Carol and I are as the following Dan Matney ---------- > From: Carol99@aol.com > To: BROADWATER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: John Broadwater > Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 11:06 AM > > My ancestor is Broadwater Matney b abt 1788 VA, d abt 1870 OR. His parents > believed to be William Broadwater Matney m Jane (Brooks), need proof. > Searching for data on this & which Broadwater family they tie to. > > Jane Matney, believed to be Broadwater Matney's sister, m James Nickels & res > Nickelsville, Scott Co, VA, descendants still live there. Book written 1995 > by Edwin E Nickels of Blountsville, TN gives 3 or 4 of James & Jane Nickels ch > marrying Kilgore at Scott Co, VA. > > Looks like Broadwater, Kilgore, Nickels & Matney families have ties. Anyone > researching Nickels or Kilgore ? > > Edwin Nickels told me there are descendants of the Broadwater family still > living in Nickelsville, Scott Co, VA area. > > Scott Co, VA Cemetery Records pg 123 & 126 list Broadwater families members. > > >From the Index of "Kegley's Virginia Frontier, Beginning of the Southwest, > Roanoke Colonial Days 1740-1783", Broadwater: > > p 262 John a Colonial soldier. > > p 540 Ann m James Tosh; > > p 541 Martha m John Anderson; > > p 535 Charles in Capt Neely's Co of Militia; > p 534-5 People enrolled in Co res above & E of Peter's Ck in vicinity of > Great Lick. Land along the Ck & float land belonged to Neely & J Griffith, & > later Mitchel. > 1758 French & Indian War, Charles Broadwater, Wash. MSS 1557. > 1783 Roll: Charles Broadwater, 3 horses, 12 cattle, 0 slaves, 0 tithables. > > p 546, 548 Charles on Buffalo Creek, 100 A part of 250 A by deed from Issac > Robinson, Bk D, Bk 41. 64 A on Tinker Creek Pat Bk 30, 160. > >