If you are doing an assignment, ask your professor which style to use. 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. 40,00015,000 B.C. As advocates increased representation for the Western part of North Carolina in state government, Charles Fisher urged support for Calhoun and Jackson through the newspaper The Western Carolinian, founded in 1820. Josiah was taken prisoner and marched to Quaker Meadows in Burke County. This list Both father and son made a junction with FERGUSON about seven days before the Battle of Kings Mountain. Your email address will not be published. This new fort was christened "Fort Royal." The records did indicate that Josiah had gone to school with one James DAVIDSON, son of William, so By 1710, the new sparsely settled province had a capital at Edenton. they were here in the mid 1700s. A year after purchase of the Wachovia Tract, a group of 15 men came south to begin the first settlement. Chapter II; The first European settlers. The 1796 Inferior Court Minutes of Burke County refer to it as "Samuel DAVIDSON's Fort." Judge Richard Henderson, founder of the Transylvania Company, along with Daniel Boone, began their explorations of the western lands that would become Tennessee and Kentucky right here in Rowan. Both papers were based in Salisbury and served the Western half of the state. 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. 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). On the completion of this last tour of duty, Josiah BRANDON returned home and married Rachel BROWN, daughter of Thomas. He died in May 1733 and did leave a will that is on file at the NC Archives, Raleigh. He served a year as pastor there. (accessed November 25, 2011). I see you left this comment months ago, but for some reason Im just now seeing it. The population was also among the most diverse with some estimates placing the German population as high as 30 percent. 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 Tripp family of South Pamlico is noted on the map. The earliest one I have found is David Cooper Sr born 1750 . I am a descendant of Jesse Adams who settled in Lewis Fork on the Yadkin River. 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. 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. Have you been to NC? He was listed in the NC Census in 1764. Our court records begin in June of 1753. Actually, settlers only had about two or three years after the peace with the Indians to obtain William CUNNINGHAM, who commanded a company of British soldiers and Tories in South Carolina. But if you have any history to give I would in deeply appreciate any help. James Miller from New Castle County, Delaware settled along Fifth Creek in Rowan County, NC. Rowan, the western frontier of the thriving American colony in the 1740s and 50s, continued to play an important roll as the nation developed. 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. Be cautious using ChatGPT for genealogy research. WebThe Genealogical Society of Rowan County was organized in February of 1987, and we received our charter in 1988. North Carolina through four centuries. WebMost of the early settlers fled eastward when the French and Indian War erupted, and it was only after peace returned in 1760 that migration resumed. The years after the Civil War saw slow growth in industry. WebOver four hundred years ago, English colonists trying to settle on Roanoke Island encountered many Native Americans along the coast. I am surprised that Russell isnt on the list. In 2015 we began a new annual tradition by hosting the Boys and Girls Club for a dinner and some dancing after. East Carolina University holds the only known original print of the Moseley Map in their incredible archives. 2016 John Locke Foundation | 200 West Morgan St., Raleigh, NC 27601, Voice: (919) 828-3876, //$i = get_field('photogallery2',get_the_ID()); 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. If you have a link about it, Id love to see it. Prisoners from the American Brig, Triumph, 1783. The provide much information about Josiah BRANDONs family, his war service and some information on his descendants. Thank you for this historic map! 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. if joining a relative, who this person was, where they lived, and their relationship. Rev. Robert Tripp b.1722 d. 1800 moved from Providence RI to Core Point, Durhams Creek, Beaufort, NC. Is one of them yours? An old cotton mill near the railroad line proved to be a splendid location. These newcomers included a variety of ethnic and religious groups, including Quakers, German Lutherans, German Moravians, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and Baptists. 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. We also try to do a couple of demonstrations each year to help raise awareness, interest, and participation in the activity we all enjoy. All pre-Revolutionary militia officers fought at Kings Mountain on the patriot side. In the course of this search. He owned 560 acres and died prior to October 21, 1761 when his farm was sold at auction. title to the vacant land in the area encompassed by old Burke County. Happy to see the Perrys and Slades of our family listed. From: Britt, Morris F. Appendices to Implosion: A history of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina. number + 1900 : number; } 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. Learn more. 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. The Club has an annual membership drive every September (usually the second and third Thursdays after Labour Day). 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. 2-South shore of Albemarle Sound: Whitemarsh, Pollock[C], Buncomb[J], Frilie, Lee[S], Lee, Cooper, 1-Along the Meherrin and Chowan Rivers to Albemarle Sound:Allen [E], Pitman, Kirchin, Anderson, Jackson, Gee, Bryan, Nansemond, Dew, Powers, Williams [A],Bond [J], Jones, Cotton [J], Hill [B], Baker, Barfields, Baker [H], Williams, Hains, Forster [R], Maule [W],Winn [G], Boone, Bryan [F], Hill [J], Pollack [T], Lovick [J], Pollock [G], 2-Albemarle Sound [west shore] between Chowan and Roanoke Rivers:Duckinfield [N], laccuck, Lockart [J], Henderson [D], West [R]. While there is evidence of land grants in old Burke County as early as 1751, it should be remembered that the French and Indian War drove most of the white settlers out of this area. This Category Description Date 1953 Extent Local Identifier G3903.R8E27 1953 .R46 Creator(s) Rendleman, D. A. Instead, just read the list, as many spellings of surnames are different than the conventionally used spellings. The only attack of Fort Dobbs occurred on February 26, 1760: Waddell and his company repelled approximately seventy Cherokee. Entered 28 Sep 1779 & surveyed 27 Jun 1791 -"beginning near where Henry MORGAN lives.." Grant #1562 in Book 80, p. 43. They also eat small game and wild plants. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); Some of these gifts are still treasured in Organ Church. If they were here prior to the War of Independence, then it might be worthwhile to check the Moseley Map for their names, or at least their surnames. 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. Authors: North Carolina. Widows and children were allowed to receive payments due the pensioner that had not been paid before his death. These could be from the German region as you stated. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Their journey began on October 8, 1753, in Galloping Horses & Locked Wagons Across the New Bridge Rowan County, NC 1825. Davidson College owes much of its stature to the men of Rowan who founded and supported it, among them Maxwell Chambers. File #571. document.write(' Rowan County NCGenWeb Project - All Rights Reserved. During the late 17th century, settlement in North Carolina proceeded from Virginia migration, first into the Albemarle region, then into the Pamlico district. 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. The term palatine could also be in reference to people living on the lands of these landholders. The Consistory of Hanover commissioned Reverend Adolph Nussman as pastor and Professor John Gottfried Arndt of Helmstaedt University as teacher, and the two men accompanied the frontier representatives back to North Carolina, arriving in 1773. An old cotton mill near the railroad line proved to be a [Arey] Eary, Freeman and Pat Eary. 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. (Hunt and Titus were married to Smith's nieces.) [E] PERQUIMANS PRECINCT between Yaupin and Pequimans Rivers: Sturgeons, Durant, Norcomb, Harvey [T], Denman [C], Skinner [R], Sander, Pettiver, Phelps, Speight. The German settlers arrived a few years later establishing communities in the south eastern portion of the county. [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. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. From the small but vital academies like Crowfield and the Female Academy to the Freedmans School funded by the Friends Philadelphia Freedmans Aid Society, the Crescent and later Livingstone and Catawba Colleges, education remained vital. Davidson, 1983. Iredell County. William S. Powell, ed. His son, John Hardison was a delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress. In the early part of the next Spring in 1777 and continuing until the Spring of 1779, he served under Capt. The sale is at the N.C. WebEarly Lumbee settlers in Robeson (Bladen)*. All Rights Reserved. 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. Fort Dobbs was abandoned after the war in 1766. Required fields are marked *. 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 COVID has affected our club activities as it has most everything else. Some things are not up and running yet as before (for example, the Square Time publication is only on-line at present). We require proof of at least three vaccinations and, though not mandatory, we encourage dancers to wear masks for the time being. 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. 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. 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. , RootsWeb is funded and supported by WebOn May 16, 1763, Henry McCulloch granted Barnard Troxell 732 acres in Orange/Alamance County, North Carolina. 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. Most require similar information, but the formats vary. 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. Hi Kenneth! Label vector designed by Ibrandify - Freepik.com, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. WebIn 1790, there were 1,742 slaves in 2,432 families in Rowan County. Plank roads were later abandoned in lieu of railroads. But, fortunately, Pastor Storch clears the matter for us in a letter which he wrote to Dr. Velthusen, December 19, 1791, in which he says: 'The congregation of the Organ Church will erect a new building next summer, and to be specific, it will be a stone church.' The information included in this section was contributed by Brian ebiner (at) aol.com. III; Organization, boundary, &c. Chapter IV; The first court; The Cooperative Extension, Rowan County Center, 2727 Old Concord Road 8:30 a.m.-Noon. He is presently employed by the Clinical Chemistry Branch of the North Carolina Public Health Laboratory. and all the other participants were Americans. 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. http://www.co.iredell.nc.us/about.asp, (accessed November 25, 2011). Entered 3 Aug 1778 & surveyed 6 Aug 1778 - extending up Newberrys forke and joining McCAFFERTYs place.." Grant #33 in Book 28. p. 33. possible in Jersey settlement area Rowan co bout 1768. but most of the records refer to it as the Upper Fort. FERGUSONs insulting presence had already stirred the patriotic frontiersmen in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, and some 900 of them, carrying their own rations and rifles, were in pursuit. She is buried in Franklinton Community Cemetery. Slabs of rough hewn stone 12 to 15 feet in length solidly enclose the resting place of these pioneers. As land grew scarce in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia after 1730, migrants trekked down the Great Wagon road which began near Philadelphia and extended southwestward to the Shenandoah Valley before veering east into the North and South Carolina Piedmont. If you know something about this item or would like to request additional information, click here. document.write('©' ); 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. Orr, Douglas Milton, and Alfred W. Stuart. 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 Some 700surviving Loyalists surrendered, some 320 of the British force being casualties. By 1770, and possibly earlier. East Carolina University. WebThe Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve was founded in 1879 to preserve the regions early history. Friends I bid you farewell for I am started to the warm country. He lived on the Little River, and was on the Assembly and was Court Clerk for quite a few years.
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