Re: [CARROLL] Virginia Families
by Billy and Dianna Presson
Dee,
Do you have any connection to Carrell's in Burke /Caldwell Co.,NC
Dianna
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From: <DeeGib(a)aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [CARROLL] Virginia Families
>I am very interested in the Mary "Polly" Carroll born to William Carroll
> around 1820 in Haywood County, NC. The area that would become Macon
> County was
> ceded from the Cherokee in 1819 and was a part of Haywood County until
> Macon
> was formed in 1828. I have a John Carroll (Carrel, Carrell, and any other
> spelling that you can think of!) who married Jane Janes/Jaynes in
> Rutherford
> County, later coming to Haywood County. One of his daughters, Martha,
> married
> John Stewart Gibson in Haywood County in 1839. Other daughters married
> Campbell, Nichols, Simonds, etc. John disappears after 1840. We don't
> know if he
> died or migrated westward. At any rate, I am interested in any of the
> Carroll (and Janes/Jaynes) family associated with Haywood County.
>
> BTW, William Carroll could not have been born in 1772 in Franklin, NC.
> There
> were no settlers west of Old Fort east of what is now Asheville until the
> mid 1780s. The first one, Samuel Davidson, was murdered by the Cherokee
> in
> 1783. His twin brother then migrated with several others to what is now
> Buncombe County and before long, by 1791, there were enough settlers to
> warrant a
> new county and Buncombe was formed officially in January 1792. Could
> William
> have been born in Franklin County, NC, or maybe Rutherford or Burke?
> Franklin
> County is further east, not too far from Raleigh, but Rutherford and
> Burke
> Counties were the fartherest westward and Buncombe was formed from those
> two
> counties. There were Carrolls in Rutherford county for sure. The county
> seat of Macon County, NC is the town of Franklin, but it did not exist
> until the
> 1820s.
>
> Could we compare Carroll notes to see if there is any connection?
>
> Dee
>
>
>
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