I'm sure MOST of you are familiar with the long-standing story about how the Sweeney man changed his name to Henegan. "HISTORY OF THE OLD CHERAWS" by the Rt. Rev. Alexander Gregg, page 91, states the first of his family was a James Sweeney, and no one seems to know why the name was changed. This book puts them first in the Marion Dist, then in the Marlborough Dist. Well, reading an online NC Will Abstract book tonight, I ran across this tidbit. (Source: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/document/gra/entire.html ) ========================= DUDLEY, EDWARD. County not given. January 22, 1744-1745. April 3, 1745. Son: GEORGE. Daughters: HANNAH, ANNE, MARY. Executors: JOHN STARKEY and JOHN DUDLEY. Witnesses: JOHN HENAGAN ("nicknamed SWENNY"), WILLIAM SIMPSON, HANNAH PITTS. Will proven before GAB. JOHNSTON. Chief Justice: E. MOSELEY. ======================= (there is a lot more on the DUDLEY family.) DUDLEY, THOMAS. Carteret County. May 13, 1753. June Court, 1753. Sons: CHRISTOPHER (250 acres of land on East side of White Oak River), ELIJAH, JACOB, STEPHEN, ABRAHAM and THOMAS (to the last two is bequeathed "plantation where I now live"). Daughters: ELISABETH DUDLEY, SARAH GILLITT. Granddaughters: ELIZABETH and SARAH GILLITT. Son-in-law: JOHN GILLITT. Wife: ELIZABETH. Executors: JOHN STARKEY and MOSES HOUSTON. Witnesses: CHARLES COGDELL, EZEKILL HUNTER, WILLIAM HOUSTON. Clerk of the Court: GEO. READ. =================================== Joanne Bundy HARLEY [email protected] New Bern, NC