

A 1778 Rowan County tax digest includes 1866Thomas.3 Most of the other records I've found of him are simple land records, all from Rowan County.4-6 A deed dated 21 September 1785 mentions him passingly as an adjacent landowner.7

1866Thomas wrote his will on 16 May 1786. The first few lines of the county record copy of his will are below (See full record copy if you want.),8 followed by an abstract.

The first few lines of 1866Thomas' will. Full page.8

Abstract:
16 May 1786
Wife Mary to have maintenance on the home plantation for her lifetime.
Son Thomas then to have the home tracts, on condition that he pay £10 to my other children:
John Job and his wife Elizabeth.
David Cooper and his wife Elizabeth.
Samuel Job and his wife Rachel.
932William Douthit and his wife 933Sarah.
John Blake and his wife Mary.

Executor: son Thomas.
Witnesses: Willm (X) Etchason, Willm (X) Linville, Evan Ellis

In an undated land entry that seems to have been made circa late September 1786, 1866Thomas is mentioned as an adjacent landowner,9 so he was probably still alive at the time. His will was probated on 9 May 1787.10

9 May 1787: 1866Thomas' will is probated. Full page.10

Sources Cited:

1: Rowan County, North Carolina. Marriage bonds, volume D. A document dated 28 January 1772 signed by Thomas Job and pertaining to the marriage of William Douthet and Sarah Job. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6QY9-Z26?i=241&cc=1726957&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AXF9F-ZQ1>, accessed 13 March 2021.

2: Rowan County, North Carolina. County court of pleas and quarter sessions minutes book 4, page 83, bottom of the page. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89G4-QS7B-P?i=49&cat=353264>.

3: Adlai Osborne, List of Taxable Property in the County of Rowan, North Carolina, Anno 1778 : Transcribed from Several Lists Returned by the August Term Anno 1778 (Washington D.C., no publication date stated), page 25, section for Capt. Johnston's district, left column, about two-thirds of the way down the page, entry for Thomas Job

4: Rowan County, North Carolina. Land entries volume 1 (1778), entry 1165, dated 30 July 1778. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99DH-G93T-G?i=109&cat=353082>.

5: Rowan County, North Carolina. Land entries volume 2 (1778-1792), entry 2112, dated 3 March 1779. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99DH-G972-D?i=270&cat=353082>.

6: North Carolina state land patent book 51, page 278, file number 1476, patent for Thomas Job dated 4 November 1784. MARS ID 12.14.107.1495. <https://www.nclandgrants.com/grant/?mars=12.14.107.1495&qid=991002&rn=1>, accessed 10 November 2023. Loose documents pertaining to this patent are on North Carolina Archives microfilm S.108.1019 frames 872-875.

7: Rowan County, North Carolina. Land entries volume 2 (1778-1792), entry 2940, dated 21 September 1785. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9DH-G4B7?i=345&cat=353082>.

8: Rowan County, North Carolina. Wills book F, pages 39-40, the will of Thomas Job, dated 16 May 1786. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:37SQ-298B-GT9?i=751&cc=1867501&cat=353379>.

9: Rowan County, North Carolina. Land entries volume 2 (1778-1792), entry 3046. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99DH-G97W-K?i=356&cat=353082>.

10: Rowan County, North Carolina. County court of pleas and quarter sessions minutes book 5, page 59, top of the page. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89G4-QS7N-2?i=368&cat=353264>.