Our Heritage Robeson County North Carolina, 1748 - 2002
Author: Robeson County Heritage Book Committee
Publication: County Heritage, Inc.; P.O. Box 34; Waynesville, N.C. 28786. (2003)
Page: 228
Text: Charles and Elizabeth Bullock

Charles Bullock was the progenitor of most Bullocks born before the Civil War in Robeson County, NC, and Marion and Horry Counties, SC. He and his twin brother Richard were born on Christmas Day of 1740 to Jeremiah Bullock (ca 1707-ca 1758) and his wife Amy (Felts?) (ca 1710-1765) in old Surry County, VA. Charles was christened 29 March 1741, in Saint Andrew?s Chapel of the Albemarle Parish Anglican Church. His godparents were Henry Ezell, John Bullock and Martha Bullock.

Charles was known to have had three brothers and three sisters who reached adulthood: John, Lemuel, Richard, Mary Parrot, Agnes Felts, and Kezia Ezell. Charles and Richard seem to have been the youngest of these children. Charles? paternal grandparents were Richard (II) Bullock (ca 1686-1752/1757) and his wife, Elizabeth Shockey (ca 1687- after May 1764), both born in Surry County. Charles? paternal great-grandparents were Richard (I) (born ca 1648 or earlier-1703) and Mary (Hawkins?). Richard (I) was in Surry County, VA, by 2 Jan 1669, most likely having emigrated earlier from England to Virginia.

Our forefathers must have believed strongly in education as Richard Bullock (I), his male descendants in Surry County, VA, and our Charles? sons and most grandsons were literate, signed papers, and often had books and bibles in their estate possessions.

On 23 Feb 1762, Charles sold his 195-acre inheritance of his parent?s estate in Sussex County, VA, to James Glover for forty pounds. No wife was cited in this land transaction. On 17 Sept 1762, Charles Bullock obtained a warrant for 700 acres to be surveyed for him in Johnston County, NC, on both sides of Bushy Branch (on the north side of Swift Creek) joining Sill (Sylvanus) Johnson and James Jones. A Granville land grant deed for 480 acres against that warrant was issued 1 Jan 1763, to Charles Bullock. On 17 Oct 1764, Charles and his wife Elizabeth, sold 240 acres of that grant to Caleb Perry. Charles, ??Planter?.?, and his wife, Elizabeth, sold the remaining 240 acres to Samuel Holloway on 1 Apr 1769. Between then and 1770, Charles and Elizabeth removed to Bladen County, NC, as he first appears on Bladen?s tax rolls in 1770. He is on Bladen?s tax rolls until Robeson County was formed in 1787. Charles Bullock was a Captain in the Bladen County militia during the Revolutionary War. From 1774 until 1797, he patented about 2250 acres along Ashpole Swamp, Horn Camp Branch and Polly Bridge Branch in that section of Bladen County that became Robeson County in 1787. Judge Z.T. Fulmore reported that Charles Bullock was one of the first settlers in the region and that these early settlers were native born Americans of English, Welsh, and Scotch Irish descent.

Charles purchased 560 acres and sold 1450 acres of land around Horn Camp Branch and Ashpole and Horse Swamps between about 1795 and 1818. In his will of 1823, Charles bequeathed 1700 acres of land to five of his six sons and willed, by name, seven male and twelve female Negroes to his wife and thirteen children. He also left a lifetime right of his ?? still and distilling apparatus?.? (whiskey?) to his wife Elizabeth. Perhaps this was the same still that his son Henry, Sr., and grandson Henry, Jr., later used to make their renowned fine whiskies?
Date: 28 Apr 2006

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