FAMILY STORIES
Lemuel Forehand and a Granddaughter’s Inheritance
Lemuel Forehand’s Newland land and two family estates reveal a granddaughter’s conditional inheritance, documented marriages, and the generations still missing from the family tree.
EXPLORE THE COLLECTION
Joseph Wood (Lemuel’s grantee)
Birth: unknownDeath: unknownPreferred deed date 2 June 1807Pasquotank grantee in the faint 57-acre Newland deed. Day and price remain preferred readings; no kinship inferred.
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