This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_917805631_boundary Content-ID: <0_917805631@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Talkin' with Barbara. Very interesting ! --part0_917805631_boundary Content-ID: <0_917805631@inet_out.mail.email.msn.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <bibeall@email.msn.com> Received: from rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by air-zb04.mail.aol.com (v56.24) with SMTP; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:46:14 -0500 Received: from smtp.email.msn.com ([207.46.181.18]) by rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id LAA12699 for <SPENCETOP@aol.com>; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:46:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from oemcomputer - 208.254.191.181 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:46:01 -0800 Message-ID: <001e01be4d30$55f151c0$5ac3fed0@oemcomputer> From: "Barbara Beall" <bibeall@email.msn.com> To: <SPENCETOP@aol.com>, <SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: Rowan Co. NC Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:41:40 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit You are correct. David Spence of the Fowler book was the only member of his line to settle in NC. He was there during the Revolutionary War where he was injured or became ill (I can't remember which). Mary Ann McElyea found him and nursed him back to health. He rejoined his unit, but he promised to return after the war and marry her--which he did. His descendants went to Robertson County, TN, and then part of them went to Illinois while others went to Texas. I have been curious about the Thomas Spence of Surry. I know that several Thomas Spences exist in the Pasquotank lines. There is quite a story about the Bell name in Randolph/Rowan County. I think it centers around Bell Mill. Mrs. Bell (I forget her first name) warned the Patriots that the British were coming. She served as a spy for Continental units. DAR has raised a monument to her somewhere in that area. Of course, I keep recalling that my 4-g grandfather (Elisha Spence, 1776-1835) married Jane Bell after the death of his first wife in 1810 in Davidson, TN. I think that Jane's Bell family (and Jane), came from Rowan or Randolph (or Burke), and that her family, among others, accompanied the Spences to Tennessee. By the way, while I am thinking about it...A few weeks ago I mentioned the Stillians or Skillians or Killians name as being connected with these people. I am in contact with a Bell descendant who told me to try the name "Skillern", which I did. These people came from VA. They went to TN by way of NC, and they settled in Madison County. An "A. Skillern" signed Elisha Spence's estate inventory in 1835. I had thought that Elisha's wife, Jane Bell Spence, had remarried a William Skillern for a short time. However, she remained a widow. William Skillern's wife was a Jane Wilsford. He died in Madison County in 1836. Two children of William and Jane were James Andrew Porter Skillern and Lucinda A.C. Skillern. My Bell researcher told me that her Bells settled in Rowan County and that these Skillerns had intermarried with the Bells. That would explain why Elisha Spence and his wife Jane left Davidson County for Madison ca. 1833. A number of these Skillerns moved from Tennessee to Arkansas. I ran across an article I am going to send away for on the "Isaac C.A. Skillern Bible 1807-71, Tennessee/Arkansas". I think that it will give me a number of answers. Concerning Thomas Spence of Surry--I don't know who he was as yet. He and my William Spence (1745-1785) of Pasquotank may have been cousins and they may have gone into Western NC together. Barbara -----Original Message----- From: SPENCETOP@aol.com <SPENCETOP@aol.com> To: SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com <SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 10:03 PM Subject: Rowan Co. NC >Barbara, > In looking over some postings I notice that you said your Pasquotank >William was in Rowan County NC in 1767 and 1768. Do you have any theory on >who the Thomas Spence was, who was in Surry Co. NC on a 1768 tax list ? Surry >Co. was carved from Rowan. I recently got the copies of the pension >application of Burwell Spence who died in Carroll Co. VA. He says in his >application that he resided in Surry Co. NC when he was drafted the first time >in 1781 for militia duty. > Also I noticed that you have a Burwell Perry in your notes. Do you think >that Burwell was a family name or just a popular name ? I've looked into the >Burwell family of Isle of Wight Co. VA and found them in the same time and >place as the Southampton Co. VA Spences. > There were also members of the Burwell family in Ashe County NC and >Grayson Co. VA very early about 1770. > Back to Surry Co. NC there was a Thomas Spence whose estate was settled >in 1801 leaving a wife named Lucy. Many of us think that Burwell Spence's >father was a Thomas Spence. Question is which Thomas Spence was he ? > I bought the Fowler book and found no connection at all to my Spence line. >It looks to me that only the PA David Spence came to Surry Co. NC, then moved >on to TN. I don't see that his parents or siblings came from NJ to join him. > The Thomas Spence's in Surry County NC were already there before David >Spence ever met his wife to be, Mary McElyea. > In any event Burwell Spence was drafted from Surry Co. NC in 1781 and his >pension application contained the actual discharge dated by his commanding >officer in 1781. He was discharged at Bell's Branch, which unless I am >mistaken is the very same Bell's Branch which is here in Randolph County about >8 miles from me ! > >Is the Spence world getting smaller or what ? > >Thanks, >Carolyn Spence >Spencetop@aol.com >Listowner Spence-Bluford-L@ rootsweb >For descendants of Burwell Spence & James Spence >Patriots of the Revolution > --part0_917805631_boundary--