John, In Brunswick County, we had a group of Anabaptists from Cape May, New Jersey, immigrate to the Supply/Holden Beach area. In NJ they had been whalers primarily. In Brunswick County they fished and farmed. If you can tell me what surnames you are looking for I'll see if they appear among the list of people who left the church in Cape May and came south. Some of the names include Holden, Leonard, Hewett. Also, we have one community, Varnamtown, that was settled by families coming from Massachusetts, including Varnam/Varnum. I have not researched this but it is my understanding from others who have is that they worked their way down the East Coast over a period of years and finally settled at the mouth of the Lockwood Folly River. This community is having a HUGE oyster roast this Saturday if you are anywhere within driving distance of Brunswick County. $20 per person or fish plates $10--Susan Usher Eggert One of my ancestors was a Caison who was tracked from near Boston all the way to the NC coast...a cousin of mine spent years doing just that. Never did ask her if he was part of a group or by himself. So yes there is at least some truth to what you have heard. > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:13:30 -0800 (GMT-08:00) > From: John Page <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]link.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Has anyone heard of immigrants coming down to Eastern NC from NJ or New England? I am a participant in a family name DNA testing project and the men in the test group who are not relatives who have the nearest DNA match to mine are descendents of immigrants to NJ and NE. Some believe our families ancestors came down from VA, but the DNA testing so far does not support that conclusion. > > Regards, John Page > > -----Original Message----- > >From: William Mallory <[email protected]> > >Sent: Nov 1, 2006 1:33 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants > > > >Some of the earliest groups to arrive, coming over in the 1730s, were > >Scots-Irish from Ulster, who came up the NE Cape Fear and Black Rivers. They > >were followed by many English settlers from the Roanoke River and Onslow > >County, Welsh from Delaware, Germans and Swiss from New Bern, French > >Huguenots and Scottish Highlanders. > > > >W.M. Mallory > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > >On Behalf Of Aubry Simpson > >Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:38 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants > > > >Where did the residents of Duplin county prior to the 1790 census immigrate > >from? > > > >Aubrey Simpson > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > >in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:03:00 -0600 > From: "2rousej" <[email protected]> > Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Rouse's in Duplin > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > List, Jim ROUSE here, researching the following Duplin Co., ROUSE's; Nathan, Henry, Reuben, Phinehas and Ebenezer ROUSE, circa 1775-1830. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:15:33 -0500 > From: "Lura" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > John, > > You asked if settlers came from NJ to Duplin. NJ is adjacent to PA, > so if they came from PA, some may have come from NJ also. It is a > mystery to me how they moved around so much in those wagons! > > Lura > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Page" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:13 PM > Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants > > > : Has anyone heard of immigrants coming down to Eastern NC from NJ or > New England? I am a participant in a family name DNA testing project > and the men in the test group who are not relatives who have the > nearest DNA match to mine are descendents of immigrants to NJ and NE. > Some believe our families ancestors came down from VA, but the DNA > testing so far does not support that conclusion. > : > : Regards, John Page >