Michael Coulbourne
- Born: Abt 1725, Somerset Co., MD
- Marriage (1): Frances Cannon
- Died: Bef 25 Feb 1796, Sussex Co., DE
Michael Coulbourne had the tract MICHAELS RECOVERY surveyed for him (Dorchester survey) on May 15 1746 for 89a "on N side of Herring Run out of NE Fork of Nanticoke R., on S side of Thomas Cannon's mill." He received a patent for it on Mar 25 1758. In the modern day, this tract in due north of Seaford in Sussex Co., DE. His sons Thomas and Joseph had this resurveyed on Apr 5 1797, adding 192a of vacancy.
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Michael Coulbourn, farmer
9 June 1792
To son Thomas Coulbourn - all that part of my lands that are on the southeast of a line beginning at a cedar post standing in the plantation where Clem Rogers now lives (it being the property of Jesse Griffith) and standing in the line between me and said Griffith and then running west to a small white oak that stands near a place called Possimmond Ponds
To son Joseph Coulbourn - rest of lands
To son Elijah Coulbourn - ewe and lamb and no more
To daughter Nancy Watts - ewe and lamb and no more
To daughter Priscilla Stewart - one shilling
To daughter Catherine Coulbourn - one shilling
To daughters Rebecca Coulbourn, Nelly Coulbourn, Anna Coulbourn, Kesiah Coulbourn and my son Robert Coulbourn - movable estate
To daughter Mary Williams - one shilling
Executor: son Joseph
Witness: Samuel Copper, John Cannon, Sophia Smith
25 February 1796 Then came
Michael married Frances Cannon, daughter of Henry Cannon and Frances Newton?. (Frances Cannon was born about 1727 in Somerset Co., MD and died before 09 Jun 1792 in Sussex Co., DE.)
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