I don't know about whether John Blakey was the son of Nicholas L. Blakey. Abraham Warren, Sr. died sometime after 19 Nov 1792. That's what I have in...

There are several Litchfield wills in Currituck County, starting with that of Edward Litchfield in 1768. To read transcriptions, go to the Currituck ...

I don't believe her name was Mary Ann, but just Mary. I've never seen a contemporary document with her name given as Mary Ann. It seems to me that s...

Thanks for trying. You've actually confirmed my first instinct, which says the first letter is a "D" and the third an "r". Ancestry claims "S" and "...

Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you, George. According to Pitt County land records, Lewis Spear sold several tracts of land left to him by hi...

I may have found a clue regarding Matilda. On Lenoir County's USGenWeb site, under Deeds, there's an abstract in Book 5 that says: P 463 – Inden...

Found an interesting deed, Craven County Deed Book 28, pg. 370, dated 13 Feb 1785, wherein Thomas King, Joseph King, William King and Sophia Cuthrell ...

Okay, I can say with certainty that Thomas King, son of Jeremiah, was NOT the same person as the Thomas King (d. 1801) to marry Little Little (d. 1804...

You're welcome, Wendell. Glad I could help.

Wendell, The Mills family is more Sara's bailiwick than mine, but curiosity, and the need for a break from my own current puzzler, made me give it a...

Have you looked at the Thomas Morris living in Bladen County in 1790? On the census, he had 3 free white males under the age of 16 and three free whi...

Okay, I found a site that suggests that Kemp's Ferry is the same as Street's Ferry and was, at one time, Graves's Ferry. At the time George Washingto...

I'm sorry to say that I don't know where Kemp's Ferry was located. The biggest clue I've found so far is a second patent that was issued to Mathias i...