Isaac Sullivant Page

Isaac Sullivant was born around 1770 according to census records and the testimony found in Gardner High's Revolutionary War pension records. In his testimony dated 1838, Isaac certified that he was present when Gardner High and Rachel Gibbs went to the church to get married in Brunswick Co., Virginia at the start of the Revolutionary War.

The first official record of Isaac in Halifax County is found in the book Halifax County North Carolina Court Minutes: Volume II:1796-1797 , Abstracted by Stephen E. Bradley, Jr. in Para. 837, pg. 71, May Court 1797, where Isaac was the administrator of the estate of James Merritt with Robert Brantley and Thomas Gayner as securitys.

Isaac was married to Euridice Merritt, daughter of Richard and Sarah Merritt of Halifax County. From the census data available on his children, he was probably married around 1790 although there have been no marriage records found. Isaac is first mentioned as a brother-in-law in a will left by Ephriam Merritt in Halifax County in 1801. From the deed evidence in both Halifax and Anson Counties, North Carolina, Isaac appears to have moved from Halifax Co. to Anson Co. in the period between 1807 and 1817 . In an 1817 Halifax Deed, he is listed as a resident of Anson County. He is also listed in the Anson County 1810 census.

From the deeds and census information in Anson County, had the following children:

• Martha SULLIVANT b. Abt 1794 m. Willis ALSOBROOK
• Sarah SULLIVANT b. 13 Jul 1796 m. Joseph John WILLIAMS
• Isaac Hunter SULLIVANT b. 1799 m. Susan WILLIAMS, m. Delilah PRITCHARD
• Lucy SULLIVANT-b. Abt 1800 m. Rev. John TARRANT
• Frances (Fanny) SULLIVANT-b. Abt. 1804 m. Jesse WALLACE
• Joseph SULLIVANT-b. 26 May 1806 m. Mary (Polly) GADDY
• Euridice SULLIVAN-b. 1810 m. William EDWARDS
• Mary SULLIVANT-b. 1815 m. James PLUNKETT

From deed and census data, Euridice died before 1820 and Isaac remarried to Nancy Dawson Allen, widow of David Allen around 1824. They had one child Susan born around 1827 who married Richmond Thomas.

Isaac had many land transactions in Anson County, buying land around Gould's Fork, Jones Creek and Brown Creek in Anson County. From a deed where Joseph Sullivant, his son, is buying property from his sisters, Anson County DB 11, page 97, December 12, 18 42, it appears that Isaac died around 1842.

The following questions remain on Isaac Sullivant's family in Anson:

• Who were Isaac's parents?
  The data I have indicates Charles Sullivant and Rachel (last name unknown).
• Where was he born?
  Most likely Brunswick Co.,VA
• As his son was named Isaac Hunter Sullivant, could Isaac's mother have been a Hunter? Where does the Hunter name fit in? Its very prevalent in the Isaac Hunter line.
  There is an Isaac Hunter in Warren Co., that was very wealthy. Rachel could have been a Hunter although this is very speculative.
• Why did he move from Halifax to Anson County?
  This is still unkown although the Merritts moved first so Isaac may have followed one of his wife's cousins.
• What is his relation to the other Sullivants in Halifax County?
  Isaac Sullivant is not directly (may be distantly) related to John Sullivant, Zachariah Sullivant, William Sullivant and Jeremiah Sullivant who all left deed records in Halifax.
• Is he related to the Sullivants in Duplin/Sampson County, North Carolina?
  No evidence has been found to date.
  
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