This is sent because of the information that Dempsey POWELL appears in a deed, noted below. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Johnson" <[email protected]> To: "Mary " Cousin" Holland" <[email protected]>; "Peg "Cousin" Zaremba" <[email protected]>; "TN Humphreys County" <[email protected]>; "TN Dickson County" <[email protected]>; "tnwillia" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:29 PM Subject: [TNWILLIA] Bartons Creek ( Overlooked clues) Mary and Peg I started thinking Mary Hollands Hiram Johnson and Margaret Johnson of Humphreys Co. Tn. Hiram is a name found in descendants of Laughlin McEleya and Mary Powers who first settled in York Co. PA then to lands of Orange Co NC in 1771 to Caswell CO NC. Then the sons of Laughlin McElyea are found on lands of Surry Co in 1776 and Guilford Co NC. In looking thru McElyea in Transit by Clara Hunt Miller it seems I missed this Montgomery Co Court Minutes Vol 7 pg 117 of 1816-1817 : John McElyea with others worked on the road between Yellow Creek, East Fork and Barton's Creek. This is our John McEleya married to Sarah Boone daughter of Hezikiah Boone ( First cousin of Daniel Boone) WE know that Hiram McElyea son of John McElyea and Sarah Boones grand daughter Tennessee McElyea is married to John S.T. Johnson. So our John McElyea ( Father of Hiram McElyea) is working on Bartons Creek which is then in Montgomery Co. Tn. I wonder who else was involved in that work order as Researcher Clara Hunter Miller does not give any other names. Seems like our Great Aunt and Uncles McElyea families went up into Clay Co Illinois, which is North of Franklin Co Ill.( or vice versa) Now Bartons Creek is part of the Harpeth River of Tn. which comes out of Williamson Co, well the Narrows of the Harpeth is where Montgomery Bell owned the Iron Furnace, which was first the property of General James Randolph Robertson whose families off Colonial Wards Creek. One of the First Lands grants on the Harpeth River was to Charles Robertson in 1783 the brother of General James Randolph Robertson who also owned this Iron furnace on Bartons Creek on the Harpeth River. Another brother of James Randolph Robertson Elijah Robertson. Both of these Robertsons can be connected back to WARDS CREEK in Colonial Va. (See Johnson and Allied families of Wards Creek) Mary this includes your BURTON families and families tied to your Nicholas Haile and John Carter families (The Merriman Families) Just from the above it seems when Hudson and wife Agness Johnson left Williamson Co for lands on Bartons Creek in Robertson Co in 1803 they would follow the Harpeth River into Dickson Co, ( Which also borders Cheatham Co now days) PLEASE NOTE ERROR in previous e-mail I said the deed for Hudson Johnson on Bartons Creek was from Stewart Co it was not it was from Robertson Co in 1803. The lands Hudson Johnson obtained were from a William Cochran who also died in Muary Co. Tn. I need to re check but General James Randolph Robertson sister of Wake Co NC was married first to a David Johnston and after his death she re married and I think that was to a Cochran. Need to Check Johnson and Allied families of Wake Co NC ( six pound Creek) *** 1779 Dec. 6 Michael Rogers, "... a Witness thereto...," proved a bond before the Wake County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, in the amount of £1000, "...from James Robertson, John Robertson Charles Robertson & David Johnston to Dempsey Powell ..."for the remaining interests in the Neuse River land http://www.robertson-ancestry.com/1221-vg-02.htm<http://www.robertson-ancestry.com/1221-vg-02.htm> *** Another PA Family living on the Harpeth Rivers was David Ralston It appears Mary your Cotton families tied to Gideon Johnson are also first families on the Harpeth Capt. Thomas Cotton. The First Johnson's on the Harpeth before 1793 appear to be one Isaac Johnston involved with James Donelson (? how connected to Col. John Donelson) Then in 1793 appears one Benjamin Johnson land granted in Davidson Co. Tn note of interest is his son Grief Johnson married a Mary Helms Off a Mary Box married to ? Helms, The Box families of Humphreys and Williamson Co are tied to the widow Mary Box of Colonial Va neighbor of William Hatcher b 1614 England. which again connect to the widow John WARD as William Hatcher bought lands from the Widow Ward in 1636. Going back to ( Marys) Hiram Johnson and his families of Kentucky I note that the John McElyea stopped awhile in Livingston Co Ky on Hurricane Creek in 1805. and then are in Montgomery Co Tn Records for 1817 ( see above) Also Mary it might help in your ( and our) research if Joe did a DNA test for the Holland surname. We can then plot his Holland DNA travel Patterns showing the points where these DNA Holland Familes are crossed with our Johnson DNA project ( White Oak Tree) on the JJJDNA project found on rootsweb. Tony ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message