Individual Details
Henry Eustace McCulloh
(Abt 1738 - 1812)
In 1761 Henry Eustace McCulloh, Jr. emigrates to North Carolina as agent for his father to oversee land investments. He has completed law school.
In 1767 he becomes the sole heir as his remaining sister, Penelope, dies. He returns to England to be with his parents.
Henry Eustace, James's Uncle, had a wife in England named "Udell" as well as a mistress in America by whom he had an illegitimate son named George, but I don't recall her name at the moment. (Fletcher Freeman)
Henry came to America as an infant. He returned to England in 1773. In 1778, he made a trip to New York and returned the same year to England. In 1761 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Henry's son, arrived from England, to be his father's agent. Land was surveyed for he on in 1765 at North Carolina (Henry Eustace "had the arduous task of surveying the lands to be retained when the unsettled parts were surrendered, laying them off in small tracts, and selling them. As subordinate agents he employed such prominent provincial's as Edmund Fanning, John Frohock, and Thomas Polk. Young McCulloh exhibited considerable astuteness and courage in dealing with the violent opposition he and his surveyors encountered in the southern interior part of the province, where conditions had long been disturbed because of the unlocated boundary with South Carolina"). (Charles G. Jr. Sellers, William and Mary Quarterly, "Private Profits and British Colonial Policy: The Speculations of Henry McCulloh"serial unknown, 8page 546; Sellers, "Private Profits", page 546.)
Example of Land exchange -
Rowan Co. North Carolina Deeds, page 313
Henry McCulloh to Moses Cox 13 May in the year of the reign of King George III. Registered 20 May 1763.
Above deed shows that the tract contained approximatly 296 acres of land, and 22 English pounds was the price paid.
Signed
Henry W. McCulloh
by Henry Eustace McCulloh
Witnesses:
Israel Cox
John Frohock
Registered in October Court 1763. John Frohock CC
excerpts from Duplin Deeds, Book 1A --
(p 7)
p. 72 THEOPHILUS WILLIAMS, High Shff of Duplin Co. to Kilby Faison of same, 1 Nov 1784, for 90 pds. specie 400A being the prop of HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH, heir at law to the estate of HENRY McCULLOCH (now confiscated), which sd. 400A is on the ES of the Six Runs & the upper side of Gaylor's Branch, beg. at a water oak & white oak on the bank of the Six Runs & the James Faison's lower corner, Joseph Herring's line & joining Daniel Nance's & Curtis Ivey's land. The Court awarded 481 pds. 5 shill, plus cost of 2 ds. 6 shill to William McCanne for debt & damages in a suit against HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH, owner of the sd. land which was purchased by sd. Kilby Faison at a public auction 1 Nov 1782. Wit: Michael J. Kenan, James Thompson. Oct . Ct. 1784.
(p. 47)
p. 513 James Pearsall, Shff. of Duplin Co. to Jesse Darden of Sampson Co., 15 Aug 1785, for 26 pds. 3 shill. 287A on BS of Buck Hall Swamp, .... . The court of Duplin Co. awarded to James Lockhart (sum left out) for debt & damages in a suit against HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH, the late owner of the sd. 287A. Jesse Darden became the last & highest bidder at a public auction held 15 Aug 1785. Wit: C. Ivy, Peter Winnants. Jan. Ct. 1788
p. 515 George Frazar of Duplin Co. to John Beck, Junr. of Wayne Co., 15 Apr 1788, for 2,000 pds. current money of N.C. 1, 767A in 6 tracts: (1).... (2) 400A on the SS of Goshen Swamp & on the WS of Panther Swamp, .... , it being a tract formerly belonging to HENRY E. McCULLOCH & sold by the shff. in action of a writ of fieri facias against the estate of the sd. McCulloch & purchased by the sd. Frazar & conveyed to hilm by a shff. deed 13 July 1782: (3)..... Apr. Ct. 1788
(p. 48-49)
p. 523 James Kenan to James Torrans, both of Duplin Co., 26 Feb 1788, for 200 pds. current money of N.C. 320A in 2 tracts: (1) 80A on the NS of Turkey Swamp, ..... , being part of a 71,160 tract granted to HENRY McCULLOCH by patent dated 1745, & sd. HENRY McCULLOCH with HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH deeded the sd. land to Michael J. Kenan in 1768, & the sd Michael Johston Kenan deeded to James Kenan in 1779; (2) 240A on the NS of Turkey Swamp,..... Apr. Ct 1788
From: Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution Robert DeMond. 1940, Duke University Press, Durham, NC
Henry Eustace McCullough/McCulloh was the NC colonial agent for Britain in 1765 and 1768.
