Paula, It might be worth your time to check out military land grants. Some of my Johnston/Johnsons of Pitt Co, NC made the move to Caldwell and Livingston Co, KY by way of military (Revolutionary War) land grants. Karen -----Original Message----- >From: Paula Baker <paulabaker69@yahoo.com> >Sent: Feb 6, 2009 9:58 AM >To: nc-pcfr@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NC-PCFR] STEWART COUNTY, TENN. DEEDS > >Roger and others, > >On the BakerDNA.net website, my Bakers from Greene Co and Pitt have matched someone from Kentucky. In tracing all of this back, we suspect that we are part of the early Bertie County Bakers who branched out to Greene, Gates, Pitt, etc. So far we can't trace exact lines. My father matched pretty closely a man whose Bakers may have come from Caldwell Co KY. > Paula Baker >Researching Cole, Wilkerson, Norman, and White in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana and >Baker, Tyson, Manning, and Stocks in North Carolina > > >"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." > > >Thomas Mann > > > > >________________________________ >From: Roger E. Kammerer <kammerer@hotmail.com> >To: PCFR PCFR <nc-pcfr@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 10:25:49 PM >Subject: [NC-PCFR] STEWART COUNTY, TENN. DEEDS > > >STEWART COUNTY, TENN. DEEDS > >Book 2 [1806-1809 registrations for 1783-1809 deeds] > > >2 Edward HARRIS (Craven Co., NC) to John BRYAN Jr. (Johnston Co., NC), 640a on N side of Obion River, on a creek below Big Clover Lick, adj. James MARTIN’s N boundary & HARRIS’ entry #2373; wit: Blake BRYAN, M. GILLUS; 17 Jul 1791, registered in Johnston Co. Aug 1791 (Book T, p. 14) >251 State of NC #2406 to Sherrod BARROW, assignee of Archibald DAVIS, 640a in Sumner Co., on the creek that Joseph THOMAS was killed, about 7 miles below Aaron LAMBERT’s entry #1399; 20 Jan 1894, registered 28 Nov 1808 >253 Thomas BLANCHARD and George CHANDLER to Samuel MARSH (all of Norfolk, VA), 15 tracts, incl. 13 warrants belonging to Benjamin SHEPHERD of Glasgow Co., NC (warrants 352, 358, 364, 372, 355, 350 & 533 for 640a each; warrants 669, 670, 671, 672 & 673 for 1000a each), plus 2 tracts belonging to the heirs of John McNEESE (Mary McNEESE, Sarah McNEESE, Anna McNEESE, Humphrey & Hannah JONES); wit: Jonan LANGLEY, Richard ARCHER, James L. COX; 24 Sep 1798, registered 19 Dec 1808 >256 Benjamin SHEPHERD (Glasgow Co., NC) to James TUCKER (Norfolk, Va.), 13 tracts (patents 352, 358, 364, 372, 355, 350, 533 @ 640a each, 669, 670, 671, 672, 673 @ 1000a each, patent 1807 in Sumner Co. @ 640a); wit: Martin G. SHEPHERD, Sherrod BARROW (Hancock Co., GA); 13 Jan 1797, registered 20 Dec 1808 >259 William PUGH Jr. (Bertie Co., NC) to the children of his brother Henry H. PUGH, deed of gift of 5 trunks & 2 beds already in his brother’s possession; 8 Aug 1808, registered 21 Dec 1808 >260 William PUGH Sr. (Bertie Co., NC) to the children of his son Henry Hill PUGH, deed of gift of Negroes Jim & Molley; 8 Aug 1808, registered 21 Dec 1808 >281 State of NC #1167 to Pvt. Lewis CANNON, 1584a on Spring Creek (where a party of surveyors was defeated in November 1789), adj. MONTFLORENCE; 26 Nov 1789, registered 5 Apr 1808 in Montgomery Co., registered 18 Feb 1809 in Stewart Co. >288 William CURL (Stewart Co. Sheriff) to William M. COOLEY, 388a on Dyers Creek; land was sold for delinquent 1804 taxes of Lewis CANNON, and was part of his 1584a NC grant #1167 on 26 Nov 1789; 25 Oct 1808, registered 25 Feb 1809 > >_________________________________________________________________ >Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. >http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Faster_022009 >Pitt County Family Researchers website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ > >Message archives address: >http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=nc-pcfr > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NC-PCFR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > Pitt County Family Researchers website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr/ > >Message archives address: >http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=nc-pcfr > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NC-PCFR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message