Dear Bobby, No, I am not burned out but before long 1/2 the book will be "out there". Ha. I am happy to help move along any cause for our Smith Countians! There is neither an entry for Goodner/Guetner/Roark/Ruark/etc. I carefully scrutinized for any variation of spellings. There are entries for Jacob Gardner, Demsey Gardner, James Gardner, Nathan Gardner...that is as close to these as I can get. As I understand this history there were many who filed for land grants and never received them. Apparently there is some information re the Cumberland settlers "vividly discussed" within Ramsey's Annals, Putnam' Middle Tennessee and Haywoods History ot Tennessee...telling of the early struggles of these people to hold on in spite of adverse conditions...a matter of equity. Further it is stated that these people thought at first that they were in Virginia, but in May 1780 when a party was surveying the Virginia-North Carolina line they found they were actually in North Carolina. "On arrival in the settlement they had scattered far and wide, locating the lands of their choice and making improvements, before they realized their lack of responsible law and protective forts, then in 1781 and 1782 numbers of them had to leave for the protection of their families." History buffs out there - would be interesting to learn more about all this. Melba -------Original Message------- From: B & B West Date: 08/25/05 12:03:00 To: TNSMITH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TNSMITH] Land Grant Look-Up From: Eldon Wilkins My email woke a lot of you up! Yes, it did!!! Before you get completely burned out on the look-ups would you check for a Conrad Goodner and a William Roark? The surname Goodner may be spelled Guetner. Thanks!! Bobby L. West ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ==== Volunteer To Transcribe For The Smith Co Census Project. Already In Progress! http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/tngen/census.htm

Melba, Could you please look up any Payne/Paines? I have the early land records book of Jackson County, but just want to check the Smith County records in case! Thanks so much, Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eldon Wilkins" <MelEl512@att.net> To: <TNSMITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [TNSMITH] Land Grant Look-Up > Dear Bobby, > > No, I am not burned out but before long 1/2 the book will be > "out there". Ha. I am happy to help move along any cause > for our Smith Countians! > > There is neither an entry for Goodner/Guetner/Roark/Ruark/etc. > I carefully scrutinized for any variation of spellings. There are entries > for Jacob Gardner, Demsey Gardner, James Gardner, Nathan Gardner...that is > as close to these as I can get. > > As I understand this history there were many who filed for > land grants and never received them. > > Apparently there is some information re the Cumberland settlers > "vividly discussed" within Ramsey's Annals, Putnam' Middle > Tennessee and Haywoods History ot Tennessee...telling of > the early struggles of these people to hold on in spite of adverse > conditions...a matter of equity. Further it is stated that these people > thought at first that they were in Virginia, but in May 1780 > when a party was surveying the Virginia-North Carolina line they > found they were actually in North Carolina. "On arrival in the settlement > they had scattered far and wide, locating the lands > of their choice and making improvements, before they realized > their lack of responsible law and protective forts, then in 1781 and 1782 > numbers of them had to leave for the protection of their > families." > > History buffs out there - would be interesting to learn more about > all this. > > Melba > > -------Original Message------- > > From: B & B West > Date: 08/25/05 12:03:00 > To: TNSMITH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TNSMITH] Land Grant Look-Up > > From: Eldon Wilkins > My email woke a lot of you up! > > > Yes, it did!!! > Before you get completely burned out on the look-ups would you check for a > Conrad Goodner > and a William Roark? The surname Goodner may be spelled Guetner. > > Thanks!! > Bobby L. West > > > ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ==== > Volunteer To Transcribe For The Smith Co Census Project. > Already In Progress! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/tngen/census.htm > > > > ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ==== > Submit Your Family Pictures, Biographies, Histories > Wills, Fokelore,Links To The Smith Co Web Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/ >

Melba, If you are not too tired I would love to know if you have anything on a William M. Robinson/Robertson, King Robinson/Robertson or a John Robinson/Robertson. Thanks so much. You are so kind to take the time to do this for so many. God Bless, Karen