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Orendorff formerly lived North 40 West ..... to a Spanish oak contain- ing in all 432 acres. Transferred 26th day of May 1832. A Stewart. C. C." (Deed Book "W", page 161.)
Also the following:
"Amos Moon from Elizabeth Mc- Dowell March 5, 1838. This Inden- turo made the second day of October 1837 between Elizabeth McDowell and her heirs of the County of Rob- ertson and State of Tennessee .... for and in consideration of the sum of twelve hundred twenty-five dol- lars in hand paid unto the said Eli- zabeth MeDowell and her heirs .... Aaron Orendorff migrated to Ill- inois in 1827 and the following set- tlement of the estate was made by his brother John Orendorff of Logan county, Kentucky : doth convey unto the said Amos Moch his heirs and assigns forever a cer- tain tract or parcel of land contain- ing one hundred and sixty-four acres Iving and being in the county and "At the request of James McDow- ell and John Orendortf agent for Aaron Orendorif the following tract of land situate and lying and being in said County on the Middle fork State aforesaid on the south fork of the Red River Begining at a white oak ..... to a Sycamore on the Bank of the river then up the river wirh its meanders also one other of Red River said tract being part tract (small) containing ten acres . . . of a survey originally granted to
"Elizabeth McDowell, Lucinda Mc- Lewis Barker by North Carolina by Dowell. Thos. J. Poe, Andrew J. grant No. 203 for four hundred acres Babbs. Jas. L. McDowell, James B. .. in all four hundred and thirty Poe, Elizabeth H. Babbs." .
TO MARK GERMAN SEAMEN'S GRAVES AT ASHEVILLE
Neglected for more than a decade by friend and foe alike, the graves of 18 German seamen, buried dur- ing the war in the Riverside ceme- tery in Asheville, will be appropriate- ly marked through the efforts of Ashe- ville members of the American Le- gion. The plan of the Legion mem- bers, to honor the graves of their former enemies, has attracted wide attention both in the United States The 18 sailors were interned at Hot Springs. N. C., during the war. They contracted typhoid fever and and in Germany, since the marking and care of the German graves on the soil of the United States, will were transferred to the United States be a spontaneous and striking evi- government hospital at Asheville dence of international good will be- where they died during the latter tween the two countries.
Medication are being held in abevance hile members of the Kiffin Rock- woll Post of the American Legion in Asheville, secure full data as to the correct names of the German sailors buried nere. Dr. F. W. Von Pritcwitz the German Ambassador and Dr. R. Jeger, German Consul at New Orleans are cooperating with the Asheville Legion members in secur- ing correct information from Ger- man sources.
part of 1915 and in the early months
No definite date has as yet been of 1919. The graves were placed to- rot for the d dication of the plain, gather in one plot in the Riverside but massive and dignified monument, cemetery and were left with no dis- which will des-znate the pot where tinctive marking other than mere the fallen seamen lie. Plans for the identification.
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GENEALOGICAL QUERIES
Early-John Early and William quested to send data to the histor- Early were in Bertie county, N. C., ian of the Shackelford Family Asso- in 1700. John Early married Mary ciation, which was organized at Bush, his will dated 1740. William Pintlala, Montgomery co. Ala., in Early md. Elinor ..... her will dated 1930 by descendants of George
1732. John Early had son John. Jr., (1779-1852) and Annette
(Jeter) Shackleford, pioneer settlers of Ala-
who md. Elizabeth Boone (dau. James Boone) and had son James bama. George was the son of Fran- Early who probably was the James cis (1739-1823) and Rebecca ( Bal- Early, private in Darnal's Co. 1777, hard) Shackelford. Francis was disc. Aug. 1777, N. C. Cont. Line. Revolutionary soldier from N. C. and Were these Earlys above related to was a son of John (1711-1778) and Thomas Early in the county of Ruth- Anna Shackleford, of Onslow coun- erford, U. S. Census, 1790? Were ty. John was the son of Francis and these Chowan District Earlys relat- Sarah Shackleford, of Va. The book ed to Thomas and Elizabeth Early, now being compiled will include all . the parents of Jeremiah Early, Sr. b. descendants who will co-operate in 1705, Middlesex co. Va .? Andrew, this undertaking-Rev. F. S. Mose- William, John Early and probably ley, Historian, 11 Noble Ave., Mont- Sarah Early, who married Thomas gomery, Ala.
Lewis-Want information on
Brown, of Blount Co. Tenn. were in Tenn. about 1811-12. Were they any relation to any of
the above George Lewis, mentioned in Colo- Earlys. Jeremiah Early listed in Sur- nial and State Records as having pet- ry co, N. C. U. S. Census 1790, with itioned the Crown for compensation five sons, and Jeremiah Early, shown for lands "west of the mountains" as a Minute Man in Tazewell co. Va, which had belonged to him and a Was he any relation to any of the Price. Lewis was later attacked by above Earlys, and who was his wife? the Indians and his partner Price Who was Thomas Brown mentioned killed. Who were George Lewis' par- above, and where from? This Andrew, ents ?- Miss Ida Bale, R. F. D. 4, William and John Early. of Blount Petersburg, Ill.
co. Tenn. is listed in the Presbyterian church records of 1823 and William Early and Thomas Brown owned land jointly before that. My information is that Andrew Early came from Vir- ginia and was a son of Jubal. the father of Joab Early .-- R. D. Brown, 434 Main Street. Huntington Beach, Calif.
Mrs. Strother -- Would like to lo- cate the Mrs. Strother, of N. C., who is supposed to have the original seal of the French family of Amis-Mrs. Chas. J. Blake, The Alliance Insur- ance Co., Greensboro, N. C.
Moore.Baker-William Moore and Elizabeth Baker md. ca 1785-88, shown in Census of 1790. S. C., in Claremont (Now Sumter) co. Ances- try of both wanted. Elizabeth was dau. of William and Margaret (Dun- agan) Baker. Margaret's mother was a Witherspoon. William Moore had eleven bros. and sis .; (1) Anthony, had sons Edmond, Arthur, Isham and Henry; (2) Sarah, md. Shadrack Johnson: (3) John; (4) Roger; (5)
Munro-Williams-Jerusha Willians. b. Nov. 25, 1790, md. William Mun- ro, b. May 25, 1784. They were md. 18 Sept. 1806. Had sons John. James and Ezekiel. William Munro and wife were the first permanent settlers of Howard co. Mo., where they settled in 1807. Desire information on both Williams and Munro families. Where were they originally from ?- Mary Samuel, d of lockjaw, leaving large Twyman Klayder, Neodesha, Kansas. family: (6) Rebecca; (7) Elizabeth
Shackelfords-Am compiling book (8) Hester or Esther. ma. Ned Par- on Shackelfords and Shacklefords. All rish: (9) Agnes. married John Wolf; descendants of these families are re- (10) Nancy; (11) Henry, said to
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have died unmarried during the Rev- er to Overton co. Tenn. They hat olution .- L. B. Russell, Comanche, twelve children, viz: Joseph, Jr. El. Texas.
Shelton-My mother, Mary Shel -- ton, of N. C., was b. 1850. Her par- ents died when she was very young and she was bound out. She had 2 bros. Leroy and Isaac, and one sis. Rachael. My grandmother was
Sarah Copeland: Samuel m. Poly Kitehner; Lydia, b. 1760 m. Abraham Howard; Benjamin m. Sarah Davis and Polly Mayfield, David, m. Rhoda Pitts and Sarah Lee; John. m. Eliza- beth Norris; William b. 1768 m.
Elizabeth Van Hooser and Rebecca Lewilyn; Jessie m. Jemmie Swallow : Nancy; Patsy (Margare ) m. Jamos Dotson; Elizabeth m. John Raney;
a Cherokee Indian, but I do not know her name. Any information regard- ing the above family will be greatly appreciated .- Cordelia G. Butler, R-2 Sarah m. James Mathews. Any intui- Box 243, Tuscon, Ariz.
mation regarding any of these will be Stewart-Gilbert-Want parentage and place of birth of Joseph and Sarah (Gilbert) Stewart (b. ca. 1725) appreciatedi. Also desire information on the Van Hooser and Wilhelm families .- Mary E. S. Hanks, Loa. of Yadkin co. N. C. They moved lat- Wayne co., Utah.
1832
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LATE NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST
Federal participation in a pageant er in his memory in the open air and celebration in 1984 of the 350.h anniversary of the birth of the first white child in America is practical- ly assured after a conference August 13-15 between officials of the Roa- noke Island Histori.al association and a congressional delegation. After the tais of the Confederacy.
Westminster Abbey of the South at Calvary church, near Fletcher, on Sunday afternoon, October 9th. The impressive program preceding unveiling of the handsome mark ! was in charge of the United Daugh-
discussion, participated in by W. C. Sanders, of Elizabeth City, president A marker honoring the memory of of the Association. and Senator Col. Asbury Coward, who was com- Joseph Robinson and Representative mandant of old King's Mountain Mili- Sol Bloom, of New York and Lind- tary academy, at York. S. C., befor. say Warren. of North Carolina, the the Way Between the States, was un- congressional commission announced veied on Kings Mountain battle it would make a favorable report on ground October 7th. A celebration the plan. The congressional Roanoke commemorating the 152nd anniver- Island commission was appointed to sary of the battle was also held at tie ana time and Maj. Gen. John M.
investigate the advisability of feder- al participation. Included in the plans Jenkins, U. S. A., retired, was the for the 350th celebration are projects
principal speaker. The marker to calling for clearing the grounds and Col. Coward has been placed on tr .. providing water sewer connections famous Revolutionary battlefield be- cause of the fact that he served as chairman of the great centennial for Fort Raleigh, and construction of a monument from ballast thrown out when America's first white settlers celebration in 1880, and he was in- lightened their ship for the shallow water. These rocks still lie by the nition for the field and the importance ten in surrounding waters.
trimertal in gaining national recog- of the battle between colonists and Lord Corwnwallis' men that occur- red there.
On September 2nd a huge granite boulder was unveiled at the grave of Major Francis McCorkle. Revolution- The unveiling of eight tablets in ary soldier, two miles from Denver, Memorial hall to famous sons of the University and addresses made by various members of the faculty to Numini groups throughout the state featured the. 137th anniversary of Founders' day at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 12. The tablets unveiled are as foi- lows: Edwin Anderson Alderman. '82: Marvin Hendrix Stacy, 02; Rich- ard Henry Lewis, '70; Kerr Craig. '11 (matriculated first in 1863, but went to war and returned to grad- vat- in 1911) ; Henry Ravenscraft in Catawba county. The stone also marks the last resting place of Ma- jor McCorkle's wife, Elizabeth Bran- don. The occasion was also the annual reunion of the descendants of Major McCorkle. Judge Wilson Warlick, of Newton, was the principal speaker. Rev. W. L. Sherrill presided during the ceremony. Members of various S. A. R. and D. A. R. chapters Wote represented at the meeting. Major McCorkle was born in 1742 and di.d in 1802. He was a member of the Rowan County Committee of Safety. Bryan, '56; John Washington. Graham He participated in the battles 01 Pamsour's Mill. Kings Mountain. Commars and Torrence Tavern. dur- ing the Revolution.
Matthew Fontaine Maury, author of Maury's Geography and noted Southern authority on the sea dur- ing the War Between the States, was honored with the unveiling of a mark-
'57; George McNeill Rose, '67; Charl- es Manly, 1814. The principal speak- ers were Dr. M. C. S. Noble, dean of the school of education; and Walter Murphy.
The William Cromartie memorial stone was dedicated at South River Presbyterian church. near Elizabeth- town, on August 25th.
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BOOK NOTES
"The Upper Tennessee."
A delightful little volume of sketch- es pertaining to the navigation and river operations in the Tennessee Valley from Florence, Ala., eastward and northward, over a period of 150 years or more. The author gives sketches of a calling which has almost given away to the more modern modes of transportation, and thus preserves for posterity "an actual record of the incidents in the development of one of America's chief agencies of win- ning the frontier." The chi-f value of the publication lies in the fact that it is written by one who is familiar with the subject on which he writes. and presents that subject in a pic-
records much history that is not found in textbooks or
Mr. Campbell has evidently
sometime in research work. prepara-
In compiling the Roster Pierce's tory to publishing the sketches. In- and Heitman's Registers were ouilleu. cluded are more than fifty pen and and a list of the Continental Line camera pictures of beloved old pack- reprinted. The Revolutionary army ets and of the heroic men who operat- ed them. Copies may be secured at $2.00 each from the author, T. J. names. The North Carolina pension Campbell, 555 Hiawassee Avenue, accounts and military land warrants supplied many hundreds of other rolls of 1835. copied from the War Knoxville, Tenn. Discount to libraries Department records, and the heirs of
"Roster of Soldiers From No.th
Carolina in the American Revolution."
In 1851 the Adjutant General of the state published a roster of the sible to students and research work- North Carolina Soldiers in the War ers. of 1812. The rosters of the North
Carolina troops in the War Between yellowed manuscripts made some of the names illegible, necessitating their omission; also that time did not permit the searching of private records over the state for additional names that do not appear in public records.
the States was compiled by Maj. John W. Moore, and published in four vol- umes in 1882. A generation later the Adjutant General's office issued a list of the state's soldiers in the War with Spain. However, it remained for the North Carolina Society. Daughters of the American Rev la- tion, to fill a long felt need in bring- ing forth a roster of the state's col- diers in the Revolution, and comp ete the recording of the names of North Carolina soldiers to the World Wa :.
J. A. Briggs, Mrs. R. T. Gowan and Birs. W. R .. Snow, have announced the publication of the Roster of Sul- Miers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. The roster is complete in one volume, and lave: nothing to be desired in tylo .. aphi- cal appearance, while the hin ing s the latest innovation of the craft. The volume consists of TUY pages. printed directly from type, on Had- rian Vellum, a.l rac paper. One chon- rand volumes, numbered and auto- graphed, were printed.
The roster is compiled from fed- eral. state and county records and miscellaneous sources, and liste ap- proximately 36,000 names, or 1 4.000 more than was estimated by Col. turesque and accurate manner, and Sam Ashe to have participated in te
Revolution. An index of ninety pages
elsewhere. adds much to the value of the volume spent as a source of reference.
An appendix of 150 pages gives miscellaneous records and lists ga h- ered from various sources. some of which have heretofore been inacces- soldiers who died in service, as ciai- mants for pensions, are printed.
The compilers regret that age of
In common with any work of this nature errors of commission ard om- ission may be expected. The compil- ers copy Heitman's assertior that Major John Walker (p. 49) was "aide de camp to George Washing- ton" and "died. Dec. 2. 1809". Walker never hold any higher rank than Ma- jor, was never an able to Washington
Mrs. R. Duke Hay. of Winston- Salem, historian of the State So -- L'ety, D. A. R., ably assisted by JLs, and died in Rutherford county 1508
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This game is confused with Hon. John making available this rich storehouse Walker, of Virginia. In the list of of Revolutionary records. They have "Kings Mountain Men" Congressman preserved much valuable material. Felix Walker is listed as an officer and have culled from formal reports (p.488) at Kings Mountain, despite
and musty documents the names of nis statement ( Memoirs) that he was hundreds of North Carolina soldiers not at Kings Mountain. He was from whose names would have otherwise never been known to the public. Rutherford county instead of Gas- ton. The list on page 487 showing Copies of the roster may be se- cured from Mrs. R. Duke Hay, Box 1140, Winston-Salem, N. C. Price $6.30 per volume. Rutherford county soldiers, as copied from the county court minutes, could have been extended to cover a page or more if the compiler had menced with the 1818 docket. there- "The Ratification of The Federal Constitution in North Carolina." by adding several names not appear- ing elsewhere in the volume. Though doubtless many of the other counties suffer from a like omission.
One of the most interesting stu- dies of the state's post Revolution-
The volume fills such need in its ary war period published in some timc field that no criticism should be made is "The Ratification of The Federal or errors of it for any omissions
Constitution in North Carolina" by therein. Collecting and editing the Mrs. Louise Irhy Trenholme (Colum- material must have been a Herculean bia University Press, $4.25) Mrs. task indeed. The source material Trenholme was formerly a profes- from which the volume was compiled sor of history in the North Carolina was scattered, making the project
College for Women and is now with doubly difficult. Students of North the University of Missouri.
Carolina history owe a debt of grati- In her consideration of North tude to these intrepid compilers for Carolina's part in the adoption of
THE HISTORY OF PERQUIMANS COUNTY By MRS. ELLEN GOODE WINSLOW
An arrangement of the early records never before in print. Abstracts of Deeds: early settlers with their migration to Per- quimans county, N. C .; Land Grants and where located. Re- ligion and places of worship. Marriage Bonds. Quaker mar- riages. Families in detail according to records in the county. Divisions of estates. Map of Original holdings and present day map, made by an authentic surveyor. Well indexed. Compiled by the author after ten years of hard research, at much ex- pense. Price $10.00 net, at the publishers
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he Federal Constitution. Mrs. Tren- of Perquimans county. while the re- .. oime shows how this state's reluc. mainder of the book contains ab- tance to join had its influence in the haping of the first ten amendments. he also considers in detail the causes for the state's refusal to join at the beginning-the dislike for too cer- cal a government. conflicting politi- cal interests, sectional divisions in stracts of deeds, divisions of real es- tate, marriages, county pofficials, etc., with a hundred or more pages on the leading families of that county. Two maps add much to the usefulness of the book. Those interested in genea- logy of that particular county will
he state, and the influence of re- "gious factions represented by the find that this volume offers about all Rep:ists and Presbyterians on the one that may be desired in that line. ide and the Episcopalians on the ther.
The first novel of Paul Green, as- The defects of the Articles of Con- scciate professor of philosophy in the federation were evident to the North University of North Carolina, is just Carolina leaders prior to their pro- mulgation, and were also responsi- ble in part for the state's reluctance in joining. This is one of the Colum- bia University Studies and may be scoured from the University for $1.25 from press. This book is "The Laugh- ing Pioneer," and was printed by Robert McBride Co. Leaving out of consideration any state or local pride we may take in his work. any fair- minded critic must agree that it is an interesting worth-while tale, well-
The fall publications of the Uni- told and well worth the telling. Green versity of North Carolina Press in- knows well the section in which the c'ude "John Sevier; A Pioneer of the story moves, for he has himself been Old Southwest" by Carl S. Driver; to the manor born in that eastern "The Era of Muckrakers" by C. C. Piedmont region that. drops towards Regier; "Liberalism in the South," by Virginius Dabney; "Sidney Lan- North Carolina. The poor white, the ier"' by Aubrey H. Starke.
the Atlantic from the central part of decaying and fading aristo.rat. the Stanley Olmsted. native of Mur- phy, announces the completion of his ner; book "Home-Spun," which will be released soon. His book "At Top of Tobin," published several years agr, a story of mountain life and type, is now prescribed in fiction courses of several universities negroes in their cabins,-all these are known by a hundred living char- acers that he can easily name. The changing times when old things pass away and all things become new .in an agricultural and industrial sense are familiar because he has lived his days as witness to these very things. He has the wisdom to try to tell us of the things that he feels Among the growing list of county he best knows. As yet, he is no histories comes Mrs. Watson Win- "word artist," no painter of pic- s'ow's "History of Perquimans Coun- tures that hold by their very charm. ty," a volume of 488 pages, with two but he can tell a tale in a manner excellent indexes. one general and that holds the reader, and keeps at- another to the abstract of deeds. The tention fixed upon the story rather fr.t 37 pages is a narrative history than upon the story teller.
N. C. HISTORICAL AND. GENEALOGICAL RECORD
ANSON COUNTY WILLS, 1748-1830 ABSTRACTED BY CLARENCE GRIFFIN
Armstrong, James, ex. May 11. 1760 to sons William, Mar tin, James. Joseph, Matthew, Benjamin; dau. Mary.
Auld. James. Ex. Dec. 0, 1780. Wife. Rosanna; sons, John Michael; dau. Ann, Mary, Elizabeth.
Auld. Michael. Ex. Sept. 17, 1789. Wife. Sedney; sons, John; sisters. Ann, Mary, Elizabeth: mother. Rosanna.
Adcock. Henry. Ex. July 26, 1802; prob. Oct. 1302. Wife, Susannah; sons, Thomas. John, Henry, James; dau. Eleanor. Alender, Nancy. Sarah Dawkins, Sapphira.
Allen. Drury, Ex. March 10, 1823. Wife Nelly, son Wil- liam and other children not named.
Adcock, Thomas, ex. April 8, 1823. Wife. Sarah; sons John. Thomas. Dau. Mary, Delila. Frances, Mourning, Bashabe. Matilda.
Blackford, Samuel. Ex. June 20, 1781; prob. Apr. 1785. Wife, . Rachael: sons. Matthew, Manning; dau. Keziah Andrews, Sarah, Ruth.
Bennett, James. Ex. Nov. 23. 1793: wife, not named; sons. John, James, Silas, Minard, William; dau. Ann. Elizabeth Susannah.
Blewet, William. Ex. June 15, 1790. Elizabeth, wife; sons .. Thomas, William, Eli, David, James, Morris; dau. Susannah. Ann; Thomas Watkins.
Baly (Bailey) Thomas. Ex. Oct. 7, 1799; prob. Oct. 1802. Wife Jenny; sons. William, John. James, Jacob: dau. Sally. Katie. Polly. Elizabeth Hildreth and Milly Plunkett.
Buchanan, Benjamin, Sr. Ex. Aug. 23. 1798; prob. Oct. 1798. Wife. Judah: sons, Benjamin, William, May, John. Henry; dau. Delphia, Mary Chapman, Judith Pace; Franci :
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Bumingham, Joshua. Ex. Nov. 3, 1814. prob. Jan. 1815. Wife, Elizabeth; sons, John. Samuel. Thomas, Joshua; dau. Lula. Patsy, Sally Hutchinson.
Boggan, Capt. Patrick. Ex. Oct. 12, 1801: prob. Apr. 1817: wife, Mary
Bivens, Nathaniel, Sr. Ex. May 9, 1816; prob. Apr. 1818, sons, Abel, William. John. Moses, Elijah, Stephen, Nathaniel ; dau. Sarah, Unity, Lyda.
Briley, George. Ex. Feb. 9. 1818; prob. Apr. 1818, sons. James, William. John: dau. Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah Diggs: grandchildren. Shadrack. Elizabeth and Sunmalah Briley, chil- dren of Samuel Briley, dec.
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