I am starting to search for the William and Mourning Van Pelt Lewis family also. You can find a copy of his will at the Horry County site. My line is from their daughter Polly Lewis Nichols. Your ancestor Joel is mentioned in the will. > ---------- > From: ROBBETTY@aol.com > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 9:01 PM > To: SCHORRY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SCHORRY-L] Hello! > > I am Julia Norton from Hayward, California. I am spending February and > half > of March and next summer assisting my parents (primarily my mother, Betty > Sue > Hawkins Norton, but also my father Robert Louis Norton, both of > Birmingham, > Alabama) with some research on our family. I have this time because my > children are mostly grown and I am a college professor on sabbatical > (Statistics is my field--don't shudder, I like it). > > I am primarily interested in William Norton born in New Hanover County > about > 1739. My belief is that he moved to Horry County South Carolina, married > Patience Minsey, a widow, about 1780. They had six children, Lewis, Mary, > > William Jr., James, Ruth, and John Wesley, all born in Horry County > between > about 1780 and 1794. William Sr., died in Horry County in 1806. William > Jr., to Barbour County Alabama before 1826 and Patience and John W. joined > > him there. I am a descendant from William Jr.'s line. > > If you have any interest in what I know of William Norton's descendants in > > Alabama, please let me know. Meanwhile, if you have any leads or > information > that I could use, I would appreciate it. > > I have no knowledge about the descendants of Lewis Norton b. about 1781; > Mary > Norton b. about 1782, m. Isaac Lewis probably about 1802; James Norton > (Rev.), b. about 1786, d. Columbia SC about 1828; or Ruth Norton, about > 1790, > m. Joel Lewis (son of William Lewis and Mourning Vamplet of Horry Co.) > moved > to Mississippi. I am also interested in them. > > I have gotten some very useful assistance from researchers in Horry County > > Historical Society already. For example, William Norton Jr., b. Horry > County about 1784, married Lucretia Harralson, b 1788 in Horry County. I > got > some really interesting information about Lucretia that I had not known. > Also, their son James Russell Norton, b. 21 Dec. 1804 Horry County, > married > Margaret C. Johnston b. 4 Oct. 1808. I had thought that Margaret's mother > > was Mary Hodges. But she turns out to be wife two and Margaret's mother > was > Celia Floyd. I learned that from a descendant of Margaret's sister Mary > Ann. > > It is great filling in the female lines especially because they are so > often > forgotten. > > I am in the dark about Patience, wife of William Norton who died in Horry > County 1806(?). There is some indication that she might be the sister of > Lucretia Harralson. That is really strange as Lucretia would then also be > > her daughter-in-law. Of course, there could have been two wives of Josiah > > Harralson d. 1822 Horry County. Patience could have been born from the > first > wife, not Mary Vick, whom I believe is the mother of Lucretia Harralson. > > Any light to shed on this topic? > > Also I learned today that a William Norton was in the 2nd Infantry of > North > Carolina, Captain Augustin Spain's Company--they were captured 12 May 1780 > by > the British at Charleston, they were furloughed 1 January 1783 at James > Island, SC, and they were decommissioned from the Revolutionary War 15 > Nov. > 1783. Certainly puts a William Norton in the right place to marry in > Horry > County in early 1780s. The widow (Patience Norton) reported in Alabama > (She > died Barbour County, Alabama about 1839) that William Norton was in the > revolution. I notice that in Virginia about 1780 a William Norton and a > Henry Norton were reported as Tories. So I have some searching to unravel > > which William Norton (there may even have been two in Spain's company) is > in > my line. > > All the best--Julia Norton > > > ==== SCHORRY Mailing List ==== > More SCHORRY-L listmember sites: > 16. Van & Katherine Jenerette > http://members.aol.com/vandoniii/familytree.html > 17. Elizabeth Whitten ewhitten@ro.com > http://ro.com/~ewhitten/ > 18. Debbie Parsons debpar@pahrump.net > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/1602/ > 19. Tom Harrelson- tharr29@idt.net > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3087/ > 20. Ron Hall- phillhall@email.msn.com > http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Quarter/5221 > 21. Marion Banks McGee - MarionBMc@aol.com > http://www.geocities.com/~marionbmc/ > 22. Danny Lee Blanton > http://millennium.fortunecity.com/abbeydale/731/ > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >