Brenda, Thanks for the information - will add to database for circumstantial for them being brothers. Wonder if Alexander I had a Will in Greene that left some of his land in Pitt to his son Alexander. I have not seen anything either to indicate he had any land or a land patent. Don't think it would have been Coward land as they appear to be just in Craven and Greene; however, they were on the line in Craven originally where some of that land ended up in Pitt, Greene and Lenoir. I have not gone back to the DAR in the past few weeks to double check the Craven deeds for the Harpers. That is on my list of things to do - soon as things settle a little more and street closings are not on a day by day basis. Martha >From: "Brenda Stocks" <[email protected]> >Old-To: "NC-PCFR" <[email protected]> >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Martha, > You wrote: >I am assuming that this Alexander was the brother to your Edward since they >both had land on Back Swamp in Pitt. NOthing else to go on. > > >I agree with you that Alexander (d.1846) and Edward were probably brothers.I >have tried to find when they acquired their land, both adj. to Nehemiah >Garris in the Littlefield area of Pitt. Nehemiah Garris was deeded his land >by his father John Garris in 1823 (John Garris bought it from Joseph Jackson >(pat.) in 1822). The plat of this parcel in Ronald Garris' book shows the >lower left corner abutting Alexander Harper. So Alexander Harper acquired >his parcel sometime prior to 1822. I could not find any record of that in >Elisons deed abstracts or Hofmann's Patents. Edward Harper (Greene) >purchased his land in 1815 from John Van Pelt(Craven) and Jonathon Van >Pelt(Craven), 302 1/2 acres for $850. Adjacent to Thomas Joiner, Samuel >Wingate, Elisha Griffin and Allen Cannon. Former owners Joseph Jackson >(Pat.) and Lawry Van Pelt (from Elison).The Garris land was bought from >Joseph Jackson also, part of a patent. The South boundary of the Garris >land abutted Griffin Land , and the East boundary abutted Cannon land.So >Alexander's land was probably very close to Edward's land since they both >were close to Nehemiah Garris.Nehemiah was born in 1790 in Dobbs Co. (again >from Ronald Garris's book) and Edward and Alexander probably were, too. >Greene Co. line is only about 3 miles (as the crow flies) from this area of >Pitt Co. >Brenda > > >==== NC-PCFR Mailing List ==== >Post to this mail list at: [email protected] >Visit the PCFR website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr >Browse our rich collection of old family photographs, private documents, and public records. > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >