Hi, I'm new on the list and am looking for several family lines from this area. Adam WELKER married Nancy FLETCHER around 1793 in in Surry County and Sarah Fletcher around 1802 in Rowan Co. He is supposed to be German (which means that spelling variations can include any of the following: Wälker, Walker, Welcker, Welcher, and I've even seen Whicker a few times). Conrad DICK died in Wilkes County in 1774, leaving at least one daughter, Elizabether, who married Peter ELLER. From secondary/tertiary? literature, he is supposed to be Swiss, but again, I would like to find some documentation. The DICKs and the ELLERs both came from Frederick, Maryland previous to this, but I'm hoping to find out something the death records. Can someone point me in the right direction? Are there German church records available in Rowan County? (Lutheran and/or Reformed). I am familiar with German records from other lines, but I'm stuck on these people. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions you can offer! Rose Green _________________________________________________________________ Watch the online reality show Mixed Messages with a friend and enter to win a trip to NY http://www.msnmessenger-download.click-url.com/go/onm00200497ave/direct/01/

If you have never found the NAME of your Rowan County Ancestor's WIFE ...you will understand my problem. Since the 1800 Census was alphabetized, we lost that particular avenue to see IF our Ancestor's NEIGHBORS were kinfolk. I have not found the NAME of my gr-gr-gr-grandmother. In 1800 Census they were newlyweds but they moved to Buncombe County after 1805, where she died in 1824, leaving him with 12 children. However, there is ONE AVENUE that holds CLUES....and that clue is their PROPERTY. My ancestor, Wyatt Hoult/Holt...lived with Paul Roadsmith. Paul was a Blacksmith in Salisbury. I don't know where his house was located, but he owned property on CRANE CREEK..and...on GRANTS CREEK. And it's very likely Wyatt married the daughter of a neighbor living on Crane Creek or on Grants Creek. IF...anyone has a DAUGHTER MISSING from the family of your Ancestor who LIVED on CRANE CREEK ...OR...on GRANT CREEK...and IF she was BORN circa 1772-1782, "possibly" SHE is the daughter who married Wyatt Hoult/Holt ? You may even know her given name and that she married a "Wyatt". (thinking Wyatt was the 'last name' rather than his first name.) OR...at the least you may have wondered what happened to your Ancestor's Daughter born around that time who was in the 1790 Census column but was not listed again in the 1800 Rowan County, N.C. Census with her parents? Does anyone have a "missing daughter" from a family that would FIT this time period and these Clues? If so, I would love to hear from you. Hopefully we can settle a MISSING LINK for both of us. Thanks so much for checking your records and for reading this rather lengthy posting. Jean

Thanks to all who helped with the Halls. Here's my problem. My own Abraham Hall, son of Samuel Hall, brother of George Hall who went to Buncombe/Haywood, wrote his will 1835 Rowan/Davie Co area. He mentions two grandsons, George and Abraham who were underage in 1835. They were to inherit land when came of age. They were under Abraham's guardianship in 1835 since their father Abah was deceased. Abraham passed the guardianship to Peter Ferebee and John Tomlinson, Executors for the will. I cannot find what happened to the two boys after that. The will was probated 1839, Davie Co. I found an entry for a land indenture at the Archives for Abraham Hall, grantee to M.L. Holmes, grantor 1888 Rowan Co NC. I just thought maybe one of the two boys had moved to Rowan from Davie Co. There is no mention of these boys on any census in Davie Co. Are there other documents I need to search for that will tell me what happened to them? Thanks for all help. Gerri Ann

If someone has copies of census for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880, Rowan Co NC would you please see if there is a Hall family in Rowan Co for those years. I am looking for George and Abraham Hall. If anyone on the list is researching a Hall family in Rowan could you please contact me. Thank you, Gerri Ann [email protected]

-----Original Message----- From: Peggy Crane [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 9:03 AM To: RowanRoots Subject: RE: [RowanRoots] Index of Loose Estate Papers for Rowan Co., NC Betty...I purchased this index a number of years ago and the information covers dates from 1750 to 1927. I will add that it gives you everything you need to know to order these documents from the NC Archives in Raleigh...but the index itself gives the dates of the Loose Estates Papers which would be approximate death date. It is in alphabetical order, listing individuals, who are many times members of the same family. I have ordered many of these for the Rice families of Rowan and been very pleases. It is well worth the cost. It is an easy process to order document copies very reasonably from the NC Archives via their website http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/mail.htm Peggy Rary Crane Caldwell County NC -----Original Message----- From: Betty A. Pace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RowanRoots] Index of Loose Estate Papers for Rowan Co., NC The Rowan County Gen. Society offers for sale for $20 an Index of Loose Estate Papers for Rowan Co., NC. This is only an index but tells you the film numbers where you can find the record. It covers guardianbonds, estate sales, appointing of administrators, names of children and other valuable information. Does anyone already own this book and can tell me the range of dates it covers? Betty Pace ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== The list administrator can be reached at [email protected]

I have used the book at the local library. It is just a list of the files on microfilm (the actual film is available at the Rowan County Library, at the State Archives, and I think through the LDS -- the library will make and send copies for a reasonable fee). I know it includes the earliest records still available (a few before 1800) and it goes up to approximately the early twentieth century. Remember that not everybody left records, so your family may or may not be included. If you are lucky, the actual records can tell you quite a lot. Elaine Oakes > BETTY , That is a good question . I would like to know the date range it > covers , also . > sheri

I'm new to the Rowan list, and am searching for information on a John Brown, b. abt 1760, d. 20 Dec 1794, who married Sarah Ervin, d/o an old Rowan Co. settler, Christopher Erwin and his wife Jane McDowell. The information I have on Christopher Erwin, himself, is that he was b. in Scotland in 1725, but have only found reference to his being a son of a John Irwin, and no further info on his immediate family. I do understand that Christopher was a blacksmith who dedicated his shop to the cause of the Revolution, but I would like to have sources for verification purposes. I have no information on the McDowell family at all. According to the Williamson Co. (TN) Historical Journal, #4, pub. in 1973-74, John and Sarah Ervin Brown, whose names appear in my 6th gen., left Rowan Co. and headed west with Sarah's sister, Margaret, and her husband, David McEwen. They apparently went to KY first, where Margaret and David settled for several years, and where some of their children were born; but John and Sarah and Sarah's bachelor brother, Andrew, decided to move on south to Ft. Nashborough in 1780. They reportedly became, "solid" citizens in the pioneer community. According to this Journal, John Brown and Andrew McEwen were among the 70 Cumberland settlers who were given land by the State of NC. This Journal goes on to state that at some point, bachelor-brother Andrew returned home to NC due to his father's illness, but John and Sarah stayed on in TN. In 1783, John was appointed as one of the two clerks of the peace treaty between the government and several Indian chiefs, and in 1787, he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Law and Equity. He founded Brown's Station, now a part of Nashville, but his leadership in the community was cut short by the Creeks. He was scalped, along with two other men while hunting bear. The account of this murder was related by TN Gov. William Blount to Washington's Sect. of War, Timothy Pickering. An article written in 1875 by Maj. John Lapsley McEwen, and published in the Nashville Banner retold the story of the Holly Tree Gap massacre. The Journal goes on to say that Sarah was left a widow with two small children, Jane Brown, b. in 1790, and John Lapsley Brown, b. 24 Dec. 1793, my g.g.g grandfather. Shortly after the murder, Sarah's sister, Margaret, her husband, David McEwen, and their seven children came to Ft. Nashborough from KY. Both families left Nashville together, and moved to Spencer's Creek in Williamson Co., TN. Soon after their arrival there, David McEwen built the first brick house in Williamson Co, and family members resided there until the home burned in 1877. If anyone recognizes my John Brown and his family, I would greatly appreciate hearing from them as I'd sure like to scale this brick wall. I am also interested in finding the source of the connection to the Lapley family, as both David McEwen and John Brown had sons named, John Lapsley, and these sons in turn had sons named John Lapsley. I also have to add that I am really enjoying reading the archives of this list. Jeanetta Parker Sharp

BETTY , That is a good question . I would like to know the date range it covers , also . I am so tired of spending hard earned money on books that do me no good . The Genealolgy industry has become big money & I wonder about some of this gene -info in them . I have found on ancestry.com that a lot of my ancestors names have been put in their data base mis-spelled . Even the ones I have seen on the original census records have come up spelled wrong --> when I can find them . Very curious indeed . let the buyer beware , for sure . sheri

Do any of you know where Phifersville NC would be located? Which county of NC? I know that a John Pace lived there around 1898. He was the son of Young Pace from Mecklenburg Co., NC, but was related to the Paces of Guilford and Rowan Co. NC. Betty Pace

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The Rowan County Gen. Society offers for sale for $20 an Index of Loose Estate Papers for Rowan Co., NC. This is only an index but tells you the film numbers where you can find the record. It covers guardianbonds, estate sales, appointing of administrators, names of children and other valuable information. Does anyone already own this book and can tell me the range of dates it covers? Betty Pace

Hello, to all... Does anyone have ANYTHING on Martha Patsy COATS, who married James WILLIS, December 17, 1894, perhaps in Davidson County, NC? They were parents of my gr-gr- grandfather, Alexander WILLIS, b. October 18, 1816, and m. Elizabeth ROUGH December 4, 1840, in Davidson County, NC. Elizabeth ROUGH was possibly daughter of Peter(?) ROUGH and Mary C. KEPLEY. Any leads would be.welcome. Thanks in advance. Cookie, aHosier Boy in Florida << [email protected] >>

In a message dated 6/16/2004 8:02:46 AM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: This may certify that Randel Shoemaker and his brother John Shoemaker were delivered to me at Frohocks House, near Salisbury, in May 1781 to serve in the Continental Army for twelve months as part of the quota of men of that description that was to be furnished from Rowan County. And this information would qualify you become a member of SAR or any descendant lady in the DAR.. Ellie

Given below is a transcript I made of a letter from Captain Brevard recommending that my direct ancestor (Randel Shoemaker) and his brother John receive land in Tennessee in credit for their service in the Revolutionary War. Randel and John's father eventually applied for and received land, which I believe was on the order of 640 acres...I found the letter in the archives of the Sons of the American Revolution, here in Louisville, KY. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This may certify that Randel Shoemaker and his brother John Shoemaker were delivered to me at Frohocks House, near Salisbury, in May 1781 to serve in the Continental Army for twelve months as part of the quota of men of that description that was to be furnished from Rowan County. Those two brothers happened to fall in my company and John was with us in the battle of Eutaw Springs and was wounded (of) which wound he died in Camden. Randel, also in the battle, was sent on, with his wounded brother to Camden to the Hospital. On my return from the army with those twelve months men whose times had expired, I found Randel Shoemaker in Camden. He came on with the others and received his discharge. They were quite well conducting young men and Randel was a Sergeant of the line in the Company. Now I do conceive that if there is land coming to any of the Troops of this description that is of twelve months (service) that they Randel & John Shoemaker are as much entitled to it as any (troops) can be. Especially John, who lost his live in this violent struggle. Geven under hand the 26th day of October 1827. Alex. Brevard, Captain at the time in the Continental Army, North Carolina line Footnote at the bottom lof the letter: Any one who wishes to be particularly acquainted with the manner in which the Continental troops of North Carolina were arranged when the Shoemaker's were in Service know that North Carolina had then Six Regiments on the _____that all the Troops they had then in the field would not have amounted to one full regiment and they were called the First and Second Battalion & are under two_______ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My distant ancestors who eventually settled this land in Tennessee fought for the North in the Civil War, while my great-grandfather from Iredell County, NC, fought for the South.... Just a little piece of Americana for anyone interested....by the way does anyone on the list know anything about the Frohocks House near Salisbury? Carl Shumaker

