This deed seems important, but...the deed mentions "Cader Powell, Junr." Now I don't know how they counted things like Junior in 1769, but there being a junior suggests to me that there was a senior. Wouldn't that make the deed's Cader Dempsey's brother? Ken Collier On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:51 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > If anyone is interested... > > > I have a transcript of a Deed of Sale from Bertie County, North Carolina, > December Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1769. -- 891-59 which > states: > > "A Deed of Sale from Thomas MIEARS and Elizabeth his Wife to Cader Powell > Junr. was Proved in Due form of Law in open Court by the oath of Demsy > (Dempsey?) Powell one of the subscribing Witnesses and on Motion order to be > Registered. " > > I do know that Talitha "Lytha" Cotton married Robert Hobday and after his > death she married Dempsey Powell in 1810 in Sumner Co., TN. Dempsey Powell > was born in 1747 in Bertie Co., NC and died 1832 in Davidson Co., TN. > Dempsey Powell was also previously married and had 8 children. Dempsey's > father was Cader Powell, born 1715 and died 1785. So this could be the Cader > mentioned in the above deed. > > Elaine Powell > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- The tao we call "tao" is not the Tao; The name we call "Holy" is not the Holy Name. --Lao Tsu

Hi Ken... I think she has them mixed up a little ... The Demsey in the deed is the son of George Powell (tax records of 1769) ... and I think Dempsey Powell is a different person from Wake County... I have to look at my rec's more to get all this straight ... I've been working on a Cader Powell in North Carolina Index to try to straighten them all out ... It looks like for awhile there EVERYBODY named a son Cader or Keder ... It's almost worse than "John" ... Hannah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Collier" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [POWELL-DNA] Dempsy Powell & Cader Powell > This deed seems important, but...the deed mentions "Cader Powell, Junr." > Now I don't know how they counted things like Junior in 1769, but there > being a junior suggests to me that there was a senior. Wouldn't that make > the deed's Cader Dempsey's brother? > > Ken Collier > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:51 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If anyone is interested... >> >> >> I have a transcript of a Deed of Sale from Bertie County, North Carolina, >> December Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1769. -- 891-59 >> which >> states: >> >> "A Deed of Sale from Thomas MIEARS and Elizabeth his Wife to Cader Powell >> Junr. was Proved in Due form of Law in open Court by the oath of Demsy >> (Dempsey?) Powell one of the subscribing Witnesses and on Motion order to >> be >> Registered. " >> >> I do know that Talitha "Lytha" Cotton married Robert Hobday and after his >> death she married Dempsey Powell in 1810 in Sumner Co., TN. Dempsey >> Powell >> was born in 1747 in Bertie Co., NC and died 1832 in Davidson Co., TN. >> Dempsey Powell was also previously married and had 8 children. Dempsey's >> father was Cader Powell, born 1715 and died 1785. So this could be the >> Cader >> mentioned in the above deed. >> >> Elaine Powell >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > The tao we call "tao" is not the Tao; > The name we call "Holy" is not the Holy Name. > --Lao Tsu > > ------------------------------- > 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

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Kenneth Collier <[email protected]> wrote: > This deed seems important, but...the deed mentions "Cader Powell, Junr." > Now I don't know how they counted things like Junior in 1769, but there > being a junior suggests to me that there was a senior. Wouldn't that make > the deed's Cader Dempsey's brother? > > Ken Collier > Ken, in NC, in 1769, when two men of same name lived in close proximity, one was the Senior and one was the Junior, and these designations were appended to the names until one of the men either left the area or died; however, these designations did not imply blood kinship of any degree as they do today. It seems logical that most men with identical names were blood kin, but neither Junior nor Senior was used to so indicate. Mary Frances > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >