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Jacob White (Daniel’s will witness)

Birth: unknownDeath: unknownWitness, 28 December 1781Original will reads Jacob, not the Joseph of the published abstract. The same name witnesses Elias Stallings’s will in 1778; identity is a network inference, not a proved family relationship.

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Detail of Daniel Forehand’s 28 December 1781 will naming his wife Sarah, his children collectively, and executors Ezekiel Hollowell and Luke Stallings.

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Daniel Forehand: Sarah, the Children, and the Land He Left

Daniel Forehand’s 1781 will placed his unnamed children in Sarah’s care. His land, household inventory and family connections trace a life between Newland and Perquimans—and a probable link to the Stallings family.