Edward Irwin
Edward Irwin lived on Long Creek in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in the Hopewell Presbyterian congregation north of Charlotte. His name is spelled Erwin in his will and Irvin on his gravestone, which reads "In memory of EDWARD IRVIN, who died October 10, 1790; age 54 years." He was born about 1736. Where he was born, and who his parents were, is not known.
On 9 December 1769 he bought a tract "on both sides Long Creek" from John Mitchell, a merchant of Salisbury, and Mitchell's wife Elizabeth. He paid £68 in proclamation money, the colonial currency rated by a royal proclamation of 1704. His line began at Alexander Henry's corner and ran to "Cannon Corner." The same day Mitchell sold the next tract to John Cannon, whose boundary ran along "Irwins line." Both deeds were proved at the January court of 1770. Twenty years later John Canon witnessed Edward's will, and Edward's daughter Margaret married John's son Job.
His wife died before him. At Hopewell a stone beside his reads "Margery Irvin, d. Oct. 29, 1788, aged 48." His will asks for "two head stones to set at my own & my wife's graves," and leaves his daughter Margaret "her mother's saddle." Margery was almost certainly his wife and the mother of his children, though no record names her as either.
He was ill for some time before he died. Thomas Henderson supplied medicines in 1789, among them worm powders and a cathartic. On 29 April 1790, "being in a sickly State of Body but of sound mind & memory," he made his will. He left his land to "my two beloved sons John & Robert Erwin," both still under age. Each of the three older daughters, Jane, Margaret and Mary, got a bed, a spinning wheel and a cow. The estate was to keep and school "my two young daughters Martha & Sarah Erwin." His executors were John Carothers and James Henry. John Canon, Elijah Alexander Bradley and James Henry witnessed it.
He died on 10 October 1790 and was buried at Hopewell beside Margery. The executors returned their account in January 1794, with vouchers paid to Joseph Graham, George Graham, John McKnitt Alexander and others. In April 1794 his daughter Sarah, still a minor, came into the county court and chose Job Canon as her guardian, with James Canon as surety. The court later ordered her bound to Doras Alexander. John Sharpe became Robert's guardian in 1799. The executors deeded Robert his 140 acres in July 1802, and he died the next year, aged seventeen, and was buried with his parents. John received his 175 acres in 1806.
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Cite: Heirology, "Edward Irwin (1736-1790)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/edward-irwin-1736-1790-0e1cd5.