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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
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GENEALOGY 975.6 N81879, 1932-1933
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VOL. 1.
JANUARY, 1932.
NO. 1
NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RECORD
A Quarterly Magazine of North Carolina Genealogy, Biography and Local History,
Published By CLARENCE GRIFFIN, Forest City, N. C.
Subscription $1.00 Per Year
Single Copies .35c Each
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QUERIES
H. M. S., Monroe, N. C .- Desires information regarding early Smith settlers in Halifax County, N. C.
Mayor George R. Lewis, of Pendleton. Oregon, desires in- formation regarding the Dixon family in North Carolina, and more particularly informations concerning Gilbert Dixon, who resided in Western North Carolina.
H. M. B., Rutherfordton, N. C .- Wants information relat- ing to the Terrell family in Virginia. Anyone possessing genealogical material on this family are requested to get in touch with the editor of this magazine.
Mrs. Sallie S. Hollingsworth, of Edgefield, S. C., wants names of parents of Dr. John Caswell Griffin, who married a Miss Wilson, in Virginia, but later settled in the Edgefield, S. C., District. His father married a sister of Governor Rich- ard Caswell, of North Carolina.
IN THE NEXT NUMBER.
A number of excellent articles are on hand for the April issue of The Record. Col. Fred A. Olds gives an account of the development of the railroads of North Carolina from 1837 to 1931. A complete. detailed historical sketch of old Tryon county, formed in 1769 and abolished in 1779, will also ap- pear. That county had a very eventful history in its ten years of existence. These are only two of the many fine features which will appear in the next issue.
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NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RECORD
A GLEANER IN NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY
CLARENCE GRIFFIN, Editor FOREST CITY, N. C.
VOL. 1
JANUARY. 1932 NO. 1
EDITORIAL
Some time ago it occurred to the editor that a quarterly ma- gazine of North Carolina genealogy, biography and local his- tory could be successfully published, and since that time he has been busy with plans for launching such publication. The first issue of that magazine is presented herewith. One month ago this number went to press. As material had to be solicited and printed as available, this issue does not present as varied range of topics as first contemplated by the editor.
This magazine will be devoted to the publication of local history articles pertaining to all of the North Carolina coun- ties, unpublished letters and manuscripts, genealogical mater- ial and biographical sketches. This material will deal with all periods of the state's history. This will be a North Caro- lina magazine, of North Carolina history. Each issue will pre- sent a number of timely local history articles, representing as nearly as possible, every portion of the state, and every per- iod of the state's history.
Beginning with the next issue a department will be estab- lished which will carry late news notes regarding activities of North Carolina historical and patriotic societies. There will also be a department through which inquiries can be made relative to families. and their genealogy. Subscribers are in- vited to use this department. Book notes will also be published,
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and notices given to all new books, pamphlets and publications pertaining to North Carolina.
We are not competing with any existing historical publica- tions, and do not expect to invade the field so well covered by them. There are in North Carolina hundreds of local his- tory subjects, little known to the state at large, about which interesting articles can be written. This material should be preserved, and the purpose of this magazine will be to secure these local history stories and publish them, The magazine will, in the final analysis, be a gleaner in North Carolina his- tory. At the present time there is no other publication in the state which caters solely to the publication of material re- lating to the lesser historical events and points within its bor- ders, therefore we feel we will fill a long felt need.
The various County Historians, officials of patriotic and historical societies and others interested in preserving North Carolina history, are requested to co-operate with us, and sub- mit material for publication. Manuscripts, old letters, bio- graphical material, local history sketches, county histories. etc., are desired. Late news items regarding activities of var- ious patriotic societies are also requested. With your aid and co-operation we can make this a worthwhile magazine.
Future issues will be open to advertisers. Advertising rates will be furnished upon request.
THANKS.
At the present time The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Record has approximately 700 paid-in-advance subscribers, representing almost every county in North Caro- lina. and a few from adjoining states. Each mail brings in one or two new subscribers. We hope by the time we conclude our advertising campaign to increase the list to 1,500. In say- ing that we appreciate this support is indeed putting it mild-
ly. Every effort will be made to show our appreciation through the columns of this magazine this year. The editor is keenly aware of his deficiencies in editing this publication. The un- dertaking does not hold any promise of being an easy task. Every effort will be made to eliminate errors from all ma- terial appearing herein. If any are detected, our readers are requested to call attention to them, in order that they may be corrected in future issues.
