Hi Gordon, Five hours later I know an awful lot about this family but I know absolutely nothing about the marriage or Nancy's last name. I have 67 books on marriages in South Carolina (with various approaches: parishes, implied, Scots, Native Americans, Catholic, English, Irish, German, Quaker, Baptist, registers of ministers, newspapers, etc.) and there is nothing there of any spelling. I have encountered many variations of the spelling of Stokeley/Stokely/Stockley/Stockeley and every time I found a different spelling I went back over the books again to be certain that I hadn't missed anything. I have very few Tennessee resources but I did find The Stokeley Family of Cocke County in Tennessee Cousins. In this entry, as I'm sure you know, "Jehu, an English sailor who at a very early day (1747) came to the port of Charleston." I have just as many sources that say he was BORN then. I have checked all emigration/immigration/ship records to ascertain if any other family members came with him, since a Stokely family is also found in PA and VA. I found Jehu's military bounty land grant of 228 acres (July 15, 1785) but could find nothing on where it was or any record of warrants or surveys. Keep in mind that at the end of the Revolutionary War, North Carolina still had not made good the pay accounts (paper vouchers) of the Continental Army. So NC set aside a portion of the state's eastern section (which shortly became Tennessee) and issued land warrants there to satisfy the debt of military service. A Rev. Soldier could sell his warrant, pay a debt with it or travel east and locate vacant that he liked in the specified area, present his warrant (or someone's) to a surveyor. The acres would be surveyed, and the Military Land Grant would be issued and filed. I really labored over the idea that an English (or Wales) sailor landing in Charleston would travel to Warren County, NC, serve in the Continental Line, and almost immediately move to Cocke County, Tennessee. That seemed like "the long way around the barn". The only thing that I'm sure of is that his land grant for military service would have been in eastern Tennessee (about halfway into the state as we now know it) if he exercised the warrant. In other words - I can't help you at all! Dee All lookup requests will be permanently archived on the Bladen County Genweb site. For a detailed bibliography on the reference sources used for lookups refer to this Link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm -----Original Message----- From: sccharle-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sccharle-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Stokely Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:05 PM To: sccharle@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCCHARLE] Lookup requests (STOKELY, NEAL) Dee Thompson; My 6x Grandfather, Jehu Stokely and his wife Nancy Neal where married in Charleston South Carolina in the late 1700's, they later moved to Warren county North Carolina (formerly Bute county) where their family is listed in the 1790 Census. They later moved to Cocke county Tennessee in the late 1790's (~1797). 1. Can you do a lookup to see if the land he was granted from the war was cashed-in in Bute/Warren County NC before they headed west to Tennessee? 2. Can you do a lookup to see when and where they where married and the correct spelling of her name? Thanks Gordon Stokely Mason Ohio ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCCHARLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message