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Subject: [TABER] KY-TN Tabor families
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:07:44 EST

If any of your Tabor/Taber families, and/or their collateral lines, were
living within 15 miles of the KY/TN border, you might want to read an article
called "Walker's Line" that is posted on the "Southern Journey" Tabor website.

A brief synopsis: Two survey teams were sent out to determine the southern
boundary of KY prior to it becoming a state in 1792. Four years later, before
TN was officially named a state, the southern border of KY was resurveyed and a
15 mile error was discovered in the section surveyed by Thomas Walker and his
team. Not knowing which survey was correct, KY and TN haggled over the line
between 1796-1820 when they reached a compromise. That is the reason the
northern border of TN is not a straight line.

If your Tabor's lived in one state, but sometime between 1796-1820 they show
up in tax records or census records of the other state, but you can find no
evidence of a deed or land transaction to show they moved, they probably didn't
- the state line moved. Of if they settled in KY but show up in TN after 1820
with no deeds, etc. the records are probably not lost - just that they were
originally recorded in the other state.

If you want to know more, the Walker's Line article is posted on both the KY
and TN pages, and includes maps so you can see the section of the state that
was involved.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/family/~tabor/Tabor/TNTabor/TnIndex.htm
or
http://freepage.rootsweb.com/family/~tabor/Tabor/KYTabor/KYIndex.htm



Sharon Tabor

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