Oops! Sorry. here is the link to the early maps of North Carolina. http://senclewises.com/nccounties.html Pat Fleury --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard

This is a great link for early North Carolina county maps. I have seen these maps before, but now I can print them out and refer to them easier. Pat Fleury --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard

I found this site thru an article in the November issue of "Our State" magazine. The title of the article is "Crossing Paths." The Trading Path Assoc. tracks the outlines of an ancient transportation corridor across the Piedmont North Carolina. I believe many will be interested in this site. I am not a member of TPA. Click here: The Trading Path Association Hunter George

Would someone please give the URL for those of us who failed to note it the first time? Thank you! Lois > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:33:22 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RowanRoots] Re: Maps > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:33:27 -0700 > > Betty, > That is a WONDERFUL site! > Great Maps. Thanks for sharing. > Audrey > > In a message dated 11/13/2003 5:03:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:44:13 +0000 > From: "Betty A. Pace" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: [RowanRoots] Fw: Trading Path > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > This Trading Ford Assoc. was posted by someone else, but when I got > there, I found maps of the early period for: > Virginia Maps > > North Carolina Maps > > South Carolina Maps > > Georgia Maps > > Other Maps > > > See the original site below in the forwarded message. > Betty Pace > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > > I found this site thru an article in the November issue of "Our State" > magazine. The title of the article is "Crossing Paths." The Trading Path > Assoc. > tracks the outlines of an ancient transportation corridor across the > Piedmont > North Carolina. I believe many will be interested in this site. I am not > a member > of TPA. > Click here: The Trading Path > Association > Hunter George > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > RowanRoots is a genealogy/history discussion list. Please stay on topic. >

Betty, That is a WONDERFUL site! Great Maps. Thanks for sharing. Audrey In a message dated 11/13/2003 5:03:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:44:13 +0000 From: "Betty A. Pace" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [RowanRoots] Fw: Trading Path Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This Trading Ford Assoc. was posted by someone else, but when I got there, I found maps of the early period for: Virginia Maps North Carolina Maps South Carolina Maps Georgia Maps Other Maps See the original site below in the forwarded message. Betty Pace --------- Forwarded message ---------- I found this site thru an article in the November issue of "Our State" magazine. The title of the article is "Crossing Paths." The Trading Path Assoc. tracks the outlines of an ancient transportation corridor across the Piedmont North Carolina. I believe many will be interested in this site. I am not a member of TPA. Click here: The Trading Path Association Hunter George

Here's hoping that someone has a connection to a Benjamin SIMPSON of Rowan Co.NC; He was born in 1763 and d. in Rowan in 1822. Had at least one daughter, Lucy, but there were probably other children. Am especially interested in the name of his wife or wives. Is it possible that he was the son of a Wm Simpson who married a Lettice Lunsford in Stafford Co. VA in 1756? If anyone has anything at all on this Benjamin, please drop me a line. Regards, Larry

This Trading Ford Assoc. was posted by someone else, but when I got there, I found maps of the early period for: Virginia Maps North Carolina Maps South Carolina Maps Georgia Maps Other Maps See the original site below in the forwarded message. Betty Pace --------- Forwarded message ---------- I found this site thru an article in the November issue of "Our State" magazine. The title of the article is "Crossing Paths." The Trading Path Assoc. tracks the outlines of an ancient transportation corridor across the Piedmont North Carolina. I believe many will be interested in this site. I am not a member of TPA. <A HREF="http://www.tradingpath.org/">Click here: The Trading Path Association</A> Hunter George ______________________________

Att: Myrna Madigan, I have been seeing some of your correspondence about MORROW, DAVIS, etc. I had a book several years ago on Inter Library loan, titled The Mecklinburg Signers And their Neighbors by Worth S. Ray that could be a great help to you in your quest for information on these early surnames and settlers during and before the Revolution in NC I would be interested in knowing if you find the book and what your reaction is to it! Perhaps we can trade some information. Looking forward to your response. My wife is from Greene Co. IL with roots in NC. and I have Mcknight /Morrow connections in early NC. Jerry and Charlotte McKnight

Would any of your Elizabeth Davis' be born 25 Aug 1822? Looking for my great grandmother. Know her birth but only that she was born in NC. Thanks. Jo Wilson

