At 03:11 PM 6/21/2000 , you wrote: >Catawba County, NC Query Forum >A new message, "White's in N.C.," was posted by Todd White on Wed, 21 Jun >2000 >Surname: White, Mouser Todd, The White family has been a difficult one to follow as there were half-a-dozen WHITEs within Cabarrus, Lincoln, Tryon, Rutherford; and later, large migrations to bounty land in the Mid-West. I am working on the family of (Capt.?) James White of Long Creek, present day, a little west of Bessemer City. I follow them back to Oxford Twp., Chester Co., PA (on the paternal side) and West Nottingham Twp. ("New Connought") Cecil Co., MD (on the maternal). A John White, who's will was proved 20 June 1775, made 23 May 1772, names sons James, Thomas and Isaac, among others. Thought to have been brothers by several authors of King's Mountain material, Thomas and Isaac arrived in 1779, after James had already bought land, seven years prior. After the War, Thomas took bounty land in Bond Co., Illinois and died there in 1824. Isaac followed his brother to Bond Co., and in 1821, died at the age of sixty-one years. James stayed behind as did most of his line, in Tryon County (est. 1768--he bought land here in 1772), later (1779) Lincoln, later (1846) Gaston Co., in the Long Creek area. This is the James that was a founder of Long Creek Presbyterian Church, in 1780. He is buried in the Long Creek Church cemetery next to his wife, Sarah Mary Givens, daughter of Robert and Lucy (Hartshorn) Givens. Her mother was born about 1720, probably near Norwich, Conn. She is also buried at the Long Creek Cemetery; died in 1815, at the probably age of 95. This marks one of the very early migrations, southward from New England). Lucy Hartshorn, from a long line of Mass.-Conn. Hartshorns was one of the very first female Hartshorns to live in the Deep South. Her son-in-law, James White, MAY have served at King's Mountain but there is no certainty that he is the same one. A second-generation Irishman, apparently this James was the first sheriff of Lincoln County (1779). My work continues and I am still trying to discern the John White "of Oxford Twp." in his will (proved June 1775) reads, in part: Provides for wife Margaret. To son Saml. 15 pounds. To daughter Janet Love 15 pounds. To son James 6 pounds. To son Edward 16 pounds. To son Thomas 16 pounds. To son Isaac 16 pounds. To daughters Sarah and Rebecca their beds and saddles. Remainder equally divided. Executors: John Ross and Thomas Love Wit: David Fleming, Thomas Armstrong, John Black There were other John Whites in Chester Co., just as there have been several James Whites in the same geographical area in North Carolina. I am still beyond documentation as to the James I seek. He is either not the James mentioned in the will, or the possibility that Thomas and Isaac (of King's Mountain fame) are necessarily the ones mentioned in the will. The White and Givens families (PA) and the Hartshorn family (MD) are documented to have intermarried. Sarah Mary (Givens) White had a brother, Jonathan Thomas, who was the Jonathan who appears on a deposed list of soldiers in Capt.Jacob Collins Company at the surrender of Charleston (12 May 1780), dated 14 Oct 1786. He also appears on a list of militia paroled by Lord Cornwallis. The list includes 534 men that were taken prisoner at the battle of Guilford Court House, 15 March 1781. He was the son of Lucy (Hartshorn) Givens, brother to Sarah Mary. Many folks are interested in this project and a mini-list was created. I think this family deserves a web page but other commitments don't leave me with much time. If you have any thoughts on this, or if a formal list could be established, relating to the WHITE families that migrated from PA/MD to NC. I think a lot more material could get out and maybe the "who's who" mystery can be solved. Please write me at Derick S. Hartshorn ([email protected]) >--- >NAME: Todd White >EMAIL: [email protected] >DATE: Jun 21 2000 >URL: http:// >QRYTEXT: JOABERT WHITE and Sarah "Sally" Mouser were married by a bond >dated Jan. 29, 1829 in Lincoln County. Some time later they moved to >Lumpkin Co. GA. Looking for any additional information on the White's in >the area of Catawba Co. North Carolina 1700's to mid 1800's.. > >This is an automatically-generated notice. > ><http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Catawba?admin>