Myrna: This information is contained in John H. Wheeler's Reminiscences And Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians - on the subject of the Alexander Osborn family p. 291 (it is several pages long but I am only including the specific references to Alexander): "The Osborne family is distinguished in the annals of North Carolina for integrity, patriotism and talents. Twenty years before the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Hugh McAden made a tour through the western part of North Carolina and found a settled country, with churches located here and there. He kept a diary, and records that in September 1755, he was entertained at the house of Captain Alexander Osborne, and preached at a church near there. The Osbornes settled at an early day in New Jersey. Alexander Osborne was the founder of the family in North Carolina, he came to the province sometime previous to 1755, and settled in the county of Rowan. Captain Osborne was at that time, forty-six years of age. When Governor Tryon reviewed the troops in Salisbury in 1768, the Major Generals were John Ashe and Thomas Lloyd. The Colonels were Alexander Osborne, Edmund Fanning, Robert Harris, James Sampson, Samuel Spencer, James Moore and Maurice Moore. In 1768 he marched to Hillsboro, with a regiment of Rowan troops, under orders of Governor Tryon, to aid in suppressing the regulators. Colonel Alexander Osborne married Agnes McWhorter, sister of Rev. Alexander McWhorter, President for a time of Queen's College in Charlotte. Colonel A. Osborne's name is found on the Committee of Safety fro Rowan county, in 1775. This was the last year of his life; he died in 1776. In the graveyard at Centre Church, his grave is seen marked by a slab, on which are two panels, one for his own epitaph and one for his wife, Agnes, who had died two days before Colonel Osborne. He was buried at Centre Church in the county of Iredell, only a short distance from his home. Previous to the erection to the church at Centre, the early settlers congregated at his house for worship, a fact mentioned in McAden's diary. Colonel A. Osborne's only son Adlai, graduated at Princeton at the same time with his cousin, Ephraim Brevard, who was a nephew of Mrs. Alexander Osborne. Colonel Alexander Osborne left four daughters: Rebecca, who married Mr. Nathaniel Ewing: their son Rev. Finis Ewing, married a daughter of General William Davidson, who fell at Cowan's Ford. Their descendants are found in several of the northwestern States, as also in Kentucky, and Ohio. Mary married John Nesbit ---- the family of that name in Georgia, are descendants of the late Chief Justice Eugenius Nesbit, being one of the family. Jean married Moses Winslow; and Margaret married Mr. John Robinson of Providence township, Mecklenburg county. Colonel Adlai Osborne was born June 4, 1744; he graduated at Princeton in 1768; married in January 30, 1771, Margaret Lloyd, and settled in Salisbury. He studied law, was appointed Clerk of the Court for Rowan under the Crown, and continued until 1809. He was a man of fine literary attainments, the firm friend of education, and one of the first Board of Trustees for the University. He died in 1815, leaving a large family." Hope that this information proves helpful to you. Charmaine

In addressing issues and questions concerning the early Rowan families of: Alexander Osborne John Nesbit/Nisbet Maxwell Chambers John Campbell David Caldwell I believe the families of all the above were in Rowan County by ca. 1750, intermarried in several instances and continued to do so for several generations. I would appreciate response from listers, either by post to the list or email, [email protected], relative to what you may know about the spouses and children of any or all of the above. Alexander Osborne was probably the father of Col. Adlai Osborne and possibly of Rebecca Osborne who, about 1770, married Joseph Campbell of the 1805 Rowan will. Maxwell Chambers was probably the grandfather of the Maxwell Chambers who wrote a will, in 1854, at Salisbury. David Caldwell was possibly the father of Judge David F. Caldwell (who married Rebecca Nesbit) and Salisbury attorney A. H. Caldwell. John Nesbit was the father of another John Nesbit plus James, William and David Nesbit. In addition to various court records, deeds, marriage records, wills of Rowan County, University of NC Manuscripts Collections and other various sources not included but regarding these same folks, following are some gleanings... From: "Carolina Cradle": [CAPS are mine] "JOHN NESBIT (or NISBET) was born in 1705 in either Essex or Middlesex County, New Jersey. After reaching his majority, he went to Pennsylvania, probably in the company of ALEXANDER OSBORNE, and settled before March, 1736, on a branch of Pequea Creek in Lancaster County. The Nesbit family papers record his removal to North Carolina in 1750 although he may have travelled southward the previous year with his friend Osborne. The closeness of their association is reflected in the marriage of Nesbit's son, John, to Mary Osborne, daughter of Alexander." From: "The Rowan Resolves" At a meeting of the Committee [of Safety, Rowan County, North Carolina], August 8, 1774, the following resolves were unanimously agreed to: [followed by the seventeen resolves] Signed: [followed by 25 signatures, among whom were] MAXWELL CHAMBERS JOHN NESBIT From: "The James Sprunt Historical Publications, 1917, Published Under the Direction of The North Carolina Historical Society" In part-- By the year 1745 the Scotch-Irish had established themselves in the fertile and well-watered area between the Yadkin and the Catawba, and previous to 1750 their settlements were scattered throughout the region from Virginia to Georgia. The Scotch-Irish settled mainly in the country west of the Yadkin. Among these immigrants were the NESBITs, Allisons, Brandons, Luckeys, Lockes, McCullochs, Grahams, Cowans, Barrs, McKenzies, Andrews, OSBORNEs, Sharpes, Boones, MeLauchlins, and Halls. The Scotch-Irish have ever been known as a religious, brave, and liberty-loving people. Among other families from the British Isles who appeared in Rowan at an early date we find the names of Cathey, McCorkle, Morrison, Linville, Davidson, Reese, Hughes, Ramsay, Brevard, Winslow, Dickey, Braley, Moore, Emerson, Kerr, Rankin, Torrence, Templeton, Houston, Hackett, Rutherford, Lynn, Gibson, Frohock, Smith, Bryan, Little, Long, Steele, Bell, Macay, Miller, Blackburn, Craige, Stokes, CALDWELL, Dunn, Gillespie, and many others. And-- Despite the fact that no titles to land could be obtained after 1763 settlers continued to move into the Granville tract.... And-- Much discontent arose among the inhabitants, some dreading the expected reopening of the land offices because of the abuses of the agents, and others being displeased because they could not obtain title to the lands improved by their efforts. It was during this time that the Jersey Settlement on the east side of the Yadkin, some nine miles from Salisbury, was made by settlers from New Jersey. And-- [concerning Salisbury] The town commissioners were authorized to select and lay out a suitable place for a market and other public buildings. William Steele, John Dunn, MAXWELL CHAMBERS, John Lewis Beard, Thomas Frohock, William Temple Cole, Matthew Troy, Peter Rep, James Kerr, Alexander Martin, and Daniel Little were appointed town commissioners. They were to hold office for life. And-- The members in the Provincial Congresses were William Kennon (August, 1774), Hugh Montgomery, and Robert Rowan (August, 1775), and DAVID NISBET (April, 1776). And-- Before the Revolution, Salisbury was the judicial center of Western North Carolina... ... the court of pleas and quarter sessions met for the first time somewhere in the county in June, 1753. The justices who presided over the courts during the first year were Walter Carruth, Thomas Lovelatty, James Carter, John Brandon, Alexander Cathey, Thomas Cook, Thomas Potts, George Smith, Andrew Allison, John Hanby, ALEXANDER OSBORNE, James Tate, John Brevard, and Squire Boone... And-- The members of the Assembly and Provincial Congresses from Rowan were as follows: ASSEMBLY 1746 (47)-1754. James Carter and John Brandon 1754-1760. John Bravard and James Carter 1760. Hugh Waddell and John Frohock. 1761. John Frohock and ALEXANDER OSBORNE And-- At the same session [January 1771] the General Assembly recognized the urgent necessity of setting up new counties within the vast territory embraced by Rowan. A bill was passed establishing Guilford County and Unity Parish in the region lying between Salisbury and Hillsboro. Guilford, which was named for Francis North, Earl of Guilford, and father of Lord North, Prime Minister of George III during the Revolution, was composed of territory taken from Rowan and Orange. The portion taken from Rowan was that which now makes up the counties of Guilford, Rockingham, and Randolph. John Pryor, Edmund Fanning, Alexander Martin, Matthew Locke, John Dunn, Griffith Rutherford, and JOHN CAMPBELL were appointed a committee with authority to run the lines and contract with workmen for the building of the courthouse, prison, and stocks for Guilford County. And-- ...Thomas Frohock gave bond and qualified as clerk of the court for Salisbury District. In 1772 ADLAI OSBORNE, of Mecklenburg, was appointed to this position. And-- ...A typical term was that held in June, 1775, for Rowan, Anson, Mecklenburg, Tryon, Surry, and Guilford, the counties which then made up Salisbury District. Judge Alexander Martin, of Rowan, presided. ADLAI OSBORNE was appointed clerk, and Benjamin B. Boote took the oath as deputy attorney-general for the district. William Kennon's name appears in the records as a practicing lawyer. Many criminal cases were disposed of at this term..... And-- [concerning the Presbyterian "Dissenters"] There was a Presbyterian meeting house in eastern Rowan (now Guilford) before 1768. In that year Adam Mitchel conveyed an acre of land to John McKnight and William Anderson, "trustees for the Presbyterian congregation on the waters of North Buffalo." This congregation belonged to the Synod of New York and Philadelphia. The deed shows that a "meeting house and a study house" had already been erected. The building designated as a "study house" was probably a school. The inferior court of Rowan licensed the North Buffalo meeting house soon afterwards. The church was situated near the present site of Greensboro. In 1764 the Rev. Henry Pattillo, a Presbyterian divine who labored in Orange, established a church called Alamance about seven miles from Greensboro. These two churches secured as their pastor Dr. DAVID CALDWELL, a Pennsylvanian by birth, and a graduate of Princeton. In 1766 he married Rachel, the daughter of the Rev. Alexander Craighead, of Sugar Creek Church, in Mecklenburg, and settled with his congregations of Buffalo and Alamance. Caldwell established a school in the neighborhood about 1767. This school obtained the name of the "Log College," and was the means of training a number of the foremost men of North Carolina. At a meeting of the Presbytery at Buffalo in March, 1770, DAVID CALDWELL, Hugh McAden, Joseph Alexander, Henry Pattillo, Hezekiah Balch, and James Criswell petitioned the Synod of Philadelphia and New York for the organization of a new presbytery, to be called Orange. Their petition was granted. And-- [concerning problems of the Church of England, Episcopalian] ...Mr. Drage's efforts to establish the parish on a legal and permanent foundation were less fruitful. At an election held Easter Monday, 1770, the Dissenters, having control of a majority of the votes, elected a vestry, all of whom were Dissenters and two of whom were elders. The vestry refused to qualify. The same procedure had been practiced in the preceding year. The voters declared that "their purpose in voting was not as to who should compose the vestry, but that there might be none." The members of the Church of England petitioned for a removal of their incapacity to vote for want of deeds, but the Assembly did not grant their request. Mr. Drage considered a petition of the Presbyterians praying that they might be relieved from paying towards the support of the parish minister and that their clergy might be permitted to perform marriages by the publication of banns as "an act directly leveled at the Constitution." In theory he was right. The mistake, however, was in striving to thrust an established church upon an unwilling and headstrong people. The contest between Drage and the Dissenters continued to grow warm. The unfortunate clergyman seems to have received no salary and to have been dependent upon a few fees and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for his support. He found friends only in the Lutherans and in Governor Tryon. He informed Governor Martin, Tryon's successor, that the clerk of court [ADLAI OSBORNE?] encouraged the people who obtained marriage licenses to have the rites performed by the magistrates in preference to him, and concealed the number of licenses granted in order to deprive him of the fees to which the parish minister was entitled. By February, 1773, the Dissenters succeeded in expelling Drage by withholding his salary and thereby forcing him to leave the parish. No other clergyman of the English church appeared in Rowan before the Revolution..... [if those licenses are still "concealed", then no wonder I cannot find some of these marriages!] And-- [concerning early means of education] ...In 1760, Crowfield Academy was established on the headwaters of Rocky River, in the bounds of the Centre congregation, about two miles north of where Davidson College now stands. This was a classical school where many of the prominent men of Rowan and the near-by counties were educated. Among them were Colonel ADLAI OSBORNE, the Rev. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, Dr. James Hall, and Dr. Ephriam Brevard. About the year 1767 Dr. DAVID CALDWELL founded his famous classical "Log College" on the headwaters of North Buffalo, near the present city of Greensboro. In 1773, G"ttfried Arndt arrived, and for several years instructed the German youth around Salisbury. The inhabitants of Western North Carolina before the Revolution were dependent upon the old field schools and a few classical academies, such as Caldwell's and Crowfield, for their education. Those who were able often completed their schooling at Nassau Hall (now Princeton University) under Dr. John Witherspoon." Thanks for your time and thought! Myrna Madigan Tuscola, IL 'hiding out in the weeds and woods of the wild and windy Illinois prairie"

My search is for information on the following Rowan County family: Robert Barber born about 1833 wife: Mary Adeline (maiden name?) born about 1830 Children: Cattie (may be Margaret Catherine) born about 1856 David Cowan born about 1869 Helena V. born about 1864 died January 1902 George born about 1860 Helena V. married (July 14, 1886) John Pliney Marlin. (1865-1907) Any information on this Rowan County Family would be appreciated. Thank you. Joyce Honeycutt Holman (Researching Honeycutt, Simpson, Baucom, Richardson, Price, Medlin, Orr, Weddington, Mewborn, Parrot, Jenkins, Helms, Whitley, Presler, Williams, Ogburn, Edwards, Rowell, Clontz, Brumbelow, Quinn, Holman, Winchester, Wolfe, Crowell, Mullis, Rogers, Broome, Marlin, Barber, and others.)

From another researcher: Peleg Lawton signed the marriage bond for William Boush and Anne Jones June 2, 1767 in Perquimans Co, Edenton District. Other signer was William Newbold. Witness: Miles Harvey. Pelig may be spelled Peleg. PERQUIMANS COUNTY, NC - CENSUS - 1790 Census, Edenton District Lawton, Peleg, 2,0,0,0,19 (19 slaves) He appears to have died in PASQUOTANK COUNTY, NC around 1796--there are loose estate papers on his estate showing the date 1796. He may be connected to my John and Elizabeth Pool family, which turned up in Rowan Co. NC around 1810 with a considerable sum of money to buy land. Where did the money come from?. Betty Pace - [email protected]

I am descended from Lucinda M. Rice, born 1821 in Rowan Co. She married Giles Rary 25 April 1844. Lucinda's parents were Samuel Rice and Lucy Brooks and I have recently been doing some research on this line of Rice's. I have Loose Estates Papers for many of the Rice's who died early in Rowan and have been trying to put the pieces together. It appears they are all related...Allen Rice, William Rice, Isam Rice, Phillip Rice, etc. Is there anyone on this list who is researching this line? Would love to share information. I am also looking for a male Rice descendant of Samuel Rice, born 1785, died 1847 Rowan Co, and wife Lucy Brooks, born 1786, in Virginia to volunteer for DNA testing to compare with many other Rice's who have already had this done. Peggy Rary Crane Born in Salisbury, Rowan Co., NC 1938 Reside now in Caldwell Co NC

This is a paying service, but it might help someone. I couldn't find my Bullens however. I had difficulty navigating this web site so don't ask me questions. Somehow what I did the first time successfully I couldn't seem to find again. Maybe you will have better luck. Betty Pace --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [email protected] Index to the testators who wrote the wills and died, leaving inheritance to heirs or screwing them out of their inheritance NY - Madison - Vol. 39-47 (1892-1900) - completed! NY - Columbia Vol. U-V (1892-1897) NC - Rowan Vol. A-F (1757-1807) - new county & state Index of the petitioners to be United States Citizens NY - Cayuga - Petitions for Naturalizations Vol. 18-21 (1926-1930) ongoing These are not only counties. There are other counties and states in addition to these ones. The website is all free browsing. Great if you find clues to help further your research with us or independently. http://www.sampubco.com/ W. David Samuelsen SAMPUBCO W David Samuelsen <[email protected] ______________________________1807