I would like to know if there are Taylors and or Cherry's listed on the map of people who owned land in that area. If some one could advise me , I am looking for William Cherry and or Zachary Taylor or perhaps Richard Taylor. thanks Earl Leon Thomas my email is ethomas3@bak.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Harguess" <dharguess@coastline.edu> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: RE: [Q-R] Land transactions In Rowan/Orange/Guilford/Randolph Counties in NC > By any chance would this map have anything about the Peedee River? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Violet O.Guy [mailto:vmguy@gmpexpress.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:16 PM > To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Land transactions In Rowan/Orange/Guilford/Randolph > Counties in NC > > Q-Rs: > > I have a very interesting map of Guiliford County, NC, which I purchased > during the Mendenhall Family Reunion of 1999, which was held there in > Guiliford County. The map shows rivers, Quaker Meeting houses and > various > denominations of churches plus pinpoints where families homes were. It > also > indicates boundries of the bordering counties. I find it quite > interesting > as I can find my ancestors' names written up on it. > > I believe that there was a discussion about this map sometime last > winter. > > Violet Moore Guy > 11/30/2004 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Seth Hinshaw" <sethhinshaw@hotmail.com> > To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:31 PM > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Land transactions In Rowan/Orange/Guilford/Randolph > Counties in NC > > > > Polecat Creek is a tributary of Deep River. It flows south from > Greensboro, > > west of > > Pleasant Garden, just east of the Centre Meeting House, and flows into > the > > Deep > > River east of Randleman. One of the major tributaries of Polecat Creek > is > > Little > > Polecat Creek, which flows from just south of Climax, near Providence > > Meeting > > House, and into Polecat Creek just east of New Salem. > > > > My mother grew up on a farm which had an unnamed tributary of Polecat > Creek > > running across its western border. > > > > One other thing to keep in mind in tracing deeds along the border of > > Guilford and > > Randolph Counties is that a few decades ago Guilford County claimed > that > the > > line had not been run correctly and paid for a new survey. As a > result, > the > > line > > was moved further north, giving Randolph County more land. The house > where > > my mother grew up was in Guilford County when it was constructed > (1872) > but > > is > > today just inside Randolph County. > > > > Another thing for researchers to remember in these deeds is that the > > original > > line separating Orange and Rowan Counties may be drawn. The southern > > terminus of the boundary is the point where Moore and Montgomery > Counties > > touch the southern border of Randolph County. The Orange/Rowan line > ran > > due north from this point. This would place Providence very close to > the > > line. In practice, many of the earliest settlers did not know which > county > > they > > lived in and sometimes filed their deeds in the wrong place. > Hillsborough > > was more > > accessible than Salisbury, so some researchers believe that a few > 1750s > > settlers > > along the line filed deeds in Hillsborough for this reason. > > > > >From: Thomas Hamm <tomh@earlham.edu> > > >Reply-To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > >Subject: Re: [Q-R] Land transactions In > Rowan/Orange/Guilford/Randolph > > >Counties in NC > > >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:27:26 -0500 > > > > > >You have the "genealogies" of Guilford and Randolph counties correct. > > >Roughly, the eastern third of the two was part of Orange County > before > > >1770, and the western 2/3 was part of Rowan. What was known as the > > >"Trading Path" ran basically east to west across the northern part of > > >Randolph County. > > > > > >Tom Hamm > > > > > > > > >>I am going through some of the land transactions that I looked at > while > > >>visiting NC two weeks ago. The following is from a book called: > > >> > > >>Randolph County > > >>North Carolina > > >> > > >>Deed Abstracts > > >>Books 1 thru 5 > > >> > > >>1779-1794 > > >> > > >>Volume I > > >> > > >>by Barbara Newsom Grigg > > >>Rt. 2 Box 458 > > >>Ashboro, NC 27203 > > >> > > >>I have made a note to myself that Abraham Elliott, Jr. seems to have > lived > > >>on Polecat Creek--also Joseph Elliot and Abraham Sr. and John > Elliott > > >> > > >>Here is the entry that I am hoping someone can interpret for me: > > >> > > >>5;19, 11 Sept. 1792---James Alexander to Daniel Dawson, both of > Guilford > > >>County, for 150 pds. 150 a. in Randolph Co. being 1/2 the tract > whereon > > >>his father, George Alexander formerly lived on Polecat waters and > both > > >>sides the Trading Road adj. Benjamin Beeson & Jacob Elliot, crossing > the > > >>Old Orange Co. line. > > >>Signed James Alexander, Wit: John Coe, Isaac Causey > > >> > > >>It is Jacob Elliott that I am interested in....and this seems to > narrow > > >>down just exactly where he lived better than any of the land > transactions > > >>that I have looked at. Is there a place that I can look at a map to > see > > >>where the Trading Road and the Old Orange County line would be? I > have > a > > >>map that shows me the area where Polecat Creek is located. It seems > to > be > > >>just west of Ashboro. Was Ashboro on the Trading Road? I have > looked > at > > >>the animap images of the creation of Guilford and Randolph and it > is > > >>somewhat confusing. It looks to me as if Guilford was formed from > part > of > > >>Rowan and part of Orange with both giving up some of their territory > and > > >>then Randoph was created from Guilford. Is my interpretation > correct? > > >>It is my gut feeling that my Jacob Elliott bought land in 1764 in > Rowan > > >>County....then lived in Guilford and finally Randolph without ever > moving > > >>off of his original property on Polecat Creek. Is my thinking > valid? > > > > > > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > > Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Need assistance? Please contact:Quaker-Roots-L-Admin@RootsWeb.com > List Manager for Quaker-Roots-L and Quaker-Roots-D > Now with over 750 subscribers > > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Need assistance? Please contact:Quaker-Roots-L-Admin@RootsWeb.com > List Manager for Quaker-Roots-L and Quaker-Roots-D > Now with over 750 subscribers >