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Who was John Wilson of Walnut Creek
My search for this guy solved a riddle of some property I will write about in another piece at another time. But this Data Sheet I worked up in the process may be one of the simplest “proofs” I have yet to work up on a person. It is all literally on this one page (mind you, it is a rather large page).
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Wilson John 1790s. Edge
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I sent the graphic to my buddy David Gammon and he quickly pops up with a reference to an Edgecombe County Big Shot…
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https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/wilson-louis-dicken
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I countered Gammon’s shameless hometown Edgecombe bragidocious pride and promptly brought Tonto out of his TeePee. He set on to the trail of said Wilson and in his own fashion found wheelbarrows full of dirt. We then collaborated and came up with this expose’:
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John_Wilson_of_Walnut_Creek
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So to further my quest to ruffle feathers and rattle cages I offer this historical tidbit to perhaps get some some response from the Librarian who lives in said county…
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https://www.ncpedia.org/geography/wilson
new Commenters
I just found this on FT DNA site…
Hello all. I’m trying to get in touch with Marc Anderson. I am subscribed to his (amazing, over-the-top, how-did-one-man-do-all-this blog over on WordPress. I am embarrassed to admit that I can’t figure out how to “work” the website. I get the email updates and it’s (finally) letting me “like” things – but it won’t let me leave comments or anything else – plus, I actually DID try to “resubscribe” and all it got me was a landing page for me to make my own blog (I’m not interested in that right now….)
Marc – if you see this can you help me get “privileges” to comment on (the best site for “US” people – Ie Andersons) I can find? I wanted to comment on your Griffin page (see? Got the email) because my Grayson Co VA Andersons (kit 967421), who seem to actually be Ipswich MASS Perkins (maybe witches too, definitely Norman Bates) picked up a Griffin here at FT – TMRCA about 1750.
And, we discussed your Y test here a couple of years ago – I’m wondering what your results turned up? Looking forward to hearing from you one way or another! I’m at ******************.net
First time commenters go to a holding spot that I have to “approve”… this blocks obvious spam comments. After you have been approved you should be good to comment all by your lonesome.
So Anne… try a comment here and I shall try to track down the problem….
Marc
new Page about Perrys…from Nansemond to Edgecombe
I tried to keep this simple, I really did.
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Josiah Perry and a couple young guys…Solomon Saunders and his brother William Saunders.
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My real interest was about a couple Grist Mills…
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another revisit… Rachel Anderson
Some new twists and turns…but still a brick wall
a revisit…2 Henry Andersons of Edgecombe…
The elder one born abt 1774 perhaps… the younger one born abt 1805.
Anderson Hen 1805
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Try as we might (I say we meaning: David Gammon, Traci the Librarian and myself)… we cannot bring ourselves to say that the younger was a son of the older. Those pesky Census records prevent it and loudly proclaim it Not So. After much fretting, hand wringing, and (heavy indulgencies to spiritous liquors on my part) we are left with nothing to show for our quest as to his parents… a completely meatless and well gnawed bare bone heavily chewed on.
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I suppose a minor mention of another Henry who left a will in 1801 is in order…ignore him. He lived near the Pitt County border and is of similar unknown parentage… I have dirt on him if you are interested but he is not in this mix. This discussion is the Walnut Creek boys.
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A compelling argument can be made that the elder Henry (wife Lovey Staton) simply threw down his hoe one day, packed up the wagon and left the old homestead in Edgecombe and sought out greener pastures… you can search up that dirt (on this site) if you are so persuaded.
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Note that in 1840 the younger Henry sold 40 acres that he had just purchased from William Griffin…he sold it to an Elizabeth Anderson. And again we have no idea really who SHE is.
Is this her?
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Now as I reread the article I wrote , I have to consider that I must have been under the influence when I wrote it. Now (years later) I have no basis at all to have concluded that MY ancestor George begat this woman. Again I am left trying to explain my ignorance of facts and tendency to jump on theories… But truth be told there were quite a few instances of unexplained children being begatted… and the name Anderson seemed pretty damn popular.
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All of which brings up my buddy David who just popped up with a humorous comment yesterday- he threw out a question to Traci the Librarian wanting to know if our ‘target of the day’ might have been a “woods colt”? To which I spewed a mouthful of Old Fashioned back in my glass and demanded to know what “that” was? To which he explained it was “Edgecombe Speak” for illegit child.
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So now I ask- was Henry b.1805 a “woods colt”? And what was his reason for passing that 40 acres on to whoever that Elizabeth was in 1840?
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This map is just an approximation… but it generally shows where all this begatting was taking place in the 1820s-1850 or so…
wc1840ish
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Prior Posts on the Henry born 1774ish…
new Page added… for Grist Mill hunters…
There are several Mill sites in Walnut Creek area that lend themselves to help focus my attention on certain pre-Revolutionary War families in the area. I will perhaps add some Studies to this Page if any of you stubbornly silent folks would care to take the time to simply leave a comment…you know, to give me a clue to what might interest you…
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In the notes herein is a history of sorts of the “Bilbry/Bilbery” family that I really had no idea about… and my own Anderson ancestors were busying themselves trying to make ends meet…in between questionable pregnancies as it were…
a Posse Comitatus Deed
Get a Strategy…
Don’t vote for Shysters.
Shysters can be recognized because they do not work…they talk.
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Shysters get in office when they have very little money but talk good …
They offer to give you Free Stuff.
A year or two later they are millionaires. People pay them well to talk.
The people that pay them get Free Stuff.
You do not get Free Stuff. You get talked to.
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Don’t vote for Shysters.