I cannot say I am positive about all of the Davis's in Rowan before 1800 being the same family, but I have not been able to rule out any of the fragmental families I have found. Primarily because they use the same names over and over again. I figure that if I am ever going to untangle them, I need to know them all. I have 3 families headed by a John Davis born in three generations. Each one has children named John, James and Evan. I suspect that one of them is a son of the another one, but the third one is at least one generation off. I think I have fully sorted out all of the Enochs and Bryan's that married each other. If you wish to compare notes, let me know. My link to Bryan is through Charity Bryan, gd. of Morgan via Joseph Bryan. She married John Davis #2. Their daughter married Wilson Enochs. Enochs is my primary line in this area. Rock ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathryn Weiss" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:31 AM Subject: [RowanRoots] Morrow > > Myrna, > None of your Morrow names are familiar to me, and I was glad to learn > from Rock that all the similarly-named Davis's I run into are likely the > same Davis line. Rock, I would like to talk with you about the Enochs > sometime, and make sure I have them placed correctly in my database, as > so many married or associated with Bryans. > > The Ortons seemed to have only one major line in Rowan Co., and they > were also connected to the Bryans - marrying the dau of a son of Old > Morgan Bryan... > > William Butler is familiar also, one WB was fairly prominent & political > in early times, I think. If you go to the Longhunters-L archives on > Rootsweb, and key in William Butler, there is a lot of info posted about > him and something might ring a bell with you. Assuming it is the same > William Butler; I do not know for sure. > > In my copy of Ms. Linn's "Rowan Co. Tax Lists" the Morrows show up in > districts now in the Iredell Co area. On the 1787 Co Tax list of Aeneas > Campbell, a John Morrow shows with 2 wm 21-60; 5 wm -21 or +60; 4 wf. > > A John Morrow's land does show up on the South fork of the Yadkin, see > farthest left bottom of Andrew Lagle's Davie County Land Grants Map. > Orton is next door east. > > Kathryn > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from RowanRoots-L send a message from the address you subscribed from to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.

Rock Miller <[email protected]> wrote: I cannot say I am positive about all of the Davis's in Rowan before 1800 being the same family, but I have not been able to rule out any of the fragmental families I have found. Primarily because they use the same names over and over again. I figure that if I am ever going to untangle them, I need to know them all. I have 3 families headed by a John Davis born in three generations. Each one has children named John, James and Evan. I suspect that one of them is a son of the another one, but the third one is at least one generation off. I think I have fully sorted out all of the Enochs and Bryan's that married each other. If you wish to compare notes, let me know. My link to Bryan is through Charity Bryan, gd. of Morgan via Joseph Bryan. She married John Davis #2. Their daughter married Wilson Enochs. Enochs is my primary line in this area. Rock I, too, am looking into a John Davis family. I was in the Salisbury library yesterday, reading the 31 May 1841 will of John Davis. His wife is Sarah, but I think she must be a second marriage for him. Sons listed are Hubbard, Wade, and William. Daughters are Magy, Rainy, Jenny, Polly, Patsy, and Lucy. Also, a Wilson Cooper is mentioned--and he was the bondsman for Hubbard's marriage to Sarah Sawyer and also Lucy's marriage. Executor was Michael Redwine and witnesses were Kincheon Stokes and Eli Correl. This family was in Rowan county until their section became Davidson Co. The land was the Shipton Tract on the Yadkin River. I am thinking I need to document all the John Davis families there in an effort to straighten out the connections. Maybe we should get together! Pat Fleury --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search