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