Pearscp@aol.com wrote: > In my research I have found nothing to tie Baron von Graffenreid to the Welsh > settlement. I believe he was instrumental in bringing a number of "Swish > Palatines" to the New Bern area. Some of which settled in Duplin County. > The Duplin County Historical Society publication "Footnotes" contains some > information on both Graffenreid and the Welsh tract. Unfortunately, I can > not state exactly which issues of the "Footnotes". > Steve Pearsall Steve, I'm not the one who asked the original question, but I was surely interested in your answer relative to the Swiss Palatines. Did any settle in the area of Six Runs Creek just south of Clinton and Turkey, which was then Duplin County, NC? My interest is in finding parents for Alexander Carrol/Carrell. He settled in the Six Runs Creek Area of Duplin County sometime prior to 1783. That area became Sampson County in 1784. Demcy Carrel signed (his signature) Alexander's bond for his marriage to Lucy Royal April 7, 1783. Listed in the 1790 Census there was a DEMEY CARROL and a DEMCY CARROL. [All the CARRELLS/CARROLLS were listed as CARROL that year.] These names seemed to be the same ones written by the Clerk of Court to be Dempsey Carrell and Dempsey Carrell, Jr. I cannot find it now, but early in my research I saw somewhere on the internet a marriage of a Demey Carrel to ?Maria?Baulch?, who was born in Switzerland. A local Duplin County historian suggested some early settlers in the area around Six Runs Creek might have been involved in gathering resin for turpentine. I have read that some Swiss Settlers also did that. If anyone has knowledge of the Palatines' names and/or location where they settled, I would like to exchange information with them. I have information on the family of Major Hardy Carrell, who was the son of Alexander and Lucy. Lura "A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE." Prov.17:22 SO, Let's get those skeletons out of the closet and teach them to dance!