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Why do I think this Robert White
of Caswell County NC is our Robert?
Link to Robert White Sr Web Page
1.
Isaac Murphy Letter of
1871
"Grandfather was born near the Roanoke River VA and
lived a time along the Tar River NC"
Both the Roanoke and Tar touched and ran through Old
Caswell Co (prior to 1791), when
Person Co was created from Caswell, a Robert White and
William Whitehead were there until 1788.
2. William Whitehead,
father-in-law to Robert White Sr, in his
Will names his oldest child
daughter, Milly
as "Milla White". He lives in Laurens Co SC, on
Cane Crk, our Robt had land on
Cane Crk also, sold 1814.
Laurens and Union were Old 96th Dist
where Robert
arrived in 1787/88. The counties of Laurens
and Union are next to each other, in Union's southern
west
corner, 1825 map of Union shows an area called
"White" this is after our White's who lived in this
area, and most of the families. we married into are there...
Have not found a land purchase by Robt in Laurens,
could be land Milly inherited from her father?
As Milly White died in 1807, Wm Whitehead her dad, in
1805, Robert would have to dispose of the land.
On This
1814 Deed sale, Wm White, son of Robert Sr, and son-in-law, Lewis Rhodes were witnesses.
The sale was to Charter Nichols (Nickles), he was the
Estate Administrator to Wm Whitehead's Estate,
William Whitehead 2nd married to Margaret (Marey)
Nichols, in Laurens Co, may have been related to Charter?
3. William Whitehead can clearly be
tracked from Caswell Co
NC, where most of his siblings were born,
to Granville, back to Caswell, and on to Laurens Co in
1788, via Deeds and court and tax records.
4. Robert White of Caswell,
was on the Tax records there from 1780 to 1787, and so was our Wm
Whitehead.
5. Robert White is
witness on Wm Whitehead deed formerly of
Caswell Co. However, the Deed transaction was 1791
but Ref Wm Whitehead now of Lawrence Co SC (they meant
Laurens), with Wm Morgan and Robt White wit.
so Robert is already in SC as is Wm Whitehead, Wm still
had land holdings in Caswell, after he moved to Laurens.
**important to note here that Old Caswell was up
against Granville, before Person Co was formed from Caswell.
**Note Wm Morgan - there was another Wm Morgan in
Laurens arrived after ours, ours also moved to Union Co.
6.
Other Caswell Families
migrated to Laurens Co SC, some probably with our group, such as
Hudson
Berry
Family. If you wanted to stay alive in those days, you
did 'not' venture into the wilderness alone with your family...
7.
Some of the Families of
Caswell, also had lived in Hanover Co VA, just a note here, I tested
my
DNA and
we connect to many other surnames and Hanover VA seems
to be the common denominator....Future study!
8. I am finding that other
families of Union Co SC had also come this same path...
Murphy's,
Jacksons, Gibson,
Browning's, and others, families our White's married
into, in Union Co SC.
This mainly, circumstantial
evidence, has lead me to formulate the
THEORY of Robert White of
Caswell being ours...
DNA - we need many more White's on
our lineage and other branches to test, thus far, I must be the only
White of Robert
White Sr to have tested. I matched with other White's,
that are stuck on their research
as I am, and we
cannot make that connection, I feel, they may be from a sibling of
Robert's etc.
DNA - Many other Surnames match with our DNA, raising many questions,
hopefully, that can be answered in
my lifetime,
but the New Genetic Genealogy is just getting started and hopefully
will help us in the future. |
