Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

I’ve tracked this patent through 5 deeds spanning over 40 years…looking for a clue. It seems no one had a problem with this, except me evidently. I cannot draw even an approximation because it makes no sense. How can you go down one creek to the mouth of another creek and then take the second creek back to where it began? What am I missing?

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an Update…

another Update…

Somehow or another, a mapping crime has been committed… In my graphic above, when John Steptoe gets the original property in 1777 we have a simple puzzle to solve. The deed description clearly says: “N 40 E 170…continues 80 to Beach Swamp” I have never been able to depict that original Patent on my map and that fact is driving me nuts.

A commenter has obviously been consulting Google Maps… he has added Barnhill Road into the puzzle and I can only agree with him.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Leggett,+NC+27886/@36.1110524,-77.5560141,4565m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89ae60692ef117eb:0x373de1a4ecf00e5f!8m2!3d35.9909889!4d-77.5830284!16zL20vMHlnNXo?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

I am running out of clues here… the meets and bounds are so befuddling I cannot make sense out them and even draw the damn thing. And I am surely tripping over myself just trying to explain it…

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This is in the vicinity of Coffield’s Bridge in Edgecombe County… on Fishing Creek.

A bit more fuel for the fire… there is a Wolf Pit Branch that apparently (at one time at least) flowed out of the Fishing Creek … westerly or south westerly. I’m hunting it down!

…an Update

A Timeline of Spiers from Nansemond…per Forrest King (used with permission)

I did a Study… Traci the Librarian sent me a couple map links… as I was researching folks around Fishing Creek in Edgecombe County I checked them out…

Links to the maps under my search button… Where it say “Blogroll” is where I have Links… I did not know how to change it when I first started this blog. Still don’t.

Every carbonated drink in Texas was a coke…except Orange Nehi… or root beer.

I remember from when I was a kid… it has to be a bottle for sure… no excuses. 1959ish, Snyder, Texas… a six oz bottle was a dime. That broke down to 6 cents for the cola and 4 cents deposit on the bottle. We young entrepreneurs would scavenge the countryside for bottles to take to the store to sell.

Modern folks seem to be split on the pure, anadulterated kiddish pleasure of the delicacy. It is not to be analyzed… it is to be enjoyed.

https://www.distractify.com/food/2018/08/03/Z13mp8P/why-do-people-put-peanuts-in-coke

While slapping mosquitos… I found this…

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I wandered around in a befuddled fog trying to find that damn swamp for years… buy me a cup of coffee. This site costs money…and I’m retired and don’t want to work part time sacking groceries…

You’re welcome.

More pesky swamps…

That, my friends is funny… she should get an award.

I have been working on some White Oak Swamp deeds and some Sapponey Creek and Stoney Creek in Nash County. I’ve been focused on PITMANS mostly but others as I run across. take a look…

I work on this map sporadically and update when I think of it… it was time.

I am not a competent DNA guy… I get easily confused in the god awful confusing lingo and bewildering charts. Show me a map and I am like a baby with a pacifier… a bug in a rug… Yogi Bear and a Pic a Nic Basket…you get the drift.

If you can track a male Pitman relative to Duplin County, NC… and convince him to take the DNA test…then I can hook you up with ancectors back to Virginia in the 1600s. No sweat.

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Here are a few folks from Duplin County to investigate… looks like up to 1925 or so… maybe later?

…some background info… Arthur Pitman married a Hatcher gal in Edgecombe County, NC and they moved to Duplin County after 1765 or so… (they bought the property on Six Mile Creek noted above).

Arthur Pitman’s GGGGGGranny was also my GGGGGGranny… but I was a bastard son …so my DNA is a bit Funky. I am a Brantley… which Brantley is still up in the air… but, rest assured, I am looking for the low down, rotten SOB what knocked up my GGGGGGranny. (said GGGGGGranny married James Pitman who saved you later Pitmans from the cursed shame of bastarddom. I shake my head…smiling)

So we might be half fast cousins… what are you waiting for?

Google FTDNA Pitman … email Dan, the Administrator dan.pittman@comcast.net He will hook you up with the latest info on testing and the best deals… tell him I sent ya.

I stumbled across this reference and it piqued my interest. So I snooped around a bit and finally mapped out his land and whereabouts. This is what I would consider, a likely place for an Indian Interpreter to, you know, live and hang out.

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This Henry Biggs, seems to me, is likely the notorious Indian Interpreter. See the short Bio below…

…oops… I tried to link to a site of the Meherrin.org guys but they don’t want to link… ok Google it if you so choose…

Here is my, rather unshort, references to said Henry Briggs… just use the ComdF CntrF

shortcut and search “briggs”… he will pop up

Here is my newfound info on sd Briggs and my guy James Anderson as a witness to a deed in 1734. It seems to me, after perusing the details, that this deed to Mr. Day is near the Nottoway Indian reservation.

With no real evidence whatever, and merely a hunch, I wonder if this might be the James Anderson of Occoneechee Neck in North Carolina that I chronicle?

There were numerous Andersons from Prince George County, some of whom were traders, that this could also be. But my guy is equally close, and possible… so who knows? This James just disappears. Poof.

It not my intent to re-hash the current biography of this James Pitman. What I present here is “new” evidence that I have been able to access with the Familysearch records now available.

This James lived on the Second Swamp in Olde Isle of Wight … North of the Blackwater River.

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The “new” James Pitman that I have found is presented here…