Around 1730 he sought a grant of land near the head of the Northeast Cape Fear River with plans to settle people from Ireland. By 1736 he applied for a tract of land west of the Roanoke River, for Swiss colonist. McCullough, as many land holders like him, was always considered an outsider. In 1765 he had a part in the War on Sugar Creek involving land in Mecklenburg County which finally led to riots in Enfield, NC. The Regulator Movement grew out of this sense of injustice in Orange County.
Henry Eustace's wrote to his friend, Edmund Fanning, from Edenton on 15 June 1766, about his sister: "I am convinced you will bear a share in my concern when I inform you that I have for some weeks past mourned the severest affliction, the heaviest calamity, I can ever feel on this side of ( ) -- the loss of my dearest sister -- the deserving friend of my heart who died of the small pox the 5th of last January in the bloom of life and hope. The dear Penelope was in her person lovely, her understanding was manly, and her soul filled with all the softness of her sex... This event hastens my intentions as to going home, as it is my parents desire I should rejoin them as soon as possible, which I shall do with a view of not parting from there more whilst they are (can't read this).
Henry Eustace writes from London on 12 Sept 1767: "I arrived here the ( ), and had the happiness to find my father well. My dear mother's death you can be no stranger to. It is my pleasure to contribute to the old man's happiness. We live together in a genteel easy way. In a few days we go down to Bath."
This confirms the burial at St Nicholas, Chiswick, of Penelope McCulloh on 8 Jan 1766 was in fact the sister of Henry Eustace McCulloh. There is also the 1766 statement by Henry Eustace that he was acting on behalf of his deceased brother James and sister Penelope.
Also the letter from Old Henry to Iredell in Mar 1767 that his was recovering slowly from an illness. His wife was buried at St Nicholas, Chiswick, on 25 Apr 1767, the day after Henry Eustace signed the last deed of surrender.
In 1768 he reported from the Assembly in New Bern (John Harvey, speaker) to King George -- "No taxation without representation." See pages 150 and 168 in Powell's "NC Though Four Centuries." McCulloh reportedly had lots of land in Mecklenburg and probably in Bertie as well.
In Bertie County alone, two tracts of land (506 acres each) were seized and purchased by John Johnston. He later filed a claim with the British government asking for 54,265 in loss but only was awarded 11, 747.16
In 1779, he was in England and wrote to his friends---one of them was William Brimmage--to help him recover his lands. He told Mr. Brimmage that his lands at that point which had been confiscated were already worth 40,000 pounds. He also wrote to a relative, James Iredell, to petition the Assembly in his behalf. None of this helped.
Henry E. McCulloch Letters. Historical Society, Raleigh, NC
McCulloch, Henry E.
Claim:54,265
Awarded: 11,747.16
Henry Eustace McCulloh had a mistress named "Molly" by whom he had a son George who was born around 1767 in North Carolina. Henry Eustace had been living in Edentown and wrote a letter in 1767 to Edmund Fanning saying he was returning to England due to the death of his sister. However some commentators say his "departure was hastened by the pregnancy of his mistress, Molly." Presumably George was born in or around Edentown.
James Iredell, later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, raised George McCulloh who himself became an attorney and represented Henry Eustace in trying to regain the lands lost during the Revolution. The Papers of James Iredell have several letters he sent to Henry Eustace discussing George. One letter written to James Iredell from Henry E. McCulloh from London on May 10, 1769, says..... " If Molly should get a husband, inform me what is to be done with the youngster. If she continues to take good care of him, I will continue my allowance. Write me a little of family matters now and then. "
In 1767 he becomes the sole heir as his remaining sister, Penelope, dies. He returns to England to be with his parents.
Henry Eustace, James's Uncle, had a wife in England named "Udell" as well as a mistress in America by whom he had an illegitimate son named George, but I don't recall her name at the moment. (Fletcher Freeman)
Henry came to America as an infant. He returned to England in 1773. In 1778, he made a trip to New York and returned the same year to England. In 1761 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Henry's son, arrived from England, to be his father's agent. Land was surveyed for he on in 1765 at North Carolina (Henry Eustace "had the arduous task of surveying the lands to be retained when the unsettled parts were surrendered, laying them off in small tracts, and selling them. As subordinate agents he employed such prominent provincial's as Edmund Fanning, John Frohock, and Thomas Polk. Young McCulloh exhibited considerable astuteness and courage in dealing with the violent opposition he and his surveyors encountered in the southern interior part of the province, where conditions had long been disturbed because of the unlocated boundary with South Carolina"). (Charles G. Jr. Sellers, William and Mary Quarterly, "Private Profits and British Colonial Policy: The Speculations of Henry McCulloh"serial unknown, 8page 546; Sellers, "Private Profits", page 546.)
