My great great great grand fathers were Hatteras Indian. I would like to know more about the Hatteras Indian reservation and its location. Where? Description Date 1953 Extent Local Identifier G3903.R8E27 1953 .R46 Creator(s) Rendleman, D. A. 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. Few of the legal transactions about this period appeared in the extant Rowan County records, one probable cause being the isolation of the area from the county seat at Salisbury. His daughter, Frances Fisher Tiernan, better known as writer Christian Reid, later penned the epitaph of North Carolina, the Land of Sky. I checked the entries, warrants and surveys to over 2,000 land grants and all entries in the Entry Book or Burke County (the latter filed in the N.C. State Archives) through the year 1800, and pieced together a tract map along the Catawba River from above Old Fort (Upper Fort site during the Revolution) to below Pleasant Gardens. WebGerman pioneer settlers, lower Rowan County by D.A. 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. My side of the family were from these same places. By then Arndt, the teacher, had become qualified to be ordained. and made homes for themselves in western North Carolina. Elizabeth Maxwell Steel restored hope to General Nathanael Greene by supplying money to the Patriot Cause. A small diary was found later with a 7 October notation: "The cursed rebels! land ownership of some of the residents in the area at that time. 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). WebThese earliest settlements were along the Haw and Yadkin rivers. This list im looking for information on Leonard Hain, Haines, Hains family. Is one of them yours? The Cherokee inhabited the early region of what is now present-day Macon County. The Western North Carolina, constructed in 1858, and the Atlantic, Tennessee, and Ohio Railroad all crossed through Iredell in the late nineteenth century. Though said Samuel lived near this fort during the Revolution, he supposedly moved downstream to John McDOWELL's Swan Pond tract area. While there was little ownership of land prior to 1778, and there would be even less in the way of confiscated property of Tories, I had noticed that many of the land grants gave the name of the previous occupant. 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! His drawing at Salisbury Confederate Prison is the first drawing ever of a baseball game in America. GEORGE DAVIDSON. Have you been to NC? Many with ties to early Rowan were instrumental in the creation of the University of North Carolina as well. File #68. Josiah was taken prisoner and marched to Quaker Meadows in Burke County. FERGUSON nad a small body of British regulars and a larger Loyalist force under his command. He first settled on Crooked Creek above his former home, and later settled above the fort on Newberry Fork. they were here in the mid 1700s. 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. The family cemetery is located along the Pamlico. 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. These newcomers included a variety of ethnic and religious groups, including Quakers, German Lutherans, German Moravians, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and Baptists. The change generated a land bonanza in the colony as the Crown eased land purchase requirements and sent out the equivalent of real estate agents to drum up business. Their work, and the encouragement of royal governors, touched off a boom in North Carolina that lasted from 1730 to the American Revolution. 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. 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 would the last names of mallican or millican be also milliken. 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. 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. Please let us know if you have concerns, suggestions or questions. 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. Avenues of Early Settlement. This situation confronts many researchers today as something of a "no-man's land." Im not familiar with the history about this and Ive tried to look it up, but everything Im seeing about Russellborough says it was founded by Capt. If you know something about this item or would like to request additional information, click here. Benjamin stayed at Boonesborough until he lost his land claims in 1778. Unfortunately, he delayed too long in obtaining a survey of this land, and the Granville Land Office was closed by the time the survey arrived there. Im always up for learning something new. Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved by He was in several skirmishes among which was that at Blackstock's mill, it reads. the idea of plotting DAVIDSON and BRANDON land holdings developed as a means of determining who were close neighbors. The earliest one I have found is David Cooper Sr born 1750 . Genealogy Web Creations - All Rights Reserved, Template Design: The origins of North Carolinas 18th-century newcomers varied widely. Iredell County. William S. Powell, ed. There, under the command of a Capt. Records indicated that Josiah had served several tours with the American patriot forces in his teens, and his father was a Captain in the Loyalist militia. I am a descendant of Jesse Adams who settled in Lewis Fork on the Yadkin River. Query: Is Pheriba Henby the daughter of Elisha Henby (son of Thomas Henby & Clarkey Parker)? When did they come to NC and from where. Thank you! Samuel DAVIDSON at Davidson's Fort, whose location today is the subject of speculation. I have been striking out everywhere I have looked. From the Civil War to 1908 the liquor distilling industry flourished as well. 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. Joining the POWs were Southern political prisoners and conscientious objectors, as well as Confederate and Federal deserters. Chapter I; The Aborigines. James Miller from New Castle County, Delaware settled along Fifth Creek in Rowan County, NC. There is a publication called Square Time that dancers can subscribe to. (For more information on how the dancing is different, visit theModern Squares?in the main menu.). Some of these gifts are still treasured in Organ Church. A wealth, of information was generated in this effort, and in order to share it with others, I have divided this article into three sections for the benefit of the readers: Section 1 is a background story based on Josiah BRANDON's participation in the American Revolution from western North Carolina; Section 2 involves the search for Josiah's father's first name; and Section 3 is a bonus feature evolved from the basic research, and includes a map of land grants along the Catawba River in now McDowell County, giving the names and Date Accessed. ca. 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. Rudbeckia readily self-seed and naturalized in the garden, providing beauty for years. 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). Did you know that only 3% of the American people fall in that 3%? 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] At that time more than thirty Native Dobbs selected Colonel Hugh Waddell and his fifty soldiers to be garrisoned at Fort Dobbs (named after the royal governor). I also havent seen anything related to The Scorpion and most Scottish settlements with which Im familiar came decades later than the settling of the Neuse / Pamlico / Chowan River regions. Entered 3 Aug 1778 & surveyed 6 Aug 1778 - extending up Newberrys forke and joining McCAFFERTYs place.." Grant #33 in Book 28. p. 33. 40,00015,000 B.C. Location. 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. Settlers from Virginia and Pennsylvania who were of the Quaker religion came from the New Garden and other meetings in Guilford County, North Carolina. In 1850 sixteen plank road companies including the Salisbury and Taylorsville Plank Road were chartered. Mailing address: 415 Bickett Blvd., Raleigh, N. C. 27608. 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. Farming as well as tobacco and cotton factories were predominant in the 1880s. Be cautious using ChatGPT for genealogy research. I see you left this comment months ago, but for some reason Im just now seeing it. //-->, RootsWeb is funded and supported by The Scotch-Irish were the most active and probably the most numerous part of the population. We have a party night nearly every month Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day, etc. 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. The Swinging Swallows Square Dance Club is a registered not-for-profit Ottawa Valley organization. My own research, however, has led me to believe that if "bits and pieces" could be assembled, a reasonable amount of material could be reconstructed concerning the early Burke County extent. document.write('©' ); function y2k(number) { return (number < 1000) ? The widow BRANDONs first name is another matter, a solution which may never be found. The 1796 Inferior Court Minutes of Burke County refer to it as "Samuel DAVIDSON's Fort." We have an Executive, a Caller and a fun bunch of members! Reprinted with permission from The North Carolina Atlas Revisited. WebEarly Settlers in the NC Piedmont 1749-1763. Were planning and looking forward to the next Boys and Girls Club dinner/dance. As tenant farmers, this rent freed them to work on their own plots and such. Thus it will be seen that this stone church was begun in 1792, completed in 1795, and consecrated on Easter Sunday 1796. This assumption resulted from believing that the building erected in 1774 was the stone church, and that the date 1794 in the gable of the building indicated when it was completed. File #1671. The descendants of these early Germans have had a solid influence in Rowan and Cabarrus Counties. South Carolinians moved north into the Lower Cape Fear region to establish pine plantations with enslaved African labor. Is there any document that you know of that tells who the parents were of Samuel, James, Joseph and Thomas? I am surprised that Russell isnt on the list. A large granite marker now stands at the site of the original structure. Managing editor:Alfred W. Stuart. Title. whether the passenger had ever been in prison, a poorhouse, or in an institution for the insane. BRANDON returned home to his widowed mother and quickly recovered from his affliction. 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. Entered 28 Sep 1779 & surveyed 27 Jun 1791 -"beginning near where Henry MORGAN lives.." Grant #1562 in Book 80, p. 43. Rowan and its neighboring county Mecklenburg, with their strong Scotch-Irish Presbyterian bend towards independence and liberty, became the hornets nest of the rebellious southern colonies in the War for Independence. 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. As the ground on which the church stood was never deeded to the congregation, a new site was obtained and a second house, also of logs, was erected. (Hunt and Titus were married to Smith's nieces.) From: Britt, Morris F. Appendices to Implosion: A history of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina. Click on thumbnail to view the larger image. Actually, settlers only had about two or three years after the peace with the Indians to obtain Im looking for the Robert Willis family, from Eastern part of the state,in the 1700s. //--> Did any of your Leonards come into Georgia? John Russell. In the early part of the next Spring in 1777 and continuing until the Spring of 1779, he served under Capt. He moved to North Carolina about 1749 and settled on the headwaters of Rocky River in Anson (now Iredell) County. JAMES EDM1STON. Hi, I am a patricia Green, daughter of miles Leslie green., Samuel Jacob Green was my great grandfather in my fathers side. amount of money the immigrant had in their possession. It appeared that all male BRANDONs could be accounted for after that i780 battle. WebPre-Sixteenth-Century American Indian History. She was also the mother of John Steele, who was to become the first comptroller of the United States appointed by George Washington and retained by the next two presidents. South Carolinians moved north into the Lower Cape Fear 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. WebThe first Europeans to enter what is now Rowan County were members of the Spanish expedition of Juan Pardo in 1567. He was a delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776. If so, they paid quit rents to them, as to avoid being required to work on the landowners land and house. FERGUSON'S little silver whistle by which he directed the British efforts soon went silent, when FERGUSON was killed with one foot still caught in a stirrup. The completed tract map showed only one blank space which I could not fill along the river, unfortunately that of the missing BRANDON tract. Iredell County History. Iredell County government website. Later, his son testified, he has often heard him say that when the battle of Kings Mountain was fought he (his father George) was then in command of a company and was on his march to King's Mountain but did not reach there in time to be and that engagement. In fact, Josiah Brandon's pension reinforces that Brandon under Walker was commanding the fort in fall 1781, not 1780. The Americans suffered some 90 casualties. Davidson, North Carolina: H.A. Instead, just read the list, as many spellings of surnames are different than the conventionally used spellings. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. I think Sanderton should be Sanderson. They established a fort and a mission in the native The Family of Elisha Morris of Beaufort County, NC. BOYKIN's company in pursuit of Capt. "2 Josiah BRANDON's father was fatally wounded. Iredell was an offshoot of Eyredale, meaning a valley of flowing air. The Americans apparently surprised the British and opened an irregular but withering fire on FERGUSON's position. Your email address will not be published. 10,0008000 B.C. He became a Methodist minister, and about 1805, moved to Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he lived until his death on 5 November 1842. //dump($i); WebRowan County. #2000-19 PTA Scrapbook April 1, 1942 - March 30, 1943, #9010 Rowan-Davie Medical Auxiliary Collection, #9016 Rowan Home Demonstration Clubs Collection, #9017 American Association of University Women (AAUW), #9018 Rowan County Bicentennial Scrapbook, #9404 Catherine Williams Pitts Collection, #9503 Milford Hills Lioness Club Scrapbooks, #9511 First Presbyterian Church Salisbury, NC Collection, #9613 Soldiers' Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church Collection, #9617 North Carolina Transportation Museum Centennial Celebration Collection, #9624 Charles Remy Palmer Pharmacy Notebook, #9707 Holthouser ABC/Food Lion Collection, Salisbury Post Morgue Preservation Project, Check for available copies of A Ramble Through Rowans History. BRANDONs first name from existing records. The Scot-Irish of Rowan County North Carolina Submitted by: but such settlers formed a small part of the total number of inhabitants. Powell, William Stevens, and Jay Mazzocchi. These dance performances are done strictly on a volunteer basis. document.write(' Rowan County NCGenWeb Project - All Rights Reserved. Complete the fields below to post a public comment about the material featured on this page. Fort Dobbs was abandoned after the war in 1766. He served a year as pastor there. 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. East Carolina University. As a rule, these Germans have stuck to the soil, and have not scattered or moved about as much as their Scotch-Irish friends. The very appearance of the Organ Church building is itself a monument to the German tradition of craftsmanship and the love of solidarity in herent in these Germans, who came along with the Scotch-Irish by the same pioneer trails through Virginia, and for the same purpose: to find fertile land and freedom to work and worship in North Carolina. Continuing into the 20th century Rowan was the home of renowned educator and womens rights activist Elizabeth Duncan Koontz. Columbia S> (actually in Richland county near St ANdrews road. 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.. Actually, Brandon served under Walker at the fort in the fall of 1781 - a year after Kings Mountain. The Vice President is Jeannie Mastine and the Treasurer/Secretary is Wendy Shields; the Social Convener is Mary Dament. var year = y2k(today.getYear()); In March 1763, the Granville Land Office closed, and it was impossible to obtain a valid title to any of the vacant land. He was issued several land grants. 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. The Catawba and Cherokee lived in present-Iredell before war and disease, carried by Europeans, drove them away from the land. Both papers were based in Salisbury and served the Western half of the state. 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. All Rights Reserved. Prisoners from the American Brig, Triumph, 1783. File #241. WebThe Genealogical Society of Rowan County was organized in February of 1987, and we received our charter in 1988. 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. For more information about the national project, go to the USGenWeb Project.For information about the North Carolina state project, go to the NCGenWeb.. Rowan County was formed in Thank you! Im descended from Gidaon Moseley of Aiken SC. During the late 17th century, settlement in North Carolina proceeded from Virginia migration, first into the Albemarle region, then into the Pamlico district. Their efforts drove CUNNINGHAM to take shelter with British Lord RANDON's forces at the fortifications at Ninety Six. Today, Lake Norman, described by many as the largest freshwater, man-made lake in the nation, reaches into Iredell County. We dance for fun not for perfection! Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 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. People migrate to North America from Asia at irregular intervals by way of the Bering Land Bridge. The best approach to discovering the identity of Josiahs father appeared to be the tracing of each BRANDON who had come from Pennsylvania and settled around Salisbury, and then eliminate each one as it became obvious that that person could not be the Captain. 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, 1983. WebOver four hundred years ago, English colonists trying to settle on Roanoke Island encountered many Native Americans along the coast. Have not been able to trace them further back, would love to find out where they originated from. but most of the records refer to it as the Upper Fort. Required fields are marked *. In the Fall of 1779, he again enlisted, this time as a light horse volunteer under Capt. Conrad Bullen emigrated early 1700s from Palatine area of Germany and became naturalized citizen in Sept, 1763, Salisbury. The Club has an annual membership drive every September (usually the second and third Thursdays after Labour Day). My 8x grandfather was named Jasper Hardison. We also try to do a couple of demonstrations each year to help raise awareness, interest, and participation in the activity we all enjoy. German and Scotch-Irish settlers moved to Iredell in the mid-eighteenth century, attracted by the soil and freshwater of the region. The email address you submit will not be displayed and would only be used to contact you with additional questions or comments. There are early land deeds for Bullens. Josiah Brandon's Burke County, NC, 1777-1800, Sarah Bond Burley Widow's Pension - War of 1812. [E] PERQUIMANS PRECINCT between Yaupin and Pequimans Rivers: Sturgeons, Durant, Norcomb, Harvey [T], Denman [C], Skinner [R], Sander, Pettiver, Phelps, Speight. Thank you for your offer to help with the South Carolina census, however this site is focused on eastern North Carolina. By that latter date, North Carolina was the fourth most populous of the thirteen colonies. kennethobyrnes@gmail.com. Looking for Chaplain/Chaplins in the Currituck Co. area. [D] EDENTON AREA between Chowan and Yaupin Rivers [north shore of Albemarle Sound]: Heath, Altin, Luten, Paget, Gale [E], Jones [H], Gale [C], Vaile [J], Moseley [E], Jones [F], Beabury,Beasly, Blount [J], Vaile, Porter [E], Pearce [T], Ward [J]. A few of these were created as a colonial imitation of the British Peerage. It cost 1100 to 1200 Spanish Taler.' Can anyone figure out why that would be? The origins of North Carolinas 18th-century newcomers varied widely. Furthermore, Brandon claimed he was at the fort under Walker around the time Cornwallis surrendered - which was October 19, 1781. The one bit of information which the papers failed to disclose is of major importance to this genealogical puzzle the first name of Captain BRANDON, the father of Josiah. 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. The provide much information about Josiah BRANDONs family, his war service and some information on his descendants. Gold was discovered in 1799 by John Reed and a booming mining town prospered in the mid 1800s at Gold Hill.

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