At 03:11 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, John Kantzer wrote: >Need some help. Would like to eliminate possibilites from my list. >On the 1790 Census there is a William Haynes in Edgecomb County listed >with 2 free white males of 16 and up, 1 under 16 and 5 free white females. >If you know who this man is would appreciate hearing from you. I don't, but I'm also chasing North Carolina Hayneses as I'm descended from a William Haynes probably born in the early to mid 1790s. I have his oldest child as Allen (b. 1816), and the other kids of the first marriage (to Elizabeth Hood) as Humphrey Posey, William, John, Margaret Emaline, Archibald, Kezziah, and Mary. (I'm descended from Margaret Emaline, who married a Snyder.) This William Haynes, who was an early Baptist preacher in Haywood county (NC), married (2) Sallie Campbell and (3) a Ferguson: I've got those children listed separately. I'd love to know where my William came from -- it's possible that it was also from Virginia -- and where his family came from. I do know that my William apparently married Elizabeth in Tennessee -- her father, John Hood, a Rev. War vet., had moved there following the end of the Revolutionary War -- or Missouri. I have some fragmentary information from another researcher that John and Elizabeth moved to or back to North Carolina from Missouri. Elizabeth Whitaker Upstate South Carolina >I have a William Haynes bn abt 1774 in Virginia who married a Mary Pryor >bn abt 1781 in Virginia >their children and their birth places follow: >Samuel T. bn 1805 Virginia >Lucinda F bn 1806 North Carolina >Elizabeth 25 Dec 1812 Virginia >William James bn 1 Jan 1811, Kentucky >Paulina bn 9 Jul 1816 North Carolina >Thomas P. bn 17 Jun 1818 Kentucky >Nancy (have no date or place) >Hannah (have 1816 in Kentucky but she dies before 1850. >These birth places were taken from Census records. Either this man and his >family moved quite a bit, or some of the census records are not correct. >Pat It's possible. I've seen more extensive travels from census and pension file summaries from the late 1700s and early 1800s. There was a *lot* of migration especially in the 1770s, 1790s, and then after about 1815. Elizabeth Whitaker