SOme of you are interested in these families. Mike is not on the list so please contact him privately. Am interested in his exact dates and where they came from since the Rouse family were neighbors also. >Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:44:55 -0800 (PST) >From: Mike Creel <mikeacreel@yahoo.com> >Subject: Mystery Creels along NC-SC Line >To: mmarble@erols.com > >To Martha Mewborn Marble > >I admire the great volume of research you have done on >NC-SC families. I am part of one now large family >originating in Marion County,SC, that starts and >deadends right in the middle of your research >geography. My most distant ancestor is James Creel, >born Sept. 7, 1772, probably to Kinston, NC, and the >son of Sarah Mozingo, born Jan. 27, 1746/1748 to John >and Ann Mozingo who had moved to NC in 1744 from VA. >James had an older sister Sabre Mozingo who married a >William Boston and had two daughters. >I believe that James is perhaps the illegitimate son >of a North Carolina Creel of the time or the son of a >Creel who died before 1780. James' mother Sarah >Mozingo married a Henry Allen about 1780 and had three >more children: William, Sarah and Dolly Allen. >James Creel of Marion County is well documented, but >his father and first wife are unknown. His first wife >must have died before 1800 after the births of Sarah >Ann Creel, who married a Bradley before 1825, and >Jesse Creel of Marion County. James' second wife was >Elizabeth Bartell, daughter of former Hessian soldier >Jacob Bartell, who settled in Marion County after his >capture by Francis Marion at Black Mingo Creek. > >John and Ann Mozingo and daughter Sarah Mozingo of >Kinston, NC, were land surveyors and their names >appear often in land records. > >I have also found a widow Agnes Creel (who links with >no others) in a 1777 land transaction on Swift Creek >in the SC Cheraws District and she was a member of >Welsh Neck Church near Society Hill. > >I have more details on all of the above if you need >it. If you run across any of these names please >contact me. > >Mike Creel >Lexington, South Carolina > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. >http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 >