You mentioned your Davis family all having similar names. My John Davis has these names for his children and grandchildren: Mary Amanda, Jane, Alexander, James Newton, Arthur, Charles, Willard, Walter, Elizabeth, Ada, Esther. Sending you these in case they ring any bells. Of course lots of folks used these names. They sound English, don't they? I've been hoping my Davis folks were Welsh! Lois

I have only been able to document my line back to NANCY TODD married SOLOMON CHESHIRE . I havent been able to find NANCY TODD mentioned in all these copies of papers I have . I have some papers relating to SARAH TODD daughter of JOSHUA TODD & ELIZABETH PALMER TODD . JEMIMA TODD & JOHN WAGLE -> son Joseph TODD married ANN CRUSE MY NANCY TODD was suppose to be a cousin to MARY TODD LINCOLN & somehow related to the Dr. TODD . I have a copy of court documnet with plaintiff -> THO TODD & M_ _ _ ockler as defendant { Salisbury court house , Rowan } dosent say what for . SUSANNAH TODD died 7-17-1886 at 80 yesr - ELIZABETH TODD born 5-22-1835 died 6-21-1921 at 86 yrs - SARAH L. wife of DAVID TODD born 3-17-1854 , died 12-17-1921 at 67 yrs . These must be some of the TODD who came from Pa. I can not find anything in these papers where they went to Indiana after 1835 . A couple of months ago I purchased an old book -> Annals of Platt county , Mo. This book is loaded with TODD who moved to Platt county , Missouri . I still cant make a connection of my NANCY TODD to any of them . Thought I would send some of this info to list in case it rings a bell for anyone . :) Someone contacted me not to long ago asking if I was connected to ENNIS CHESHIRE married JANE TODD who moved to Indiana . Had to tell her I dont know . This JANE TODDS parents were SAMUEL TODD & RHODA MORPHEW . Would anyone be familiar with them ? sheri

Dear Cherie, There were 2 different families of Todds in old Rowan County. One came from PA in abt 1769, Benjamin Todd and his brothers Caleb , Thomas and John, and maybe Joseph. They were in the part of Rowan that became Davidson. Benjamin and his sons and some of the others moved on to Madison Co. KY in the 1790s, but some stayed. The other Todds were west of the Yadkin and there was a John and a Thomas but I did not follow that line. They may both have been related. Have you tried Worldconnect on Rootsweb, or the Todd mailing list yet? There is a lot about them on World Connect, but some mistakes too. I even found myself given as a source of some of the incorrect info. I must remember to try to find that and let the person know. Betty

