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 1710 - 1775 (~ 65 years)
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| Name |
Gamaliel Earle |
| Birth |
~ 1710 |
(Granville County, North Carolina Colony)  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Emigration |
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| Occupation |
Tobacco Planter [2] |
 Possessions |
15 May 1761 [2] |
| Ready Branch of Smith Creek, Granville County, North Carolina Colony |
| Death |
0___ 1775 |
Bute County, North Carolina [1] |
| Person ID |
I34043 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
28 Sep 2017 |
| Family |
Martha Martin, b. 0___ 1720 d. 0___ 1760, Granville County, North Carolina (Age ~ 40 years) |
| Marriage |
0___ 1739 |
Brunswick County, Virginia [1, 2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Captain William Earles, b. Abt 1740, Virginia d. 0___ 1803, Rutherford County, North Carolina (Age ~ 63 years) |
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| Family ID |
F12487 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Notes for GAMALIEL EARLE:
From Jim Earles, per Joe W. Stout:
Gamaliel immigrated to Brunswick County in the Virginia Colony from England. In the early 1740's the family moved across the Roanoke River to Granville County, NC but lived very near the border and over the years family members also owned land &, at various times, lived on the Virginia side.
The surname was clearly Earle upon arrival from England but is most often recorded as Earles or Earls and sometimes as Earl, Erle, Erls, Url, Urls, Yearl, & Yearls. For example, Warren County records for the 1782 marriage of Obediah & Joyce Cunningham show the name as Urls.
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Gamaliel Earle was likely born in England, migrating to the Virginia Colony about 1735, either shortly before or just after he married Martha. This supposition is based on his living near a John Earle who also arrived about 1735 and settled in Brunswick County, VA, on the north side of the Roanoke River.
John Earle emigrated from England, settled in Virginia, made a crop of tobacco, then sent back to England for his fiancee, Mary Elizabeth Watts (a niece of Sir Isaac Watts), and boarded the ship to marry her before she disembarked. Records show John Earle was a tobacco planter on Allen's Creek where it joins the Roanoke River in what is now Mecklenburge County, VA, just across the river from where Gamaliel and Martha were living at that time. Following deaths of John & Mary, their son, John Earl, moved his wife Agness and three children across the Roanoke to Granville County in 1765 and located less than 15 miles southwest of where Gamaliel was living.
The spelling of the name was Earle when they first arrived from England, but numerous clerks came up with spellings ranging from Earle to Eril, Erle, Earls, Erls, Urls, Yearls, and Early. Various branches of the family wound up with different spellings.
There are traditions in a number of families who descend from Gamaliel stating there is a relationship with the John Earle family of Somerset, England, that immigrated to what is now Westmoreland County, VA, in the early 1640's. One researcher has traced that family back to Lord of Erleigh in Berkshire in the year 1000. The Westmoreland Co. John Earle family is well documented and Gamaliel does not appear to be a direct descendant. However, there likely is a relationship, although it may be a few generations back. By the 16th Century there were a large number of Earle families in the Southern England Counties of Surry, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Somerset.
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Gamaliel & Martha lived in Granville County, NC, near the Virginia border. They lived in the Fishing Creek District in 1749, and William Eaton's 1759 Will mentions Gamaliel Earles living on his land. Gamaliel and his sons were tobacco planters; and on 15 May 1761 he purchased 493 acres located on both sides of Ready Branch of Smith Creek in Granville County. He sold the same parcel on 23 February 1762. Gamaliel and his son, William, are listed in the1762 Smith Creek District tax record list and Gamaliel is identified as insolvent (most likely because he had sold the land being taxed). Gamaliel paid Granville County taxes in 1769 & 1771, and on 07 Jan 1772 paid for 40 ac in Bute County on the West side of Henderson's Swamp Creek. On 19 Aug 1772, that deed was assigned to Williams Earles. Gamaliel purchased wedges at an estate auction 11 Jan 1773, but he is not on later tax lists and probably died before 1775. Martha is not listed on the 1762 land sale deed, but that apparently was
not a requirement in North Carolina. However, she may have died before 1770.
As noted above, William Earles was living with Gamaliel Earle in 1762 & in 1772 Gamaliel assigned the Bute County land to him. William later assigned that land to Obediah Earls, who sold the 40 acres on 22 Dec 1792. William Earl paid Bute County Taxes in 1766, bought 100 acres in 1772 and sold that land in 1777. He paid Warren County taxes in 1779 & 1781. In 1781, he is listed as owing 136 shillings with 100 shillings to be allowed for insolvent mistakes, (which means he probably moved before the 1791 tax date). William Earles paid taxes in Montgomery County, NC, in 1782 and was on the 1790 census list for that county. In 1800 he was on the Rutherford County census list and in 1803 his Will was probated in Rutherford County.
Granville, Bute, & Warren counties NC, and Mecklenburg Co., VA, real estate, tax, census, and marriage records also list Thomas, Elisha, James, [1]
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