When a veteran of the Revolution died, did his pension continue to go to his widow or children? I think I may be tied to the JAMES HALL below. Revolutionary War Pension From: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/nc+index+9398104516 037+F ALEXANDER HALL IREDELL COUNTY PRIVATE NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA $30.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $90.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED APRIL 9, 1833 PENSION STARTED AGE 79 DAVID HALL CAMDEN COUNTY PRIVATE NORTH CAROLINA LINE $80.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $720.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED MARCH 3, 1826 PENSION STARTED JAMES HALL JOHNSON COUNTY PRIVATE NORTH CAROLINA CONT'L LINE $96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $264.58 AMOUNT RECEIVED JANUARY 18, 1818 PENSION STARTED AGE 62 DIED MARCH 22, 1821

I am looking for information on James Harbin born 1777 MD who married Elizabeth Kennick born abt 1780 MD in Aug 1803. James sold his land in /rowan or Davies Co and went west to Knox Co, IN. He purchased his land in IN in 1824. Betty Harbin Garbers [email protected]

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Hello, I am looking for information on John Mitchell who died in Rowan county 1783. He was of Irish extraction and his wife was Sarah. I found that he deeded land in Chatham county NC to a son Reuben in 1782 or 1783, but could not find a will. These Mitchells were no longer in Rowan county in 1790. Adam and John Mitchell were both in Rowan county as early as 1760. His wife may have remarried and stayed in Rowan county, but I have evidence that his sons relocated to Chatham county. This John Mitchell served in some capacity for the Continental Troops during the Revolutionary War. Any help is appreciated with this family. Many thanks, Doris Mitchell [email protected]

The FamilyHart database was updated the day before Christmas adding another 9,000 new names online at the url found below. The total in the online database is now over 406,000 names. The majority of the information is for Pennsylvania Dutch families from Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and North Carolina and points going west. _http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/_ (http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/) Much of the information is unverified information from other researchers. As we are able, we do try to "verify" information with census, church and other records. Each record has notes as to the source of the information. If you have additions and/or corrections, please feel free to send us an email. Please be advised that all names added are related by blood or marriage to our family. Also, dates and places for living individuals is withheld for those born after 1925. > < Thanks! Don & Jeanine Hartman FamilyHart _http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/_ (http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/) Administrators for the following lists at Rootsweb: Pennsylvania, PADutchGenONLY, Penna-Dutch, PAYork, PA-York-Gen, MD-Fred-Gen, MDWashin, Burket, Dierdorff, Gotshall, Glattfelder, Hartman, Kohr, Kaufman, Sturm

In a message dated 12/19/2004 2:00:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Rowan Original: 1743-1900 Microfilm: Record of Wills 1762-1959 Does anyone know how complete these are? I need to go through those also.. Do you have the number for that microfilm.. Ellie S.

Hi all, This is my first time writing to the list. Has anyone ever checked out the microfilm? Rowan Original: 1743-1900 Microfilm: Record of Wills 1762-1959 If so, does it have a will or wills for Watkins? Any Watkins? The earliest date for James Watkins, Sr. that I found is: 15 May 1755 (Rowan) NC Deed Abstract James Watkins, Sr. I have been trying to find his parents for years! Today may be my lucky day so I am crossing my fingers. Thanks! Lois

http://rowanroots.GoRowan.com One of the most heavily traveled wagon roads in the east. Settlers from PA. were often looking for old Rowan County. The good word had been spread back to their European homelands. After a short stay here they packed up and moved back up the Carolina Road and on into eastern TN. And often on the Illinois and points beyond. Good database on Rowan County families. Rowan County Information Website www.GoRowan.com Salisbury Civil War Prison www.SalisburyPrison.com

I am of the wrong gender to participate (and a good many generations removed) but I'm interested. Are there any male Rowan County Brandons out there? Elaine Oakes >>And if you would, I'd love for you to put the Brandon DNA call out on Rowan-L via your good name! Our portal is here: http://home.att.net/~brandondna/ As you can see by following the links to Brandon results and Brandon history, we have no provable Rowan Co. Brandon descendants. (Depends on which Thomas goes where and those cousins in the Project - Theresa Brandon among them - haven't made that determination - we're hiring a professional researcher to help.) For heaven's sake, George b.1703's son Abraham was supposed to have had 10 kids and I have yet to see his people chime in - come on down to the Brandon DNA Pool! Thanks again, Sally Brandon http://www.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/Sally-A-Brandon/