Example of Land exchange -
Rowan Co. North Carolina Deeds, page 313
Henry McCulloh to Moses Cox 13 May in the year of the reign of King George III. Registered 20 May 1763.
Above deed shows that the tract contained approximatly 296 acres of land, and 22 English pounds was the price paid.
Signed
Henry W. McCulloh
by Henry Eustace McCulloh
Witnesses:
Israel Cox
John Frohock
Registered in October Court 1763. John Frohock CC
excerpts from Duplin Deeds, Book 1A --
(p 7)
p. 72 THEOPHILUS WILLIAMS, High Shff of Duplin Co. to Kilby Faison of same, 1 Nov 1784, for 90 pds. specie 400A being the prop of HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH, heir at law to the estate of HENRY McCULLOCH (now confiscated), which sd. 400A is on the ES of the Six Runs & the upper side of Gaylor's Branch, beg. at a water oak & white oak on the bank of the Six Runs & the James Faison's lower corner, Joseph Herring's line & joining Daniel Nance's & Curtis Ivey's land. The Court awarded 481 pds. 5 shill, plus cost of 2 ds. 6 shill to William McCanne for debt & damages in a suit against HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH, owner of the sd. land which was purchased by sd. Kilby Faison at a public auction 1 Nov 1782. Wit: Michael J. Kenan, James Thompson. Oct . Ct. 1784.
(p. 47)
p. 513 James Pearsall, Shff. of Duplin Co. to Jesse Darden of Sampson Co., 15 Aug 1785, for 26 pds. 3 shill. 287A on BS of Buck Hall Swamp, .... . The court of Duplin Co. awarded to James Lockhart (sum left out) for debt & damages in a suit against HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH, the late owner of the sd. 287A. Jesse Darden became the last & highest bidder at a public auction held 15 Aug 1785. Wit: C. Ivy, Peter Winnants. Jan. Ct. 1788
p. 515 George Frazar of Duplin Co. to John Beck, Junr. of Wayne Co., 15 Apr 1788, for 2,000 pds. current money of N.C. 1, 767A in 6 tracts: (1).... (2) 400A on the SS of Goshen Swamp & on the WS of Panther Swamp, .... , it being a tract formerly belonging to HENRY E. McCULLOCH & sold by the shff. in action of a writ of fieri facias against the estate of the sd. McCulloch & purchased by the sd. Frazar & conveyed to hilm by a shff. deed 13 July 1782: (3)..... Apr. Ct. 1788
(p. 48-49)
p. 523 James Kenan to James Torrans, both of Duplin Co., 26 Feb 1788, for 200 pds. current money of N.C. 320A in 2 tracts: (1) 80A on the NS of Turkey Swamp, ..... , being part of a 71,160 tract granted to HENRY McCULLOCH by patent dated 1745, & sd. HENRY McCULLOCH with HENRY EUSTACE McCULLOCH deeded the sd. land to Michael J. Kenan in 1768, & the sd Michael Johston Kenan deeded to James Kenan in 1779; (2) 240A on the NS of Turkey Swamp,..... Apr. Ct 1788
From: Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution Robert DeMond. 1940, Duke University Press, Durham, NC
Henry Eustace McCullough/McCulloh was the NC colonial agent for Britain in 1765 and 1768.
Around 1730 he sought a grant of land near the head of the Northeast Cape Fear River with plans to settle people from Ireland. By 1736 he applied for a tract of land west of the Roanoke River, for Swiss colonist. McCullough, as many land holders like him, was always considered an outsider. In 1765 he had a part in the War on Sugar Creek involving land in Mecklenburg County which finally led to riots in Enfield, NC. The Regulator Movement grew out of this sense of injustice in Orange County.
Henry Eustace's wrote to his friend, Edmund Fanning, from Edenton on 15 June 1766, about his sister: "I am convinced you will bear a share in my concern when I inform you that I have for some weeks past mourned the severest affliction, the heaviest calamity, I can ever feel on this side of ( ) -- the loss of my dearest sister -- the deserving friend of my heart who died of the small pox the 5th of last January in the bloom of life and hope. The dear Penelope was in her person lovely, her understanding was manly, and her soul filled with all the softness of her sex... This event hastens my intentions as to going home, as it is my parents desire I should rejoin them as soon as possible, which I shall do with a view of not parting from there more whilst they are (can't read this).
Henry Eustace writes from London on 12 Sept 1767: "I arrived here the ( ), and had the happiness to find my father well. My dear mother's death you can be no stranger to. It is my pleasure to contribute to the old man's happiness. We live together in a genteel easy way. In a few days we go down to Bath."
This confirms the burial at St Nicholas, Chiswick, of Penelope McCulloh on 8 Jan 1766 was in fact the sister of Henry Eustace McCulloh. There is also the 1766 statement by Henry Eustace that he was acting on behalf of his deceased brother James and sister Penelope.
Also the letter from Old Henry to Iredell in Mar 1767 that his was recovering slowly from an illness. His wife was buried at St Nicholas, Chiswick, on 25 Apr 1767, the day after Henry Eustace signed the last deed of surrender.
In 1768 he reported from the Assembly in New Bern (John Harvey, speaker) to King George -- "No taxation without representation." See pages 150 and 168 in Powell's "NC Though Four Centuries." McCulloh reportedly had lots of land in Mecklenburg and probably in Bertie as well.
In Bertie County alone, two tracts of land (506 acres each) were seized and purchased by John Johnston. He later filed a claim with the British government asking for 54,265 in loss but only was awarded 11, 747.16
In 1779, he was in England and wrote to his friends---one of them was William Brimmage--to help him recover his lands. He told Mr. Brimmage that his lands at that point which had been confiscated were already worth 40,000 pounds. He also wrote to a relative, James Iredell, to petition the Assembly in his behalf. None of this helped.
Henry E. McCulloch Letters. Historical Society, Raleigh, NC
McCulloch, Henry E.
Claim:54,265
Awarded: 11,747.16
Henry Eustace McCulloh had a mistress named "Molly" by whom he had a son George who was born around 1767 in North Carolina. Henry Eustace had been living in Edentown and wrote a letter in 1767 to Edmund Fanning saying he was returning to England due to the death of his sister. However some commentators say his "departure was hastened by the pregnancy of his mistress, Molly." Presumably George was born in or around Edentown.
James Iredell, later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, raised George McCulloh who himself became an attorney and represented Henry Eustace in trying to regain the lands lost during the Revolution. The Papers of James Iredell have several letters he sent to Henry Eustace discussing George. One letter written to James Iredell from Henry E. McCulloh from London on May 10, 1769, says..... " If Molly should get a husband, inform me what is to be done with the youngster. If she continues to take good care of him, I will continue my allowance. Write me a little of family matters now and then. "
Events
| Birth | Abt 1738 | England, United Kingdom |  | ||
| Marriage | 18 Mar 1790 | London, England, United Kingdom - Udell West | | ||
| Will | 1 Nov 1803 | England, Middlesex County, Chiswick Parish |  | | |
| Death | 1812 | England, United Kingdom | |
Families
| Spouse | Udell West ( - ) |
| Spouse | Molly UNK. "Mistress" ( - ) |
| Child | George McCulloh (1767 - ) |
| Father | Henry McCulloh Esqr. (1700 - 1779) |
| Mother | Penelope Eustace (1699 - 1767) |
| Sibling | Penelope McCulloh (1742 - 1766) |
Notes
Will
Will written November 1 1803Henry Eustace McCulloh wills that his body be buried in the family grave in the churchyard of the parish of Chiswick in Middlesex with a stone tomb enclosing the grave.
He gives all his personal estate and property to his wife Udell McCulloh and makes her his sole Executrix and Residuary Legatee.
Witness: Wm Thompson, Holborn, Frances Gore Berry
Codicil written March 29 1805
Writes that he intended his wife be intitled to all his personal property rights and interest which may be awarded to him by the Commissioner appointed by parliment to distribute the 600,000 pounds paid by the United States of America to his Majesty for the benefit of the British Creditors for debts lost by them in America.
Codicil written May 9 1807
He revokes and voids the instructions to inclose his grave with a stone tomb as he would not have any thing of the kind done or any expense but what is necessary. He says if he dies a distance away from Chiswick to be buried where he dies and not carry him to Chiswick for burial.
Proved at London with two codicils 6th April 1812 before the worshipful John Dodson Doctor of Laws and surrogate by the oath of Udell McCulloh widow the Relict and sole executrix to whom Admin was granted she have been first sworn duly to administer.
Endnotes
1. Fenton, W.J.F., McCulloh genealogy researched and compiled for Alice Eidson obtained by Judge Fletcher Freeman. (Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England: July 1981. Mailed by Freeman April 28, 2001.).
2. Cole, Sandra, "McCulloh genealogy," e-mail message from
3. Henry Eustace McCulloh will & codicils (1803-7), Public Record Office, British National Archives, Chiswick Parish, Middlesex, England (Transcribed by Robert D Epperson, 2006).
4. Epperson, Bob, "Descendants of Alexander McCulloch (d 11 Sep 1643) Last of Myrton, Wigtownshire, Scotland," compiled June 8, 2008 (repperson@kermantel.net)..