2/20/07 Joanne, Crabtree Creek is not in the St. Matthews area. It flows thru William B. Umstead State Park, passing and sometimes flooding Crabtree Mall, into Raleigh, crossing Glenwood Avenue near where Wade Avenue crosses and is the creek I played in as a boy in the 40's. John Clark, formerly of Raleigh, born in Knightdale, Marks Creek twnshp --- Joanne Gaudio <jgaudio@charter.net> wrote: > Can anyone give me an idea where Crabtree Creek is > (or was) located? Anotehr creek called Long Branch > flows into it. I think it must be in the general > area where Little River, Marks Creek, and St. > Matthews townships came together in the mid-1800s. > John Nutt left land in 1819 on both sides of the > creek to his children, and in 1857 there was a > lawsuit between Henry Bunch of Little River and > Richard B. Seawell of St. Matthews over part of this > same land. I can't find it on the Fendol Beavers > map. I'm interested because part of the land was > willed to Mary Polly Nutt Riley and her heirs. She > was alive in Marks Creek in 1850 but not there in > 1860, and I'm trying to find out if she had died by > 1856 and her remaining heirs had sold the land to > either Bunch or Seawell. The survey map I gpt frm > the Archives just identifies her part as left to her > in John Nutt's will for her life and then to her > heirs - a bit ambiguous as to her state in 1856, but > I don't see how she could have ! > sold it while living. If any of this sounds > familiar to anyone, I'd love to get more > information, too! Thanks. > Joanne Pearce Gaudio > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NCWAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >