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From: "Michael Crocker" <>
Subject: Fw: [SCUNION-L] Is Paulk sp. var. of Polk?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:49:21 -0500

Sylvia wrote such a good reply to my question I thought it
deserved to be posted to the list.
Michael Crocker


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From: SRhodes538 <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SCUNION-L] Is Paulk sp. var. of Polk?

>In the past, there has been a blurring of Paulk/Palk/ Polk/
Pollack/Pole.
>The Concord, MA records clearly have the earliest one that we
can identify as
>PALK. The estate/deed/court records in Union Co. that I have
fd. use PAULK.
>The AL census records have a mix of PAULK and PALK. I have
never researched
>the Polk-Paulk connection, but I have read where others
definitely state that
>they are sep. families. Had contact from a PALK who thought
that he descended
>from Jonathan but has not been able to make the connections.
The Polk names in
>Mecklenburg Co. are very similar to the Paulk names.
>The Paulk family came to SC with Stearns and
Marshall(brother-in-laws) from CT
>via VA for religious reasons around 1755.(Baptist History
books document
>this). This supposedly ties them with the Fairforest Baptist
Church, but I
>don't find anyone but Rachel Collins Paulk, Uriah's wife.
>One of the sons married into the GREGORY family by marrying
Phoebe.Jacob was
>an adm. of Avery Howard's estate and Jacob bought land from
Obadiah Howard.
>Just can't tie the family together the way that gen. require
for validation.
>Thanks for any help. Sylvia
>

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