Archive for July 2016
Olde Chowan “Precinct”… a new map
This is my preliminary effort.. more deeds will follow as time permits (I am still a working slob and still have a day job).
In order to begin, I decided on starting at Woodward’s Creek. A while back I discovered a map from 1708 by Edward Moseley… it is referenced. Most of my “Google-ing” left me perplexed as very few records exist that refer to Woodward’s Creek. I think I have presented irrefutable proof of its whereabouts . With that task accomplished, I began placing a few patents and promptly realized that that horrid woman Hillary Clinton was actually correct in one regard… “it takes a village”. So as I trudge thru this project I usually have to plot a half dozen or more patents to enable me to place them. Such is the nature of this mapping game. I have endeavored to show a few examples of the deeds I pursue to arrive at the simple graphic representations that I lay out.
I have wanted to do this map for years but was unable to do so for the simple lack of access to the deeds. I therefore give a huge hat tip to this gentleman:
“This website is a personal project of David McCorkle who has many deep North Carolina roots dating back to Colonial times, especially in the areas of Mecklenburg and Anson counties that are now Union County. He has been writing computer software for 40 years, and is a specialist in databases, data cleanup and presentation, as well as web applications and hosting.”
http://www.nclandgrants.com/about.htm
Many thanks Mr. McCorkle… a job well done.
Marc aka anderson1951
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Click several times to enlarge the map. The “tan” colored areas are the oldest maps I can find for this area of North Carolina (they are from about 1909 or so… and as an aside… as we look at these 100+ year old maps keep in mind that the olde pharts in 1712 or so were looking at the 1660ish documents similarly as we look at old “documents”). I get a kick when looking at old Virginia records from the 1700s and they refer to earlier 1600s patents as “Ancient Planters”. If you want to further enlarge the map after the click zooms just use the trick of Cntr +
See here… its over on the right side of my main Page under… well…. Pages… 4 or 5 down the list.
Don’t I feel stupid…
I have been attempting to track the early BOONs of North Carolina. My interest is that Carolus Anderson “may” have wed a Boon daughter. I ran across a patent for one Thomas Boon referencing a date of 1668… and Dayum! I fell for it hook line and sinker. There was simply no way in hell that Thomas Boon had a patent in NC in 1668. I will attempt to prove that he was actually granted that patent in 1723. (A later post… bear with me).
I’ve unabashedly Debunked Myself… thankfully. (Red-faced)
Details here… scroll down about 2/3 of the way if you are impatient…
C’mon…subtract 1719-1668 and you get 51 YEARS...
Note that the government in NC “recorded” this copy of The Great Deed in 1719… which was their declaration that it was still in effect. And in full ostentation recopied the signatures of all the big whig Proprieters who signed it in 1668! Why you ask? To save money in Quit Rents (taxes) I reply. If you could claim a deed under the 1668 “Great Deed” then you owed 2 shillings per 100 acres… if not then your (tax) was 4 shillings or thereabouts. Most of them may have been illiterate… but foolish they were not. (Smiling).
The source for above is a (new to me) website… great place to stop by.
http://www.nclandgrants.com/index/
Of course if you don’t mind paying $29.99 I suppose you can find all the answers here… or maybe not…
The author above does freely offer some profound advice that I will keep in mind… from his introduction:
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My apologies for belaboring this point… but frankly, I’ve had a couple beers after doing a brake job on my ’07 Hemi Charger and I’m feeling a little frisky. C’mon, I graduated high school in 1969.. hence the old “hot rodder” fascination with cars. But I digress…
If I was an author wishing to make a few bucks from a book I would be very careful about “previews” of the book.
I have found over the years that a genealogy can be like a house of cards. Or to use another analogy… like a keystone to a stone arch… if the keystone fails the structure falls.
My opinion of the Boon clan from NC (old Albemarle/ Chowan Precinct specifically) is that the progenitor “may” have been Nich. Boon from Isle of Wight or “a” Thomas Boon from unknown. I have been hunting this person for years. I would LOVE to know the answer to that question. So I have a few questions for this author…
I truly hope I am not infringing on any copyrights here… but what the hell, this is an editorial question in my skeptical review of sorts… click to enlarge…
Sir, can you offer any sort of documentation with a citation to evidence that the specific Thomas Boon that died in Isle of Wight in 1723 was Dutch? Or if not Dutch can you provide any evidence that he traveled from England to wherever you propose those mystery Dutch records come from?
Can you offer any sort of documentation with a citation to evidence that the specific Thomas Boon that died in Isle of Wight in 1723 was certified as anything in any way by Henry Barker of Charles City County?
Henry Barker appears to be a pretty murky character to me…
https://archive.org/stream/charlescitycount00ayrerich#page/n5/mode/2up
From Jim White, author of Buckner Family Generations, <http://buckner.whitesnet.org/>
Bradford-Taylor-Barker-Lucy Report, 11 July 2007
p. 58 – #41 – Henry Barker (William (Capt.) 2, William 1)
was born in 1617 in London, , Greater London, England,
died in 1669 in London, , Greater London, England at age 52,
and was buried in St. Margaret ParishChurch, Westminister, , Greater London, England.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lavere&id=I8718
While “a” Henry Barker, aged 18, is listed as a passenger in 1735… where is any proof that he was related to the Capt. William Barker?
And a basic question… Can you provide any sort of “smoking gun” proof that the headright Thomas Boon you cite is the same one who died in 1723?
And…. last question I promise… where in the world did any researcher arrive at the death date for Thomas Boon (of the Meherrin River land grant) as 1723?
Thomas Boon, Immigrant, Died 1723, Isle of Wight Co., Virginia and 1,000 of his Descendants, p.7, Rupert Farnham Thompson, Studio City, CA., 1981.
After a little digging into the author… Jim White… I find this… a commenter is questioning his lack of sources (which caused my initial red flag about his book)…
“…As for Jim White’s work, it appears to “connect the dots,” as you indicate, among all the Bryan descendants of the eleven sons of William [Smith?] Bryan, but does not well document these connections at all, and for the most part seems not to provide many personal details regarding the family members.To the known children of John and Elizabeth Frances Battle Bryan (Hannah Wilson, Mary Hampton, Sarah White, and John Bryan, Jr.) White adds a few other names, such as Lewis Bryan. There is room for other children, and various sources have cited other children, but no one, to my knowledge, has convincingly documented these other children. White has John Neely Bryan, reputed founder of Dallas, as a first cousin of my ancestor John Bryan, Jr. (b. 7 March 1780, Rowan County, d. 1854, Coffee County, TN). White has the information on the death of John Bryan, believed to be the son of Morgan Bryan, Jr., entirely wrong. He has followed the tradition that appears in so many books that “Captain” John Bryan shot at his doorstep by Col. David Fanning was the husband of Elizabeth Battle. That is incorrect. That John Bryan lived in Randolph County, not Rowan, and was killed in 1782, after the court proceedings regarding the estate of Elizabeth Battle’s husband had already been settled, in August, 1781. John Bryan, husband of Elizabeth Battle, was killed by a radical group of Whigs led by John Bryan’s neighbor John Johnston, along with Francis Locke, and others. We do not know the exact circumstances of John Bryan’s death, but in many ways it probably resembled the violent scene that occurred with Fanning.White has made some other very significant errors in his exposition on the Morgan Bryan family. He has, for example, John Gano married to Sarah Bryan, the sister of my John Bryan, Jr. John Gano was married to Sarah Hunt Bryan, the widow of Thomas Bryan, the youngest son of Morgan and Martha Strode Bryan. In fairness, I have not studied thoroughly the writing of White on the Bryans, and he may well have some golden nuggets of information on the antecedents and siblings of Morgan Bryan, but he refuses to acknowledge where he gets much of his information, telling folks to find it for themselves. Perfect case in point: the statement that Morgan married Martha Strode in Perth Amboy in 1714. He has provided no solid documentation to substantiate this claim, and it does not seem to be forthcoming.”
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bryan/8349/
My buddy Floyd Anderson asks…
Do you know the father of William Anderson d. 1789? -And- Do you know the relationship of Carolus Anderson d.1752?
No. I do not.
My theory is that they may be related… and it is a pretty flimsy theory when I am called to give “just the facts ma’am” .
William Anderson named a son Carlos.
“A” young William Anderson is mentioned in the will of Carolus’ mother. The utter weirdness of a man naming a son that in colonial times is a red flag for me (and others). ALL of his other children had “conventional” names… i.e. William, George, James, Henry etc. Whyfor “Carlos”? He was even mentioned in a deed with the “Americanized” Charles. So it is not just me that has a problem with that “latinized” spelling. The pompous and sissified William Byrd was even offended by Carolus’ name. The twit.
Such is my theory… and I’m sticking with it.
William and Carolus “just show up”… out of thin air. Most of my blog is my attempt to search out the neighbors of these folks. (such as the Boons, Forts, and of course the Pittmans, etc.) Looking for clues.
This is one of the best sites for Carolus Anderson…
http://www.sadiesparks.com/canderson.htm
But then, I have a few disagreements… (I think Ms. Sparks has passed on so I will just leave her excellent research to speak for her. With respect.)
Another conundrum hanging in the wind…
William Anderson was granted land in 1752 (Edgecombe). Two mysterious chain carriers were also present and I have never found a clue as to who they were. Remember this is 1752 so they were at least teenagers… if not grown men. If they were brothers then that would probably kill the theory that William was a nephew of Carolus. But what if they were cousins? Are they possibly the sons of an uncle James (brother of Carolus?)
Sworn Chain Carriers
Arthur Anderson
James Anderson