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THE WISEMAN FAMILY IN NORTH CAROLINA
By MRS ROMULUS DUNCAN
Names are always of peculiar in- or three days they would reach their terest, first names, middle names and destination. However, three days last names. We often are led to passed. - four days -- five days pass- wonder what possessed a father or ed -- the lunch was gone, and no mother to give a child such a first land in sight. And a 13-year-old boy name as Zero. Touse, or Larceeny. can get hungrier, perhaps, than any And just as often are we led to
other human being in the world, and wonder where so many folks all by so they had to come out from: their the same family name originated. hiding places. The ship's crew took: Every section has its own particu- them in eLarge and put them to work lar bevy of familiar names.
for their board
Upon landing somewhere on the
When in Yancey courty a fairly safe salutation is "Good morning, shores of the New England states. Mr. Ray." Rutherford hos its Kan- the three boys were sold for their dalls, and its Harrills in large num- passage over, and William Wiseman bers. Mitchell its Pendreys, Pitmans, fell into the hands of a blacksmith Burlesons and Buchanans, while in who was also a cabinet maker, for Avery the stranger is introduced to the price of two pounds sterling, of Wisemans in every side, and here about 88 00. The lad had hnishod is where our story begins. his apprenticeship as a woodworker
Away back in 1745, nearly 200 before leaving England and so prov- years ago, there lived a family on ed a valuable asset to the old black- St. James street, in London. Eng. smiith. After serving for some time land, by the name of Wiseman. The in this capacity, he became an ex- father was dead, and the daughters pert cabinet maker, and through a all married. The youngest child,
wager upon who could make the 12-year-old-lad, was left with his aged finest cabinet, he gained his freedori. mother, who was none too indulgent Before he had reached his twen- with the boy He resented the seem- tieth birthday, he made his way to ing injustices heaped upon him from North Carolina, married Miss Mary day to day, and dreamed of the Davenport and settled on John's country across the big river and of River, near what is now Colletts- the wonderful things he could ac- ville, N. C. To this union were born complish there. So when he had 11 children, namely, Thomas, Doro- barely reached his 13th birthday, he thy, William, Mary, Davenport, Mar- and two pals of about the same age tin, James, John, Celestial, Susan- hid themselves away on a vessel nah and Robert. The mother died in bound for the United States. 1796, the children grew up and set- Three Youngsters. tled in different localities throughout The three youngest were Wil- the United States and the father was iam Wiseman. William Pendley and married the second time to Miss William Davis. They hai taken a Lydia B. dford, Ho purchased a farve generous lunch, thinking that in two boundary of land on North Toe Ris-
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er and established his home on the Ind., and "Skyland Scotty" Wiseman present site of Sunnybrook Farm. of Fairmont W. Va. William Daven- now owned by Robert Wiseman in port Wiseman was married to Miss Avery county. Being a man of strong Victoria Durham, and settled in character, he soon made a place for Rutherford county, being the father himself, being magistrate and lead- of Dr. Baxter Wiseman, of Henrict- er in that section of the country. ta. Lu inds Adelaide married Ben-
Seven children came to bless the jamin Forture. of near Asheville. second marriage, and it is the des- becoming the mother of Mrs. Myers, cendants of these children who mak. Dr. Fortune, and Robert Fortune, of up a large part of the population of Asheville. Aaron Alexander the sixth Avery, Mitchell and adjoining coun- son, died with measles while in the ties The first son, born in 1799. Confederate Army.
was named Bedford for his mother. The second was Alexander, being the forefather of the Avery county and the Rutherford county Wisemans.
The seventh child was Josiah La- Fayette, born in 1842, and marri-d Mise Sera Baunavista Blalock, and is the father of R. L. Wiseman and Miss Cordia Wiseman. Nancy Matil-
Jennie Mae, the third child. born in 1802, married Daniel English, bo- da, inother daughter, was marriet coming grandmother of th. A. II known Englishes and Rowes of this section Josiah Wiseman, grandfath- er of the late Sheriff Ade Wiseman. was born in 1806. Elizabeth, anoth-
to Rennen Young. one of the pion er residents cf Biker ville. and be- came the mother of George Young, prominent merchant of that place. D lilah Beunavista was married to er daughter, married an Olis, be- John Huss, and was the mother of coming . the mother and grandmother of the Ollis generation in Avery county. Lydia was the sixth child. and Antney Center the seventh, the latter being the grandfather of John Wiseman of Linville Falls.
Charlie and Hudson Huss. of Gas- tonia, a grand daughter being the private secretary of A. L Balwin- kle, of Gastonia, at present. Malissa Evaline grew to young womanhoo! and died at the age of 21 years. un- married. Stanhope Carson Wiseman
Family Of Twelve.
Alexander, the second son of the married Nannie V Childs. The old man by his second marriage, set- youngest daughter. Helen Augusta. t'ed at the old home place, married was born in 1854 and married Jesse Miss Delilah Fox, of near Morgan- R. Gre n who lives at Spruce Pine. ton, and raised a family of 12 boys She was the mother of Mrs. Mae and girls, all of whom gr.w to main- Franklin of Linville Falls and Len- hood and womanhood. The eldest oir, and several other children. some daughter of this couple, Lydia Louise of whom now live in California married J C. Keener, their daughter . The grave of the first William becoming the wife of Brownlow Bur- Wiseman can be seen in the garden leson and the anc.stur of the Avery of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wiseman county Burlesons. The second daugh- at Sunnybrook Farm in Avery coun- ter. Minerva, married John Woody. ty, the oid home of this rugged pion- and was the grandmother of Dr L. eer. Many were the hardships en- G. Woody of Toscane, Jaines Wise- dured back in those early days when man, of Ingalls, and grandfather of this courty was a wilderness, tra- Dr. Earl Wis-man, of Lodianapolis, dition has it that at one time M ..
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Wiseman's second wife wished to visit had several girls and boys in their friends and y latives on the home. During a severo winter in the opposite side of the Blue Ridge early years of the 18th century, a mountains, and set out alone on family by the name of Grant com- horseback. There were no trails in ing from the South. stopped for a those days, and so she set the day night's lodging at the Bright home. for her return before leaving.
Fails To Appear.
The set day came for wife and mother to come home. but she fail- ed to show up. The following morn- ing about 9 o'clock the horse with- out saddle or rider came into the barnyard, and consternation reign- ed in the household. A party of men set out at once to look for Mrs. Wiseman, but went only a short distance when they met her carry- ing the saddle. The afternoon pre- vious she had given the horse th?
rein while she ate a lunch. thinking the horse would take her directly mong the knights of old. Charles home. The horse. however. decided the Second's Surgeon was a Wis. to go to a distant mountain where man, and the present holder of the he had been in the habit of graz. title is Sir William Wiseman of Lon- ing, and so went quite a distance don, who during the World war bell before the rider noticed that she much the same position under the was off the trail It was then almost king that Colonel House held under dark, s. dismounting, she tied har President Woodrow Wilson.
horse to a tree, wrapped herself in her saddle blanket and slept beneath the stars. Next morning she turned the horse loose, knowing he would go home. and then she followed with the saddle on her shoulder.
Another story is told of one of William Pendley being residents of
William Wiseman's neighbors. family by the name of Bright. who other story.
Next morning a blizzard was raging and as there were no roads, and the blizzard kept up for days. the Grants had to remain until spring before they could move on. There were also boys and girls in the Grant family, and during the long stay there were several intermarriages between the two families, so when the time came to continue the journey northward. the Brights joined the caravan and all went on together. It is claimed that these Grants were the ancestors of General U. S. Grant.
The Wisemans are numbered a-
It is of interest to know that both the comrades of William Wiseman who came over as stowaways, William Pendley and William Davis, event- ually came to North Carolina and settled. many of the descendants of a Mitchell county-but theirs is an-
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A POLITICAL BROADSIDE OF THE WAR OF 1812
FROM THE LENOIR COLLECTION
(Israel Pickens was born near
Concord, Mecklenburg county, N. C., (now Cabarrus) January 30, 1780. He removed to Burke coun-
original is preserved by the Lenoir family, at Fort Defiance)
"(To the Citizens of Burke, Ruth- erford, Lincoln, Buncombe and Haywood, N. Carolina )."
ty, N. C., and received instruction "FELLOW CITIZENS:
from private teachers. and was grad- "After a most solemn delibera- uated from Jefferson college, Can- tion which has consumed a difficult and tedious session of eight months. our country has at length appealed to arms, for defence of its insuited rights and wounded honor. Having tried in vain every pacife expedient, we are now at open war with Great Britain. The land and pavol forees are charged with its vigorous execu- tion. And the most active prepara- tions are making to meet it.
onsburg, Pa., in 1802. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was a member of the state Senate in 1809; elected as a Democrat. from North Carolina to the United States House of Kepre- sentatives, to the Twelfth, Thirteen- th and Fourteenth Congresses. (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1817). He
"The causes which have led to removed to the present state of Ala- this last alternative of nations, are bama and was register of the land of- but too well known and too serious- fice of the Mississippi Territory ly felt by every portion of our citi- (which included the present state zens, to require a recital. Nothing of Alabama) 1817-1821; Governor more need be said to a brave and of Alabama 1821-25; appointed to generous people than, that your the United States Senate from Ala- country calls. War has been waging bama to fill the vacancy caused by on the part of our enemy during a the death of Henry Chambers, and long period of professed friendship. served from February 17, 1826 to and has only been aggravated by our November 27, 1826, when a succes- earnest endeavors to maintain peace. sor was elected; was not a candidate The indignities to our flag, within our for election to the vacancy; declined own sovereignty-seizure of our the appointment of judge of the property, in the course of lawful United States Court for the District trade-the capture of our citizens. of Alabama in 1826; died near Mat- in pursuit of an honest livelihood anzas, Cuba, April 24, 1827. Inter- - their separation from their friends ment was in the family cemetery near and their country, against whom Greensboro, Hale county. Ala. He they are often compelled to turn married Martha Lenoir, a daughter their arms-the savage warfare a- of Gen. William Lenoir, of Fort De- gainst the peaceful inhabitants of fiance, near Lenoir, in Caldwell our frontier, which is clearly prov- county. The following broadside was ed to proceed from British arms issued by Congressman Fickens while and influence-the insidious atteint a representative in Congress. The lately discovered to sever our union.
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'by secret agency, which has not only rests the fate of the only free re- roused the indignation of every real public on earth.
"On this day thirty-six years ago. our nation took its birth among the empir.s of the world. Through every portion of this period have we grown rupt ministry fr im power -. The acts in raources, in population, and in
national character. All the improve- ments and arts which ornament civi- lized life are advancing with un- equaled rapidity. Institutions which contribute to national and individual prosperity are rising over our land. Industry has caused this wilderness to give way to fields of plenty. Ag- riculture, our country's great orna- ment and support, is improving in a degree unknown to other countries. The world has been wondering at this prodigy of national grandeur. A momentous task is imposed upon us -the defence of the civil and reli- gious liberties, the honor, the in- depend nce handed us from our brave ancestors. United we are able for the important duty, tho' opposed by a world combined.
"Honest differences of political sentiment has existed among us, 25
"I have the satisfaction to inform has been the case in every free na- you that a resort to internal taxa- tion: and in ordinary times this dif- tion is not necessary at this ference has proved a useful check time, and it is to be hoped that oth- against the abuse of power; but now. er sources of revenue may be found having arrayed our country in arms. to avoid a system so obnoxious in its we have but one cause to support. best form, and which would have 'He that is not for his country is proved very inconvenient to our against it' Every patriot hand will citizens at this embarrassing mo -- be rais d together against the com- ment
mon enemy; one heart and one soul
"The long forbearance of our will breathe the nation's spirit; and government, which has been imputed one united nerve will brace the na- to a want of energy in our councils. tional arm. it is hoped will now be attributed
"Let us rise together -- our cause to its true cause, a love of justice, is just-the God of our Fathers who and a sincere desire to cultivate has heretofore blessed our exertions. peace. A trial is now to be made will again be our guardian and our how far a free government is ca- shield."
pable of its own preservation. On the "ISRAEL PICKENS." issue of this interesting experiment "Washington City, July 4th. 1812."
American, but has excited the ab- horrence of every honest Britton : and has well nigh shaken that cor- so incompatible with the safety, the peace, the honor and sovereignty of this nation imperiously call us to arms.
"The injuries we have sustained from France have raised in every American's soul a just indignation which nothing can, which nothing ought to allay but the most prompt and ample amends. This has been required by our government as the only condition on which any terms for future intercourse will be admit- ted. If the encouragement held out by that nation, of redress for the past and assurances of the future, should not soon be realized. I trust we will use the best means in our reach, to exact respect to our rights as well from France as from Eng- land.
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THOMAS HUTCHINS, SR., REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT
By CLARENCE GRIFFIN
Among the early North Carolina cultural pursuits. A few years lat- settlers who risked their all for the er the first clouds that presaged the cause of liberty during the uneer- tain days of the American Revolu- tion, was numbered Thomas Hut- chins, Sr .. whose descendants today in Rutherford county alone number several hundred. Descendants of this intrepid soldier are also found £ Wake, Mitchell, Cleveland, Buncombe and other counties in North Caro- lina, as well as a few in other states.
storm of the Revolution broke. Life on a farm, remote from neighbors, had wrought a spirit of independence within him, and he, in common with hundreds of others of his adopted county. resented any attempt of any government to place upon them laws that would restrict them in their simple pioneer life, regardless of how remotely those laws would
Born in Augusta county, Virginia, touch them. The hot blood of ad- Thomas Hutchins removed at an venture, too, stirred in the veins of easily age to Wake county, North young Tom Hutchins, and beckoned Carolina, and was residing in that him to cast his lot with the Ameri- county at the time of the Revolu- can colonists. In the first excitement tion. After the war he removed to of war he immediately left the Rutherford county, where he died. peaceful pursuits of farming, and He came of staunch, pioneer stock, volunteered as a private in the mili- and there was nothing in particu- tia. His first actual experience. per- lar to identify him from the hun- haps, came when his company went creds of other pioneers whose strong into action at Moore's Creek Bridg :. arms pushed back a wilderness, and whose unerring aim with the riffe protected the home from prowling boasts, and provided sustenance for ront Wilmington. on February 27, 1776, when 1,600 Scotch-Loyalis's were defeated by 1,100 Minute Men under Colonels Caswell and Lilling-
the family. This sketch is written not ton. His war experience thereafter so much for the edification of those was varied He served throughout as interested in North Carolina history a private. We can imagine him go- as for the information of those seat- ing into service, on call, for a tour tered hundreds of descendants of of two or three or four months and upon completion of the tour return- of ing to his farm where he spent his tinie until the next call. He served
this Revolutionary patriot, who are interested in the preservation family history.
Thomas Hutchins. Sr. was born one and one-half months under in Augusta county, Virginia. Jan- Captain James Hinton and Col John uary 22, 1753. His educational ad- Hinton; five months in 1778 under vantages were limited. his entire Cupt. Woodson Daniel; two months schooling being confined to that giv- under Caprain Matthew McCulloch en him under the tutelage of his and Col. James Hinton; three months parents. He removed from Virginia under Captain Dread Jones and three to Wake county, North Carolina, a months under Captain Martin Lain bout 1770, where he followed agri- and Col. John Humphreys He also
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participated in the battle of Eutaw Hutchins appeared before the court Springs in the present county
of and made declaration of his services. Orangeburg, South Carolina, on Sep- At the same time more than thirty tember 8, 1781. when Nathaniel other Revolutionary soldiers appear- Green with 2,000 men defeated a like ed for the same purpose. The pro- force of British under Lieutenant- ceedings of the court in reference Colonel Stuart.
to Thomas Hutchins are as follows.
After the war he returned to his and are copied from the minutes of Wake county farm and resumed the court of Pleas and Quarter ses- his much interrupted agricultural sions of Rutherford county for Sep- work In May, 1786. he was married tember, 1832. page 125:
to Sarah Proctor, of Wake county, "September Ct. 1832 a daughter of Thomas Proctor, Sr. "State of North Carolina, S. S. The Proctors had also been active "At a Court of Probate which was in the Revolution. several members begun and held for the county of of her immediate family having tak- Rutherford at the Court House at en an active part in the behalf of Rutherfordton on the 2nd Monday the colonists. Her father died in 1797 (10th day) of September, A. D .. in Wake county, and his will men- 1832. the following proceedings were tions John. Thomas. Jr, Susannah. had to wit.
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