Brenda, I don't know if this is any help.... Annals of Floyd County 1800-1821 by Wells lists a few references to a Meredith and Meriday Collins and one Margaret. Most are deed transactions on Shelby Creek. One is an agreement to try for Salt Water on 6 Aug. 1819. The one reference to Margaret (sometimes shortened to Mary) is: 16 Nov. 1809: Articles of Agreement for Dissolution of Marriage between Daniel Bence Jr. and Mary, his wife, with Danile Wolf, the father of Mary Bence, of Surry County, N. C. , acting as trustee for Mary Bence. Daniel Wolf agrees to rais e Lewis Bence, the child of Daniel and Mary Bence. WITNESS: William J. MAyo, Richard Collins and Margaret Collins. Not much help, but it's all I could find. Candy Parent Tazewell County, VAGenWeb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatazewe/ http://www.htonline.com/~candy/ candy@htonline.com -----Original Message----- From: RUCollins2@aol.com <RUCollins2@aol.com> To: KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com <KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:17 AM Subject: [KYPIKE-L] Help.......... > >Hello List, > >I am in kind of a delima and wondered if anybody on this list might be able to >help me out. Where is the story. > >I have been searching for many many years for info on Meredith COLLINS b. 1760 >Va. d. 1841 Pike Co. KY. His first wife after all these years has never been >found tho all researchers believe that marriage took place around the >birthdate of first son Bradley who was b. 1786 NC. Meredith's second wife has >always been thought to be Mary "Polly" HOLLOWAY but in the 25+ years of >research I have never found one piece of evidence that proves his wife's name >was HOLLOWAY. > >The researcher that documented HOLLOWAY as Meredith's wife was Eula Collins >Conley, the great granddaughter of Meredith but I guess even Eula might/could >have mad a mistake. It just seems odd that we have never been able to trace >anything about this person. > >Last week I recieved an email about a marriage on a cd in Tyrell Co. NC that >a >M. COLLINS mar Mary HORTON 2-1-1800. This Mary would probably also be >referred to as Mary "Polly" Collins . Then another email came out of Orange >Co. email list with this info......... > > >Brenda, > >Just wanted to say that I have the map by Markham. There is a Key Index >to the Map, however only one Collins is listed. > >There is Joseph Collins (1752) owning land. It is a large block of land. >Flat River goes through the upper right side tip. Surrounding owners >William Combs, James Scarlett, John Brown, Ansil Parrish, James >Marshburn (don't see him listed in index), William Churton. James Walker >is below James Marshburn. > >Thomas Collins (1761). Dial Creek runs through his land. It is a branch >off Flat River. Thomas's land is square also however it is the shape of >an upside down "U". The center of this "U" is owned by Henry Horton. The >outer land owners are John Brown (same property as above), John >Carrinton, Thomas Person, Arthur Mangum, William Smallwood, William >Ashley, William McFarland. > >Just thought I would pass this along to you. > >All this land is in the upper right hand corner of Orange County. > >Gloria > >-- >Walker - Vaughn - Acadian Webpage >http://www.geocities.com/~vauwal >http://pw2.netcom.com/~daglo/gloria.html (simple) > >Gloria Vaughn Walker >daglo@ix.netcom.com >P.O.Box 890874 >Houston, TX >77289-0874 > >NOTE: That living around my COLLINS kin is Henry HORTON. Also my father and >grandfather carried the name WALKER in the middle name. When I ask the family >how come Walker I was told it was an old family name however I have never been >able to find a Walker. My gggrandfather is John W. Collins s/o of Meredith and >everybody always assumed that the "W" was for Wesley but it also could have >been for Walker. > >Can anybody look through your sources and see if you can find a death record >on this Mary "Polly" Collins who d. about 1812 in Floyd Co. ,later Pike Co. >Also does anybody have any source book on early Russell Co. births that could >check the records for Meredith;s children born in Russell county between >1800-1809. Any help appreciated and any subjections as to where to go from >here are welcome. > >Brenda Collins Dillon > > > >==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >...........................PIKE MAILING LIST........................... >Our PikeList is sponsored by the RootsWeb Data Genealogical Cooperative >"ROOTSWEB" is funded entirely by you the genealogical community. To be >informed how you can support these and other internet genealogy through >RootsWeb why not go ahead and visit their site right now and learn how. >.......http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html.......... >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > >