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Hinchia Mabry''s given name has been a cause of interest for many, notonly because it is unusual, but because it was carried on for severalgenerations.

Hinchia Mabry held a large amount of land in Surry and BrunswickCounties. He gave much of his land to his sons when they came of age.Most of this land later fell into Lunenburg County when it was created in1746 and than later into Mecklenburg County.

Collins shows birth as 1755; Holland shows 1752
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Joel Mabry (Ephraim, Hinchia, Francis) was born about 1755 in LunenburgCounty, Virginia, the first child of Ephraim Mabry and Mary Poole. In1769 The Mabry family moved with members of the Poole family to what isnow Fairfield County, South Carolina where they took up land n the eastside of the Broad River, opposite Henderson Island, about one mile southof the present town of Shelton. Joel Mabry served in Water''s SouthCarolina Militia Regiment sometime after the fall of Charleston for whichhe received payment from South Carolina. As the following document shows,Joel Mabry applied part of what was due him for two tracts of bountyland. This probably explains why he didn''t later apply for aRevolutionary War pension, even though he was still alive in the early1830s when such pensions became available through an Act ofCongress.Issued 1 May 1786, to Joel Mayberry, for Thirty Pounds 14s,/3dStlg for duty in Water''s Regt. Acct audited. Principal Pounds 30..14..31/4 Interest Pounds 2..2..11. This Indent was signed by (Capt.) Liles andstates that the amount due to Joel Mayberry was "for militia duty sincethe fall of Charleston." One of the papers in this file is a request fromJoel Mabry (as he signed his name), "Gent. - Please to Deliver my Indentsto Major Liles & this be your Receipt for the Same. May 6th 1786." Inanother note, written on the same day, Joel Mabry, requests, "Please toPay Acct of my Indent to the Treasurer of the State of Carolina (sic) thesum of twenty seven Dollars Being the Bounty of two Tracts of Land one inname of Henry Rob-inson containing two hundred and twenty acres, one inname of Samuel Mobley of forty seven acres." Joel Mabry was alsodesignated as a "Revolutionary Soldier" when he participated in the 1827Georgia Land Lottery from Franklin County.