Steve I would be interested in the Coffee's but I think my great-grandmother spelled her last name Coffey Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Carson" <carson@gscassociates.com> To: <tnbedfor@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:31 PM Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Coffee and Meadows >I am working with some other researchers to try and tie up some loose > ends in research of the Meadows families of early Bedford and Warren > counties (before Coffee County was divided off). One clue we are > following is the following Warren County, TN plats: > > Warren County TN Plats, Volume I, Page 197. Surveyed 21 October 1825 > for Sarah DRAKE 25 acre entry 6 July 1824 No. 510 on the waters of > Hickory Creek adjoining the lands of Thomas WOOD, Iverson MEADOWS and > James WILSON, John DICKERSON's east boundary line of a tract in the > name of Tho. WOOD, WILSON's line. Levi LOYD & Iverson MEADOWS CC. Wm > M. DOUGLAS DS. > > Warren County TN Plats, Volume II, Page 231 Surveyed 22 Aug 1831 for > James D. Coffy 100 acres, entry dated 16 Feb, 1830. No 2942 on the > waters of Hickory Creek, post oak marked J.D.C. about 50 yds. N. W. > of the road leading from James Wilson Jun's toward the stone fort > perhaps one mile thereabouts, west of lands of Elias Hopkins, > including a bark camp built by travelers. Richd Cunningham and Daniel > Meadows CC. A. Higginbotham DS. Aug 25, 1831. Sent on 3 Jan 1832 by > A. B. Lane. > > Both Richard Cunningham and Daniel Meadows are found in early Bedford > County, TN records. > > On 1850 census of Morgan County, AL, there are two Coffee women > living in the household with the Daniel Meadows we are researching > and his family. One is Nancy Coffee, born about 1790 in NC, and > Eliza, born about 1828. > > We are particularly interested in the James D. Coffy in one of the > plats above as well as the Iverson Meadows (the Daniel Meadows we are > researching has a son named Iverson.) If anyone has any relevant > information, please contact me. > > As part of this research, I have compiled abstracts of the Coffees in > Second District Surveys and Bedford County, TN deeds up to 1840. I > would be happy to send a copy to any researchers who want it 0 e-mail > me directly to request it. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNBEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >