Dear List, My good friend, Kathy Sullivan, located another post I made a number of years ago concerning militia lists and their geographic locations. She suggested that I post it on these two lists for others who may be interested in the research. If I may answer questions or expand upon this research, just let me know. I posted the following on the Catawba West list in 1999: My research has indicated that militia companies did have a distinct geographical area. Mr. Curtis Mosteller (now deceased) and I did much research on these companies quite a number of years ago. Yet, I have never seen a militia map or any description of these militia companies in any of my research at the State Archives in Raleigh. I did some analysis of the militia companies some years ago in three respects: to analyze slave populations, to discern the German populations of the districts, and to locate the militia companies which included present Catawba County. I presented a brief program to the Catawba County Genealogical Society about this issue. While I cannot verify by independent means my suppositions about location of these companies, I believe they are close to being correct. >From the 1790 Lincoln Co. census: 1st Companyeastern Catawba County 2nd Companynorth central Lincoln and south central Catawba; in the Maiden area 3rd Companynorth central Catawba 4th companywestern Catawba 5th Companynorthern Catawba Of the above I suggested that 62% of the names were of German origin 10th Companyeastern Lincoln and eastern Catawba (this company was predominantly of English-speaking origin) I hope this information may be helpful to Mr Bradshaw and to anyone else. I remind you that my sources for this list is my general knowledge of names and where they originated. So it is my opinion based on my years of research. You may find errors and may have other opinions based upon your own research. Robert Carpenter

In which militia district was Seagle's Store ... or is that the name of the militia district?? Thanks. Alta -----Original Message----- From: Robert Carpenter <rcarpenter2@charter.net> To: nclincol@rootsweb.com; CATAWBA-WEST-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 8:15 pm Subject: [NCLINCOL] Militia districts Dear List, My good friend, Kathy Sullivan, located another post I made a number of years ago concerning militia lists and their geographic locations. She suggested that I post it on these two lists for others who may be interested in the research. If I may answer questions or expand upon this research, just let me know. I posted the following on the Catawba West list in 1999: My research has indicated that militia companies did have a distinct geographical area. Mr. Curtis Mosteller (now deceased) and I did much research on these companies quite a number of years ago. Yet, I have never seen a militia map or any description of these militia companies in any of my research at the State Archives in Raleigh. I did some analysis of the militia companies some years ago in three respects: to analyze slave populations, to discern the German populations of the districts, and to locate the militia companies which included present Catawba County. I presented a brief program to the Catawba County Genealogical Society about this issue. While I cannot verify by independent means my suppositions about location of these companies, I believe they are close to being correct. >From the 1790 Lincoln Co. census: 1st Companyeastern Catawba County 2nd Companynorth central Lincoln and south central Catawba; in the Maiden area 3rd Companynorth central Catawba 4th companywestern Catawba 5th Companynorthern Catawba Of the above I suggested that 62% of the names were of German origin 10th Companyeastern Lincoln and eastern Catawba (this company was predominantly of English-speaking origin) I hope this information may be helpful to Mr Bradshaw and to anyone else. I remind you that my sources for this list is my general knowledge of names and where they originated. So it is my opinion based on my years of research. You may find errors and may have other opinions based upon your own research. Robert Carpenter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com