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“When I works I works hard! When I sets I sets easy, but when I thinks, I falls asleep!” Dizzy Dean
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.
Time to take the gloves off…
I’m getting old now and have Grandkids that I care about…
Games. There are fun games…”spin the bottle”, Monopoly, Ping Pong…
And serious games… World Wars I and two.
An idiot Congresswoman recently referred to World War Eleven. I am serious.
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The crap that is going on now is In Your Face.
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Time to wake up people.
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I wrote this hopefully so that a moron could understand it.
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Click to access CastleTrash.pdf
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Remember what Thomas Jefferson said… if you still have any active brain cells…
Curtis Mill Study
Go to Google Maps…search for Sasnett Mill Branch. It is a few mile west of Tarboro, NC. During the 1700s I think it was known as Curtis Mill Branch. I also think that Curtis built a Grist Mill there…hence the name…Yuk Yuk.
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https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/record/6066d23f-0109-4142-bbfa-e909d6fd41e9
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My friend David Gammon sent me the Dunn deed… he and I stay confused by email.
Old Delta Blues
Meet Michael Jackson’s Grandfather…wait…what?
Just found this… It has to be AI but I do not care. If this is what AI has to offer, bring it on.
https://www.youtube.com/@OldDeltasBlues
This simply pushes all my buttons. But I’m curious whose culture is being appropriated- Black Blues or White Easy Lis’nin?
My test is always The House of the Rising Sun…
Edgecombe County, Walnut Creek…a Study
I’ve worked on this for several months now (years actually). It took me forever to realize a simple fact: a Colonial era map of the first colonists HAS to begin with the actual Grants of land. Those are known as Patents. They are not to be confused with Deeds. A patent can BECOME a deed or a Patent can be subdivided into smaller and multiple deeds. The point to be made is that there has to be a starting place…the Patent.
This is an introduction. In the not too distant future I hope to break these Patents down into deeds. That is where hundreds of the first colonists will be found. Perhaps your ancestor.
As an example these folks were from Walnut Creek…
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