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Subject: Re: [NCORANGE] BERRY/MORROW
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:23:30 EDT
In a message dated 9/20/99 10:24:49 AM, wrote:
<<I am still trying to find out where a Thomas BERRY who died in 1761
might have come from. I know that one of his daughters, Margaret, was
married to a James MORROW. Thomas also had wife Elizabeth, and children
named in his will were: James, Thomas, Benjamin, William, Elizabeth,
Margaret MORROW, Nancy and grandchildren of deceased son William were
William and Jane. No executor was named but witnesses were Paul HARMON
and William McMATH.
Does anyone get the impression that several Orange Co. people came
in from PA and MD? There was a Jacobite prisoner that was transported to
Maryland in 1716 named Thomas BERRY but that's all I have on him as of
now.
Thanks,
Jeri in Wilmington, NC
>>
Hello Jeri,
There were a number of families who had origins in Pa , Delaware and Maryland
who settled in the part of Orange County in the 1750's which became Caswell
County and Alamance Counties eventually. There was one group of Morrows who
settled in the Hawfields part of Orange, now Alamance; and another group who
settled in what became the Caswell County area. One William Morrow, who was
married to Sarah Jay, daughter of James Jay, was security for the marriage of
my ancestors, William Satterfield and Susannah Wheeler, 1 October, 1791. The
Satterfields, Jays and perhaps these Morrows seemed to have originated from
Maryland.
Another William Morrow was associated with settlers of the Hawfields,
especially the Mebane, Thompson, Armstrongs, and Grahams. These families
seem to have their origins in Pennsylvania, and in the Wilmington, Delaware
area, which was all part of the original Pennsylvania settlement.
If you look at the proximity of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland to each
other, you are probably talking about neighbors of one section, becoming
neighbors in another settlement.
Best regards,
John Fox
Winston-Salem, NC
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