Barbara, What a mess! FROM # 25 REUBEN GREEN has 1 free white male sixteen years and upwards, including heads of families, 3 free white males under sixteen, 4 free white females, including heads of families In addition to the JACOB and JOSEPH KELLEY that you mentioned, there are also a JAMES and MARY KELLEY/KELLY Also DANIEL, JOHN, JOSEPH, RICHARD and WILLIAM FOWLER Also JOHN, NATHANIEL, THOMAS, JR. and THOMAS, SR. THORNTON FROM # 10 JOSEPH KELLY in Sampson in 1784 WM. FOWLER in Granville in 1771 REUBEN GREEN in Sampson in 1784 FROM # 13 JAMES, JOHN,, DANIEL and GEORGE FOWLER ANDREW, JAMES, JOSEPH, MATHEW, MISS, NELSON, NIEL and WILLIAM KELLY and ARCHIBALD, JOHN, and NELSON KELLEY HEROD, JAMES, JOHN, NATHANIEL, THOMAS, JR. and THOMAS, SR. THORNTON BRYAN, FARNIFOLD, FARNIFOLD SR., HENRY, JACOB, JAMES, JOHN, JOSEPH, MARY, MATHEW, RICHARD, ROBERT, SAMUEL, THOMAS, WILLIAMS, JR. and WM. GREEN FROM # 5 JOHN KELLY DAVID, JOHN, JOSEPH, RO. G., THOMAS and TIMOTHY GREEN AND 1A 197 REUBEN GREEN to FREDERICK WILLIAMS, both of Duplin Co., 14 Oct 1785, for 32 pds. 10 shill. specie 90A on the SS of Rockfish Creek incl. the sd. GREEN'S impr., beg. at a white oak supposed to be NATHANIEL MERRADITH'S corner, patented by REUBEN GREEN 1784. Wit: AARON WILLIAMS, JAMES RYAN. Oct. Ct. 1785 There are no weddings cross-referenced between these four families in either # 8 or # 14. Go over all this and let me know which ones you want the full version of.. Dee -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Martin <barbaramn@gnt.net> To: d7777@worldnet.att.net <d7777@worldnet.att.net> Date: Sunday, November 28, 1999 6:04 PM Subject: Fowlers in Sampson Co. >Dear Dee, >You have done so much for me already, and here goes yet another request. I >realized I couldn't post this on the Bladen list, but perhaps among your >other books you might have some information. >I have also went this to Jason, after discovering he has a Fowler line. >I have noted in recent messages that Jason has a Fowler line. I also have >one and I am so frustrated. My ggg-gf was Thornton Fowler, born in GA or NC >about 1790, said to be the son of a William Fowler. He had two brothers, >Jeremiah and William. Thornton was in Washington Co., GA by 1820, and >Jeremiah in Wilkinson Co, GA by that same date. >I found in the 1870 SampsonCo., Honeycutts township,NC census, one Thornton >Fowler. Expecting great things, I looked that up and found him to be black. >Not over six or seven households a way was a white John Fowler, aged 68. >Logic tells me that the black Thornton could have been a newly-freed slave, >possibly having been owned by John. My next conclusion was that possibly my >Thonrton could have been a close family member of that John, and the slave >was given his name. >Another interesting detail of my Thornton was that he forever moved around >with Jacob Kelly, RS, son of Jacob Kelly, son of Joseph Kelly, all of NC. >Both Joseph and Jacob Kelly are shown in the 1790 Fayette Dist., Sampson >Co. Heads of Family, p. 51, not terribly far from your William and Daniel >Fowler. >Jacob Kelly and Thornton Fowler lived near each other in Washington Co., GA, >Doole Co., GA, and Coffee or Dale Co., AL. where they both died. I suspect >they were related. >Do you find anything about my Thornton and his brother Jeremiah? Are there >untraced lines for the William and Daniel shown in that census? Have you >found any Fowler/Kelly marriages? Were there any Thornton/Fowler marriages? >Also, when you get the chance to check the books for my Kelly/Green names, >woulc you also be on the lookout for a Rueben Green, please? >Thank you so much for any help you may give. >Barbara Martin >(Searching Kelly, Green, Fowler and possibly Thornton) >