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From: Ginger <>
Subject: Fw: {not a subscriber} Re: [ILPOPE-L] Land Patent for RichardFulkerson/Hamilton, Story, Burges
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 20:37:53 -0500

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From: Dean L Webb <>
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Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 6:31 PM
Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [ILPOPE-L] Land Patent for
RichardFulkerson/Hamilton, Story, Burges

>Thank you I was able to make a family connection for the Richard Fulkerson
and
>his family listed on the Land patent and land transaction deed. His wife
was
>Grace Cowsert or Cousert their children signing the deed were James
Fredrick
>Fulkerson and his wife Priscilla (Floyd), Thomas Fulkerson and his wife
Mary
>(Polly) Armstrong, Eleanor (Nelly) Fulkerson and her husband Abraham
Barger,
>Nancy Fulkerson and her husband John Lee Hamilton, Richard Fulkerson and
his
>wife Frances (Franky) Baldwin, and Susanna Fulkerson and her husband Jordan
>Story.
> Richard Fulkerson of the land patent was the son of Fredrick Fulkerson
>1759-1824 who was married to Elizabeth Pottinger and several others. This
>Fredrick Fulkerson was the son of Dirck Fulkerson and Eleanor (Sharp?) .
Dirck
>Fulkerson was killed by Native Americans about 1758 in North Carolina.
This
>Dirck Fulkerson was the son of Volkert Volkertson (Fulkerson) and Dinah
Van
>Lieuw.
> This connection was made through the website on the Fulkerson Family
which is
>at
>http://wavecom.net/~fulker/volkertnc.html
>for anyone who is interested in the Fulkerson and some allied families.
This is
>a great site.
>The reason that I was interested in these Fulkersons in Pope Co Illinois is
>because my gggrandmother Peninah Cotten's grandmother was a Nancy Fulkerson
of
>Virgina/NC and I have not been able to place her into a Fulkerson family.
She
>was probably born about the late 1750's or early 1760's. I thought that
>possibly these Fulkerson's being in the same area as Peninah Cotten and her
>family in Pope Co. may help make a family connection. I believe she is
somehow
>related to this family of Volkert Fulkersons but do not know exactly how.
>Thanks for the input
>Marla
>

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