I've gone through the archives of this list as well as the Guilford Co. lists and other internet sources and this is some of what I've gleaned about some of the Fosters living in Rowan/Guilford Cos. around 1750 onward. John Foster and Grace Dicks married about 1780 at North Buffalo, old Rowan Co., NC (now Guilford Co.). John's parents were Hugh Forster and Abigail (LNU) possibly from Cecil Co., Maryland. They were Quakers. Grace Dicks' father was Nathan Dicks, brother of the famous Quaker teacher & firebrand Zachariah/Zacharias Dicks. They were from Chester Co., Pennsylvania, just over the border from Cecil Co. I have some of John and Grace's children as: Abigail m. Richard Stanley Nathan m. Abigail Macy Mary m. Moses Harvey (?) Hannah m. Moses Harvey (?) Joshua m. Sarah Hunt Elmira m. Alexander Kell John Foster's siblings are possibly: William m. Agnes Allen Abigail m. Charles Kennedy/Canaday James m. Elsy Smith Samuel m. Barsheba Jessop I have left out the children of these people so as not to clutter this message. Since Hugh Foster/Forster lived a full life (c. 1720- c. 1790) I suspect he had more children than that. Does anyone have anything else on this family? I am trying to link them to the Fosters who migrated to Spanish Louisiana (now Mississippi) about 1790. In particular, I am trying to find the parentage of the Hugh Allen Foster who married Winny Arnold in Claiborne Co., MS in 1822. I've tentatively excluded the Fosters from old 96 District in SC who migrated to roughly the same area a little earlier than 1790. The Quaker Fosters, with their Maryland connections, and Dicks and Allen marriages, are the best candidates so far.

I've used it for the past two days, and have experienced no problem getting to the data and staying there. I went the survey route, too ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cricket Thorne" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 9:34 AM Subject: [RowanRoots] Re: Nehg > I used the survey route, it only allows about 5 clicks on your mouse then drops you out after you are in the database. > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > The list administrator can be reached at [email protected] >

I used the survey route, it only allows about 5 clicks on your mouse then drops you out after you are in the database.

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I have not experienced any difficulty. I just register as they ask, and I am in. Debra Nor could we. Something was goofed up. John Ballard > I must be missing something here. > When I went to the site I couldn't get access to any information without joining. > So this looks just like a sales pitch to me. Tell me if I'm wrong! > Lois Willand

I think the demand has exceeded their expectations. I'd advise the following: I'd keep trying, and, if need be, use the "contact us" link at the bottom to let them know you couldn't get into the database. Also, try doing the survey, which is mentioned in the upper left corner of the main page. Perhaps you can get in easier that way. Katherine

I must be missing something here. When I went to the site I couldn't get access to any information without joining. So this looks just like a sales pitch to me. Tell me if I'm wrong! Lois Willand > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:52:31 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RowanRoots] NEHGS website - open access on Thanksgiving weekend > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:52:33 -0700 > > NewEnglandAncestors.org

Nor could we. Something was goofed up. John Ballard From: "JON WILLAND" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [RowanRoots] NEHGS website - open access on Thanksgivingweekend > I must be missing something here. > When I went to the site I couldn't get access to any information without > joining. > So this looks just like a sales pitch to me. Tell me if I'm wrong! > Lois Willand > >

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I'm a member of NEHGS, as my husband and I both have numerous New England lines. This is an announcement that should be welcome news to anyone researching New England ancestors. Happy Thanksgiving! Katherine Dick Benbow Historian for the Charles Benbow Family researching Benbow, Carver; also Troy, Balfour, Long, Miller, Bruner, Viele http://www.charlesbenbowfamily.homestead.com/Index.html researching Dick, Fries; also Yates/Yeats, Madison, Snell, Alden http://www.dickfamily.homestead.com/ County Coordinator, Guilford County, North Carolina, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Open Access to NEHGS' Register Thanksgiving Weekend "A Feast of Ancestors! Enjoy Free Access to the Register Online Over Thanksgiving Weekend! NEHGS is pleased to offer free access to its New England Historical and Genealogical Register database on NewEnglandAncestors.org over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Normally only available to NEHGS members, the Register database will be accessible to everyone from Thursday, November 25 through Sunday, November 28, 2004. We encourage all NEHGS members to spread the word about this offering, and we hope that those of you who are not members find a veritable feast of ancestors in the Register database! Published quarterly since 1847, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register is the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest journal in the field. The online database includes issues from 1847 to 1994. The Register has featured articles on a wide variety of topics since its inception, including vital records, church records, tax records, land and probate records, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, and historical essays. Authoritative compiled genealogies have been the centerpiece of the Register for more than 150 years. Thousands of New England families have been treated in the pages of the journal and many more are referenced in incidental ways throughout. The articles in the Register range from short pieces correcting errors in print or solving unusual problems to larger treatments that reveal family origins or present multiple generations of a family. Look for details on how to obtain free access to the Register in a special eNews bulletin to be sent out Wednesday, November 24. A link will also be available on that date on the home page of our website, www.NewEnglandAncestors.org."

When I was young, My father still paid Pole Tax in the 1930's and I think until about the time of WW11, and could be afterwards. Not sure when it was ended, and the Income tax was added. Betty Heryford