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Nickolas Algate

Birth: unknownDeath: unknownEarlier purchase recited in 1718No automatic Algate–Allgoods identification.

Modern roads and waterways around South Mills and Joyce Creek, with soft regional shading, beside Moseley’s 1733 Joys Fork and chapel detail.

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William Joy and the Land at Joys Fork

William Joy lived up in the Fork of the Pasquotank, beside land Cornelius Forehand bought in 1714. Deeds, a will and the surviving name Joyce Creek trace his neighborhood and Margery’s place in its history.