Gathering Giddens: Isaac Giddens - from North Carolina to Alabama

Isaac, his children, and his brother Abraham were found on membership lists for the Belleville
Baptist Church in Conecuh County, Alabama. [1]

I have not found direct evidence showing Isaac Giddens, born in 1782, to be the son of John Giddens of Wayne County, North Carolina. But, I have found records that indirectly point to Isaac as John's son. My first found record of Isaac Giddens was in John Giddens' probate record.  Isaac purchased items from John Giddens' estate on 10 December 1802. Isaac, the only Giddens making purchases, bought a set of hatters tools, twelve hogs, two steers, a mare, and five barrels of corn. [2]

According to this clipping in the 23 December
1806 issue of the Wilmington Gazette, Isaac 
married Fame Futch. This name differs from
numerous family trees that name Isaac's wife
as Phama Patterson. [5]

In 1806, on December 11th, Isaac Giddens married Fame Futch. According to the newspaper announcement both were of Wayne County. [3] John Giddens was the only Giddens in Wayne County in 1790 and 1800 so, can we safely assume that Isaac was his son? [4]

Isaac was found with his wife and children in Wayne County on the 1810 U. S. Census.[6] And, the 1810 Tax List showed that he owned 100 acres of land.[7] Isaac's land was situated on Jethro's Marsh Branch - the same location as land owned by John Giddens, at least three of his siblings, and by John's widow, Sarah.[8] Isaac sold that land before 1815 to Cullen A. Blackman and it doesn't appear that he owned land again in North Carolina.[9] 

Gathering Giddens: Sarah Taylor the "said to be" Wife of John Giddens of Wayne County, North Carolina

The above document is a partial copy of Sarah's dower found in the probate record. By this time in 1808, she was Sarah Flowers and on this document, she was identified as Salley Flowers. The entire document reads as follows:

In obedience to an order of Court Signed May Term 1808 - We the under signd Jurors having been summoned & sworn by the D. Sheriff to allot and set off to Sally Flowers Widow of Jno. Giddens, Dec'd, her Dower in the Real Estate of sd Dec'd we have agreeable thereto as the above plan Represents to Witt  Begin at a white oak & runs N79 W.65 pole to a sweet gum on the run of Jethros Branch then up the run of sd Branch as it meanders to a tree Huckleberry near the head thereof then S10 E 38 pole to a stake then Et 205 pole to a pine then N32 Et 276 pole to the road then with same as it runs to a pine Adam Reaves Corner, then S20 Est 41 pole to a pine her Corner, then W98 pole to a pine then N75 pole to a pine in Rhodes's Line then his line to the Begin Containing 333 Acres 

In testimony whereof, we have set our hands this 6th Day of June 1808 

The Jurors were Ezekiel Slocumb, Sampson Edwards, Durham Graddy, Briton Hood, William Lewis, John Jones, David Edwards, Lovett Reaves, Adam Reaves, Jesse Norris, Urbane Lewis, and Jesse Bass. J. Bledsoe, DS Executed [1]

Last week, I wrote about my fourth great-grandfather, John Giddens in the post Gathering Giddens: John Giddens, a Planter in North Carolina. Today, I am sharing all that I currently know about his wife, Sarah, my fourth great-grandmother.