The Quaker Roots mailing list went through a whole discussion on this issue in August and September of this year. Rather than repeat all or part of that here, it would be good for anyone interested to visit this list of archives, and read the linked and threaded messages. _http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/QUAKER-ROOTS/_ (http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/QUAKER-ROOTS/) Some people try to simplify this into one reason that would apply to everyone. I do not agree with that. One or more reasons may have motivated any one family group. And, while groups of members of Quaker congregation may have shared one common purpose, individual economic and family considerations may well have entered into the decisions made as well. To me, the interesting part would be trying to discover and/or form a theory about the reasons that motivated your particular ancestors. There are some very interesting stories about what motivated certain members of the Benbow family, and those need to be preserved and passed on. I see some people trying to apply a "one size fits all" mentality to this issue, and I think a great deal is lost when someone takes this approach. I'm not blaming the person who asked this question. I'm just urging others not to cite one and only one reason for the migration. That is a superficial approach and should be avoided. Katherine Benbow Historian for the Charles Benbow Family County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/) **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Sukismommy Surnames: Kimbro Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/2116.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have information on some Kimbros in Charlotte. If you think this might help, let me know. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mhmoses Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/1759.3.2.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Elliott line did much the same thing in the same time frame. Abraham Elliot and siblings were probably living in Randolph County, NC (very close to Guilford) or had been living there before the Revolution before they made the same move with your Frazier line: Hinshaw Volume I page 1118 Lost Creek MM in Tennessee Elliott 1797,5,20 Israel & s., Jacob, rocf Center MM, NC dated 1796,9,17 directed to New Hope MM but accepted here ( I believe that Israel was Abraham's older brother) 1797,5,20 Welmet & dt, Eve and Esther, rocf Center MM NC dated 1796,9,17 1799,12,21 Abraham (Elliot) rocf Center MM, dated 1799,9,21 1803, 4,23 Eve Shoemaker (form Elliott) dis mcd. I find the family next in Indiana until they moved to the safety of Warren county, Ohio during the Indian troubles of the War of 1812. I am happy to share anything that I have. Marsha Moses mosesm@earthlink.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sumajman Surnames: Frazier Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/1759.3.2.2.1.1.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am still interested in any information I can find on the Frazier family migration. My Frazier's left Guilford County and settled in Jefferson County, TN before some moved on to Indiana. How are you related? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KatherineDBenbow Surnames: Perdue, Heath Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/4322.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: That marriage bond is recorded as involving Milley Perdue. One always has to allow for the phonetic spellings of the county clerks. If you're not doing this already, you probably need to search records for various forms of that surname. I believe the variations that are most common in the Guilford records are Perdue and Pardue and Perdew. The marriage bondsman was Saml. Heath, so that won't help you in terms of clues for her family. Try wills and estates, and then land records -- although land records often help more with the sons than the daughters. Also, remember that Guilford County was created in 1771 from a section of Rowan and a section of Orange, and it would be wise to check records for those jurisdictions as well. I am a Heath descendant, from Smith Heath, who died in Guilford County in 1816. Katherine Dick Benbow County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: 0annie7 Surnames: Perdieu, Heath Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/4322/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for the parents of Amelia Perdieu b. Dec. 1794/5 in Guilford Co., N. Carolina. She married Rt. Heath Dec 1811 in Guilford, N. Carolina and then moved to Delaware Co., Indiana where they both died: Rt in 1856 and Amelia in 1887. They had at least two children born in N. Carolina: Abner b. 1822 and Angeline b. 1825. Any help greatly appreciated since Amelia represents a dead end for me in my research. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ErnestGreen45 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/1759.6/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I too came from Guilford County NC and settled in IN in the late 60's. During my research I have found that people moved for more and better land, land grants for service in the Revolutionary War, and the slavery issue was a big cause also. One of the big routes was through the mountains where VA and NC meet, then into TN and up through KY. One thing that I relearnd about American history was that Daniel Boone, and others like him were not the wandering explorers that they were portrayed to be. They were mercenaries, and went West to find home sites for other people for a fee. If you trace different lines they all seem to go from VA down through central NC and over into Western VA, Eastern TN and then North or West. All up through KY into OH, and IN is populated with people from VA, and NC. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sherriebe Surnames: Frazier Frasure Frazure Saferight Sigfred Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/1759.3.2.2.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hope you still check this board. I am descended from the same line. Would love to share info. Please email me. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

There are several people posted on this Guilford County NCGenWeb page _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/lookups.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/lookups.html) as people willing to do look-up's. As for the Register of Deeds, I sent through a message about that website a few months ago, and that message gave the reasons for the temporary suspension of the online system. I talked to the director then, and he put me in his database so that he could let me know when the vital records system is back online. So far I haven't heard anything, and it looks like it's still not up. Check the archives for this mailing list _http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NC/guilford.html_ (http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NC/guilford.html) if you want to view the message I sent. Katherine Dick Benbow County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Remember I do have 2 Cemetery books for Guilford County. You can also get their Register of Deeds on line. Tho they seem to change the way you have to enter it. Last time I tried to check something I wasn's able to open it. It's almost like if you're lucky we let you in type thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: <BenbowKD@aol.com> To: <NCGUILFO@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:58 PM Subject: [NCGUILFO] new gazetteer page for Guilford NCGenWeb + post officenames >I found a list of post offices for Guilford County, and I posted that to >the > website on a separate page. Then I decided that I needed to go beyond > that, > and I've spent a good chunk of time over the last several days setting up > a > new page for the Guilford County NCGenWeb site, which has a gazetteer of > geographical names associated with the county. I am still adding to it, > so it > certainly isn't complete, and the website's search engine won't > incorporate the > contents until the search engine runs its weekly update sometime in the > next > 24 hours or so. However, I thought I'd go ahead and post notice about > this. > > If you have any names you'd like to see defined and added, please let me > know. Hopefully, I won't be buried in an avalanche of those! I have > gone over > my NC atlas section on Guilford, but I haven't pulled out my county map > book > yet. And I can see some names on the Hughes map of early settlers that > aren't in the atlas, so I'll have to tackle all of those as well. What > I'd like > to do is build a page that can be used as a resource when working in land > records for the county. For now, I am trying to stick to the territory > that is > currently Guilford and wasn't cut off to form Randolph or Rowan counties > from > "Old Guilford County." And, while including some lakes that were > man-made > during the early 1900's, I will try to leave out anything from 1950 on. > > If you know the history of the feature's name, or anything about name > changes, that would be helpful. But please do remember to cite all known > sources > for any information. > > And, for those who like to laugh at the name, yes, Stinking Quarter Creek > is > on the list. > > The website's gazetteer page is here: > _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html_ (http://www.roo > tsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html) > > You'll find both that page and the post office page linked to the main > index > page, in the section that has local history and maps. The post office > list > has been incorporated into the gazetteer page, so there's no particular > need > to check that list separately. But I do need to investigate some > probable > misspellings in that list, which I obtained from another source given to > me in > a USGenWeb newsletter. I suspect that "Bloomimton" is actually > "Bloomington." And surely "Gilher's Store" would be "Gilmer's Store." > Anyone know > anything about either place? > > Katherine Dick Benbow > County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb > _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html_ > (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/) > > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCGUILFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: terriw2385 Surnames: Hunt, Mendenhall, Ratliff Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/2178.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Richmond (Indiana) Sun Telegram 13 Feb 1907 Obituary: Mrs. Charlotte Ratliff, widow of the late Nathan Ratliff was born in Fountain City May 10, 1835 and died at Williamsburg, (Wayne County) Indiana February 6, 1907. Her age was 71 years, 8 months and 27 days. She was the daughter of James and Lydia Hunt who came to Indiana in the early days from North Carolina. She leaves four children, John Ratliff of Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma), Milton and Kemmer Ratliff of Chicago, and Mrs. Ella Shutz of Williamsburg, and twelve grandchildren. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: indianrun162 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/4321/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Can anyone connect Ephraim Stout and wife Ruth Howell Stout to James Monroe Stout Indiana, and then to Margaret Stout Stephen who married John Monroe Stephen Calias, Ohio, Margaret is the daughter of James Stout .I know for sure that Margaret is my great great Grandmother but i am not sure if she connects to Ephraim and James . Ephraim and James died in Hamilton Co Indiana . Margaret in Mahaska Co Iowa. Do they connect to Peter Stout ,Cane Creek? As i now live in north carolina and My grandchildren were born here i am almost sure that i connect to n c thru the Stout family but guess i need that last connect thru James . Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I found a list of post offices for Guilford County, and I posted that to the website on a separate page. Then I decided that I needed to go beyond that, and I've spent a good chunk of time over the last several days setting up a new page for the Guilford County NCGenWeb site, which has a gazetteer of geographical names associated with the county. I am still adding to it, so it certainly isn't complete, and the website's search engine won't incorporate the contents until the search engine runs its weekly update sometime in the next 24 hours or so. However, I thought I'd go ahead and post notice about this. If you have any names you'd like to see defined and added, please let me know. Hopefully, I won't be buried in an avalanche of those! I have gone over my NC atlas section on Guilford, but I haven't pulled out my county map book yet. And I can see some names on the Hughes map of early settlers that aren't in the atlas, so I'll have to tackle all of those as well. What I'd like to do is build a page that can be used as a resource when working in land records for the county. For now, I am trying to stick to the territory that is currently Guilford and wasn't cut off to form Randolph or Rowan counties from "Old Guilford County." And, while including some lakes that were man-made during the early 1900's, I will try to leave out anything from 1950 on. If you know the history of the feature's name, or anything about name changes, that would be helpful. But please do remember to cite all known sources for any information. And, for those who like to laugh at the name, yes, Stinking Quarter Creek is on the list. The website's gazetteer page is here: _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html_ (http://www.roo tsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html) You'll find both that page and the post office page linked to the main index page, in the section that has local history and maps. The post office list has been incorporated into the gazetteer page, so there's no particular need to check that list separately. But I do need to investigate some probable misspellings in that list, which I obtained from another source given to me in a USGenWeb newsletter. I suspect that "Bloomimton" is actually "Bloomington." And surely "Gilher's Store" would be "Gilmer's Store." Anyone know anything about either place? Katherine Dick Benbow County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mabeone Surnames: Coble, Sawyers, Clapp, Key, Smith, Atkinson, Layton, White, Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/4320/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mrs. Mamie Ceola Coble Sawyers, 84, of 1414 Edgewood Drive, Mount Airy, passed away Monday, November 12, 2007, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Mrs. Sawyers was born September 19, 1923, in Guilford County, to the late Melvin Murphy and Mary Jane Clapp Coble. Mamie was a 1940 graduate of Nathaniel Greene High School in Julian. She was a retired floor lady from Barber Hosiery and a member of Blackwater United Methodist Church. She is survived by a daughter, Linda Sawyers Key of Ararat; three grandchildren and their spouses, Michael Wayne and Dee Dee Key and Marcia and Jason Smith, all of Ararat, and Melissa and Graham Atkinson of Siloam; six great-grandchildren, Samantha Atkinson, Hugh Atkinson, Heather Key, Danielle Key, Elliot Smith, and Mamie Smith; a sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Dee Layton of Climax; a brother, Frank Coble of Julian; and two sisters-in-law, Doris Coble of Greensboro and Bert Coble of Julian. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Sawyers was preceded in death by her husband, Posey Wendell Sawyers; a son-in-law, Wayne Davis Key; a grandson-in-law, Mark Douglas White; and three brothers, Jack Coble, Henry Coble, and Murphy Coble. The funeral service will be held Thursday, November 15, 2007, at 2:00 PM at Moody Funeral Home Chapel in Mount Airy. The service will be conducted by the Rev. Ted Turman and the Rev. Todd E. Byrd., and burial will follow at Skyline Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Moody Funeral Home in Mount Airy, and other times at the home of Linda Sawyers Key, 483 Key Road, Ararat. Flowers will be accepted, or memorials may be made to Blackwater United Methodist Church, c/o Linda Sawyers Key, 483 Key Road, Ararat, NC 27007, or Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suite 200, Mount Airy, NC 27030. The family would like to express their sincere gratitude to the staff of Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, especially Ruth Handy and Carol Casstevens, and the staff of the Skilled Nursing Unit at Northern Hospital of Surry County for their love, care, and support during Mamie's illness. www.moodyfuneralservices.com November 12, 2007 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Thank you Katherine for the update on the books available abt. land abstracts. Connie Middleton

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gkcarson Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/400.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There were numerous Rankin individuals in Guilford NC and elsewhere. Where was your Robert Rankin from? There was a Robert Rankin in Iredell NC 1793 on a jury, 1785 Rutherford NC tax district captain, 1769 Lincoln NC (married Mary Withrow). Other Rankins pop up in NC. Gary Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I thought I'd let the list know that Dr. A. B. Pruitt recently published another book of deed abstracts for Guilford County. This newest one in his series is on Deed Books 19, 20, & 21, covering 1825 to 1836. If you are interested in ordering this or any other publication from him, you can find the information here: _http://home.earthlink.net/~abpruitt/_ (http://home.earthlink.net/~abpruitt/) I saw Bruce at the North Carolina Genealogical Society annual meeting and conference this past weekend, and I told him to please keep working on the Guilford series! His website includes this informative article on land grants in NC from 1777-1800: _http://home.earthlink.net/~abpruitt/id9.html_ (http://home.earthlink.net/~abpruitt/id9.html) Bruce presented a lecture on this subject at the 2005 NGS conference in Nashville, and I daresay he'll present another one at the 2009 NGS conference in Raleigh (May 13-16). He and Margaret Hofmann are the leading authorities on NC land records. Katherine Dick Benbow County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Thanks so much I will try to check it out. This maybe the Selfs I am looking for. Kim ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

The Self's that I know lived near Belews Creek off of Belews Creek Rd., in Stokes Co., NC near Stokesdale abt 5 minutes from Oak Ridge. If you are coming from Stokesdale the farm was on the right past Mt Olive Church Rd. Joy Atkins

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jbgrif Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/1872.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't have any information on the Griffiths from Guilford NC, but have recently sent a DNA sample to the Griffith DNA project to see if there is a connection to any of the lines they have established. I'll post information, if it proves to connect to the Maryland line. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.