After visiting grandparents day today, I had some time to kill. I stopped by downtown at state archives to do a little browsing. In recent days I have had a need to prove that my Jonathan PROSSER (great grandfather) was a brother to Mark PROSSER. I will not go into those reasons here. I had copies of James Prosser's will where in article 3 James mentions his son Mark, so this is clear. I have the three volumes of Land Deed Genealogy of Lincoln County Tennessee that the Marsh's had transcribed. In volume 1; 1809 - 1818 there is reference to deed book "B" page 316. I had made interpetation of what was said in this trascription but I wanted Ms. Marylin Hughes of the archives staff to read it and give me her interpetation. She read the transcription and it made me feel good to understand that I had interpeted it the same way she did. She is very knowledgeable of old documents and she can read through the old documents without a pause. After doing this I decided that I wanted to ! go and pull the microfilm and get a copy of the original document that shed some more information. This was a piece of property that Nicholas Burns was selling to Jesse F. Prosser, property that James Prosser had possessed said interests being the interest of Jonathan E. Prosser and P. G. (Perry Green) Prosser. Originally Jonathan had sold it to Burns and in return Burns was selling it to Jesse F. Prosser. So this had to be property that James Prosser had left to his son Jonathan. I decided to continue with my research for the day. I pulled the 1880 Marshall County census microfilm roll and this is where it became interesting. Through the years I had always looked at the 1850 Lincoln County census. That census states that the place of birth for James Prosser was North Carolina. In the process I was reading microfilm that was not of the best quality. An employee came by and said we have Ancestry.com why don't we go look at that census over there. I had subscribed to Ancestry.com over the years but had not felt it was worth the money. We look at that census on Ancestry.com and out came something entirely different from the Marshall County 1880 census and the 1850 Lincoln County census. I am looking at the Jonathan Prosser household and on header 25 it ask the birthplace of father and it very clearly states that James was born in Georgia. Header 26 ask the birthplace of mother (Frances Richardson) and it states South Carolina. This may be the reason that! we have been hitting a brick wall in going back on our James Prosser line over the years. Does anyone have any thoughts? Bobby Prosser prossergenalogy@comcast.net

Bobby, I went to Ancestry to look at their ONE WORLD TREE. Someone submitted James and Frances and that a William (no other info on him) was James father. Could this have been Katy Lindstrom? Will Johnson on his rootsweb site does not have a father but that James was married once before (no name of 1st wife) before he married Frances. John Duke and Jonathan Edward were children by James first unknown wife. Will got his info from E.L.M. Wright elbet@brick.net I do not know who this person is or when he gave Will the info. But wonder if he is a descendent of the Joel/Joseph and Margaret Jane Prosser line? About the states that our ancestors were born in. My great grandfather James Wright was born in both NC and TN. I just think that with the states changing so much back then and so many were born close to the state lines they just did not know which state they were born in. Enjoy your Heritage book everyone. I have as yet to receive mine.:-( Bummer!!!! Julia ----- Original Message ----- From: <prossergenealogy@comcast.net> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 8:01 PM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] A VISIT TO STATE ARCHIVES / BRINGS A NEW TWIST > After visiting grandparents day today, I had some time to kill. I stopped by downtown at state archives to do a little browsing. In recent days I have had a need to prove that my Jonathan PROSSER (great grandfather) was a brother to Mark PROSSER. I will not go into those reasons here. I had copies of James Prosser's will where in article 3 James mentions his son Mark, so this is clear. I have the three volumes of Land Deed Genealogy of Lincoln County Tennessee that the Marsh's had transcribed. In volume 1; 1809 - 1818 there is reference to deed book "B" page 316. I had made interpetation of what was said in this trascription but I wanted Ms. Marylin Hughes of the archives staff to read it and give me her interpetation. She read the transcription and it made me feel good to understand that I had interpeted it the same way she did. She is very knowledgeable of old documents and she can read through the old documents without a pause. After doing this I decided that I wanted to ! > go and pull the microfilm and get a copy of the original document that shed some more information. This was a piece of property that Nicholas Burns was selling to Jesse F. Prosser, property that James Prosser had possessed said interests being the interest of Jonathan E. Prosser and P. G. (Perry Green) Prosser. Originally Jonathan had sold it to Burns and in return Burns was selling it to Jesse F. Prosser. So this had to be property that James Prosser had left to his son Jonathan. > > I decided to continue with my research for the day. I pulled the 1880 Marshall County census microfilm roll and this is where it became interesting. Through the years I had always looked at the 1850 Lincoln County census. That census states that the place of birth for James Prosser was North Carolina. In the process I was reading microfilm that was not of the best quality. An employee came by and said we have Ancestry.com why don't we go look at that census over there. I had subscribed to Ancestry.com over the years but had not felt it was worth the money. We look at that census on Ancestry.com and out came something entirely different from the Marshall County 1880 census and the 1850 Lincoln County census. I am looking at the Jonathan Prosser household and on header 25 it ask the birthplace of father and it very clearly states that James was born in Georgia. Header 26 ask the birthplace of mother (Frances Richardson) and it states South Carolina. This may be the reason that! > we have been hitting a brick wall in going back on our James Prosser line over the years. Does anyone have any thoughts? > > Bobby Prosser > prossergenalogy@comcast.net > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http:/ /www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >