Folks, This is to let everyone know what most of you already know. Kay Lynn Midgett Sheppard is now the Co-Host for the Hyde Co., NCGenWeb Project web site.

Folks, Anyone interested in White Co., TN should check out the below URL. John - --------------------------------------- Click here: http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/bibwhite.htm

USGENWEB-ALL-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 204 ______________________________ Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government! Some of us take these liberties so much for granted...We shouldn't. So, take a couple of minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid . . . LET'S ALL REMEMBER THAT FREEDOM IS "NEVER FREE"!!!! Author unknown. ______________________________

Can anyone tell me about Leonard McWilliams who married Mary Elizabeth O'Neal in Hyde county May 1935? Who were his parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, children, etc.?

I have been trying for a long time to find the ancestors of Samuel Slade. I know that he is descended from the Hyde County Slades, but I can’t make the tie-in with the descendants of Henry Slade, Jr. My cousin, who researched Samuel Slade in the 1970s, recently told me that Samuel’s ancestors four generations back included two Henrys and two Johns, but he couldn’t remember the order! My Samuel Slade was born about 1770 in North Carolina. He was among the branch of the family that moved to South Carolina by 1790. He married Elizabeth ? and had a son that must have died young. He is on the Cheraw District, SC 1790 Census. On Feb. , 1791 Samuel and Elizabeth Slade bought 100 acres from Mr. David Lee (Ref. Deed Book AA, page 283 Marlboro Co. SC) Sept. 9, 1795, Samuel and wife Elizabeth sold their 100 acre farm on Muddy Creek to Mr. Samuel Burkett (Ref. Deed Book E-1, page 157 Marlboro Co. SC) In 1804, Samuel moved to Barnwell Dist. SC and purchased a 300 acre plantation. On Nov. 26, 1808 Samuel applied for a passport through the Creek Nations to the territory of Mississippi. On 12 Dec 1808, passports through the Creek Nation were issued for John cockran and his family, Hardy Coward and his family, Samuel Slade and his family, and William Cockran and his family. Before his last child, Henry was born in 1810, Samuel Slade and family were in Washington Co. MS. Several years later, he is in Hancock Co., then Marion Co. MS by 1820. He died about 1845 in Perry Co. MS. I have read as many of the will abstracts as I could find, but most have been a little early to include Samuel, born abt 1770. I have a hunch that Samuel’s father could be John Slade, son of John Slade, Sr. who married Miss Hodges. ===== First Generation: Henry Slade, Jr. born 1655 England; died 1730 Sladesville, Hyde Co. NC wife: Hannah Loveridge children: 1. John Slade, Sr. married Miss Hodges in VA 2. Samuel Slade, Sr. married Miss Banks; settled in Beaufort Co. NC 3. William Slade, Sr. married Frances Sylvester; settled in Currituck, Hyde Co. NC 4. Benjamin Slade (?) ===== Second Generation: John Slade, Sr. (Hyde Co. Will, 1743?) wife: Miss Hodges children: 1. John Slade (had a son named Benjamin) 2. Hezekiah Slade (died without children) 3. William Hodges Slade (died without children) 4. Benjamin Slade (had daughter, Lydia Slade) 5. Mary Slade (married Benjamin Jewel) 6. Sarah Slade 7. Keziah Slade ===== Third Generation: John Slade (may be father of my Samuel Slade?) ===== If you can help me in any way, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Ken Slade kls1613@flash.net

Folks, Here is an interesting site for calculating the value of money mentioned in old wills, beginning with 1800. John _______________________________________________ This site has an inflation calculator that is very handy in determining relative values mentioned in old wills. http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ - ---------------------------------------------

Folks, I really dislike posting information about virus' (worms, etc.), since many are hoaxes, but this one is really nasty, from all I have heard. John - ------------------------------ Below is a warning about a new virus. Don't open any file called "zipped_files.exe"! ======================================================== # 1. "Worm.ExploreZip" contains a very malicious payload. "Worm.ExploreZip" utilizes Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Microsoft Exchange to mail itself out by replying to messages in your Inbox. The payload of the worm will destroy any file with the extension .h, .c, .cpp, .asm, .doc, .ppt, or .xls on your hard drive(s), as well as any mapped drives, each time it is executed. The worm will also search the mapped drives for Windows installations and copy itself to the Windows directory, and then modify the WIN.INI file. This will infect systems without e-mail clients. You may receive this worm as an .zip file attachment named "zipped_files.exe". When run, this executable will copy itself to your Windows System directory with the filename "Explore.exe", or your Windows directory with the filename "_setup.exe". The worm modifies your WIN.INI or registry such that the file "Explore.exe" is executed each time you start Windows. Worm.ExploreZip was first discovered in Israel and submitted to the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center on June 6, 1999. Several antivirus companies are offering a download for detecting and destroying "ExploreZip". Network Associates is offering its Internet virus protection service McAfee Clinic ( www.mcafee.com ) for free until July. Users can download a plug-in, and their PCs will be scanned for viruses -- including "ExploreZip" -- automatically when they are online. Data Security provider Data Fellows is offering an update at www.datafellows.com/ . Symantec Corp. has posted an update to its Norton AntiVirus software at www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explore.zip.html . ______________________________ # 2. This is something that I think all Listowners should be aware of : There is a very destructive virus going around called ExploreZip.worm. It is distributed via Email and the message looks like this I received your email and I shall send you a reply ASAP. Till then, take a look at the attached zipped docs. Under no circumstances open the ZIP file. The attached file is not a Zip file, it just looks like it. It is zipped_files.exe which will destroy files with extensions .c, .cpp, .h, .asm, .doc, .xls, or .ppt For more info on this virus see http://www.avertlabs.com/public/datafiles/valerts/vinfo/va10185.asp - ---------------------------------

Folks, Rootsweb has set up a Carawan Mailing List, as well as a number of other new mailing lists and surname boards. And since no one else came forward, I adopted the list. If anyone else, anyone, would care to manage the list, please let me know. As you may know, I already host the Carawan GenConnect Surname Board on Rootsweb. The Mailing List are for your research assistance. --------------------- ------------------------- To subscribe to the Carawan Mailing List in Mail Mode, send a message (email) to: CARAWAN-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command subscribe and no additional text. Leave the subject line blank. --------------------- ------------------------- To subscribe to the Carawan Mailing List in Digest Mode, send a message (email) to: CARAWAN-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command subscribe and no additional text. Leave the subject line blank. --------------------- ------------------------- In Mail Mode, you will receive each individual message sent to the list. In Digest Mode, you will receive several messages at once in digest form. Look forward to having all of you Carawan researchers subscribe. Thanks, John

CREDLE - I'm lLooking for the mother of Mary Ann Veale Credle (Jan 04 1862 – May 09 1948). Her father was Tilson G. Credle of Hyde County (born 1838, date of death unknown) and his wife Ellen. In the Spring 1996 issue of High Tides, Ellen Williams listed Ellen as Ellen Selina McWilliams. The death certificate for Mary Ann Veale Credle lists Ellen as Ellen Slade. It appears based on Hyde Remembers (page 48) that she was McWilliams rather than a Slade. I'm looking for confirmation of that assumption. Does any one have a death record of W. V. Credle (Mary’s brother), Daniel S. Credle (Mary’s brother), Ellen S. Credle (Mary’s sister), Lemon Bell (Mary’s half sister) or David Zacheus Bell (Mary’s half brother) that would confirm either McWilliams or Slade? I'd appreciate anything someone may have on this so I can change the assumption to a fact. Thanks Sharon Gable gables@erols.com

Hello Everybody, I have added the 1717 Corn List for Beaufort and Hyde Precinct to our Singleton Web Site. Hope it helps someone find an ancestor from Hyde County. The web address is http://www.geocities.com/~ncsingletons Anne Singleton Condran acondran@home.com http://www.geocities.com/~ncsingletons

