Dear Granville Mail List Members, For any of you who are interested in the Granville > Wilson migration there is a lively discussion on the Wilson list about early settlers in Wilson County. You can subscribe by entering the single word "subscribe" in the message area and sending it to [email protected] Bob ye olde prof , [email protected], posted this this morning to Wilson-L. Donna Bob Wrote: Since many are interested, the following is copied from Goodspeed's History of Wilson Co., TN, p. 840ff: [In the first two paragraphs I have omitted the number of acres listed] "The following years between 1780 and 1790: William Ray, Isadore Skerett, James Kennedy, Cornelius Dabney, John Burton (Barton?), John Williams, John Conroe (?), Hardy Murfree, Nicholas Conroe (?), Thomas Evans, John Davidson, Stephen Merritt, James C. Mountflorence, John Kain, Walter Allen, Redmond T. Barry, William Hogan, Andrew Bostane. "Between 1790 and 1800P: Robert Stewart, Jonathan Green, John Boyd, Philip Shankler, John Haywood, William Lytle, Alexander Mebane, Jeremiah Hendricks, James Rogers, John Brown, William Fleming, Bennett Searcy, Ambrose Jones, Edward Harris, Henry Barnes, George Kennedy, Jacob Patton, Reeves Porter, James Menees, Thomas Evans, Gideon Pillow, Delilah Roberts, David DOuglas, Johnson Hadley, Joseph Cloyd, Daniel Wilbourn, James Barron, Vachel Clark, Jesse Cobb, Samuel Churchhill, Boyd Castleman, Ephraim Peyton, Alexander Denny, William Hogan, Willie Cherry, Archibald Lytle, Lazarus James, John Wright, Henry Ross, John Dabney, William Martin, David Gibson, Thedford and George Brewer, John Boyd, Jr., Samuel Barton and Absolum Tatum. "Many of the above never became settlers of the county, and numbers of the pioeers of Wilson County purchased of them the lands on which they settled. The first settlement of Wilson County was made in the year 1797 at Drake's Lick, near the mouth of Spencer Lick Creek on Cumberland River which was afterward the northeast corner of Davidson County, by WILLIAM McCLAIN and JOHN FOSTER. Two years later, JOHN FOSTER, WILLIAM DONNELL and ALEXANDER BARKLEY made a settlement on Spring Creek, seven miles southeast of the present town of Lebanon. During the same year settlements were made on Hickory Ridge, five miles west of Lebanon, by JOHN K. WYNN(E) and CHARLES KAVANAUGH, both of whom came from North Carolina, and on the waters of Round Lick Creek by WILLIAM HARRIS and WILLIAM McSPADDEN, of North Carolina, and JAMES WRATHER and SAMUEL KING of Virginia, and also on the waters of Spring Crek about eight miles south of Lebanon by JOHN DOAK, JOHN FOSTER, DAVID MAGATHEY, ALEXANDER BRADEN, the DONNELLS, and probably others.... "From 1799 the settlement of the county was rapid. The lands lying on the waters of the various creeks being the richer and easier of cultivation were naturally the first setled, and hence in giving the following list of names on the early settlers they have been grouped into creek neighborhoods. "On Barton's Creek: Charles Blaylock, ELijah Trewitt, Levi Holloway, Henry Shannon, Snowden Hickman, William Eddings, THomas Moss, Eleazer Provine, John Lane, Byrd Wall, William Thomas, Samuel Wilson, George Swingler (note, name is actually Swingley), John Goldston, Benjamin Eskew, Jeremiah Still, Thomas Sypert, George Wynn(e), Benjamin WIneford (note, actually Winford), William Peace, James Mayes, John Cage, Alexander Chance, Jacob Martin, Henry Reed, William Elkins, James Menees, John Allcorn, Thomas Congers, and probably others. "On Spring Creek: James Cannon, Solomon Marshall, James Chappell, Walter Carrouth, Martin Talley, George Alexander, Joseph Moxley, Hugh Morris, Bartlett Graves. Spencer Talley, John Forbes, William Bartlett, William Sherrill, John Stembridge, Josiah Smith, Alligood Wallard (note, actually Woollard), Thomas Williams, Purnell Hearn, John Jones, John Walsh, Samuel Elliott, Benajmin Mottley, Richard Hawkins, Gregory Johnson, William Steele, Henry Chandler, Arthur Dew, Daniel Cherry, Adam Harpole and others. "On Cedar Creek: Hugh Roane, John Provine, Alex Aston, Samuel Calhoun, Perry Taylor, John L. Davis, Mathew FIgures, David Billings, Irwin Tomlinson, Joseph Trout, Hooker Reeves, Nathan Cartwright, Lewis Chambers, Andrew Swan, William Harris, William Wilson and Joseph Weir. "On Spencer Creek: John Walker, William White, Brittain Drake, Lewis Kirby, William Gray, Joel Echols, Robert Mitchell, Philip- Koonce, James McFarland, Moore Stevenson, Jere Hendricks and Richard Drake. "On Cedar Lick Creek: Theophilus Bass, Clement Jennings, John Everett, John Gleaves, Reuben Searcy, Joshua Kelley, James Everett, James H. Davis, Thomas Davis, Howell Wren, William Rose, Edmund Vaughn. George SMith, Harmon Hays and Daniel Spicer." * * * * If this is of interest, I shall be happy to post the listings for Cumberland RIver, Stoner Lick Creek, Suggs Creek, Sinking Creek, Pond Lick Creek, Creek, Call Creek, Smith Fork, Round Lick Creek. Bob ye olde prof Donna Carmichael - [email protected] Listowner - NCGRANVI-L (Granville NC) mailing list