In a message dated 1/11/01 8:21:30 PM, [email protected] writes: << Is anyone interested in the Burch family of Caswell and Person counties in North Carolina, some of whom had formerly lived in Granville Co? Does anyone know anything of Pemberton Burch who was an adult by 1769 when he was taxed in Granville Co.,N.C. (Nicholas Sr. and Jr. taxed in same list). By the 1780's he was in St. Luke's District, Caswell Co., and some of his land extended into Person Co when it was formed. He died in 1802 in Caswell. Do any estate papers remain--perhaps at the state archives in Raleigh? Who were his children? Any help welcomed. Thanks. Gary Young >> Hi Gary, I am interested in the Burch family of Caswell and Person Counties. I have been attempting to gather some kind of understanding of all of the Burches who seemed to have settled the region about the same time. There is a collection of Burch data located in the Clerk of Court's Office in Caswell County, NC. Burch Blaylock was head of that office back in the 1950/1960's; he gleaned information from every researcher who visited the courthouse, and also included newspaper clippings and other data which pertained to Caswell County families. As I recall, some of the Burches came from a Tory who had served in the region during the Revolutionary War, and decided after the war to remain and make Caswell his home; others seem to have come from some of the surrounding counties of NC and from VA. I know that Nicholas Burch bought the land on which my earliest Fox ancestor had lived; a Phillip Burch apprenticed his son, my ancestor, about 1809; Henry Burch apprenticed another Fox son, William, on the same date. Phillip's wife was an ancestral aunt from my Hargis family of the same area. I will be glad to discuss any information which I have gleaned on this family. Best regards, John Fox Winston Salem, NC