Folks, I don't have a copy of William Powell's NC Gazeteer and the GNIS server must be down, so if anyone can help answer Cathy's query, I would appreciate it. Please reply directly to her (email address below) and CC me if you find anything. Thanks, John -------------------------- Hello, Thank you for having information on Hyde County. My great grandfather was born supposedly in Youngstown, NC in 1836. I am looking for a Youngstown in NC at that time. Was there such a place in 1836? Would appreciate if you could let me know. I live in Poquoson, VA - not far from Hyde County. Thank you, Cathy Petre -- CPetre@aol.com --------------------------

Does anyone know if there are any voter registration lists for the 1870-1874 time frame for Hyde County? Also, looking for any information on Edward Cooper, b.c. 1810, d. 1874-1878 in Fairfield Twp., Hyde County. He may have been a sailor, at least that what the 1870 Census says. Desperately seeking help Ruffin Cooper

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Hello all, Below you will find a "State of Rootsweb" article from the most recent Rootsweb Review. It is in response to a letter from a Rootsweb Donor who objected to Rootsweb's latest attempt to gather monetary support and keep itself going without commercializing itself as many other genealogical groups have been forced to do. So many of us use Rootsweb heavily and depend upon it as an affordable, accessible communciation vehicle. Just think for a moment what it would be like if it just "went away....." Rootsweb hosts our website, allows me to maintain three other web sites, keep this and other mailing lists going (my time is voluntary), and gives me the opportunity to manage GenConnect surname boards. I truly believe a collaborative approach to genealogical research is what will offer us all the best results in the long run. Rootsweb gives us a web site for free and the mailing lists for $12/year (find anything cheaper w/o annoying commercials popping up all the time!). Please take the time to read this informative article and see if you can manage even a very small donation to help keep us all up in our trees! Thanks in advance to each and every one of you! John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ When we launched RootsWeb, we assumed that our users would prefer to support us as much as they were able, in exchange for a site open to all, without banners plastered all over everything and without having resources locked up (as is done at other genealogy sites), available only for fees on the order of $60 per year. Instead, people can support RootsWeb for as little as $12 per year. We thus hoped that a reasonable fraction of our users, perhaps half of them, would support us in some way. And because we expected support from the community, we made promises to projects like USGenWeb that we would freely host them for the good of the Internet genealogy community. We have no intention of reneging on those early promises, but it has been difficult, because the community support we anticipated has not been there. Although people use the site like crazy, fewer than 7% of our users have chipped in to keep things going. The other 93%? Perhaps they're busy, or they're broke, or they won't pay unless they have to, or they don't think RootsWeb is useful. Who knows? But it means that RootsWeb has run at a cash flow loss. In simple terms, Karen Isaacson and Brian Leverich have donated not only their time as system administrators but a substantial part of their personal resources to provide the genealogical community with RootsWeb. The rest of RootsWeb's staff have also made substantial contributions. Because RootsWeb's costs exceed its income, we can't provide all the genealogical facilities we'd like to support. These could include online searchable databases of pension records, census indexes, vital records, or countless other valuable genealogical services that we could easily provide -- if only we could afford the staff to support them. And, ultimately, RootsWeb can't even continue to exist if we don't bring our costs and revenues into balance, something we want to have under control before the transition to non-profit status (as opposed to losing money status) is completed. We are doing what we can to remedy the situation. For instance, we are selling banner advertisements where we can. However, this alone will never provide enough revenue to cover the costs of the unbannered volunteer projects which consume most of RootsWeb's resources yet by their very nature produce no direct revenue, even as they provide invaluable content to the genealogical community. The new communities, from their inception, will be fully supported by advertising. They will be paying their own way. We can shift some of the costs of maintaining the Web, mailing list, GenConnect, and search engine servers onto the new communities, so that the new communities will subsidize a genealogical community that hasn't been supporting itself. Although we have been disappointed in the amount of financial support of the genealogical community, we would like to express our deep gratitude to the writer of the letter above and the other 7% of our users who have helped make RootsWeb available to the whole community. Without their support and encouragement, there would be no RootsWeb. If you would like to join the folks who are making RootsWeb possible and thus help us bring new genealogical data online, freely available to all, please visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> or send e-mail to: RW-info@rootsweb.com The snail mail address is: ROOTSWEB GENEALOGICAL DATA COOPORATION P. O. BOX 6798 FRAZIER PARK, CA 93222-6798 Send it in ASAP as it will never be cheaper. John ______________________________

