The given name William looks good for a father of Elisha (oldest son is Wm) 2nd son John; Mary is good for wife of Wm & mother of Elisha. At 10:54 PM 11/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Kay, >Lets take them one at a time. I'm going to give you what I can find and >you get to make sense of it. >NORTH CAROLINA MCGEES > >From # 120 >Duplin County >993. Sept. 22, 1779 Shadrach Magee enters 150 ac on S side of Muddy Cr >and on John Halso's Swamp. >Also in this index are Anne, Holden, Jacob, John, Miller, Phill, >Solomon and William Magee. > > >From # 6 paraphrased: <snip> >The Will of William McGee (1822), mentions wife Elizabeth, 8 unnamed >children and Zilpha Dickson; son Thomas is extr. **This would look good if born 1831 son Wm md an Elizabeth Francis Bean; The Dickson connection is interesting, but ours comes in AL abt the 1860s and after. <snip> > >From # 5 >John, Holden, Thomas and William (MCGEE and MAGEE) have dozens of >deeds in Duplin. **No Thomases in this family until much later (weird). I'll look at the Deeds there in Duplin. Ancestry hasn't come up with much so far in their listings > >From # 150. >808 WILLIAM McGEHEE (MAGEE) FAMILY >(This is the family that John Sikes married into) >William McGehee (Magee-McGee) was living in Edgecombe County as early >as 1733. He was Sheriff of Edgecombe in 1748. He moved to that part >of Duplin which became Sampson County about 1750. . . . .(no mention >of any descendants going to Georgia). **Exactly!! This is the one I'll send it off to cousin David, his Catherine married Edward Sikes b. Bladen County, NC abt 1795 in Bryan County, GA 1-- John Sikes (1750- ) ,Edgecombe County,North Carolina sp-FNU MNU ( - ) 2-- Edward Sikes (1774-1828) ,Bladen County,North Carolina sp-Catherine McGee (1770- ) ,,Georgia 3-- Samuel Sikes (1813- ) sp-Elizabeth Smith (1809-1847) ,Bryan County,Georgia 4-- Samuel Isaac Sikes [I] (1837-1924) ,Bryan County,Georgia sp-Augusta Virginia Brooks (1849-1929) Richmond,Henrico County,VA 5-- Annie Sikes (1870-1949) Near Macon,Bibb County,Georgia sp-David Sears Whitt (1864-1936) Wytheville,Wythe County,VA <snip> > >From # 10 paraphrased: >Jacob, John, Robert, Shadrach and William McGee were all in Duplin in >1779. >James, John, John, Jr, Philip, Robert, Solomon, Thomas and Willis >McGee were all in Sampson in 1784. >Mary McGee was in Bladen in 1784. **These James and Johns look good I'll have to re-look at those census records. > >From # 13 >2587 pg. 590 WILLIAM HURST 11 December 1770 250 acres in >Duplin on the W. side of great Cohera, joining ninety-six Branch, >Bushes Line, WILLIAM NEWMAN, and ELISHA MCGEE > >7040 pg. 334 ELISHA MAGEE 22 December 1768 200 acres in >Duplin on the W. side of great Cohera between Bushes lower Line and >JOHN MAGEE, joining the Marsh >(Solomon Magee received a patent the same day in the same area. - >William, John and Ralph were there too) **Interesting if this was my Elisha's grandfather Elisha <snip> >the dealership. Who knew that genealogy was this rough? **Be careful and remember your priorities -- your life come first! forget the genealogy AND the car. >Dee <snip> For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm