File #69. Here lie ancestors of many of the present citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus Counties: Barger, Barnhardt, Basinger, Beaver, Bost, Bostian, Boger, Castor, Cline, Cruse, Deal, Drehers, Eddleman, Eller, Fesperman, Fischer, Foil, Foutz, Graeber, Goodman, Heilig, Hipps, House, Holshouser, Isenhour, Josey, Ketner, Ketchey, Klutz, Krimminger, Lentz, Lippard, Linn, Ludwig, Misenheimer, Miller, Overcash, Peeler, Pless, Propst, Rhyne, Roseman, Safrit, Seifert, Shive, Sides, Shue, Shuping, Storch, Stirewalt, Troutman, Winsil, Wilhelm, Whitener, and Yost. WebIn May of 1861, North Carolina seceded from the Union and the Confederacy sought a site in Rowan for a military prison. Although we have referred to the British forces versus American patriots in this engagement, only FERGUSON was a British soldier. He moved to North Carolina about 1749 and settled on the headwaters of Rocky River in Anson (now Iredell) County. Then as to its completion, we read from another letter by Pastor Storch, dated February 25, 1796, the following: 'The stone church of my congregation on Second Creek was completed last autumn and will be consecrated on Easter of the year. If you are doing an assignment, ask your professor which style to use. Rev. 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] Our membership is quite varied in ages and abilities with everyone enjoying the fun and friendships that are offered. He was a planter in Jamesville, NC. If i can assist let me I am in Va. Beach area. The Ole Time Fiddlers and Bluegrass Festival and the National Balloon Rally are two cultural events held year-round in Iredell County. Does anyone know if descendants of Edward Moseley ended up in South Carolina? BRANDONs first name from existing records. Names were Best and Sawyer and others. SUMPTER enlisted the help of able-bodied men to assemble at the Upper Fort. County The Americans apparently surprised the British and opened an irregular but withering fire on FERGUSON's position. against the British camp. Who was Caroline married to cuz? Encyclopedia of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC 2006). GEOGE DAVIDSON JR File #1825. How early were your ancestors in North Carolina? Today, farmers in present-day Iredell County raise many different types of livestock, but the county is most well-known for its stock of breeder chickens. In August of 1860 Fisher had completed the railroad up to 13 miles east of Morganton. Because of his keen interest in North Carolina history and genealogy, he spends most of his spare time in researching at the N.C. State Archives. Your email address will not be published. Looking for Chaplain/Chaplins in the Currituck Co. area. 1 William Doub Bennett of Rocky Mount and Raleigh has been involved in genealogical research for nearly 55 years. You may do research in immigration records in person at the National Archives Building, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408-0001. The origins of North Carolinas 18th-century newcomers varied widely. All these plants and more will be available at the Extension Master Gardener of Rowan County Plant Sale on May 6, 2023. The rivers of the Piedmont flowed into the South Carolina colony and that is the route commerce and communication followed as well. Columbia S> (actually in Richland county near St ANdrews road. WebOn May 16, 1763, Henry McCulloch granted Barnard Troxell 732 acres in Orange/Alamance County, North Carolina. would the last names of mallican or millican be also milliken. He served a year as pastor there. Is one of them yours? Chapter I; The Aborigines. 26 Jun 1761), who lived and married in Burke County until after 1800 when he removed to Tennessee. 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. East Carolina University holds the only known original print of the Moseley Map in their incredible archives. Who were the Palatine families referenced on the Moseley Map? From an analysis of the tract map I had drawn, it was obvious that the above entry description of Charles McDOWELL regarding the improvements that Thomas BRANDON lived on referred to the missing BRANDON tract, land on which Josiah BRANDON lived as a boy. An old cotton mill near the railroad line proved to be a splendid location. Dr. Britt has specified the following usage limitations: Not to be reprinted for publication without written consent of the author. Expression Web Tutorials & Templates. Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter (Salisbury, N.C.) Daughters 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. Im glad I found this. Recently. East Carolina University Digital Collections. Most of my mothers people were from Tidewater Virginia, and seemed to have skipped North Carolina and settled in South Carolina, before moving into Georgia. Obviously, Brandon could not have been with Walker at the fort for three months if Walker was near Kings Mountain in October and at Blackstocks in November and at Cowpens in January, 1781. Samuel and Margaret Blythe had 4 sons and daughters who were baptized at the first Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between the years 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. In 1772, the road overseer was responsible for the road from Linville River (some 80 miles west of Salisbury) west to the present town of Old Fort (earlier Upper Fort site). File #33. Expense Account, Rowan County, NC 1790. The sale is at the N.C. [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. He is presently employed by the Clinical Chemistry Branch of the North Carolina Public Health Laboratory. His close acquaintances were knowledgeable of his patriot and Loyalist experiences, but him, the stigma of serving as a Tory with his father, followed hin throughout his life. Actually, Brandon served under Walker at the fort in the fall of 1781 - a year after Kings Mountain. The primary benefit of the county was to provide a location for a court house nearer than that of Anson to those colonists in the Western part of the state. Mailing address: 415 Bickett Blvd., Raleigh, N. C. 27608. A deed dated Jan. 27, 1763 by Henry McCulloch, Esq. In May of 1861, North Carolina seceded from the Union and the Confederacy sought a site in Rowan for a military prison. Deeds can occasionally provide parentage for one or two generations, and court minutes can supply brief clues or facts over a wide range of record categories. North Carolina American Indian History Timeline Care upon us.. killed and Took every Soul and So My Dear and all the other participants were Americans. The population was also among the most diverse with some estimates placing the German population as high as 30 percent. Any leads appreciated. By 1710, the new sparsely settled province had a capital at Edenton. 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. 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. Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2005; Revised October, 2022. Continuing into the 20th century Rowan was the home of renowned educator and womens rights activist Elizabeth Duncan Koontz. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, Presbyterian minister and educator was president and teacher of the Salisbury Academy in the early 1790s. WebRowan Countys most popular and historic landmark has remained the Old Stone House. Did you know that only 3% of the American people fall in that 3%? THOMAS HEMPH1LL. Friends I bid you farewell for I am started to the warm country. WebOver four hundred years ago, English colonists trying to settle on Roanoke Island encountered many Native Americans along the coast. GEORGE DAVIDSON. Guide to tract map of land along the Catawba River from Old Fort to Pleasant Gardens. Both father and son made a junction with FERGUSON about seven days before the Battle of Kings Mountain. of North Carolina In relating this story, TWITTY was quoting a John WITHROW, who was repeating a story told by John WITHROWs father, James WITHROW, brother-in-law of John BRANDON. Instead, just read the list, as many spellings of surnames are different than the conventionally used spellings. On the back side of this scrap Charles McDOWELL had written an entry of land for himself (#33 on tract map): one hundred acres of land between the lower line of George DAVIDSONs place and the upper line of James GREENLEEs land he bought of Thomas BROWN on both sides of the Catawba River - Including the improvements that Thomas BRANDON lived on (Underlining by author for emphasis). Native American Settlement of NC | NCpedia Im descended from Gidaon Moseley of Aiken SC. WebOn 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. //dump($i); 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. Is there any Thomas Dixon or Dickson family living there in the early 1700s. i believe some of the tripps family moved down to anderson sc. There is a publication called Square Time that dancers can subscribe to. The survey made in 1783, referred to his river boundary as following the line of the widow BRANDON. A search of all BRANDON grants showed that none were on the Catawba River, so I began to look for some documentary evidence to this BRANDON tract across from Benjamin COCHRANs Possibly Tyrell, Currituck, Hyde or surrounding counties. Thank you! Entered 21 Apr 1790 & surveyed 9 Apr 1791. Required fields are marked *. Major McDOWELL saw, recognized and pardoned the unfortunate youth who had been active in the patriot cause for 3 years, and then had been coerced to fighting for the Loyalists by his father. He was in several skirmishes among which was that at Blackstock's mill, it reads. She is buried in Franklinton Community Cemetery. A Division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. The origins of North Carolinas 18th-century newcomers varied widely. The Granville Land Office closed in March 1763 with the death of John CARTERET, Lord Granville. The matter was taken up with Governor Tryon, who commissioned two men, Christopher Rintelmann of Zion and Christopher Layerly of St. John's, to go to the old country. BRANDON, was the son of George BRANDON (d. 1772) and was the eldes son, John. But if you have any history to give I would in deeply appreciate any help. Farming as well as tobacco and cotton factories were predominant in the 1880s. I found a grant entered in 1778 by Benjamin COCHRAN for land where Richard TIDWELL had lived. I find it kind of interesting that Thomas Week(e)s was a keeper of the land titles early on, but his name doesnt appear on the survey. This page has been viewed 36,125 times (0 via redirect). The earliest pre-statehood settlers of North Carolina were generally of English descent and came from Virginia and South Carolina to the Coastal Plain region, Other intriguing characters in Rowans history include Peter Stewart Ney, Otto Wood, Theo Buerbaum, Elizabeth Dole, Sydney Blackmer, Skinnay Ennes, and Bobby Jackson. 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. A history of Rowan County, North Carolina : Rumple, Jethro; Daughters of the American Revolution. In the middle of the nineteenth century the railroad initiated major economic growth in Iredell County. 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. Genealogy Web Creations - All Rights Reserved, Template Design: Chap. The North Union Shakers constitute an important early regional [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. The Moseley Map was created in 1733 by Edward Moseley (1682-1749), who was Surveyor General of North Carolina from 1710 just after the famous John Lawson and was marketed at the time as A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina.. James Miller from New Castle County, Delaware settled along Fifth Creek in Rowan County, NC. Galloping Horses & Locked Wagons Across the New Bridge Rowan County, NC 1825. Serving as a light horse force and reinforced by Major SINGLETON of Rutherford County, N.C., McDOWELLs volunteers destroyed several Indian towns, including Stecoa, and BRANDON was discharged His daughter, Frances Fisher Tiernan, better known as writer Christian Reid, later penned the epitaph of North Carolina, the Land of Sky. Originally named Zion, the name was changed out of pride in a pipe organ built by hand by one, John Stirewalt, a member of the congregation. East Carolina University. The Tripp family of South Pamlico is noted on the map. Our court records begin in June of 1753. Accordingly, Rintelmann and Layerly set out on horseback with their credentials and rode to the port of Charleston where they sailed for England. North Carolina through four centuries. Rowan was home to Civil War Colonel Charles F. Fisher, for whom Fort Fisher is named and who perished on the field at Manassas. Josiah was taken prisoner and marched to Quaker Meadows in Burke County. Were planning and looking forward to the next Boys and Girls Club dinner/dance. Next I turned to the file of loose land papers filed at the Archives, and found what apparently had been a scrap used by the Court Clerk to note an order of appointment of a road overseer for later recording in the minute book. There are early land deeds for Bullens. I believe my family lived in Rutherford county and farms cotton, tobacco and rised cows there. 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. The North Carolina atlas: portrait for a new century. Settlers from Virginia and Pennsylvania who were of the Quaker religion came from the New Garden and other meetings in Guilford County, North Carolina. My dads side of the family owns land over at Core Point, and in fact, the Tripp Cemetery is at the end of Down Shore Road (where they own property). The task began, and after some hours of looking at available records, it was discovered that none of these showed any of the BRANDONs as being sympathetic to the British. Spruce Macay, attorney and judge, taught William R. Davie and Andrew Jackson both instrumental in the early years of our republic. Settling primarily in the Piedmont, they contrasted with the mostly English and African coastal areas and, in fact, had little contact with those areas. Black Genealogy from Antebellum Bible Records. Rowan, the western frontier of the thriving American colony in the 1740s and 50s, continued to play an important roll as the nation developed. As a result, the pension allowance was withheld, but later restored as evidence was produced to vindicate Josiah BRANDON. In trying to find out where he came from a tax record states that he was a son of William Adams Sr. and lived on Williams plantation for a while. The descendants of these early Germans have had a solid influence in Rowan and Cabarrus Counties. GEORGE DAVIDSON, SR. File#1591. The Catawba and Cherokee lived in present-Iredell before war and disease, carried by Europeans, drove them away from the land. This page was last edited on 6 December 2022, at 00:48. 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. Their efforts drove CUNNINGHAM to take shelter with British Lord RANDON's forces at the fortifications at Ninety Six. Since the colony of North Carolina was ruled by England's George III, the two men were instructed to go to London and apply through the German Lutheran Chapel of St. James for men native to the Consistory of Hanover in Germany. This situation confronts many researchers today as something of a "no-man's land." of the Jersey Settlement I have been striking out everywhere I have looked. From church documents, written in German, we have the names of the men who planned this durable structure, Georg Ludwig Siffert (the English name is George Lewis Sifford), Wendel Miller, Peter Edelmann (Eddleman), Johannes Steigerwalt (John Stirewalt), Philip Gruss (Philip Cruse), Peter Steigerwalt (Stirewalt), Michael Guthmann (Goodman), Christoph Bless (Christopher Pless), Leonhard Siffert (Sifford), Jacob Klein (Cline), Anton J. Kuhn (Anthony J. Koon), Georg Heinrich Berger (George Henry Barger), Christoph Guthmann (Christopher Goodman), Johannes Rintelmann (John Rendleman), Johannes Eckel (John Eagle), Bastian Lenz (Bostian Lentz), Jacob Benz (Bentz), George Eckel (George Eagle), Franz Oberkirsch (Francis Overcash), Johannes Jose (John Josey), Heinrich Wenzel (Henry). BENJAMIN DAVIDSON. He owned 560 acres and died prior to October 21, 1761 when his farm was sold at auction. Brandon claims he was with Walker at the time Cornwallis surrendered, which was October 1781, not October 1780. but his name was only given as Captain BRANDON! Avenues of Early Settlement. to Jacob Zinck, Rowan County, NC was the beginning of the Sink roots in what is now Davidson County. Davidson College owes much of its stature to the men of Rowan who founded and supported it, among them Maxwell Chambers. Shows settlements, inhabitants, soil conditions, rivers, and principal products, with insets showing Port Brunswick or Cape Fear Harbour, Port Beaufort or Topsail Inlet, Ocacock [Ocracoke] Inlet, Explanation, and Directions for Ocacock [Ocracoke] Inlet. DAVIDSON three more tours of three months each. With over 520 miles of shoreline in Iredell County, Lake Norman remains the most popular tourist attraction and physical trait of the region. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. Richard Sanderson is my 8X grandfather. The Advertizing and Publicity persons are Doug & Gloria Bateman. In April of 1753 a petition bearing 348 names from the inhabitants of the western section of the Colony of North Carolina requested that a new county be formed. During the late 17th century, settlement in North Carolina proceeded from Virginia migration, first into the Albemarle region, then into the Pamlico district. Paleo-Indian-period American Indians are nomadic and hunt large animals for food. County 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. South Carolinians moved north into the Lower Cape Fear region to establish pine plantations with enslaved African labor. Lord Granvilles land was north of the current Rowan County southern boundary and at its eastern end included two-thirds of what is now Guilford County. Entered 28 Sep 1779 & surveyed 27 Jun 1791 -"beginning near where Henry MORGAN lives.." Grant #1562 in Book 80, p. 43. George CUNNINGHAM, who had replaced DAVIDSON that Spring. Marriage records provide names of brides, grooms and dates; census schedules give approximate ages (and much more beginning with that of 1850); and tax records indicate the land owned, the general area of residence, and sometimes gives clues to approximate age brackets of those taxed. land ownership of some of the residents in the area at that time. Ive got all of the links right here. Judge Richard Henderson, founder of the Transylvania Company and a colonial judge, along with, Daniel Boone, began their explorations of the western lands that would become Tennessee and Kentucky right here in Rowan around the year 1775. I am Sheri Greenmost Green lines actually settled in Western NC but due to work ie Farming many moved to the coast. Entered 10 Sep 1778 & surveyed 6 Aug 1779 - including a meadow it being the same land entered and surveyed Andrew WADS (WOODS) and John NISBIT.. Grant #242 in Book 28, p. 241.