Seeking info on Thomas Dunbar. born in1759 and died in 1844 in Tyrrell co. The Dunbars were also in Beaufort and Hyde counties. Any information that you have on the Dunbars would be greatly appreciated. Trying to find out who the parents of Thomas were and just where they came from after the Dunbar clan left Scotland. Thomas married a Delilah Cahoon and they had 13 children. In the late 1600's there was a Alexander Dunbar and a Cahoon in the Nansemond, Suffolk, area. With so many Dunbars around, especially with the same first names, its hard to connect. All I know is that my Dunbars ended up in N.C. others are acattered about the US. So , if anyone knows anything at all about these Dunbars, please e-mail me... Thanks. B.J

Folks, Thanks to Kay Lynn, I've set up a link on the Family Histories page to the Howards of Ocracoke - Information on William Howard of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina (c.1700-c.1794) and his descendants, compiled by Brom Nichol. There is also a link to the Blount family and several other area families. John

Folks, For your information: John ----------------------------- Thought some may be interested in this from Ancestry.com News. COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE: "HOW TO SEARCH FOR YOUR ROOTS" The 19 April (vol. 153, no. 15) issue of Time magazine's cover story is "How to Search for Your Roots." Beginning with an article by Margot Hornblower, "Roots Mania," the issue also features sections on helpful books, where to look, African Americans, the National Archives, and "Time.com Presents: Growing Your Family Tree" ("A genealogy how-to kit, featuring starting tips, useful Web sites and books, and organizations that can help."). You can find it at your local newsstand or read it online at: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/toc/0,3392,1101990419,00.html <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>> "FINDING OUR ROOTS" Weeklong Special on NBC Next Week According to an MSNBC article on "A Family Tree That Spans the Net" NBC News will be airing a weeklong series on genealogy called, "Finding Our Roots," beginning on 19 April. According to the message: "NBC anchors Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Al Roker, Jane Pauley, and Stone Phillips go looking for their ancestors, from Romania to Japan. We'll have a guide to finding your own family tree, links to some of the top databases, and reviews of genealogical software." The article is online at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/256222.asp (See the yellow box at the end of the article.) ______________________________

Folks, The counter at the bottom of the Hyde Co., NCGenWeb Home Page has now passed 20,000 visitors, two years after it was installed. There were about 8,000 visitors the first year and 12,000 this past year, a 50% increase, and the number of visitors increases daily. Thank you all for your continued support and assistance. John

Folks, The below is from Charley Barnes, host of the excellant Tyrrell Co., NCGenWeb Pages: John ----------------------------------------------- Hi All - Just wanted to alert those of you doing African American and Native American genealogy that we are posting non-white marriage licenses on the Tyrrell County, NC, USGenWeb site (http://www.whetzel.com/barnesc/genweb/tyrrell.htm). These are not extracts, but a transcription of the entire license. As such, they contain parents names. These licenses start in 1877. We have transcribed up to 1890 thus far and licenses to 1885 are posted. There is no index as yet. Eventually we will create an index to all brides, grooms and their respective parents. We will also cross check the licenses against the marriage register and post marriage register entries for which no license exists. White licenses have been transcribed to 1900 except for 1890 - 1894. These are indexed and register entries are available. The objective is to transcribe all records to 1920. Charley Barnes Tyrrell County, NC USGenWeb Coordinator -----------------------------------------------

Several weeks ago I was researching names on the Web Archives. I came across several stories about a " Citizen's Rifle", which I dismissed. This week, I found that I was kin to the owner of the rifle, Henry Williamson. If you can connect, please contact me at my web address. Thank you, Norby Williamson, Belvidere, IL