I'm sending this in two parts...too big for one e-mail. -----Original Message----- From: ANNE B. MUSSER <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 10:16 AM Subject: ELIZABETH HARPER/ SUSANNAH ROBINSON That woke a lot of you up, huh? O.K. I've got what is new information for me and since no one else has offered it to the list, I'm guessing it's new info. for the rest of you also or it already would have been posted. I was cleaning up my file and making corrections as always because I obtained this. This ought to just about clear up the ROBINSON/HARPER question. I would like some help from our North Carolina researchers or any of you who have access to or can get the originals of these records. We really need the originals to be able to see what is actually said in these papers. This document is pretty long. If anyone has a copy of this book or can get a copy that would help also. Anne The following court depositions are from the book "Overton County, Tennessee Genealogic Records", compiled by Edythe Rucker Whitley, Supreme Court Transcripts Original papers on file Tennessee State Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. Obediah Bradshaw & Others vs. William Beach and Others. 1823 Overton County, Tennessee. Third Judicial Circuit Court. John Thurman,Soloman Silcon (?), Simon Huddleston, Benjamin Poore, John Ric--- ?, Joshua Storie and Catherine Storie his wife and etc.(Abstract of file). Mentions a mill on Wolf River. Reference is made to Billy Beach. Refers to certain negroes -- Tom, Fanny, Solomon and others.Refers to Joseph Evans. One paper refers to going to North Carolina on business. Another paper mentions Lewis Carlton in North Carolina. One paper says that the family of William Beach consisted of six or seven children.There is mention of a place called Barksville,thirty-three miles from ------(torn).Joshua Storie, Sr., on oath states he was acquainted with Mr. Bradshaw before coming from North Carolina and that he lived in the same house with me two or three weeks, then I moved away and never seen him for about thirteen years,when I saw him at my sonJoshua Stories, he did not know me. When I started away my son told him who I was and he caught me in his arms. Signed Joshua Storie. Witnessed by Jas. Whiteside, J. P. Catharine Storie being sworn, age 44 years, says she had a long acquaintance with Mr. Bradshaw and his wife, as well as Beach. She knew them twelve or thirteen years in North Carolina. She understood that Mr. Bradshaw when on his death bed was 80 years of age. "Our conversation was twelve or thirteen years ago. There was mention that Mr. Bradshaw conveyed property to Wm. Beach and Mrs. Bradshaw threatened to leave Mr. Bradshaw and that she would and could not live apart from her daughter at the time they were about moving to the farm bought from Mr. Storie. Mrs. Bradshaw said that she had but one child and she would not be parted by no man on earth from her. Mrs. Bradshaw said she had never been married before she married Mr. Bradshaw. Old Mr. Bradshaw said he had to pay tax both in Tennessee and North Carolina and that he was so hard of hearing he did not want to pay tax and he always put the money in hands of Billy Beach for him to settle it. About eleven or twelve years ago the old gentleman said that Billy had been down several times after his money and he did not know what Billy done with it. Must spent it for Rum along with Abernathy’s boys. He may have give it to his brother or drank it up. Said William Beach has lived with and supported Bradshaw’s wife. Mr. Bradshaw said Billy Beach lived on his place.. Mrs. Bradshaw said she had given William Beach’s children some clothing both boys and girls for twenty years and some she intended for her daughter Mrs.Beach. Another time at Mr. ?Brumbletts?, Mrs. Bradshaw was getting something in the store and said it was stuff to make bonnetts for one of the girls and intended to get each of the girls a white dress. She said most of the money Beach paid was her money. She talked about money Beach owed old Mr. Storie" Signed, Catherine Storie. J. Whiteside J. P. Sworn to in Overton County, 4 June 1819.