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Subject: [BARTON] Re: David A. Barton b abt 1820 South Carolina went to Texas
Date: 7 Dec 2002 23:06:24 -0700


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Terry and All, Greetings

This is most confusing.

I now know that David O. Barton is David A. Barton, born 1820 in South Carolina or Georgia. He married Aurelia (aka Aura) Patrick in Franklin, Georgia, on 8 Nov 1846. She was the daughter of John H Patrick and Nancy Patrick of Franklin, Georgia. I found David A. Barton and Aura in 1870 and 1880 Anderson, Grimes, Texas. Their children are Patrick, Carrie, Lauria, Jefferson D, Annie, Nomie (Nancy)and Mary David. The census states their children were all born in Texas so they were somewhere in Texas in 1852.

Now I understand that Franklin, Georgia is essentially next to Anderson and Pendleton counties of South Carolina, so I checked out the Bartons of those areas for a clue, which left me clueless. Too many redundant names. This David A. Barton does not seem to belong with the other Bartons of Greenville and Pendleton, South Carolina. I checked the barton database and there is no match as he was definitely born in <1820>. There are so many Bartons in Georgia, which I need to check out. There is a William T. Barton in Franklin, Georgia in 1840, who has the age to be David A. Barton's brother. There is an 1840 David Barton in Murray, Georgia which is Northwest Georgia, just south of Knoxville and Tennessee. No easy road over to Franklin County. I can not find him in Texas in 1860, as well as in Georgia or South Carolina or anywhere in 1850.

The history of the migration and the southern roads is fascinating. The Upper Road and the Fall Line Road joined in Macon, Georgia to become the Federal Road. The Federal Road split into several military roads in Alabama and Mississippi, which go west to Natchez, Mississippi. Thereafter the Road to Texas follows the Red River.

Essentially, the only ways west from the Carolinas is the Southern Federal Road, the Nashville Road, or the Wilderness Road to Lexington, KY and the Ohio River. One can take other more northern roads from Virginia and Maryland as well, but they would incur significantly more hardships.

I looked for David Barton and Aurelia Patrick all along the road to Texas and into Texas, but without luck. I thought they may be staying with the other Bartons in Texas, but they are not named anywhere.

Now the only thing that linked this family to the Orange, NC Josiah Barton is the Scots-Irish combination birthplace of the David A. Barton's parents, being the UK for the father and Ireland for the mother. Two Barton men who have recent 1770 to 1790 immigrants as parents in the Carolinas; parents of that era not born in Virginia or South Carolina. I am looking at the three Barton brothers of 1800 Montgomery, Virginia: Joseph, Benjamin Jr., and Jacob Barton. Montgomery County, Virginia is just up the road from Orange County, North Carolina along the Great Valley Road. Obviously it is dificult to identify their children by the online records, so I will post this and see if anyone knows anything. As the American colonial cliche goes "I'm stumped" for now.

Thanks again
dave barton

"Stumped" comes from getting your wagon caught on a stump in the middle of the colonial roads, as they were not pulled out to make the road. They were just cut near the ground, hopefully low enough to not get "Stumped". Roads were two ruts in the wilderness, and a "Trace" as in the Nashville Trace, was little more than a horse trail or trace of a road to Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans, LA.




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