Fort Dobbs; J.P. Caldwell; William Sharpe. North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program website. Farming as well as tobacco and cotton factories were predominant in the 1880s. With over 520 miles of shoreline in Iredell County, Lake Norman remains the most popular tourist attraction and physical trait of the region. (Hunt and Titus were married to Smith's nieces.) He moved to Kentucky . document.write(cy). When did they come to NC and from where. Beginning with Burke County land grants to Thomas BROWN, father-in-law of Josiah BRANDON and continuing with the various DAVIDSONs, it soon became obvious that this land lay in what is now McDowell County. 2006. Please click on the links below to access the Rowan Public Library movie series about the history of Rowan County Check for available copies of A Ramble Through Rowans History. I am the great grand daughter of pattie privett Joyner. His family cemetery bears many headstones of the Willis clan. Does anyone know if descendants of Edward Moseley ended up in South Carolina? To name just a few, John BRANDON, Esq., had large tracts surveyed near the Johns River in 1763 and also claimed a large bottom area (Brandons Bottom) along the Catawba River about seven miles west of present day Morganton. None could have been Loyalist Captain BRANDON. When Congress passed the Pension Act of 1832 for Revolutionary War veterans. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. [D] EDENTON AREA between Chowan and Yaupin Rivers [north shore of Albemarle Sound]: Heath, Altin, Luten, Paget, Gale [E], Jones [H], Gale [C], Vaile [J], Moseley [E], Jones [F], Beabury,Beasly, Blount [J], Vaile, Porter [E], Pearce [T], Ward [J]. at the end of twenty or thirty days after the Indians had-been driven back from the settled areas. Instead, just read the list, as many spellings of surnames are different than the conventionally used spellings. I would like to know more about the Hatteras Indian reservation and its location. WebRowan Countys most popular and historic landmark has remained the Old Stone House. Dr. Britt has specified the following usage limitations: Not to be reprinted for publication without written consent of the author. I found a grant entered in 1778 by Benjamin COCHRAN for land where Richard TIDWELL had lived. Col. OSBURN was a justice, representing a district which included that part of Rowan on the west and south side of the Catawba River and that part which was east and north of that river, but west of First Little River (today's central Alexander County The best approach to discovering the identity of Josiahs father appeared to be the tracing of each BRANDON who had come from Pennsylvania and settled around Salisbury, and then eliminate each one as it became obvious that that person could not be the Captain. It provides lots of information, including news from other clubs in the Eastern Ontario Square Dance area, and details about conventions, jamborees, and dances.