Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
7 States with Genealogy Records Online
Georgia Pioneers (8 Genealogy Websites) has wills, estates, traced families etc in AL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN and VA. In particular, our Virginia collection contnues to grow, representing the oldest surviving county wills and estates, from 1600s to about 1800.
Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
Thursday, June 20, 2019
James Hogg, Supporting Man #ncgenealogy #northcarolinapioneerscom
James Hogg, Supporting Man
James Hogg was a tacks man, meaning "supporting man" from the Highlands who brought many new settlers into North Carolina. Large groups of emigrants left Scotland because of high rents from the lairds, reappointment of farm land (especially in Argyll) for sheep, and so many families falling into poverty. Eventually, an over-sweeping population of poor people in the Highlands created so great a burden on the country that the system of clan leaders and lairds no longer worked. From about 1720 to 1800, families jumped at the opportunity to migrate. During the 1770s, James Hogg, who had acted as a tacks man collecting rents for the lairds, also sought opportunity in America. He contacted ships captains and arranged passages for hundreds of persons. As new settlers arrive at Wilmington or Brunswick, they faced a laborious 90-mile trip up the Cape Fear River to Cross Creek where a great number of Scottish clans had settled on land grants from 1734 to 1737. The Scots spoke Gaelic and needed Hogg to arrange passages, etc. . . . more . . .Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
James Belk, 22 Children Later ! #ncgenealogy #northcarolinapioneerscom
James Belk, 22 Children Later!
When Mecklenburg County celebrated its Centennial on 20 May 1775, James Belk of Union County (formerly a part of Mecklenburg), attended. He was one hundred and ten years old! As recorded in a family Bible, printed in Edinburg in 1720, Belk was born on the 4th of February, 1765. He resided on the same tract of land upon which he was born and raised, his father being one of the original settlers of the country. Belk recollected the death of his father who was mortally wounded in the Revolutionary war, near the North Carolina Line, and knows that his mother, fearing the mournful result, visited the place of conflict, and finding him lying in the woods near th road-side, severely wounded. She assisted him to their home, but soon afterward had him transferred to the residence of his grandfather for better attention, where he died. James Belk . . . more . . .Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
John Penn, NC Patriot #ncgenealogy #northcarolinapioneerscom
John Penn, North Carolina Patriot
"The Solitude", home of John Penn. John Penn was born near Port Royal in Caroline County, Virginia, an only child of Moses Penn and Catherine Penn. He attended at common school for two years as his father did not consider education to be important. After the death of his father, when Penn was eighteen years of age he began to read law with his uncle, Edmund Pendleton and as a result, became a lawyer in Virginia in 1762. In 1774, Penn moved to the Williamsborough, North Carolina area, where he practiced law. At the onset of the American Revolutionary War, he was elected to the North Carolina Provincial Congress as well as to the Continental Congress in 1775 where he served until 1780. For the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence, he was part of the North Carolina delegation that included Joseph Hewes and William Hooper. In 1777, Penn was one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation. Penn also served on the Board of War until 1780, when he retired to practice law. He served as receiver of taxes for North Carolina in 1784. When Penn died in 1788, he was buried on his estate near Island Creek in Granville County. Penn was re-interred in Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in 1894, alongside fellow congressional delegate, Hooper. The remains of his home site in Granville County, with his . . . more . . .Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
How Cousins Affect Finding the Ancestors #ncgenealogy #northcarolinapioneerscom
How Cousins Affect Finding the Ancestors
Sometimes while assembling the family tree it is difficult to determine correct relationships. This is because in the not too far distant past people frequently married first cousins! I recently traced a North Carolina family where several generations of male members married several times. Not that this is unusual. However, when they marry a sister-in-law or a first cousin, it become more intriguing. One has to study the documents, such as wills and estates, very carefully. In this instance, the siblings of the first wife were described as nieces and nephews. Thus, it becomes important to prepare a family group sheet on each family to cut down on the confusion. Large families also boggle the process, especially with a repetitive naming of the children. One has to unravel the "Marys." and make certain that they are assigned to the correct family and generation. Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
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Friday, May 24, 2019
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
John Mann of Edgecombe Co. NC #ncgenealogy #northcarolinapioneerscom
John Mann
Captain Thomas Mann, an English merchant and commander of the vessel Edward & Francis settled first in Charleston, South Carolina. His son, John Mann of Berkeley County, South Carolina sold the land which he inherited from his father and removed to Edgecombe County about 1738. Later, about 1745, when Edgecombe Parish was organized, John Mann served as a Clerk. The parish house no longer exists and it was known later as St. Mary's Parish.Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
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