Bebenjohn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 7/6/2000 5:05:41 PM, NCALAMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com > writes: > > << From: Sue <canova@tstar.net> > To: NCALAMAN-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <39639840.9D28862@tstar.net> > Subject: [NCALAMAN] Garrison and Meadors > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hello list. > Am looking for the families of Garrison and Meadors of Alamance Co and > prior to that Duplin Co. N.C. > My Jane Garrison was b. 22 Sept. 1785 on Haw River in what is now > Alamance Co. She was the dau. of Jedediah Garrison b. abt 1748-50, > supposedly in Duplin Co. and Jane (Williams) Garrison, also of Duplin > Co. > > Jane Garrison married Barnabus Meadors b. 1783 in N.C. (county unknown). > They went to Banks Co. GA. > Would really like to know the father/parents of Jane Williams. They were > in Edgefield Co., S.C. at one time, prior to going to GA. > > Anyone have any clues to these families? > Thanks, Sue Ashby >> > > Hello Sue, > > We have corresponded previously about your Garrisons. From the research that > I have done on the Alamance/Orange County Garrisons, most of the Garrisons > there descend from a Garrett Garretson of New Castle County, Delaware: Garret > Garretson Will written and probated in New Castle, Delaware, Christiana > Hundred, 21 January 1755; probated 17 February 1755. Misc. 1.23. Wife, Mary; > son John; sons. Henry, George, Garret and Jacob; two daughters, Ann and > Rebecca; daughter, Eleanora. Exc. son, John; wife, Mary. Overseer, William > Armstrong.(Calendar of Delaware Wills, 1754-1756, New Castle County, pages > 52-53. > > Henry Garretson(Garrison), son of the above, settled in Orange County, now > Alamance, ca 1750 when that area was opened for settlement at that time. I > would suspect that your Jedediah may himself have come from New Castle or > perhaps his father. Duplin was not established as a county until 1750, > although I feel sure that there were some settlers there prior to it's > becoming a county. The fact that he moved to Orange in the vicinity of the > Henry Garrison family, could mean that they were aware of each others > existence, and perhaps stimulated Jedediah's move from Duplin to Orange. I > would not say that they were brothers, more likely cousins, as Garret > Garretson's will did not name a Jedediah. There were Williams also who > settled in nearby Caswell County in the 1750s. Perhaps this was also a > connection to the Orange/Alamance area. The family of William Armstrong, > named as overseer in the will of Garret Garretson, also had ties to > Orange/Alamance. Mary Armstrong was wife to Alexander Mebane, Jr. of > Orange/Alamance. > > Hope that this helps some in your search. > > Best regards, > > John Fox > Winston Salem, NC