FWD -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 6:52 AM Subject: Re: Re: WILLIAM BARNETT AND MARY HEASLETT >There has to be at least a dozen or two William Barnetts of the same period >and time in the NC/SC area almost in the same counties. Part of Mecklenburg >Co, NC became Camden Dist which was divided into York, Chester and Lancaster >Cos along the boundary between the 2 states. >My William Barnett was the son of a William and they moved to the area in >1765, the younger William giving in his petition for a pension in early 1800 >that he was born in Lancaster Co, PA along the banks of the Susquehanna >River, in 1759 and that his father moved them to SC in about 1765. He had >brothers Robert, Andrew, James and sisters Elizabeth Ann and Sarah Mary. My >William and brother Andrew moved to Green Co,KY before 1800 and they helped >build the courthouse in Greensburg, KY. Brother Robert moved to Tenn. as >did sister Elizabeth. who had married James Kennedy and he died in SC in >1782 +or -.,These records are documented in Tenn records. Robert had several >sons who became ministers for the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Sister >Sarah m. Josiah Payne and only known child they had was a Sally who lived >with Uncle William in Ky and married a Marshall. >Back a year ago this month I sent about 15 articles over a period of several >days to the Barnett list about all these families and they should be in the >list Archives for last OCT. This might help all of you looking for the >various Williams as well as other Barnetts that were in NC/SC. >I have researched these folks for 45 years with a number of other descendants >and have accumlulated a great deal of info. I have shared with others, >especially that info that did not pertain directly to my line. there is a >Barnett quarterly and somewhere I have the name of that person. >Hope this helps some of you as think some of what I have read lately is very >confused and undocumented. >Sarah >