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: The Will of Ann McGee (1860)," widow of the late Thomas McGee" mentions Cornelius McMillan, John C. McMillan, Samuel T. McMillan, George J. McMillan, Ann Rebecca Lennon, Catharine Kelly. The Will of William McGee (1822), mentions wife Elizabeth, 8 unnamed children and Zilpha Dickson; son Thomas is extr. 375. The Will of David C. Moore (1860) mentions "my negroes Known as Magee Negroes excepting those I purchased from Thomas H. Magee." (his wife's name is Elizabeth) >From # 5 John, Holden, Thomas and William (MCGEE and MAGEE) have dozens of deeds in Duplin. >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). >From # 17 (remote but interesting) 815 GEORGE THAGGARD William Thaggard (1796-1878 Marion County, GA) married 1819 Lettice McGeehee. paraphrased: his brother M. John Thaggard (1792-1835 Marion County, GA). >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. >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) >From # 4 paraphrased; There are two NC Grants to Elias McGee in Lucas Neck (Bladen County), both entered 9 Jan 1802. I need to look at Marion County at the archives this week, but this will give you something to think about until then. I'm a tad reluctant to go back to the archives, - last week my windows were broken out in the guarded/secured parking lot. I'm still finding pieces of glass in the car and it had to be "flat-bedded" (wrecker) to the dealership. Who knew that genealogy was this rough? Dee For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: K. McGee <kmcgee03@earthlink.net> To: Dee Thompson <d7777@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: Re: McGee Thanks for the welcome back, Dee! I still have the same old problem. Lovely lovely Elisha McGEE (whom I'm beginning to believe never saw Bladen County NC) Adding a couple of new given names to the search for Elisha, how about Sherod and Shadrack (spellings vary of course). Is there any possibility that you saw these names when you found the Jesse you mentioned? I seem to be stuck thinking there is a link to the two other given names, Sherod and Shadrack; how, I'm now sure. The given name Sherod shows up in Marion County GA in about 1842 when I found the following on Ancestry: >14 April 1842 >Marion Co. > Elisha McGee.applies for **admr' of the estate of Sherod McGee..** > Burton W.Dowd..ordinary This is the county where Elisha and Seleta Mauk marries and lives before taking off for AR. So if there is a connection to NC and Bladen County, one would assume that Sherod would show up there too -- but I can't find him any where else but on the 1830 GA census, which is so helpful <groan>, but shows this from left to right: 2 2 - - - - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - - 1 - - - - - - -etc. On Shadrack, that's a cousin's line but could very likely end up mine too -- the way my family does, marries within the known. Even though he mostly shows up in various GA, I did find a Shadrack McGee in NC: >Database: North Carolina Census, 1790-1890 >Year Surname Given Name (s) County State Page Township or Other Info >Record Type Database ID# >1783 MCGEE SHADRACK Duplin County NC Early Tax List NC Early Census >Index NC5335434 >~ >Ancestry dot com >Search Terms: MCGEE (262), SHADRACK (414) >Combined Matches: 1 This Shadrack line is associated with the Dukes and the Sikes. So, if you can come up with miracles of a sort and find hints on these guys, I'd sure be appreciative! Kay kmcgee03@earthlink.net ~ Genealogy: http://home.earthlink.net/~kmcgee03/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cousins Link to Photo Album: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cousins/photolinks-alt.html At 02:35 PM 11/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: >WELCOME HOME! >Let me know when you have a list of questions ready. >We're glad you're back. >Dee >For details on sources used, refer to this link: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm <snip>