Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

Forest King remarked in an comment to me that I struck him as a “back of the envelope” type of researcher. I figure he “nailed” me perfectly… I just share my ‘envelopes’ with you…

I’m presently engrossed with the boundary between IOW and Nansemond. So here is how I jot down notes… I’m thinking my style as I publish the stuff is more like a Comic Book… I can even throw in a Light Bulb! if needed…

Anyway… I’m curious if this makes sense to you folks? Or should I use another approach? (you know…like with normal ‘pages’ and stuff).

…as usual click the blue filename below the graphic for a better view…

Some further notes as I try to figure out where the Richard Hayes property was…

These files are huge… be patient to load…

So I would very much like to get my eyes on the digital original images of these early Isle of Wight files. In this case 1649. I cannot get back this early through Familysearch.org… any of you sneaks figured out a path? I have “some” files (sent to me by email) so I know they exist… I just need to get to the mother stash (you know…to like research n stuff).

My interest in this guy is where his Colonial property was in Nansemond circa 1640s. As I researched the area and studied this Davis and his neighbors… this Thomas emerged as two different guys… one in Isle of Wight and the other in Nansemond. The deeds tell the tale…

The patent of 1633 (County Location not given) is a treat to read… this is one of the most fact filled historical documents I have ever read from the eyes of a genealogist.

I just thought I would share… and perhaps someone can explain who Uncle Walter Davis was?

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Cue B Movie suspense music, thunder, lightning and a harrowing chilly wind…

Paraketo Point the Nansemond Fort Newgate

Thar be dragons here…

Down the River a couple miles and on the southern shore… there it is! Paraketo Point. And yeah… the colonist is named John Parrott. But to bring it up again… an adjoining patent to Robert Newman also uses the expression Paraketo Point. So explain this bit of feathery mysteriousness to me… what does it mean?

I hear tell of now extinct East Coast “parakeets”. Supposedly they swarmed in the millions but eventually got wiped out (were the parakeets around in the 1600s?) Was this area of Virginia once known for it’s noisy chirping?

I can just visualize a Colonist standing on the shore of the Nansemond River shaking his fist and shouting “We shall call this area of land after the pretty birds!” Naw… it fails to make me timbers shiver…

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Parrott-of-Paraketo-Point/6000000026284175672

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The Nansemond Fort. The nice man wrote a Master’s Thesis on it… very helpful

It seems reasonable to me that the colonists were a bit nervous around the locals. Anyway, the “fort” was in the general area.

I would have built the fort closer to the parakeets… but that is probably why I am not known for building forts.

I still cannot figure out exactly where Mr. Pecoraro was digging close enough to put a little star on my map…

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Newgate

Newgate prison door

At least one of the settlers of Nansemond was known for having passed through the lovely Newgate prison before finding his way to Virginia.

But then… what does the infamous prison have to do with this patch of ground in Virginia?

What the heck was this Newgate in Nansemond in the 1640s?

Below are the patents what got my feathers all ruffled…

Making sense of the numerous patents for George White has so far proven elusive to me… but he seems to be ground zero and bullseye for all this intrigue… has it all something to do with him? I dunno…