James,
I just get more and more excited about the DNA collections. I had read about the Orange
County, NC Carrolls from the work of
various researchers.
At her website Faye Stryker has her Stephen b abt 1733 emigrating from Ireland and
settling in Orange County, NC. In a letter to me
she said she was told that he came into Wilmington with two brothers. She thought Stephen
settled in Orange County, one brother
settled in Sampson County, and one went further west. I know we can't base out
research on family stories, but they surely give us a
theory to test. Here is the URL for Faye's website. If that doesn't work, write to
me if interested.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/r/Wanda-F-Strycker/GENE1-0...
I had also seen that Charles b abt 1760, m Mary in 1785, and had sons Asa and Stephen in
Orange County.
But I had never noticed a MOSES in Orange County. Are you aware that there was a Moses in
the 1784 tax list of Sampson County? It
was listed as Moses 100-1-0. I don't have a key right now for that tax, but I think it
was probably 100 acres of land, 1 adult male,
and either one horse or one slave. (I have seen some early tax lists in VA that listed the
horse, not the slave.) I did not see
Moses on the land grants that I have examined, but I have not search land records for
him.
Moses was not in the 1790 census, but there was an Elizabeth as head of household who was
not listed as H of HH in 1784. Those of us
researching together in Sampson have assumed that she was the widow of Moses.
I wonder if Moses could have been the brother of Stephen who settled in Orange County. I
wonder if your Michael b abt 1770 was son
of the Sampson County Moses, and that he went to live with or near his uncle in Orange
County. Then he named his son Moses after the
grandfather. I wonder if your DNA is going to match the DNA from Sampson County.
I WONDER a lot!
Lura
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From: <JWC51(a)aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:14 PM
Subject: [CARROLL-DNA] ROLL CALL
My name is James Carroll, and I am a DNA contributor (waiting for Batch 101
to be completed to obtain markers 25-37). My fourth great grandfather was
Michael Carroll, born about 1770. He was married in Orange County, North Carolina
20 February 1787, and died in the same county 4 January 1824. His son Moses was
born 13 November 1789 in Orange County, had a large family born in Orange
County, and later migrated to Georgia in 1834, eventually settling in Carroll
County, Georgia.
Like the Carrolls mentioned in Duplin County, North Carolina, there were
several other Carrolls living in Orange County, NC with whom Michael was
associated by various documents, but we have never been able to firmly establish his
exact relationship with these other Carrolls, nor determine definitely who his
parents were.
I suspect that the Carrolls enumerated by Lura in Duplin County, 70 miles to
the southeast, had some connection with the Carrolls of Orange County. It will
be interesting to see what the full test results show.
Anyone please feel free to contact me if you would like to exchange
information or have questions. And yes, thanks very much, Eric, for volunteering to be
the list coordinator.
Thanks,
James Carroll