Some time back I posted a query with the Rowan Co will of John MORROW who had two daughters who married James Davis Sr and James Davis Jr, but not father and son. I've just returned from Greene County, Illinois, where these two Davis families were by 1835, with some additional information that may prove helpful to some of you. Let me say I'm not firm on any of this information; I'm just beginning to put families together. I visited the Greene County Historical Society, courthouse and a few cemeteries. I gleaned information from two Greene County Histories and a Greene County Atlas from the 1870-1880 time period, plus land, census, cemetery, court and newspaper records. Following is what I've come up with.... James DAVIS Sr. b. 1780 d. 18 Aug 1858 Sangamon Co IL buried Greene Co IL. Jane MORROW b. 1780 North Carolina d. 18 Nov 1855 Greene Co., buried Greene Co IL. Married 1803 in NC and came to Greene County IL in 1835 [according to a Greene Co history bio and land records] Children: Allen Morrow Davis b. abt. 1805 NC 1st wife unknown; children Alfred 1843, Mariah 1845 m. 2nd Margaret Cradick 5 Oct 1848 Greene Co IL; had infant daughter Ellen in 1850 census of Greene Co James Davis b. abt. 1807 NC, married Martha [?] in 1828 in Rowan Co NC Thomas Davis b. 20 Jan 1810 Rowan Co NC d. 8 Jun 1882 Greene Co IL m. Anna Morrow 15 Dec 1831 in NC, 2 children m. Amanda Hinton 6 Jun 1839 Greene Co IL, 2 children m. Elizabeth R Bishop 12 Aug 1855 Greene Co IL, 3 children Ransom Davis b. ?? m. Francis Arnspicher 20 Oct 1839 Greene Co IL Arthur Davis b. 29 Dec 1817 Rowan Co NC m. Rosanna Pruitt 9 Sep 1842 Greene Co IL m. Margaret P Rawlings 30 Aug 1853 Greene Co IL [bio in the 1879 Greene Co History tells of his parents and brothers] Asbury Davis b. 1819 Rowan Co NC d. 12 Sep 1880 Jacksonville IL m. Mary Ann Hagar 17 Jan 1847 Greene Co IL [Well documented in Greene Co. Married his employer's daughter; had two daughters, was a merchant and banker] William Jackson Davis b. 1823 Rowan Co NC d. 10 Oct 1876 buried Jones Cem. m. Mariah C Hinton 23 Dec 1843 Greene Co IL Mariah b. 25 Dec 1822 d. 9 Jan 1895 buried Jones Cem. --------------------------------------- James Davis, Jr. b. 14 Nov 1789 Rowan Co NC, d. 10 Feb 1840 Greene Co IL Elizabeth Morrow b. 31 Jan 1786 Rowan Co NC., d. 3 Sep 1854 Greene Co IL married about 1814 Children: Eliza Davis b. 24 Jan 1815 d. 1 Apr 1878 m. Irvin Little 12 Feb 1839 Margaret Davis b. 14 Mar 1816 d. 10 Nov 1844 m. Richard Simmons Wilson Davis b. 16 Mar 1818 d. 13 Dec 1868 m. Margaret Arnspiger William C Davis b. 11 Oct 1819 d. 5 Jan 1905 m. Lucinda Kirkland John Davis b. 19 Sep 1821 d. 5 Jan 1893 m. Eliza Fitzgerald (Ann) Nancy Davis b. 24 Oct 1823 d. 8 Jul 1900 m. Edmont Hodges Joseph Davis b. 16 Jul 1829 d. 5 Sep 1900 m. Jane Arnolt Elizabeth Davis b. 24 May 1831 d. 20 Oct 1871 m. Jeff Davis [all the above births and deaths are from Bible record pages; marriages from a contributed chart, but I've not been able to find any but the first (w/date) in the IL Marriages database] The "Jones Cemetery" is interesting. Joshua Jones, wife Elizabeth, also came from North Carolina and purchased land in 1835. He set aside the acreage for the cemetery when his wife died in 1837. I found no burial record for Joshua but Elizabeth was born about 1783. There is an "Allen Cemetery" about 1 1/2 miles from "Jones". There are burials for the Allen, Jones, Morrow, Davis families in both cemeteries but I think "Jones" is probably slightly older. "Allen" is on land purchased by James Morrow Allen in 1836. I think the following burials at "Jones" are for someone other than members of the two families I've detailed here..... James Davis, Aug 1848, 78 yrs. [b. abt. 1770] Nancy Davis, Apr 1865, age 80 yrs. [b. abt. 1785] Daniel Davis, May 1865, 75 yrs. [b. abt. 1790] Rebecca, wife of Daniel Davis, 1873, age 81 yrs. [b. abt. 1792] Any help out there? Comments or questions? Myrna Madigan Tuscola IL

Hoping for other descendants . SOLOMON CHESHIRE married NANCY TODD 1830 Davidson county . I have a lot on TODD from Davidson county Library & some gene sheets I bought on CHESHIRE but havent made the connections for them yet . have a nice day :) sheri

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This is new and may not be up and running quite yet. If so, try it again in a week. Betty Pace --------- Forwarded message ---------- McGOWAN. Descendants of William McGOWAN, Sr. (ca 1708-1782); contains data on the first five generations of this family -- mainly in North Carolina and Tennessee, but also some in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmack/mcgowan/mcgowan.htm

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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:06 AM Subject: Fw: Att. :Martha Black/ Fred Hughes maps -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2003 3:13 PM Subject: Att. :Martha Black/ Fred Hughes maps Martha Black or to anyone who has information or answer to my question. Martha, Two years ago I received information from you stating that I could order Fred Hughes Historical Maps from his widow Shirley Hughes. At that time I did contact her and received some maps. I thank you again for that information. My question at this time is if Mrs.. Hughes is still a source? I am searching for the Rockingham Co. NC map and have been unable to find any other source. I would appreciate any information concerning this. I still have address and phone number unless they have changed in last two years. I thought I would try to check with you before I tried to call or write to Mrs. Hughes. Sincerely Jerry McKnight