Stephanie,

You would be able to see the locked records at either a stake library or 
an affiliate library.   Have you looked at the DAR website?  There are 
DAR patriot ancestors named Benjamin and James Ferrill who live in 
Mecklenburg Co, VA.  Their ages are such that they would fit with your 
facts.   Mary and James are able to select their mother because they are 
older.   The age to select your guardian was sometime in your early teens.

Benjamin may not have been born when his father died.  If he was born in 
1749/1750, he would be 8 in 1758 when he was bound out. The church took 
care of the poor and orphans (no father) in this period.  It is also 
possible that Mary remarried.

The 1753 event means that James is 21 and Mary 18 which would entitle 
them to receive their share of the estate.

Good Luck with your research.

Marilyn




On 12/4/2023 1:59 PM, Stephanie Borop wrote:
> I am seeking records on Hubbard Ferrill who appears to have died in 1749 in Brunswick Co VA.  I have located his estate inventory and minutes that confirm his wife Mary as the administrator of his estate.  He apparently died intestate.  I am in need of the guardian or orphans account for him but the index to guardians accounts, 1732 - 1948  and the orphans book for the time frame 1740 - 1781 are locked on family search.  I have not found any abstracts for either.
>
> Court minutes document his wife as administrator of his estate.  In 1750, two children Elizabeth and James, chose Mary as their guardian.  There is no mention of a third child, Benjamin, who shows up in the 1758 Lunenburg Court minutes where the church wardens of Cumberland Parish are ordered to bind him out to a William Ferrill.
>
> A couple of questions:  why wouldn't Benjamin have been named in a guardianship order in Brunswick County near the time when his father, Hubbard died?  Second, what can I glean from the 1758 Lunenburg court order and the binding out to William Ferrill?  At what age might someone be bound and why would the church wardens be involved?  Could this imply that his mother might be deceased or for some reason the church took him under their care. (I checked the vestry book for both Cumberland and St Andrews but could not find an entry for him)  His other two siblings, James and Elizabeth, each appeared in court in 1753 and stated they had received their share of their inheritance.  No mention of Benjamin....would he not have been entitled to a share?
>
> I suspect William, to whom Benjamin was to be apprenticed, might be a brother of Benjamin.  I also believe there is a connection of this whole family to John Ferrill who appears in Franklin Co NC, allegedly married to Ann Fish, and whose will was written in 1786.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions, specific knowledge or documents that might relate to this family would be appreciated.
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