Please excuse if I have sent this before!! In a message dated 8/11/98 9:59:45 AM, HANKKING@aol.com wrote: <<I have noticed that a number of people are researching the King line in Wake County North Carolina. I have not researched this county but have found a deed in Bertie County North Carolina that connects to Wake County. I am copying the deed in case it is not known to other searchers- Bertie County North Carolina Deed Book CC, p. 35, Feb. 7, 1829 HENRY KING of State of North Carolina and County of Wake, WILLIAM KING of Wake County, MARY KING of Wake County, ELIZABETH KING of Chatham County and CHARLES KING of Guilford County by virtue of a power of attorney made by the four last named persons and above named HENRY KING in his own right of one part and John Freeman of Bertie County - witness that the said HENRY KING has sold a certain tract of land in Bertie County agreeable to plats No. 13 and 27, HENRY KING's part, half brother of WILLIAM KING, deceased , No. 13 on Rocquist Swamp adjoining Benton King and No. 27 adjoining John Thompson, No. 13 of 42 acres and No. 27 of 58 acres. Witnesses George Askew and Henry R. Bond. By way of explanation, the land being described is land belong to WILLIE KING , minor son of CHARLES KING, Senior. WILLIE KING die unmarried and still aminor. The land was divided among his brothers and sisters. CHARLES KING, Sr. was the son of CHARLES KING, the grandson of WILLIAM KING and ggrandson of MICHAEL KING who first patented land in Nansemond County in 1667. I hope this information will be of use to researchers. Henry L. King >> Hello Henry and any other interested King of the Wake County group: I was reviewing some notes for my Royster family, and came across some data from a Ball family researcher about her connections with the Royter family and other families. This information was submitted by Jean Dunn of Roxboro, North Carolina. She mentioned that Sarah, a daughter of George Smith Ball and his wife Margaret A. Taylor, married 29 April 1866 in Caswell County in the town of Milton, a Marquis L. King, son of Anderson and Willie P. King of Wake County, North Carolina. This information may indicate that some of the Kings of Wake County could have had familial ties to the Kings of Caswell County. In my researching of my King family of Orange/Alamance County, I have had to sort out the various seeminly independent lines of King families in the area, including Caswell County. If any of you Kings have ties to the Wake County area, if you can furnish me with any data earlier than the 1866 date above, I might be able to find some kind of King connection with the Caswell group. Best regards, John Fox Winston-Salem, NC