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Subject: Re: [PaOldC] southern migration of Friends
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 06:16:25 EDT


Violet, that page you mentioned is not the best one on the subject of NC
county formation, in my opinion. The print is small, and that "Gul" you thought
you saw on the 1746 page is actually "Gvl" for Granville County. Guilford was
not created until 1771, out of parts of Rowan and Orange counties. The only
settlers in that area in the 1740's were some Germans (the Native Americans
were already there!). The Quaker settlers didn't start appearing until the
1750's, as far as we know.

A better website for NC county formation is this one:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/countyfm.htm

If you will click on the link for "further details," you will get a list of
each county, along with its formation date and the parent counties. The code
numbers are the ones used by the state archives for indexing records.

My husband's Quaker family moved from Chester County to the Carver's Creek
area of Bladen County, NC, by the 1730's, and then on to Guilford County in the
1770's. My father's Scots-Irish family may have been living at Rising Sun
before they moved to the Rowan County area in the 1760's or earlier, and their
land ended up in Guilford when the new county was formed.

Katherine Dick Benbow
County Coordinator, Guilford County, North Carolina, USGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html
Historian for the Charles Benbow Family
researching Benbow, Carver; also Troy, Balfour, Long, Miller, Bruner, Viele
http://www.charlesbenbowfamily.homestead.com
researching Dick, Fries; also Yates/Yeats, Madison, Snell, Alden
http://www.dickfamily.homestead.com

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