Hi I'm new on this list am researching COLEY family, particularly O. D. COLEY with spouses name Betty Coble Coley. Would really appreciate any info that anyone can give me. Thanks Francis

Hi, all Trying to determine the parents of Elizabeth L. MARTIN (b.September 22, 1829, NC; d. 1911, Guilford Co., NC, buried Buffalo Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, NC) . She married December 29, 1853, Guilford Co., NC to Nathaniel G. OZMENT (b.February 23, 1817, NC ; d. March 22, 1883, Guilford Co., NC, buried Buffalo Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, NC). The 1850 census, Northern Dist., Guilford Co., NC lists Nathaniel OZMENT (single) living on his family farm adjacent to one Alexander MARTIN (possible lead ?). The 1870 and 1880 census reports, Guilford Co., NC, list another female ("sister-in-law" of Nathaniel OZMENT, sister to Elizabeth) named Francis (sic) MARTIN (b. abt. 1836) termed "idiot", living in same household with Nathaniel and Elizabeth OZMENT. These same census reports state Elizabeth and her parents were born in NC. If anyone on this list has any information about these individuals or families, please contact me at my personal e-mail address. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Also, where can I locate a copy of THE FIRST GUILFORD COURTHOUSE AND ADJACENT LAND by Raleigh C. Taylor (Jan. 12, 1953) ? Dwight W. Ozment, Richmond, VA <mozment@erols.com 9:35 P.M. Thur. April 15, 1999

I need help to try to pinpoint the location of land for a deed made in Orange Co NC 11 Jun 1754 to John WOOD from the Right Honorable John Earl Granville. This was for 600 acres located on Stone's Creek. This land was sold one year later with date of 10 Jun 1755 from John WOOD to Gilbert STREAN (STRAHORN?). John WOOD's wife Sarah relinquished her dower. Question: In what present-day county is Stone's Creek located? Has it been renamed? With the help of the USGS web site, I can find only three creeks by the name of Stone or Stones currently in North Carolina. The three are located in Onslow County, Johnston County, and Rutherford County. I don't believe either of those three counties were ever part of Orange County where this land was first granted. Can anyone help me determine where this John WOOD & wife Sarah lived? Thank you. Imogene Bennett Springfield, MO ibennett@mail.orion.org

Thank you for the lesson, Dick. It worked and will make my life easier. Phyllis in CA

Betty, I am returning this email to you by using your original and simply responding by hitting reply to all. When the new email document comes up it had your original message on it. I then right clicked on the body of the message and chose the item "Select All" from the drop down menu. Then the entire message which you had sent was highlighted and I hit the "Delete" key on my keyboard and the body of the message cleared completely. Actually, it is inappropriate to respond to a message with the old message if it has any substantial length. Sometimes, when it's just a brief message and your response specifically requires the old message in order to be fully intelligible, then sending with the old message seems appropriate to me. Hope this answered your question. Regards, Dick Hudson

The method described by Dick works with some but not all e-mail systems. (It works with my POPS 3 account, but not with my web-based account.) Most systems also allow you to set your default preferences for displaying the messages you are replying to. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Maybe I have missed a change in protocol for replying to messages, or perhaps I have been incorrect all along. Could someone straighten me out? I have been replying to messages from above the old message, probably since that it where my system puts me after I hit the reply button. I thought that this what I was supposed to do because this is what I saw on other replies. I am relatively new with computers, by the way. Now I notice a lot of replies appearing beneath the original message--you have to scroll through the old message to find the answer. It is actually more trouble to reply in that position, so I know this is not done through laziness. What is the proper position for replies? Betty Pace ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

STATE of NORTH CAROLINA Office Register of Deeds Guilford County March 27th 1880 To any Minister of any Religious Denomination Or any Justice of the Peace of said County: A.M. WARREN having applied to me for a license for the marriage of Abel Mc WARREN of Caswell County, aged 35 years, white, the son of Bennett WARREN and Loueza WARREN, the father now Living, the mother Living, resident of Caswell County, NC and Permelia E. BEVILL of Guilford County aged 21 years, white, daughter of Jesse H. BEVILL and Mary BEVILL, the father Living, the mother Living, resident of Guilford County. Signed Will U. STEINER STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Guilford County I, Pinckney WALL a Justice of the Peace united in matrimony A.M. WARREN and Permelia E. BEVILL, the parties licensed above, on the 28th day of March 1880 at Jessee H. BEVILL's residence in Centre Grove Township, in said County, according to law. Signed P. WALL JP Witnesses present at marriage: John AMICK of Guilford Co. Willie WALL of Guilford Co. Emma WALL of Guilford Co.

Hi Louise, I have never heard of a Nottingham SOCIETY before. What I have seen is that the Nottingham Colony was from Nottingham Presbyterian Church, in Rising Sun, Lancaster Co., PA. When the border between MD and PA was finally established in 1767, this became part of Cecil Co., MD. They moved to (now) Guilford County where they obtained Granville Grants. There were 33 plots of 640 acres each, but only 26 are supposedly accounted for by mentioning which number of the 33 it was in the Granville Grants. My interest is the McCUISTON family that was part of this group. I also have interest in wondering if my SHORT family were also part of this group, and one of the unaccounted for members. Moses SHORT had 640 acres surveyed in the same area (North Buffalo Creek) at the same time (1753), land adjacent to Thomas DONNELL (who was a member of the colony). One of the witnesses was James McCUISTON (another member). Moses SHORT apparently sold this to George HAMILTON, who is the person who obtained the grant in 1756. Moses SHORT was also a chain carrier for two tracts of John NIX/NICKS (another member) that were surveyed in 1751 and 1756. Moses SHORT also married a daughter of John NICKS. I have never specifically looked to see if records exist for this church. Then again, I have never seen anything published about the members of the Colony being at this Church, other than statements of that is where they were from. Rick Saunders Salt Lake City, UT

Does anyone know source material about the Nottingham Society? It was a group that helped settle Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from the PA/MD/DEL area on lands that had formerly belonged in the Lord Granville grant. Someone said it had been a Presbyterian congregation, Nottingham Church. Where? I have looked in the Presbyterian Church Archives is Philadelphia but could find no cross listing about Nottingham Society. I wasn't seeking a Nottingham Church, however.

State of North Carolina Guilford County March 26, 1910 Victor WALL of Guilford Co., aged 21 years, white, son of Pinkney WALL and Victoria WALL, the father now dead, the mother living, resident of Guilford County. and Annie SQUIRES of Guilford Co. aged 18 years, white, daughter of George SQUIRES and Luna SQUIRES, the father dead, the mother dead. Signed A.G. KIRKMAN, Register of Deeds I, J.W. BOLTON a Christian united in matrimony Victor WALL and Annie SQUIRES, the parties above licensed on the 26th day of March 1910 at Parsonage, 418 S. Eugene Street in Morehead Township, in said County, according to law. Signed J.W. BOLTON, Minister Witnesses: Mrs R.J. SQUIRES of Greensboro NC Rudy SQUIRES of Greensboro, NC Mrs R.M. CLAPP of Greensboro, NC

I have a copy of the original Marriage License if anyone is researching this line. State of North Carolina Guilford County April 13th 1900 Willie L. PEGG of Guilford Co aged 24 years, white, the son of Rufus PEGG and Cynthia PEGG, the father now living, the mother Dead, resident of Alamance County and Lily M. WALL of Guilford County aged 22 years, white, daughter of Pinckney WALL and Victoria WALL, the father Living, the mother Living, resident of Guilford County. Signed A.G. KIRKMAN, Register of Deeds I V.L. MARSH a Minister of M.E. Church, South united in matrimony Willie L. PEGG and Lilly M. WALL the parties licensed above on the 15th day of April 1900 at The Home of John V. ONELL in Morehead Township in said county according to law. Signed...V.L. MARSH, Minister Witnesses: Lucy McKINNEY Carrie CLAPP Jessie CONNELLY

There is a ZILPHA PACE (age 50, b. Chatham Co.) living in Guilford County in the 1850 census. That would make her born around 1800, assuming the census age is correct. She is in 1850 living only with her "idiotic" son David Pace, age 16. She will later move to Mecklenburg Co. with relatives NEEDHAM PACE and YOUNG PACE, both of which had been apprenticed as orphans (possibly just the father dead) in Guilford in the 1830's. Also apprenticed in Guilford as an orphan was my ABNER PACE (1822-1900), who moved to live in Rowan County around 1843-44. These male Paces are believed to have been siblings or cousins. ZILPHA PACE (B.1800) is shown on the 1850 census as having been born in Chatham Co., but she appears to have possibly married ALSAY PACE in Johnston Co. in Sept 1820. At that time she was ZILPHA HALL. I believe this is the same Zilpha Hall Pace who later moved to Guilford Co. and then to Mecklenburg with Needham and Young Pace. In the 1850 Guilford Co. neighborhood with with Zilpha Pace were other Paces, also born in Chatham: NANCY ANN PACE (AGE 20), and EDITH PACE (AGE 35), both showing birth in Chatham Co. NANCY PACE was in 1850 living with a GILLIAM SCOTT (wife NAMED ALSEY, age 42); The Scott husband and wife had both been born in Chatham Co. EDITH PACE is living with NATHAN WRIGHT (b. Wake Co.), and his wife ALLICE D. (age 31) who had been born in Chatham Co. These Scott and Wright families are farmers living very close to one another, plus close to the household of ZILPHA HALL PACE. It appears to me that my Pace family migrated from Chatham to Johnston (or vice versa) and then to Guilford between 1800 and 1830. ZILPHA HALL PACE went with them, it appears. Does anyone know anything about these families (PACE, HALL), especially in Chatham and Johnston Counties? Betty Pace - Norfolk, VA ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hi This is my first post to this list - I hope someone can help me! I am researching my GGgrandfather Nereus Harper LEONARD. I know very little about him except that he was born 21 Jan 1852 in Greensboro, Guilford (according to the LDS website). I also know that by 1870 he and his family had moved to Fillmore Co, MN where he married Lucy Agnew BRADLEY in 1878 and they had a son Doxander Perry LEONARD in 1883. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'd like to get in touch with anyone who is researching the Leonard name in this county. I'm hoping to fill some gaps. Thanks Carol in Sacramento, CA cleonard@jps.net Who put the stop payment on my reality check? researching: ARNETT, CUSICK, CUSACK, HOLMAN, RUTLEDGE, MINOT, KRASS, LEONARD, WICHELHAUS, TRUMPY

Seeing today's note from Caldwell on the Randolph board about Wellborns, Yorks, and others, I'm reminded of some petitions in my file that may be of interest to some, so here they come: (Harold Hopkins) Vol. X 1771-1775 - Colonial Records by Wm. L. Saunders Colonial Records [pages 25-27] [From MS records in Office of Secretary of State] Orange and Guilford Countys North Carolina August 25th 1771 To all persons whom this may Concern Know yet, that whereas Thomas Welborn has lived in the neighborhood of Sandy Creek near hand about fifteen years in the Countys and province aforesaid it tis requested of his friends and Acquaintance, A Letter of his Recommendation, which we the subscribers hereof, Do hereby Certify, the above sd. Thomas Welborn to be, A man of Justice and Honest Integrity in his Dealing and Conversation neither Known nor Suspected to be Guilty of Fraudulent Practices, But Contrary wise, Upright in his Generation, and A true Loyal Tenant to his Majesty, Excepting the Late Insurrection and Rebellion, as did arise in the Countys aforesaid & Given Under our hands the Day and Year first above written. Semore York Joseph Hinds John Alread Jeremiah York John Hinds Denis Hobkins John Duncan Frane’ Jenkins Saml Walker Tidence Lane Wm. Welborn Junior Jacob Hinshaw James Billingslee Levi McCullom William Hinche John Lance John McGee J\O Simbel Stearnes ----- North Carolina--- To his Excellency Josiah Martain Esqur his majesty’s Capt Generall & Govrnour in Chief in and over the said Province The Petition of the Inhabitants of Guilford and Orange Countys Humbly Showeth that Whereas the Leat Insurrections and Rebellions that did Prevaill in this Provance to Such a degree that it did desturb the Pease & tranquility of Provance & also to the Gret Prejdues of many Indeviduals & to the Publick in Generall Whereas By this means of Leading and designing Persons in this unhappy Confederasy intending appearatly to Subvert Govrement many honest & Well minded men Were drawn in and over Presweaded to Joyn in this unnaturell Combination Whereof the Person that We Begg Leave to Petition your Excellency for is one to-Witt thomas Welborn Who now stands outlawed But no Reward advertised for taking him We your Excelency’s Petitioners Being Well aquanted With the said Wellborn’s former Life & Conversasion it Being honest and agreeabel. Which Incorag us your Excellency’s humbel petitioners To Erenestly plead & Begg that your Excellency Would Grant to him amost grasies Parden as we have no merit to Plead yet moved With pitey When We See a pooer morning Wife With a Learg family of Small Childeren and very Littel to Suport them & Soon Will be Exposed to the outmost Extremity & Now as your Escelency is now.... [line unreadable]..... charity & marcy Extended as to Restor this said Wellborn to his former Libarty and Intitel him to his majesty’s Protection & we your Humbel Petitioners as in duty Bound Shall Ever Pray John Butler Semore York John Wood John McGee John Marsh Denis Hobkins James Barre Jeremiah York James Maxwell David Barnhill Tidence Lane Alexander Russel Thomas Willson James Billingslee Nathaniel Lyon Frank Jenkins Phillip Sitton Samuel Allen Simbal Stearns John Lance

www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/nc/orangnc/htm (arrow down to DEEDS and click on the Granville Grant (image) line) The above address will show you our ongoing Granville Grant Research Project of Rowan, Orange, and present day guilford County, North Carolina. It is the George FINLEY Granville Grant that mentions "the line that divides the counties of Rowan and Orange." It is our goal to plot the earliest Granville Grants that were granted supplemented by the North Carolina State Land Grants with accompnaying deed history. We started with this grant because of the county line mention and will continue plotting grants east, west, north, and south of the Finley grant. The "Nottingham Colony" will encompass this area. We have also included driving directions where applicable. We welcome your feedback and hope this project will help others who are searching the land where their ancestors lived and died. For more information about our project, email me, Shari sharigs@crcwnet.com

Does anyone out there have a connection with a Edward Daniel, he was in Old Guilford in 1799, he was on the Sept court 1799, a Peter Perkins desired to build a water grist mill on a cannal taken out of the Mayo River at his Iron works whereof Thomas Bouldin and Peter Perkins Iron worke are proprietors. Jury to ascertain safety? William Shelton, Thomas Oakley, Legan Mayes, Edward Daniel, Jesse Murhpy, Thomas Jamison, Arhcibald Farris, Amborse White, Garrott Williams, William Hill, John weaver, Jesse Atkisson...do declare that no damage would be done. Edward Daniel married a Anna? he left old guliford and went to Henry county, Virgina, he had his fiirst daughter there in 1776, Ester Daniel who married Liggin Mayes. he also had a son named William Daniel born 1798, the family later moved to Granger county, Tn., in or around 1802, William Daniel married Martha Mayes in Granger also in 1821, they inturn had a son named John Daniel who married Mary Annah Jeffreys, in Granger also in 1842, Mary Annah Jeffreys was the daughter of Marmaduke Jeffreys and Hannah Louise Hill, Mary Annah was my gggg grandmother. I have the Jeffreys suranme traced back tot he years of 1666, I am wanting to find out more about Edward Daniel and his wife Anna? thanks Vickie Lomon

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WILLIAM HOLBROOK (Halbrook) was declared too old to pay the 1786 Poll Tax of Surrey Co. HOW OLD IS TOO OLD? At what age would one have been so declared "too old" to have to pay the tax? Thank you. JC Halbrooks 357 Snake Meadow Hill Road Sterling CT 06377 USA HOLBROOK, HALBROOK(S), etc. ANY TIME, ANY PLACE