Dear Cousins: Ancestry has put a Chester County PA wills database -- free for 10 days. Many answers to relationships in southern, mid-western, western -- Everywhere! lie within these documents. Chester was home to many of the Quaker and Delaware Valley Pioneers at one time or another. I have identified a couple of people already in ten minutes this morning! Now I have to go to school! AND vote! Drat! Have fun while I'm plodding along today. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins on the List: Heads UP! Ancestry has the 1910 Miracode indexes up for Kentucky. http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5185.htm Other coming will include states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. (They didn't code all states.) Kentucky 1910 is free for ten days. Dig in! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, I think I finally have the links corrected and things working for a new Quaker Meetings and Families page. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Levi/ncqfams.html This page includes websites for many families whose migration patterns and life patterns seem to be very similar to Levi's and his family. Principally they are ones known to have links to this family and other allied families and to the locality. There are two census pages from the Randolph County, NC 1790 census with images from ancestry.com that show the way the names were listed. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Levi/rancen1.html http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Levirancen2.html I have not put up the entire Randolph 1790 census, but portions which seem relevant and demonstrate what the actual images can show when trying to interpret names. Levi is the only Pennington on the census. If there are other families on the Randolph 1790 census which you would like included in the study, please let me know. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, Today and tomorrow I hope to get up pages at the website for Quaker Meetings in North Carolina which reflect the Monthly Meetings (MM) containing the few Quaker records in regard to Levi. Additionally there will be lists containing other Levi records. (Tax, etc.) As we progress in the study, it is important to pause and assess the implications of the records. First, just copying the records for Levi, or the other Penningtons mentioned there does not inform us of other things we want to find out about him and his origins -- things which will help us create an accurate identity for him. We want to find from these records who his neighbors were. Who his family intermarried with, and if these people also left when Levi Jr. went to Spartanburg, SC. We want to examine other records contained in NC that can help us build a portrait of Levi and his family within their community -- records of his nearby neighbors and allied family members. We have elemental lists of these VIP Others on the Rowan County Tax Lists, and we will want to add information from Land Records and Census records. In 1771 the people in NW North Carolina went through a period of revolt against the government and this culminated in the Battle of Almance. The rebels were called Regulators. Some were hung (or worse) for their participation. There are indications that some Penningtons were in sympathy with the Regulators, if not among their ranks later. The names of Timothy and John PENTON appear as signers of a Regulator advertisement in 1768 in Orange County; the name of Levi Pennington appears in similar Guilford County documents between 1765-1771. In reading about some of the Regulators who were executed, I learned a great deal about others of NW North Carolina people. Records about some of them contain names of people and localities that offer concrete clues to identity. We must learn to broaden our outlook. We can do this through a historical perspective rather than a surname perspective. Often the reason that we conclude ancestors are "missing" is because we don't recognize them under names that census takers, county clerks, transcribers, etc., have given them. I think that Timothy and John Penton are Penningtons. Proving or disproving it will be fun. http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mckstmerreg.htm One of the leaders of the NC Regulators was Herman Husbands, who was of Cecil County, MD originally. Herman Husbands was also a Quaker, married in the Quaker faith in NC, but left it because of ideological differences. Husbands ultimately returned to Maryland, and then engaged in the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania. Husband's unusual path may give us clues or at least stimulate our imaginations as to why we find a Levi Pennington shown as the parent of the Litzenberg(er)/Penningtons of Winchester, VA and then Greene and Washington counties, PA; and the curious appearances (in the same time frame) of Richard Pennington in Pendleton County, WVA(now) and Wheeler and William Pennington in Monroe and Mercer Counties, WVA (now), as well as the unidentified Richard Pemberton of Tazewell County, WVA(now). Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com

Dear Cousins Mary, Marilyn and Cousins on the List: I looked at Amazon, but couldn't find anything. Cousin Michael has a reduced price internet source, but they may not have genealogies. Heritage Books does, but I haven't checked there, yet. However Marie Eberle's phone number is (618) 656-1789 if you wish to try her directly. I looked her up on Yahoo. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins Mary, Marilyn and Cousins on the List: A James Carter, who seems to have been a Quaker originally, was in Cecil County, MD, where he had a strange young manhood beginning, first "squatting" on property of James Paul Heath (a wealthy Catholic landowner with rabid anti-Quaker sentiment.) Another wealthy landowner, William Rumsey surveyor for Cecil County, took James Carter under his wing and taught him how to survey and appaarently loaned him money too. After William Rumsey died suddenly, his widow Sabina (who remarried a Rigbie) sued him in Carolina and recovered the money. James Carter was the person who laid out Salisbury and offered lots, along with Hugh Foster. (I'm interested in Fosters from Hanover Co., VA, too!) According to Dr. Ramsay's "Carolina Cradle" he had denoted himself Church of England at that time. I've given back the copy of "Carolina Cradle" to my cousin, having kept it overlong. But the foundation of Salisbury, and James Carter is told there, along with many others. There is a Colonial Rowan County History on the internet (some of which I am excerpting for our pages) which details early residents and conditions. I hope to have this up today, along with some other information on the Levi Study. If you want to examine it in full: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/nc+index+6138686 86380+F If you can't get the page from this URL, go to usgenweb's state archives search engine http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm Select NC, and then type in Rowan County in the Query slot. I can't tell you how delighted I am with this exchange. It demonstrates the beginning of just what I've hoped to accomplish with American Crossroads: showing the interconnections between families in the various regions, and their ties extending over many migrations, generations, and centuries. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins on the List, I am back from eastern Oregon and visiting relatives and friends. I have mid-term exams and hope by the weekend I will be almost back to normal (whatever that is!) and able to get more information up on the Levi Pennington study, as well as the information I've assembled for the other families in the NW North Carolina and SW Virginia Perimeter. This is very important for all of us, because it moves our families one step further west into Tennessee and Kentucky, and south into South Carolina, Georgia, etc. Please let me know of additional names you might want added for our research consideration in these patterns of migrations, and in the perimeters where they lived. I thought I had put Mary's lineage up, but apparently I didn't. It is at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Levi/mary.html Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, The seeker of Timothy Pennington - Fullin/Fullen was not Tracy, but Sandra, whose address follows. I received an e-mail from Tracy: This isn't my info you have found, the person to contact is Sandra at purplevw1@home.com There was a mix-up at Ancestry & they used my address instead of hers. Tracy I will be away for a few days. If anyone needs to contact me, please use my other e-mail address: cmacdee@excite.com I can get this over the internet. I hope to start getting individual pages up when we get back, indicating lineages. For starters, we will have Cousin Leigh and Mary's as part of the Levi Study, and Cousin Maryilyn and Jim's on the Philadelphia Perimeter, Cousin Kay's fits into PA, VA, and beyond, as do my Watts, Markhams, etc., along with Cousin Alison's, and many others. Cari, Barb, Linda, and anyone else who wants to be included here, I need to know how you want to show your additional linkages to either the VA or Philadelphia Perimeter. I am not ignoring the New England and deep South descendants from the Colonial era! Just trying to stay organized as best I can. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Crossroads Cousins: I was looking up a few things on various parts of the usgenweb yesterday, and came across new marriage bonds and consents at the Rockbridge County (VA) page. OH! This is a truly wonderful offering. It includes all of the information for each entry, including the bondsmen and witnesses and parents. Angela Ruley and Marilyn Headley copied the whole thing. You must "sign" an agreement before using them because the list is copyrighted by Marilyn and Angela. I have written Angela Ruley before about Lloyd Pennington (who married a Gully/Gulley that she researches,) and subsequently died in the Civil War. Lloyd's pension records revealed that he was born in Belmont County, OH where my own elusive Penningtons perched for 50 years or so. There are other elusive ties of my War of 1812 John Pennington to Virginia, but I will not go into them now, but just state that I found the marriage of a single Pennington, Timothy in these records. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/rockbridge/ Another entry in ancestry's query boards revealed two people with references for this Timothy Pennington: Timothy Pennington m. Mary Fullen in a gedcom submitted by tracy@sierratel.com and the following message board entry: Subject: Wythe Co VA Hedricks Posted by: Beverly Gardner Message: Allison - I wish we could connect. The George that I have was married to Mary Trousdale (Fullen) Pennington. She was first married to Timothy Pennington and after his death married George Hedrick in Lincoln Co KY. There are about a gadzillion things that are leaping out to me about this Rockbridge county information, BUT I have to go to school! The names show that many of the "southern" bunches were in the Borden Grant area of Virginia. This may be the missing link in location we have been seeking! Remember Abraham Pennington was just north of here in Frederick County!!!! And there are others. We just don't recognize their names because we don't see original records. Love, Hurriedly, Your Cousin Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins: I have put up the first of several pages reflecting on information about Levi the Quaker. Also, in assembling and coordinating the information, I am finding some fascinating details surrounding the area. I hope tomorrow to have Mary and Leigh's individual lineages pages up. I have corrected the formatting difficulties with Alice Sanders' land records page. The new page is: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Levi/levi1.html Be thinking of questions that come to mind as you examine the information. I've started by asking whether Martha with three children transferring her membership in 1771 is Martha wife of Levi the Quaker. She could be wife of Levi Jr. or Isaac. The present information doesn't quite fit. Almost all of these Penningtons were disowned. We need to sort out which generations go properly with one another. All of these listed as being disowned (other than Levi) seem to have been disowned for marrying out of unity. These marriages and disownments took place in the 1770's, which seems a fur piece down the road for children of parents born ca 1712 or 1714. A child of a marriage that took place ca. 1732 would have been 40-something years old at the time of these disownments. I could see it as a second marriage, if it was just one or two, but virtually all of them are disowned for marrying out of unity. Making me believe these are not children of Levi Sr. the Quaker. Any thoughts out there??? Have I gotten mixed up? Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn. Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Marilyn and List: Thank you so much, you have been so helpful and kind. Do you know where I may get the book at now. I live in Mesa Arizona. Thank you foe all the information. Mary

Dear Mary and cousins, Data I have indicates that Susanna Griffith Carter Heaton was buried at Middletown MM burial ground, Bucks County, PA. There was a very good book written on your Carter line back in 1985 by a Marie Eberle, # 5 Brookside Ct., Edwardsville, IL, 62025. I don't know if she is still at that address. She had planned to do a second volume as well. The first one was very well documented and had quite a few pictures. Her line was from James Carter Jr., son of James I and Susannah. She had the parents of Susannah listed as John Griffith and Catherine. At one time, I had a copy of her book, but sold it because it because it wasn't my line. Marilyn

--part1_b3.1c9d116.271a3304_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_b3.1c9d116.271a3304_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <Mary3620az@aol.com> From: Mary3620az@aol.com Full-name: Mary3620az Message-ID: <e.386f015.271a3112@aol.com> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:58:42 EDT Subject: carters To: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com, godave@clarkson.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 123 Dear Marilyn and List: >From looking at your records and at dates, my James Carter had to be Susanna's first Wife, because James died in 1715 in Fredericks County, VA. James and Susanna made out a will in 1714. That was about a year before he died They had 7 children. I want to thank you for sharing this with me. If you know anything about James and Susanna as to where he and she may be is buried please let me know ... thanks again Mary --part1_b3.1c9d116.271a3304_boundary--

Dear Marilyn and List: >From looking at your records and at dates, my James Carter had to be Susanna's first Wife, because James died in 1715 in Fredericks County, VA. James and Susanna made out a will in 1714. That was about a year before he died They had 7 children. I want to thank you for sharing this with me. If you know anything about James and Susanna as to where he and she may be is buried please let me know ... thanks again Mary

Thank you ,I am looking forward to hearing from you. Mary

Dear Mary and Cousins, Mary, I checked my notes and find that in the Middletown MM records, on film from SLC pg. 375, 1d 7m 1720, At this meeting Robert Heaton and Susanna Carter did appear and declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage and this being the first time John Routledge and John Hayhurst are appointed to make inquirey in His clearness form all other women in that Respect and what elce may be needful, and see how her children's estates are secured to them and make Report to the next monthly meeting. 3d 9m 1720, Marriage of Robert Heat and Susanna Carter reported to have been decently accomplished. 4d 3m 1721, Overseeers report to this meeting that Robert Heaton had a child born 6 months after marriage which being a public scandal. My records indicate that Robert and Susanna had the following children: Alice Heaton, b. ca 1720, Anna b. ?, Robert b. 1721, married Ann Carver. Susanna Carter Heaton died 30 Dec. 1770 and left a long will naming her children and grandchildren, although some had died before she did. Hope this helps. Marilyn

Hi Marilyn: Yes, we have the same Carters. Robert Heaton did not marry a Carter, it went this way, This is what Was given to me by a great aunt that has done genealogy for our family for over 50 years she is going on 85 years old and doing great. Susanna Griffeth was born 1681, and died 1771 in North Hampton Bucks County Pa..She Married (1) Robert Heaton then she married James Carter. He was born 1670 in England, and died 1715 in Fredericks County, VA. Land Deeds and wills of James and Susanna--W.M.Carter was the oldest child of Susanna and James. The will was dater February 01, 1714, book 6, Page 419-20. James Carter was a blacksmith. Robert Heaton and Susanna Griffeth had 3 children. Robert Heaton, Alice Heaton , Ann Heaton. Children of Susanna Griffeth and James Carter are: Ann Carter, Married William Hibbs, February 02, 1727/28, Middleton, Bucks ,Pa. Benjamin Carter, married Margaret Hollinsworth. James Carter, married Hannah Chenoweth. John Carter, married Alice. Joseph Carter, married Rachel Duncan. William Carter, b 1695, Pa, married Sarah Plumby. Richard Carter. Born 1710, Southampton, Bucks, Pa: died 1788 in Lawrence County, South Carolina. There it starts off with the second Generation. I hope this helps out and if you see anything out of order please let me know,and if you can fill in any holes that I have left blank ,I thank you in advance. Mary

Dear Mary and Cousins, My data is not the same as yours, I have Susanna (Griffith) Carter marrying Robert Heaton as her 2nd husband. I'll check out what I have and e mail you later. All my data is upstairs. Thanks so much for sharing your information with me. It is most appreciated. Marilyn

Dear Carolyn and List: This is my direct line to the carters. I also have their children and children of their children. James Carter, b 1670 in England, d 1715 in Fredericks County Virginia, he married Susanna Griffeth,b 1681, d 1771 in North Hampton Bucks County Pa. Richard Carter, b 1710, d 1788 in Lawrence County South Carolina. Married Margaret Bruce, b? d 1788 , daughter of John Bruce. George Carter,b 1740 in Frederick County Virginia, d 1784 in east Florida, married Naomi Turk, daughter of John Turk. John Carter b, Bet 1766 and 1770 in Lawrence County South Carolina, d 1805 in Lawrence County, South Carolina, married Zibiah...? George Washington Carter. B 1829 in Franklin County Tennessee. Married Martha M. Caler b 1826. John McDowell (Mack) Carter b 1855 in Arkansas, d 1934 in Bokoshe LeFlore County Oklahoma. Married Matelda Catherine Fritts, August 12. 1877 in Arkansas, she was b June 26.1857 in Arkansas, d January 01. 1946 in Spiro Oklahoma. She was the daughter of George Fritts and Sarah (Sally) Counts. John and Matelda had 8 children, the first born was my g-grandmother,that I was named after, Mary Lee Carter, she was b. 1878 in Arkansas. D 1970 in Spiro Oklahoma, LeFlore County. She married my g-grandfather,William Sneed, b December 07, 1868 , d April 17, 1936, William Sneed and Mary Lee Carter had 3 daughters, Mamie Olive Sneed, Sally Sneed, Tennie Faye Sneed. Mamie Olive Sneed was my mother's Mother. Mamie O. Sneed, b March 06. 1901 in Seminole, Oklahoma. D. May 07. 1991 in Spiro Oklahoma. She married Eaphrom Vanwinkle Coffey, b March 04. In Cleveland Oklahoma 1893, d June 02. 1940 in Safford Arizona while working on the railroad and staying with my mother and father. he was the son of George Harvey Coffey Alice (Allie) Lee. They had 8 children, the first born was my mother Bessie B. Coffey,b September 20, 1916, in Seminole Oklahoma, d November 23. 1971 in Phoenix Arizona. She married my father Howard G. Pennington,b April 03. 1909 in Poteau Oklahoma, d July 07. 1984 in Pima Arizona. they were married January 30, 1932, in Lonepine Oklahoma. He was the son Of Levi Jackson (Jack) Pennington and Nancy Sarah Jane Elizabeth Powers. That is where my Pennington's come in. I sent you info on them. Mary

Dear Mary and cousins, I also have Bucks County Carters in my line. Don't have the material in front of me but didn't Robert Heaton marry a Carter? That is my family line. Nice to see so many additions to our mailing list. Carolyn, you are doing such a wonderful job posting and I feel like bad about not getting some things posted to the site. Never enough hours in the day (or night). Leaves are beginning to turn pretty here in the Valley. Marilyn