Any of you MAXWELL researchers have any info on the parents of Nancy MAXWELL who married, about 1818, William J ASHLEY? Wilkes County was formed from Surry Co in 1778, and Surry Co from Rowan in 1771. Some records of people living in what is now Wilkes/Ashe will be found in Surry and Rowan County. Officially there were not supposed to be any white people in what is now Ashe/Watauga until 1776 because it was behind the British/Indian treaty line. However, we know there were at least some hunting camps, several established by Andrew BAKER evidently, in the Ashe Co area as early as the late 1750s. Bishop Spangenberg supposedly found some evidence of habitation in there when he made his trek in 1753. (Jeff, if I have this wrong, please correct me). Charlie Weaver MargieBr@aol.com wrote: > Dear Crystal, My understanding is that Wilkes was parent county for Ashe > County and other counties, so you look for records there if it concerned 1799 > or before. I found a handful of Maxwells on the land tax lists in the 1790s. > It is organized by military districts, it seems. I am at work away from my > files, so I don't remember exactly. A man's name was the head of each > district, and he had a title like Captain or Lt. I believe I found these in > a book at the Salt Lake City library, and it had maps of land holdings along > the creeks and rivers. Just having a map was helpful for placing these > people. Margie