Hello Cousin Allen, I will post this about Pink Hill Cemetery in Lenoir County, NC quite possibly near Loftin's Crossroads. ANYBODY IN LENOIR COUNTY, NC KNOW WHERE PINK HILL CEMETERY IS? EXCELLENT leads! ... the George JERNIGAN Pension Application would be a great find! Puh-lease keep up the great effort! Had a great Christmas! ... Happy New Year! Best, Cousin Dan Fairfax 2629 Somerset Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37217 dfairfax@nespower.com ================================ -----Original Message----- From: Allen Fairfax [mailto:fairfaxa@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:50 PM To: DFairfax@nespower.com Cc: fairfaxa@hotmail.com Subject: Hunting Fairfaxes Hello Dan, Thought I would update you on my genealogical hunting ... nothing dramatic, but something ... I went to the New England Genealogical Library in downtown Boston, and they have quite an extensive collection of records from the south... there were lots of various county records for NC, Virginia, etc. to explore (I only had 2 hours!) .... no records of Peter Fairfax in anything I examined , although I did find some REvolutionary War references related to the James Davis on the 1797 document for Dormand and Herrenton ... I had earlier told you (I think), that there was a James Davis who was a fifer in the 1st NC Continental line .... there is a James Davis buried at Pink Hill in Lenoir County (listed as a revolutionary war veteran... wonder where Pink Hill cemetery is exactly ... perhaps close to Loftin's crossroads??) ... this is the general area for Peter F. ..... also, I have two references to pension application files by James Davis, of which I can now go to the archives and examine these fairly extensive narratives of his time in the military ... if we are lucky, we'll get some connection there ... also, I found a reference for a pension application by (our?) George Jernigan .... these pension applications have quite a bit of info in them, so the archives are my next stop ... Concerning James Fairfax of 1739 Accomack/Northamption county, Virginia (his will dated 1739), I found a marriage record from 1741 of James Fairfax' widow marrying a Col. Dashiel ... Also, in that county, I found a reference of someone named Fairfax Smith willing to each of his daughters six silver soupspoons incribed with the name of James Fairfax... this will was dated around 1770 I believe .... it would be pretty cool to find one of those soupspoons in an antique store somewhere, don't you think?? I suspect at least one of them still exists somewhere ....This Fairfax Smith could be the grandson of James Fairfax??, if a daughter of his married a Smith?? Anyway, this is what I have ... no great breakthroughs, and this James Davis is a real longshot for info .... I suspect I will not find a Revolutionary war reference to Dormand or Herrenton... from what I understand from reading about these land warrants, the only reason they (John and Daniel Fairfax) would have needed to get a legal document about the participation of their fathers in the War was if the State of NC at the time could not find a reference to them in the records they had back in the late 1700s (essentially, what is on microfilm at the archives)... so, the chances of me finding a list with their names on it is pretty slim ... however, the signatures on the legal document of the two officers seems legitimate, and these were two prominent officers in the 1st NC line ... So, hope this is somewhat interesting, and I will try to squeeze in some time to go to the archives soon .... Hope you had a great Christmas, and take care .... Allen _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.