Rowan County, North Carolina, 1790 Census Forests along the Coastal Plain were leveled for farms, settlers poured into the backcountry, and the line of settlement extended to the Blue Ridge Mountains. When did they come to NC and from where. Samuel Russell and his ship The Scorpion came across from Scotland and traveled up what is now thw Cape Fear Riverand created the town Russellboroughwill someone plz see why this important family was left off the mapthanks. John Russell. NOTE: June 7, 1832 The most comprehensive pension law, this act authorized full pay for life to all officers and enlisted men who had served at two years, and partial pay for all officers and enlisted men who had served at least six months. Fort Dobbs, constructed in 1756 during the French and Indian War, remains the only North Carolina historic site that commemorates the precursor war to the Revolution. There were fewer African-Americans in the western portion of North Carolina than the east, but both slave and free blacks appear in the records from the 1750s on. German pioneer settlers, lower Rowan County by D.A. "Different opinions have been advanced as to the time when the present stone church was built, some thinking the congregation was twenty years in building it. WebMacon County was formed in 1828 from Haywood, and communities within the region include Franklin, Highlands, Norton, Rainbow Springs, Nantahala, Ellijay, Cowee, and Scaly Mountain. would the last names of mallican or millican be also milliken. BRANDON engaged a lawyer, Col Archibald YELL (later Governor of Arkansas, who died at Buena Vista, Mexico, leading a regiment of Arkansas cavalry during the Mexican War), to prepare the papers. (Hunt and Titus were married to Smith's nieces.) Entrepreneurs founded successful companies such as Stanback, Cheerwine, Food Lion and Power Curbers. Richard Sanderson is my 8X grandfather. Ordered bayonet charges by the British failed to find the Americans awaiting them, and as soon as the British withdrew to regroup and make another charge, the Americans returned to their vacated positions and once more directed accurate fire There was a William Green in my ancestory. In March 1763, the Granville Land Office closed, and it was impossible to obtain a valid title to any of the vacant land. It did not become peaceful again until about 1760. Im looking for the Robert Willis family, from Eastern part of the state,in the 1700s. do you mean the Samuel Willis of Willis Neck Craven County. Powell, William Stevens. Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2005; Revised October, 2022. Iredell County. William S. Powell, ed. Today, Lake Norman, described by many as the largest freshwater, man-made lake in the nation, reaches into Iredell County. An old cotton mill near the railroad line proved to be a splendid location. William Sharpe (1742-1818), although born in Maryland, resided in Statesville, and he was one of the first to advocated for a university in North Carolina. In August of 1860 Fisher had completed the railroad up to 13 miles east of Morganton. Your email address will not be published. The Advertizing and Publicity persons are Doug & Gloria Bateman. Other intriguing characters in Rowans history include Peter Stewart Ney, Otto Wood, Theo Buerbaum, Elizabeth Dole, Sydney Blackmer, Skinnay Ennes, and Bobby Jackson. THE NORTH CAROLINA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL Brandon claims he was with Walker at the time Cornwallis surrendered, which was October 1781, not October 1780. Their journey began on October 8, 1753, in Slabs of rough hewn stone 12 to 15 feet in length solidly enclose the resting place of these pioneers. document.write(' 1998 - '); We dance for fun not for perfection! the idea of plotting DAVIDSON and BRANDON land holdings developed as a means of determining who were close neighbors. There was also a Hugh Boston, who could have been his father or brother in the same area. Did any of your Leonards come into Georgia? Looking for early settlers Parramoresdecendents of John Parramore who came to the eastern shore of va in 1622 Im descended from Gidaon Moseley of Aiken SC. Names were Best and Sawyer and others. YELL said later: He told me all in relation to his service with his father at Kings Mountain. CASEY's dragoons on the Tiger River in South Carolina. Young BRANDON was still under the age of 21 years. I see you left this comment months ago, but for some reason Im just now seeing it. JAMES EDMISTON. Osborne, Alexander Is Rachel Ann Spear really the daughter of James Spear? Friends I bid you farewell for I am started to the warm country. Both papers were based in Salisbury and served the Western half of the state. Palatine Progeny - the Arey Family of Rowan County, North Carolina and Related Families, 1749-1983. facebook.com/swingingSwallows. Or one that tells where they lived before Craven County? The German settlers arrived a few years later establishing communities in the south eastern portion of the county. WebFort Boonesborough and the Early Settlers of Madison County, Kentucky Benjamin Cutbirth - was a Rowan Co., NC friend of Daniel Boone who accompanied him on previous trips to Kentucky. Col. OSBURN was a justice, representing a district which included that part of Rowan on the west and south side of the Catawba River and that part which was east and north of that river, but west of First Little River (today's central Alexander County We like to visit retirement and long-term care homes and other community events to dance for their entertainment and our well-being, as a Club and as a person! Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. There are early land deeds for Bullens. Sturdy headstones commemorate the individuals, some with data lettered in German with dates prior to the Revolutionary War. Such a search would trace BRANDONs over a period of some forty years. westward). Together with two sister Lutheran churches, St. John's of Salisbury, and St. John's on Dutch Buffalo Creek in Cabarrus County, the Organ Evangelical Lutheran Church mothered Lutheranism in North Carolina. On the completion of this last tour of duty, Josiah BRANDON returned home and married Rachel BROWN, daughter of Thomas. Rendleman. Plank roads were later abandoned in lieu of railroads. It is only from a knowledge of the names of the early settlers and the local geography that any recognized entries in the Rowan County Inferior Court Minutes can help the problem. In 1850 sixteen plank road companies including the Salisbury and Taylorsville Plank Road were chartered. Entered 9 Feb 1778 & surveyed 9 Feb 1792 - "Joining and on the northwest of the land he purchased from John NEASBIT the place where James GRAHAM settled" Grant #1891 in Book 85, p. 130. to Jacob Zinck, Rowan County, NC was the beginning of the Sink roots in what is now Davidson County. In the winter of 1779, BRANDON joined Capt. kennethobyrnes@gmail.com. Instead, just read the list, as many spellings of surnames are different than the conventionally used spellings. He could not have been at Davidsons (also called) Upper Fort) in the fall of 1780 since he went to Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) and later Blackstocks (November 20, 1780). North Carolina Tedder Census Data, Tax Lists, Land Records, and more, by county, Births, Marriages and Deaths in Berkeley (later Perquimans Precinct), Early Rountree (Roundtree) Items - Mostly Chowan County, Craven County Wills & Estate Papers 1746-1865, Be careful with assumptions about "Verified" DNA relationships and those AncestryDNA "Hints", Free People of Color by County 1790 Federal Census, NC GENEALOGY TREASURE TROVE 100% FREE at FamilySearch Learn to search the UNINDEXED CATALOG, WARNING! Many early North Carolina families are named on the Fort Dobbs; J.P. Caldwell; William Sharpe. North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program website. If you want more information about the Swinging Swallows, visit our nest in the Fellowship Hall of Wesley United Church at 275 Pembroke Street East in Pembroke, Ontario on a Thursday evening, mid-September through mid-April, from 7:00 pm. He became a Methodist minister, and about 1805, moved to Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he lived until his death on 5 November 1842. These early residents of Rowan had come primarily from Pennsylvania and Virginia down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road through the Shenandoah Valley, past Pilot Mountain into the fertile land near the Yadkin River. BRANDON, was the son of George BRANDON (d. 1772) and was the eldes son, John. This fine instrument was the first of its kind in North Carolina, and people came from far and wide to see the organ and hear the majestic tones that resounded from the goblet domed pulpit of Organ Church. Required fields are marked *. GEORGE DAVIDSON. Josiah Brandon's Burke County, NC, 1777-1800, Sarah Bond Burley Widow's Pension - War of 1812. How early were your ancestors in North Carolina? 1 William Doub Bennett of Rocky Mount and Raleigh has been involved in genealogical research for nearly 55 years. The affidavits in support of this file are one of the most voluminous in the National Archives. The Granville Land Office closed in March 1763 with the death of John CARTERET, Lord Granville. Pastor Nussman moved over to St. John's and left that congregation to Pastor Arndt, who thus became the first Lutheran minister ever to be ordained in North Carolina, serving Organ Church for the next ten years. whether in possession of a train ticket to their final destination, who paid for the passage. Note: At the headwaters [here called the Fitzwilliam River] on the NC/VA line-20,000 acres to Col.William Byrd of Virginia. Entered 13 Nov 1778 - "on both sides of the path that leads from the Upper Fort to Swannannoa.." Grant #68 in Book 28, p. 68. number + 1900 : number; } North Carolina Emigration and Immigration FamilySearch He was a delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776. While the Moseley Map is not exhaustive in naming every family that lived in North Carolina at the time, many prominent land-owners were named. Many early North Carolina families are named on the Moseley Map (1733). The key event that affected the colonys development until the time of the Revolution was King George IIs takeover of North Carolina from the heirs of the Lords Proprietors in 1729. He was awarded an A*B. degree in Chemistry from Duke University, where he had the opportunity to study southern history under the late Dr. Charles Snydor. If i can assist let me I am in Va. Beach area. A history of Rowan County, North Carolina Rowan County Rowan, the western frontier of the thriving American colony in the 1740s and 50s, continued to play an important roll as the nation developed. These BRANDONs were extremely active in county affairs: two were Justices of the Peace, one was a coroner another a sheriff, two men were militia captains, and one was a Colonel. The Rowan Resolves declaring the citizens support of the town of Boston in its bid against the injustices of the British Crown was the beginning of the Revolution for North Carolina. To name just a few, John BRANDON, Esq., had large tracts surveyed near the Johns River in 1763 and also claimed a large bottom area (Brandons Bottom) along the Catawba River about seven miles west of present day Morganton. Isaac SHELBY, John SEVIER, Joseph McDOWELL and William CAMPBELL, and proceeded to surround it on the northeastern hump where FERGUSONs forces had moved to concentrate their firepower. Their efforts drove CUNNINGHAM to take shelter with British Lord RANDON's forces at the fortifications at Ninety Six. Rowan County (1753) - North Carolina History Project By then Arndt, the teacher, had become qualified to be ordained. In 1756, Arthur Dobbs, the royal governor of North Carolina during the war, was commissioned by the British crown to build a fort to protect colonists who lived in the western wilderness of the North Carolina colony. [F] PEQUIMANS PRECINCT between Pequimans and Little Rivers: Clare, Jessup[J], Sutton[C], Nixon, Forster [F], Whidby[R], Bateman, Sanderton, Swann [S], Parish,Bartlet, Hatch[A], Sanderton[A], Catchmaid. Robert Tripp b.1722 d. 1800 moved from Providence RI to Core Point, Durhams Creek, Beaufort, NC. Complete the fields below to post a public comment about the material featured on this page. WebThe profiles of persons currently included in WikiTree are included in the Category Category:Rowan County, North Carolina, Early Settlerswhen identified. However, there was a 1669 document that outlined the creation of palatine landgraves and casiques in the Carolina Colony when it was under the Lords Proprietor. Benjamin stayed at Boonesborough until he lost his land claims in 1778. South Carolinians moved north into the Lower Cape Fear George CUNNINGHAM, who had replaced DAVIDSON that Spring. http://www.co.iredell.nc.us/about.asp, (accessed November 25, 2011). But the migration caused growing alarm among the Indian populations resulting in a conflict that raged on and off for four years concluding in 1715 with the decimation of the Indians and the opening up of additional land to white settlement. You may do research in immigration records in person at the National Archives Building, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408-0001. 2006. None could have been Loyalist Captain BRANDON. My Fathers side is Reason shown thru northern and eastern North Carolina Dating back to the 1700s . Furthermore, Brandon claimed he was at the fort under Walker around the time Cornwallis surrendered - which was October 19, 1781. Hi, I am Maggie Stewart, the coordinator for the Rowan County NCGenWeb page.This page is part of a nationwide effort to get genealogical information online. Renowned scholars, preachers, patriots and statesmen began careers here. He moved to North Carolina about 1749 and settled on the headwaters of Rocky River in Anson (now Iredell) County. Davidson, North Carolina: H.A. This location was part of western Rowan County from 1753 to 1777 and then was in western Burke County from 1777 to 1842, when McDowell was formed in the latter year. One industry, the Wallace Herbarium, became the largest facility of its kind in the world during the economic railroad boom. May be used These could be from the German region as you stated. There were six slaves mentioned in his will and seven slaves enumerated in the 1790 Census in Rowan County for Thomas Gillespie, Sr. [11] [21] [22] Family [ edit] The records did indicate that Josiah had gone to school with one James DAVIDSON, son of William, so Iredell County (1788 A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina by Edward Moseley, late surveyor general of the said province ([London]: Sold at the Three Crowns, 1733). Continuing into the 20th century Rowan was the home of renowned educator and womens rights activist Elizabeth Duncan Koontz. Koontz was the first black elected president of the National Education Association and, under President Nixon, the first black director of the U.S. Department of Labors Womans Bureau. WALKER, these frontiersmen served for three months as spies and rangers, venturing forth in small detachments to protect the fort and the frontier. This county sectioned out from Anson included all land that lay in the Granville Tract north to the Virginia line and was essentially boundless to the west extending to the South Sea (Pacific Ocean) or more practically to the Mississippi. Grand mothers family being Biggs. Happy to see the Perrys and Slades of our family listed. Davidson College owes much of its stature to the men of Rowan who founded and supported it, among them Maxwell Chambers. During this period, the greater parts of the states of Georgia and South Carolina had been overrun by the British forces, and parts of North Carolina were strongly under British control. Identifier. We keep a copy on the Info Table for dancers to look at. Rudbeckia readily self-seed and naturalized in the garden, providing beauty for years. A deed dated Jan. 27, 1763 by Henry McCulloch, Esq. I was asked to find out more about the ancestry of Josiah BRANDON (b. Citation format: Creator. My great grandmother was Caroline Perry Privett. The date in the front gable shows when the stone masonry was completed." Our Club Caller is Ron Gardner, our President is Andre Blais and the Past President is Bill Shields. Surnames of the first families included Donnell, Scott, McCuiston, Cummings, Cunningham, Foster, Black, Rankin, Nix or Nicks, Mitchell, Wilson, Blair, Beals, Barr and Mc-Clintock. Alexander Osborne, frontiersman, was born in New Jersey but spent his early years in Lancaster, Pa. This new fort was christened "Fort Royal." Be cautious using ChatGPT for genealogy research. Expense Account, Rowan County, NC 1790. I am looking for information about the George Young family who left Virginia in the late 1700s, stayed in North Carolina temporarily, then proceeded on to Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Location. second-in-command of the British, one Capt. //dump($i); By 1710, the new sparsely settled province had a capital at Edenton. His drawing at Salisbury Confederate Prison is the first drawing ever of a baseball game in America. In February 1991, Susan M. Trimble of the North Carolina Colonial Records Project compileda full index to the map, complete with grid locations for the names indexed, and it was published by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Historical Publications Section. When Congress passed the Pension Act of 1832 for Revolutionary War veterans. RCEMGV Plant Sale May 6 | Extension Marketing and All these plants and more will be available at the Extension Master Gardener of Rowan County Plant Sale on May 6, 2023. The Carolina Watchman, established in 1832, was created as an anti-Jackson Paper. Thank you! which might furnish a clue to the Captains first name. Who were the Palatine families referenced on the Moseley Map? Mailing address: 415 Bickett Blvd., Raleigh, N. C. 27608. Josiah was taken prisoner and marched to Quaker Meadows in Burke County. Abraham de Peyster of New York, continued to resist for a short time, but eventually the Loyalists threw down their arms, raised a white flag, and the battled ended. Though said Samuel lived near this fort during the Revolution, he supposedly moved downstream to John McDOWELL's Swan Pond tract area. Can anyone figure out why that would be? We have an Executive, a Caller and a fun bunch of members! They were primarily of Scotch-Irish or German extraction. By 1770, and possibly earlier. Early Settlement | NCpedia South Carolinians moved north into the Lower Cape Fear region to establish pine plantations with enslaved African labor. WebThe following ancestors have been documented to have been resident, prior to 12 July 1729, in the portion of the Province of Carolina which became North Carolina. Orr, Douglas Milton, and Alfred W. Stuart. They had a son, Joseph Norcumb Windley. Settlers from Virginia and Pennsylvania who were of the Quaker religion came from the New Garden and other meetings in Guilford County, North Carolina. Entered 4 Nov 1778 & surveyed 13 Nov 1778 - on both sides of the path that leads from the Upper Fort to Swannannoa.." Grant #69 in Book 28. p. 69. People migrate to North America from Asia at irregular intervals by way of the Bering Land Bridge. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); Columbia S> (actually in Richland county near St ANdrews road. A year after purchase of the Wachovia Tract, a group of 15 men came south to begin the first settlement. Im always up for learning something new. The information included in this section was contributed by Brian ebiner (at) aol.com. On a lower Rowan County road, ten miles south of Salisbury, North Carolina, on red clay soil along Second Creek, is located Organ Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized by early German settlers in 1745. [J] CURRITUCK PRECINCT between North River and Currituck Sound: Wilkins, Balance, Hodges [M], Swann [T], Etheridg, Lowther, Williams, Tulle, Swann [W], Dukes [M],Sanderson, Williamson, Norton, Gibby. Hi Kenneth! I am surprised that Russell isnt on the list. 2017 Swinging Swallows Modern Square Dance Club. Unfortunately, many of the county's court records and most of the land records were burned in April 1865 by Federal troops under the command of General George H. STONEHAN. [A] ROANOKE RIVER-headwaters to the south shore of Albemarle Sound: 1-Davis[W], Young[J], Spann(Spanns Mill), Allen, Falls, Reeves, Mellikan[J], Little[W], Mackinne[B],Bryant[T], Ooneroy, Refootketh, Tuskeruro, Cheeweo, Quitzna, Castellan[J], Speller, Charlton[W],Meazle, Blount, Beasly. Early History //-->, RootsWeb is funded and supported by Encyclopedia of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC 2006). Early North Carolina Quakers GEOGE DAVIDSON JR File #1825. Once owned by Mr. Hugh Williamson Collins of Edenton (1863), Moseleys is said to be the first map of NC to be based mainly on actual exploration or surveys, rather than reports, according to the ECU Special Collections website. Learn more. The first building, constructed by the frontiersmen back in 1745, was of hickory logs, the best material then at hand, and named Zion, but was commonly called Hickory Church. amount of money the immigrant had in their possession. (accessed November 25, 2011). Im glad you left your comment, though, because someone with South Carolina roots may see it and would love to take you up on your offer! The remainder of the tour was split between ranging duty and the fort. I did see the name Jasper, listed also. Rev. I have been trying to find information on Mary A. Norcumb, my 3X Great Grandmother, that married Jacob Darden Windley in 1840, Washington, Beaufort, North Carolina. Does anyone have any information on the Norcumb family or know where I can find more information? Actually, settlers only had about two or three years after the peace with the Indians to obtain At Christmas and the end of the dance year we have a pot-luck dinner prior to dancing. The list below is a wonderful condensed index that I had saved in my archived files on my computer, although, unfortunately, Im unsure of its attribution, so if you know who originally published the list below, please leave a comment in the boxat the bottom of this article. WebPre-Sixteenth-Century American Indian History. The North Carolina atlas: portrait for a new century. This list document.write(cy). -- to which we bring finger foods. Early As a result, the pension allowance was withheld, but later restored as evidence was produced to vindicate Josiah BRANDON. Who was Caroline married to cuz? Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. Date. In the middle of the nineteenth century the railroad initiated major economic growth in Iredell County. 2016 John Locke Foundation | 200 West Morgan St., Raleigh, NC 27601, Voice: (919) 828-3876, //$i = get_field('photogallery2',get_the_ID()); i believe some of the tripps family moved down to anderson sc. The widow BRANDONs first name is another matter, a solution which may never be found. WebIn 1790, there were 1,742 slaves in 2,432 families in Rowan County. ?>, Sign up for updates from the North Carolina History Project. They established a fort and a mission in the native The completed tract map showed only one blank space which I could not fill along the river, unfortunately that of the missing BRANDON tract. Looking for a Campbell that Campbells Creek off Goose Creek ITW across in Beaufort County is named for deed Dated 1735 referenced old Campbell house & Camels folley. All Rights Reserved. I am Sheri Greenmost Green lines actually settled in Western NC but due to work ie Farming many moved to the coast. WebThe First Company of 1753.

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