I am researching my Dills Family Tree. I understand that a lot of my
relatives are/were from the Dillsboro, NC area as well as Macon County,
NC, Henderson County, NC, etc. My line is James Howard Dills, William
Fred Dills, William W. Dills, William R. Dills, Thomas Dills, Bartlett
Jasper Dills, Sr. If anyone has any information, I would love to hear
from you.
Thank you,
Estelle Dills Gilstrap
estelle@ngcsu.edu
Hello Group...
and all of our displaced Pitt Co NC friends with ancestral roots beginning with Bath County 1696, Pamtecough 1705, Beaufort 1712, with Beaufort gaining from Craven 1757, and FINALLY forming PITT County 1760 ..... you can see... these roots stretch far and deep along the Migration Trails to the many families that now populate these United States.
...and so, here is
another UPDATE on Pitt County NC CHRONICLES VOL II, as requested by many of you on my UpDate List and th
I have tried and tried and guessed and speculated and torn out what hair I
have left...these past forty-plus years...trying to connect the Haywood County
CONARD families with the
mainstream Conards...who emanate from one Thones Kunders, 1652-1729, a German
Quaker who helped found Germantown, PA.
I have rejected the German CONRADs of surrounding counties. A James CONARD
was in
the 1790 Rutherford Co. census. The given names of these family members
indicate a family which has been in America a coupla g