Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameCatherine O Marbe 
Spouses
Birthabout 1680, Isle of Wight Co, VA
Deathabout 1760, Johnston Co, NC
FatherAnthony Herring (~1648-1715)
MotherRebecca West
Marriageabout 1700, Chowan Precinct, NC
ChildrenJohn (~1701-<1774)
Research notes for Catherine O Marbe
Herring book says Morbe or Marbe. Croom says Marbe. One of them says her parents were George and Katherine.
Relocated notes for John (Spouse 1)
He is the first Herring, of the line of interest, in NC. About the time of his fathers death, probably just after, he and his brother Samuel moved to Chowan Precinct (later called Bertie Precinct or Parish of Albemarle County), most likely because the original farm wasn't sufficient to support both of them.
John is shown with 340 acres in Chowan Precinct, later 640 acres in Bertie County, then it was 1300 acres in Bertie and then in the mid-1730's he began to divest some of this land and showed up in the Kinston/Lenoir area and was the second person to acquire land on the North side of the Neuse River. That area was then Craven County, is now part of Johnston County.
John is shown with 340 acres in Chowan Precinct, later 640 acres in Bertie County, then it was 1300 acres in Bertie and then in the mid-1730's he began to divest some of this land and showed up in the Kinston/Lenoir area and was the second person to acquire land on the North side of the Neuse River. That area was then Craven County, is now part of Johnston County.
My Comments notes for John (Spouse 1)
John Herring, whose biography is given here, is believed to be a son of Anthony. It was quite common back then for a man to name a son after his own father, so the name alone suggests the relationships. And various deeds between several Herring men, including John, seem to fit the pattern of brothers acting in concert and some of these presumed brothers are known sons of Anthony. So it is circumstantial, but quite logical. John was born about 1680 in Isle of Wight County and died about 1760, having made his way by then to Johnston County.
He married Catherine O Morbe (daughter of George Morbe and Katherine) about 1700 and seems to have followed the Morbes later to Chowan Precinct, NC and was deeded 380 acres there by them in 1715. But John didn’t stop there. In 1717, he obtained a crown grant for 640 acres in today’s Bertie County. (Bertie and Chowan are on opposite sides of the Chowan River which drains into Albemarle Sound.) And his land holdings continued to grow so that by 1721 he paid tax on 1300 acres total in that area. By the mid-1730's, he was divesting his holdings in this part of NC and moving further South and was the second landholder in the Neuse River area, then a part of Craven County. But, later when Johnston County was formed in this area from part of Craven, John Herring was its first sheriff. In 1750-1752 he represented Johnston County in the NC Colonial Assembly.
He married Catherine O Morbe (daughter of George Morbe and Katherine) about 1700 and seems to have followed the Morbes later to Chowan Precinct, NC and was deeded 380 acres there by them in 1715. But John didn’t stop there. In 1717, he obtained a crown grant for 640 acres in today’s Bertie County. (Bertie and Chowan are on opposite sides of the Chowan River which drains into Albemarle Sound.) And his land holdings continued to grow so that by 1721 he paid tax on 1300 acres total in that area. By the mid-1730's, he was divesting his holdings in this part of NC and moving further South and was the second landholder in the Neuse River area, then a part of Craven County. But, later when Johnston County was formed in this area from part of Craven, John Herring was its first sheriff. In 1750-1752 he represented Johnston County in the NC Colonial Assembly.