I do not have either James Patterson or James Neighbors in my notes. My census records have mainly the head-of-household, not the complete records. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Smith" <mlsmith67@earthlink.net> To: <SCLAUREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:21 PM Subject: [SCLAUREN] Patterson, Neighbors and Brown families > Richard, you wrote "I have most of the early Laurens Co. census records in > my computer." > > Wow! Do you (or does anyone else reading this) have anything on these > folks, or any pointers to where I should look? > > James Patterson (c1795 SC or Ireland - c1870 AL) > Margaret (Peggy) Brown (c1795 SC or Ireland - c1870 AL) > James N Neighbors/Neighbours/Nabors/Nabours/Nabers (c1765 France? SC? - > c1850 AL) > Mary Brown (c1772 Ireland? - 1860 AL) > William T Brown > > William we believe to be the father of both Mary and Margaret, though this > is unproven. We think other daughters married Hipp and Neighbors men. > > James Patterson married Margaret Brown. > James Neighbors married Mary Brown. > > > James and Margaret Patterson and James and Mary Neighbors moved to Alabama > some time before 1840. Their children, Andrew Jackson Patterson and Mary > Ann Neighbors, married in Alabama and are my 3rd great-grandparents. > > We believe "our" James Patterson was at estate sales in Newberry Co. in > 1822 and in 1834. > > A story passed down in the family says that James Patterson and Peggy > Brown met on board a ship from Ireland to South Carolina, but census > records indicate that both were born in South Carolina. However, either > set of parents could have come from Ireland, I suppose, and met on the > way. No proof has been found in either case. > > I have checked records at the SC Archives in Columbia, and made one trip > to Laurens and Newberry counties to check records there. However, I was a > relative novice and undoubtedly missed some records I should have looked > at. I'm not really sure what resources are available in either county even > today, but would plan to make another trip (from Colorado) if there are > things I should look at that aren't available outside of SC. > > Margaret Lindsey Smith > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >