Steve, Is the 1755 Cumberland Tax List available on the web? I haven't been able to find it. I'm looking for Thomas Brown (not the Gen.) and Edmund Brown who later appeared in Bladen/Robeson. John John K. Brown jkbrown2@knology.net "Honesty is the Best Policy, but Insanity is a Better Defense." On Sat Sep 1 10:06 , 'Steve E.' <datanato@bellsouth.net> sent: >I've noticed over the many years I've been reading up on this region's >history that a surprising number of settlers living in Cumberland in the >mid 1700s moved south, especially into the northeastern corner of Bladen >County, now Robeson. At that time the area was almost totally wild. > >In the late 1740s Cumberland was gaining steadily in population, but >very few immigrant people lived south of Cumberland in this wet and >swampy area, full of virgin forests and opportunity. Land speculators, >however, had begun to obtain large tracts of it by the end of the 1740s. >The Lumbee tribe had been living in this northeastern corner of Bladen >for probably hundreds of years but they had not claimed all the lands >surrounding their traditional homeland. > >There is an existing tax list from early Bladen County and a >transcription of it is online at > >http://pages.prodigy.net/donnace7/1763tax.htm > >Make sure you click on page two at bottom. > >I suggest that those of you researching your earliest ancestors of this >entire region (old Bladen/Robeson and Cumberland Counties) compare this >list with the 1755 Cumberland County tax list to see if your ancestor >moved southward as mine did. > >Steve E. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

As of today, yes. I sent a notice to the Robeson list about it. go to my site, www.capefearclans.com, and click 'Latest Updates' in the navigation bar on the left and you'll see the two lists' links at the top of the page that comes up. But read the text that accompanies the two links. jkbrown2@knology.net wrote: >Steve, > >Is the 1755 Cumberland Tax List available on the web? I haven't been able to find it. I'm looking for Thomas Brown (not the Gen.) and Edmund Brown who later appeared in Bladen/Robeson. > >John > >John K. Brown >jkbrown2@knology.net > >"Honesty is the Best Policy, but Insanity is a Better Defense." > > > On Sat Sep 1 10:06 , 'Steve E.' <datanato@bellsouth.net> sent: > > > >>I've noticed over the many years I've been reading up on this region's >>history that a surprising number of settlers living in Cumberland in the >>mid 1700s moved south, especially into the northeastern corner of Bladen >>County, now Robeson. At that time the area was almost totally wild. >> >>In the late 1740s Cumberland was gaining steadily in population, but >>very few immigrant people lived south of Cumberland in this wet and >>swampy area, full of virgin forests and opportunity. Land speculators, >>however, had begun to obtain large tracts of it by the end of the 1740s. >>The Lumbee tribe had been living in this northeastern corner of Bladen >>for probably hundreds of years but they had not claimed all the lands >>surrounding their traditional homeland. >> >>There is an existing tax list from early Bladen County and a >>transcription of it is online at >> >>http://pages.prodigy.net/donnace7/1763tax.htm >> >>Make sure you click on page two at bottom. >> >>I suggest that those of you researching your earliest ancestors of this >>entire region (old Bladen/Robeson and Cumberland Counties) compare this >>list with the 1755 Cumberland County tax list to see if your ancestor >>moved southward as mine did. >> >>Steve E. >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Does anyone have a Richard Brown (probably Robeson County) in their database? I am searching for Richard Brown who is listed in Robeson marriage records as having bond to marry Effy McDougald on March 1, 1805. ...or parents or siblings of Effy McDougald (or any information on her)? Thanks, Annette Rawls ----- Original Message ----- From: <jkbrown2@knology.net> To: <ncrobeso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] [NCCUMBER] Bladen County Tax List - 1763 > Steve, > > Is the 1755 Cumberland Tax List available on the web? I haven't been able > to find it. I'm looking for Thomas Brown (not the Gen.) and Edmund Brown > who later appeared in Bladen/Robeson. >