Mecklenburg County North Carolina September 5, 1768 Page 821-823. Robert Watkins of S.C. to John Hill of Meck., for £50, 350 acres part of 700 acres purchased by said Watkins and Francis Cost of George Brown of York County, Prov. Of Maryland [sic] 3 Sept. 1766 on S side Catawba River on Killions Creek …. Robert Watkins (WR) (Seal). Wit: John Dover, John Stroud (X). Rec. Oct. term 1768. Source: Marjorie Stansel Killions Creek is Killians Creek which is about 2 miles long and is located in the very Northeast corner of present day Gaston County, North Carolina. Killians Creek is located 1.3 miles West of Lucia, North Carolina which is just Northwest of Charlotte, NC. I see Dallas, North Carolina and Long Creek in the same area which I remember looking at a couple of years ago that had another reference to John Dover and Frederick Hambright. I seem to remember that the hint was that Fred Hambright lived on Long Creek before he built his home near Kings Mountain. Sharon S. or B. J. might recall more of the specifics. Side issue that is pretty amazing. If this location near Lucia, North Carolina fits with the 1790 census for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina ... I can draw a line from 1790 Mecklenburg through Georgia that ends up in 1850 Tallapoosa that extends further out to Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Mecklenburg also has the roots of the early APPLETON family, the middle name of Bailey Dover. There's some BAILEY's there too. Marjorie really came up with a find on these Mecklenburg County records. Here's the other one: Mecklenburg County North Carolina 1766 Page 780? John Thomas Jnr. & Thomas Rainey. 100 acres on King's Creek below Kuykendalls land including John Dovers improvement and mill seat. Looks like the Thomas and Rainey were in 1790 Chester Co., SC, just south of York. Both were one page from Isham FIELDING who I suspect is the grandfather of Bailey Dover's wife Martha Ann FIELDING. The Fieldings went to Pendleton Dist., SC before Hall County, Cherokee County and Cobb County, Georgia. Marjorie, didn't we have Zephaniah in Mecklenburg too? Now I'm beginning to wonder about Zephaniah being a John Dover. Know Sharon S. has wondered about this too. This is a path/time comment and question. The 1768 deed in Mecklenburg is closest to the 1769 date that John Dover went? to Wrightsborough as a Quaker. Can this be the same John Dover? Off hand I would say no because the John Dover that went to Wrightsborough received his grant while he was a resident of Orange County? I would speculate that the John Dover in Mecklenburg is the senior from Orange County and that the one who went to Wrightsborough was the junior from the 1755 tax/deed records. Old John died at 110 years and do we really see him in a 1790 census? I still have to wonder if the John Dover in 1800 Buncombe is one of the two John's from 1755 Orange County.