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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:43:21 EDT

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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:05:19 EDT
Subject: MEACHUM /MITCHUM and/or SMITH and WINFREE
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Henry Meachum (various spellings) was born 1766 (probably in Virginia), and
married Nancy Smith, daughter of Richard and Rebecca Smith of Wake County.
Although we believe Henry and Nancy Meachum were, by 1813, living in Anson
County, North Carolina, their son, William Smith Meachum, in that year
married Martha Winfree in Wake County (witness Clerk of Court B. L. King and
surety John Smith of Wake County).

In Wake County Superior Court, in 1793, Henry Meachum apprenticed our
ancestor, Nathaniel Meachum/(later Mitchum), an orphan of 13 years of age.
In 1798, Nataniel "Mechum" witnessed an Anson County deed from Charles West
to Henry "Mechum" (along with Buckner Nance, a son-in-law of Charles West).
By 1801, Nathaniel Mitchum, in nearby Lincoln County, married Jemima Reynolds
and raised a family of 13 children before he died there in 1838.

For many years, we have sought identity of the parents of Henry Meachum, born
1766, died (also in Anson County) in 1836, suspecting parents of Henry,
1766-1836, could be the same as parents of Nathaniel, 1780-1838, or could
lead us to knowledge of parents of Nathaniel, 1780-1838.

A 1793 Wake County Tax List shows Henry Meachum owned 100 acres of Wake
County land, and that Richard Smith (whose listing appears immediately below
that of Henry Meachum) also owned 100 acres of Wake County real property;
however, we have been unable to ascertain when, or to whom, either Henry
Meachum or Richard Smith sold or otherwise disposed of this land.

At the time B. L. King was Clerk of Wake County Superior Court (when William
Smith Meachum was married there in February 1813), there was a Justice of
that Court named Richard Smith; however, we have been unable to determine if
this Richard Smith was the same Richard Smith as was father of Nancy Smith
who was married to Henry Meachum, above. [Father of William Smith Meachum,
husband of Martha Winfree, daughter of Charles and Anney (Anna) Winfree,
presumably, in 1813, residents of Wake County.]

Any insight -- or leads -- into the backgrounds of any of these three family
genealogies will help to solve a mystery of long standing.

Thank you.

Alta Mitchem Durden -

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