** Reply Requested by 3/4/2010 (Thursday) ** Yeah. And I think the ole' boy was still getttin around in 1960 too! >>> On 3/3/2010 at 1:48 PM, in message <[email protected]>, "Hannah Powell" <[email protected]> wrote: 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 ------------------------------- 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