In The Name of God Amen.

In the early years of TheWeb--c1994--I used to do Infoseeks fairly often, and since I never found anything much impurressive or eartshaking, I kinda maybe just gave up seeking. I don't know at what point I really gave up. Then one day a coupla short months ago all that changed. All of a sudden I was getting hits on Names Which Only I Should Know. hahahaha. Since that time I have been literally staggered on Several occasions and "introduced" myself to numerous cousins, abt whom I'll share more later. But in the meantime I can now get to know some of these people herein listed before I have to meet them On The Street Up In the Sky or Down In The Valley; It means a whole lot to me, In The Name Of God Amen.

[This is the same great Day of the Week Calendar for any year that's on genemack--
Day of The Year Calender]

And I don't mean to sound like an awards show but I have to here thank my Uncle Ralph Stephenson, RIP, for making sure I had all the essential family group records in the first place, and for as far back as he knew, which was pretty far. And then some. And long after I had been content with the thought that I was as far back as I was going, up popped a Weakley County RootsWeb line of tombstones that went from my Uncle Almond to my Great Great Grandfather Mann Patterson. I almost fainted--WHo could have uploaded these pics???
It had to be someone close, reaaaaal close, the person who put those pics up on that website.
Turned out it was my Cousin Linda, my GrandPappy's Brother's Grandchild, who I didn't at all know. In an earlier day, I'd a known her by sight, alas!! And she shared with me her family information, abt which I knew Nothing!! Sent me pic tures of My Great Uncle Floyd and his Beautiful Wife with a wonderful name, Annie Brite.
I had before seen pics of him--long ago--but we all know how the division of photographs goes over the generations.
In any case she broke down the door to several more generations of Stephensons--I still don't quite understand how it was my Uncle Ralph either didn't know or hadn't made me aware of Solomon Stevenson/Stephenson and beyond.
So finding the 3 previous generations of Stephensons was abt as close to overwhelming as anything of the written word could be. I still haven't recovered, I'm hooked with knowing more.
Ad dict ed to knowing more.
Since Jonathan Stephenson (David's second-oldest son) left Wake/Johnston Counties c1844 (daughter Mary Malvina E.? Stephenson Fagan was born in Wake NC 1843, John Jasper Newton STephenson was born in Henry County, TN 25 4 1844) there has been no contact between this branch of the Stephenson family and anyone in North Carolina. It might have even been as early as 1836, but this date doesn't much jive in my brain with the Wake County birth dates mentioned above. My father remarked in his memoirs that he often wondered why this was true. He said he had never heard anyone, however ancient, speak of anyone in North Carolina, although he very well knew his forefathers were Malkus, Mann, Jonathan, and David. I want to think that Jonathan's leaving North Carolina was one of Opportunity and Discovery, but I just don't really know this. And I want to think that if travelling hadn't been so tough and life not so hard, that if given the opportunity, that he would have sent an email or something back to those folks once in awhile. But I don't really know this either.

And I don't really know much abt the beginnings of any 'Colonial Society' nor of any First Families of Raleigh, but I have this Sweet Vision abt times then: Samuel Pearson built the Yates Mill in 1756--Some British Lord Proprietor of Something or Other granted him a Section of Land (640 Acres) and by the very nature of human society, everybody around him visited Samuel's mill to get their cash, to process their food, and maybe to hang with his sons and chase his daughters. That's how I think things went down back then.
Samuel Pearson had a whole slew of daughters--6 of em, to be exact--and with all I've read, and nothing so far contrary, it seems that the Pearson Sisters married well into Raleigh Society, if they infact didn't actually define it. Everything points to this, but you see, I just don't know. They were
Rachel,
Patience,
Charity,
Fereby,
Esther, and
Peace.

(Slap me now, slap me...Did someone just drop me out of a book or something??????)
The Stephenson House
This picture was on the first generation of wakecounty.gov, the Wake County website, but they have since taken it down--David's son David built this house, and I believe this is the house from which Colonel LD Stephenson was hung (but not kilt) from the balcony by yankees in the Civil War because of his outspoken views.
I had originally thought that this was David's father's house, but have since found the real deal:
If you fly here 35°42'06"N, 78°42'13"W on Google Earth it's very easy to see how David and Charity's house evolved to remain the focal point of this entire lakefront neighborhood.

And Charity's just younger sister? Fereby Pearson's house "...is located south of Raleigh, off Old Fayetteville Stage Road, and is shown on Price-Strother 1808 Map of North Carolina as "Col Whitakers," and probably is the oldest house now standing on its original foundation in Wake County." Fereby's House
Fereby Pearson lived in John Whitaker's Echo Manner Plantation, that's what it was called.
I think it's awesome--noone can deny the enduring and still standing legacy of Charity and Fereby. Brother Simon received the Mill in Samuel's Will and married Polly Atkins, whose family also owned a nearby mill. On Atkins Road.
The more I learn abt David Stephenson, the more I'm convinced of the closeness of his friendship with Simon Pearson, son of Samuel (and brother of Charity), who's born the same year, 1749. Paris Allen Pearson, brother of Charity, marries Mary Gilmore; David names his first child Simon, who marries Sally Gilmore, probably Paris and Mary's daughter; Elizabeth Utley marries Asa Pearson; Alvin Utley marries Polly Stephenson. Samuel Pearson's mill, which is located on Steep Hill Creek and which stayed in the Pearson Family for two generations, got its present name from the last individual who owned and operated it. It had long been a slowly collapsing though picturesque part of the NC State University landscape when some right-minded benefactors came to its rescue in the 90s, and just in the nick of time. Samuel Pearson's Mill is now owned by NCSU and is the centerpiece of the new State Park and Recreation ARea--I hope I've stated this with some degree of accuracy. heheh
Renovations had already begun when Hurricane Fran struck or else the mill would probably have joined the other 39 or so Mills which had collapsed, leaving no trace or hint of a way of life which once was. Yates Mill is on the National Register of Historic Places and is without any doubt the most photographed object of any kind in Wake County.
But what is more, there are Stephensons buried at Yates Mill. I had thought I'd know who is buried there by this time but I guess it's not to be just yet.
One other thing abt Yates Mill-- The STephensons and STeephill Creek (Yates Mill)--I keep coming back to the alliterative connections here--it's my nature. More than once I heard my father explain the phonetics of Stephenson as Steep n son. ??? Avery small curiosity.
Yates Mill History

So the Stephensons owned and operated just a little southeast of the mill and as fate would have it, these families are just abt as connected as it gets. Andso armed with the names that I had and the info piling up rapidly I came across this most illuminating Website
Frances Cullom Harper's Christopher Woodward page
which forever changed my understanding of Stephenson geography.
All I can say is that I'm surprised I haven't found any Woodwards--so far--in the Stephenson family but I won't be surprised if and when I ever do.
With this map
Raleigh Area, c1870
the biggest part of the Geographic Mystery was solved. Thank you very much.
The instructions here are very simple: look for A) Stephensons, wherever they may be, and B) the intials L.D.S., just to the right of Peace's Plantation. This has to be the Home Place of David Stephenson, who died in 1808, if in fact they are not his own initials. David's son David had a son David and these initials are probably his. But IN ANY CASE the location hasn't changed. Those initials LDS could very well stand for,
(are you sitting down?)
Leonidas Dacostas Stephenson.
To carry on , just above these initials is the name M Whitaker. Fereby Pearson married John Whitaker.
Let's cruise around this map: Right below Cary, and to the right is Yates Mill, on Walnut Creek.
If this is the same as Steep Hill Creek, I'd like to know this, but it really doesn't matter. This is Samuel Pearson's mill. Right below this is Ramcat (I can read it no other way) Road and just below this is where it gets real interesting for me. I see Atkins (Simon Pearson married Polly Atkins), and in two distinct places on this map the name Stephenson and the name Atkins are associated: up near the source of Swift Creek and next to GW Atkins Mill, near Atkins Road.

If you look for a place in the Wake County Census where there are 3 Davids in a row, you will find David Stephens (Stephenson), and from this original listing--and all I've learned--I can tell which direction the census taker is going--the names of neighbors and relatives just jump off the page.
Today, March 4, 2004 I learned indeed there was an Atkins/Stephenson connection-- suffice it to say, all map names have been put there for you to find. !!
Is Peace's Plantation from Peace Pearson, Samuel's daughter, who married William Pope.
I don't know, but I do know Samuel Pearson was c1776 "Minister of The Peace", or somesuch royal sounding term, and I can't help but think Peace got her name from this connection. It's a romantic notion, maybe that's all it is. Samuel Pearson was also given charge of 8 miles of Road.
Just which Road is, of course, on my Agenda, but you can be sure, it's either N or S, and there are only two choices. heheh
For quite a long time I knew there must be a Myatt connection to the Stephensons because they were all around the same area--and mentioned twice in David's Will. So finally, through Alvin Utley, there you go, Myatt! Infact, this family--go ahead, check it out!!--maintained Stephenson connections in the naming of their children for a number of generations, the name Charity in particular. One I particularly liked was David Jonathan.

You get inklinks of thingggs, like I have right now with Patience McKinne and the name Aycock...

One of the first place names I learned in this quest was 'Camp Branch'--kinda center-right on this map, near the name A Utley--Polly Stephenson married Alvin Utley. A little further east, over by Panther Branch, is the name McCullers--two of David's sons, Stephen and David, married McCullers (I spent the better part of a week trying to determine if they were sisters, which to my mind they almost certainly are).
I finally made a "Lane Diagram", gleaned mostly from a Thomas Lane page (THAT was a struggle), and the final result was almost satisfying, but mostly just fascinating.
Quick and Dirty Lane Diagram
My current Flash is that Sarah Bradford Lane and Rebecca Lane McCullers were daughters of Joseph, who was son of Joseph, Jr., who was son of Joseph, Sr., and their mother was Sarah Bradford Lane.
Then there is this, Joseph Jr. had a child named Sarah, but she was born before 1753--the two McCullers daughters in question were born in 1797 and 1799 so...
more on this later. I once found a link to a website that went right to a list of all of Capt. Mathew McCullers' children but it was a dead link...sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh

27/7/04
Sarah Lane, b. 22 4 1763, m. 1784, Wake NC, d. 7 12 1843

Joseph LANE, b. 15 4 1731, Wake, NC, died, buried there.
married Sarah BRADFORD 2 3 1750
Rebecca LANE was born on 3 6 1753 in , Wake Co., NC.
Tabitha LANE was born on 4 6 1755 in , Wake Co., NC. She was buried in 1760 in , NC. She died on 15 Oct 1760 in , Wake Co., NC.
Rhoda LANE was born on 6 6 1757 in , Wake Co., NC. She was buried in 1760 in , NC. She died on 21 Oct 1760 in , Wake Co., NC.
Joseph LANE.
This list is incomplete.
Sarah Lane, Sarah Bradford Lane, b. 1763, m. Mathew McCullers, had children Rebecca Lane McCullers and Sarah Bradford Lane McCullers
And not only that, Rebecca, as older and possibly sole surviving sister, would be THE name you would expect.
Nothing about this does not make perfect sense. It has to be this way

WILL:Johnston Co., registry at Smithfield, NC, dated 2 Nov 1767, pro bated at
May turn of Court 1768. Mentioned his mother, a brother Wm. McCuller s and
issue. !! Who were they? This brother was a sheriff, and was not in the 1790 census.
Source:1760 Colonial Records vol. 8 & 9 Nov. 20 1760. GS film #130589 9.
John McCullars was a Colonel in the Rev. War. and may have been born in VA.

Well...found some Mat McCullers stuff:
Mathew Jones McCullers, b. 14 6 1759, m. Sarah Lane (b. 22 4 1753) in 1784, d. 1825, and was the son of John McCullers and Mary Jones.

There's the rub. McCullers Cemetery, Sarah b. 1753, she born 1763. Having children at 49 one thing, but at 59 quite another.

Joseph Lane was born on 15 4 1731 Wake, NC, d. 1798 Wake, NC, buried Wake,
parents Joseph Lane, Jr. and Patience McKinnie.

John McCullers had known brother William McCullers.
Mary Jones was the daughter of Francis Albridgton Jones and Mary Elizabeth Ridley, who were married in Isle of Wight, VA.
Francis Albridgton Jones was born in 1692 and died in 1755 at Edgecombe County, North Carolina and was the son of Francis Jones, Sr. (grandson of Matthew and Martha Jones) and Mary Tignall.
Mary Ridley was born c1706 and died after 14 1 1750 and after 1784 in Wake County, North Carolina, only one of which seems to be of certainty. She was the daughter of Nathaniel Ridley and Elizabeth Day.

Matthew...Ridley
francis... ridleys
days'
jones, conflicts
lead to nacogdoches tx, matthew not francis
mims matthew
sally's brown matthew
bones jones calvin

History of Bennetts from Bodie:
Daughter of Elizabeth Day and Capt Nathaniel Ridley; Mary Ridley married Francis Jones, nephew
of her step father, Matthew Jones. Francis was a grandson of Matthew Jones of Warwick who
married Elizabeth sister of Richard Albridgton. Richard Albridgton made his will 23 Apr 1683,
and mentions son, Richard; dau. Elizabeth; sister Margaret Albridgton; Daughter Mary is to have
mare given her by her uncle Francis Albridgton and uncle, Richard Wooten, and is to dwell
with his sister Elizabeth Jones. Loving brothers Matthew Jones, George Albridgton and
John Albridgton, overseers.

MARY RIDLEY married FRANCIS JONES SR, son of MATTHEW JONES JR and MARTHA
(--?--), at Isle of Wight, Virginia. She was born after 1699 at Isle of Wight, Virginia. She died after
14 Jan 1750 at North Carolina.

(e) HENRY JONES married SALLIE MCCULLARS SMITH at North Carolina. He married
ANN JONES, daughter of NATHANIEL JONES and (--?--) PERRY, at North Carolina.
He was born on 29 Jan 1766 at North Carolina. He died on 10 Oct 1840 at age 74.

Which is correct?

From Camilla Webb Davis' chart dated 1932:
Matthew JONES m. ALBRIDGTON
Matthew JONES 1665-1736 m. HARWOOD
Matthew JONES -1762 m. TIGNAL
Harwood 1704-1771 m. CHISMAN
Francis -1755 m. RIDLEY

From "17th Century Isle of Wight"(Co.,VA), 1938, Boddie.
Matthew JONES m. Elizabeeth ALBRIDGETON
son Francis ( -1750/5 NC) m. Mary RIDLEY
Ridley JONES m. dau. of Benjamin KIMBELL
Mary R. JONES m. James MIMS

From Mrs. Eleanor Davis McSwain: (births approximated)- book ca.1983
Matthew JONES 1643-1712 m. ALBRIDHTON of Warwick Co.
Francis JONES 1684- m. TIGNAL of Warwick Co.
Matthew JONES 1707-1744 m. HARWOOD of Warwick Co.
Francis 1707-1755 m. RIDLEY of Isle of Wight Co., EdgecombeCo. Matthew - of IoW - no descendants
Marget John - of Warwick Co. Have you seen the above information?

Which, if any, is most likely to be correct?

[I think they all have...issues !!] "This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!"

Children of Matthew Jones & Elizabeth Albrighton:
1. Francis Jones ca 1667/70-ca1715/27
2. Judith Jones, married ca 1724 William Cary 1700-1742
3. Nathaniel Jones
4. Matthew Jones ca 1685-1728
5. John Jones ca 1680/85 -aft 1735
6. Mary Jones -bef 1739, married Dr. Samuel Browne ca 1670-1740

Francis Jones, born 1692; died 1755 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
He was the son of Francis Jones and Mary Tignal. He married Mary Ridley in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
Mary Ridley, born Abt. 1706; died Aft. 1784 in Wake County, North Carolina. She was the
daughter of Nathaniel Ridley and Elizabeth Day. digginupbones, consistent with McSwain

mathew mccullers
sallie mccullers
barbarashultz@flash.net pheraby mccullers, john

Francis was nephew of Mary Ridley's stepfather, Mathew Jones. ??
i.e., Francis, "Sr." and Mathew Jones were brothers?
Francis Albridgton's and Mary Ridley's children:
--- 1. Nathaniel Jones, d. January 30, 1810 in Wake County, North Carolina; m. Ann Snickers.
--- 2. Mary Jones, m. John McCullers
--- 3. John Jones, m. Mary Cain.
--- 4. Tignal Jones, b. 1720 Isle of Wight County, VA, d. 29 8 1807 Wake, NC; m. Penelope Cain 1755.
--- 5. Mathew
--- 6. Albridgton
--- 7. Francis
--- 8. Juidith
--- 9. Lucy
---10. Bette
---11. Lydia, b. c1737, m. Drury Mims c1764 NC, John, David, Livingston, Mary Ridley, Britton, Matthew, Drury, Tignal, Lydia Elizabeth
---12. Ridley [f]
---13. Jemima

Matthew Jones m. Eliza. Albridgton
Matthew Jones m. Mary Tignal
Francis Albridgton Jones m. Mary Elizabeth Ridley

differs from the following:

Francis Jones
| Matthew Jones & Eliza(beth) Aldridgton
| | Francis Jones (1700 - Aug 1755) & Mary Ridley (1704 - 1749)
| | | Francis Jones* (1720 - Mar 1774) & Mary Robins
| | | Francis Jones* (1720 - Mar 1774) & Elizabeth Huckabee (1737 - 1798)
| | | Nathaniel Jones
| | | Tignall Jones
| | | Mathew Jones
| | | Albridgton Jones
| | | John Jones
| | | Ridley Jones
| | | Mary Jones & John Cullars, pawents of Mathew Jones McCullers <----------
| | | Judith Jones & Wilson
| | | Lydia Jones, omitted from prev. rec.
| | | Bette Jones, ditto
| | | Lucy Jones, ditto
| | | Jemima Jones

Albridgston Jones__01-02-02-00-00__Page: 104__Wake County, North Carolina.
Benjamin Jones__01-03-02-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Burwell Jones__01-00-00-00-00__Page: 104__Wake County, North Carolina.
David Jones__03-01-05-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Drewey Jones__01-02-02-00-00__Page: 102__Wake County, North Carolina.
Elkin Jones__01-03-04-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Etheldred Jones__01-04-00-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Francis Jones__00-00-00-00-00__Page: 103__Wake County, North Carolina.
James Jones__04-04-04-00-00__Page: 102__Wake County, North Carolina.
James Jones__02-02-04-00-00__Page: 104__Wake County, North Carolina.
James Jones__01-00-02-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Jesse Jones__02-03-08-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
John Jones__03-04-04-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Levy Jones__02-01-02-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Lewis Jones__04-02-04-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Mary Jones__02-01-04-00-00__Page: 104__Wake County, North Carolina.
Nathaniel Jones__02-03-06-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Nathaniel Jones, Sr.__02-00-05-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Philliph Jones__01-03-04-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Thomas Jones__02-00-01-00-00__Page: 104__Wake County, North Carolina.
Tignal Jones__02-05-03-00-00__Page: 104__Wake County, North Carolina.
William Jones__01-02-07-00-00__Page: 102__Wake County, North Carolina.
William Jones__02-02-03-00-00__Page: 103__Wake County, North Carolina.
William Jones__02-02-06-00-00__Page: 105__Wake County, North Carolina.
Willis Jones__01-00-02-00-00__Page: 106__Wake County, North Carolina.
Sarah Anderson1 (F)
b. c 1745, d. a 1779
d. a 1779|p42.htm#i2117|Thomas Anderson|b. c 1710
d. 1780|p39.htm#i1944|Sarah Clark|b. c 1720
d. a 1803|p42.htm#i2115|Thomas Anderson|b. c 1672
d. Oct 1757|p38.htm#i1892|Agnes Gannaway|b. c 1680
d. b 1750|p38.htm#i1934|||||||');"Pedigree Father-Bio* c 1710 Thomas Anderson
Mother-Bio* c 1720 Sarah Clark Birth* c 1745 Lunenburg County, Virginia, USA1 Marriage* 16 Nov 1767
Tignal Jones; Mecklenburg County, Virginia, USA1 Death* a 1779 1 Immigrant N Last Edited 7 Mar 2001
CoParent Tignal Jones Son-Bio* Francis Jones Son-Bio* John Jones Dau-Bio* Martha C. Jones
Dau-Bio* Sarah A. Jones
-------Joseph LANE- 1798- John Hugh; Sarah McCULLERS, (daugher); Mary BELL (daughter);
------Tabitha O'KELLY (daughter); Henry A. McCULLERS (grandson).

Now. Another source conflicts with this somewhat, leaving out Sarah, and a problem with Tabitha.

Joel Lane's brother,
Joseph Lane, b. 15 4 1731 Wake, NC, m. Sarah Bradford 2 3 1750, d. 1798 Wake, NC
Sarah Lane !!!! (left out elsewhere, mentioned in will), b. 22 4 1753, m. Mathew McCullers 1784
Tabitha LANE, b. 4 6 1755 Wake, NC, d. 15 10 1760 Wake, NC
Rhoda LANE, b. 6 6 1757 Wake, d. 21 10 1760 Wake, NC. !!!
The following DOB is a PROBLEM!
Rebecca LANE was born on 3 Jun 1753 in , Wake Co., NC.
I of course wholeheartedly support her Existence--Stephen Stephenson married Rebecca Lane McCullers.
Incidentally, if you look at the census for Wake County in 1850 you'll see that on every page is the name Stephen Stephenson, who gave each page his official enumeratorial blessing. The McCullers name on the map is JJL McCullers--this is Capt. Mathew McCullers' son's name, Joseph James Lane, surviving on this map in 1870 showing the old Home Place.
(Do a Google on JJL McCullers and you will find yourself in McCullers Cemetery on Donny Brook Rd.) Names remain in the same place for generations, that is, if you are lucky. Luck is all over this map.
Here's some more luck:
McCullers Schoolhouse, not only still standing but turned into a modern-day residence. This picture testifies to its antiquity.
Right above JJL McCullers and just below where Dutchman Creek enters Swift Creek, are Stephensons--on the 1870 map as well as the 1878 map.
Infact, there is the name M Stephenson, which suits me, Mack Stephenson, just fine. hahahaha
But at this point it's uncertain what to make of M Stephenson.

TakeALooook at one of Frances Cullom Harper's links once again:
Here is the 1878 Raleigh Map,
On the 1887 map the word STephenson is still in the right place (heheh), just below the confluence of Dutchman's Creek and Swift Creek, and I suppose Pleasant Sqr. Church now deserves some looking into. The name Pleasants is all over the Christopher Woodward page and I've learned not to ignore the obvious. Speaking of which, there is another huge mystery right there: Right below the prominent location Vineyard is the word Macedonia, with a Star drawn next to it. What does the Star signify? My ggg Grandfather in Tennessee was called Malcus Adonia, and this is just another one of those alliterative accidents, but the proximity of it was Glaring, to say the least.
Reminds me of that Star Trek episode. Know which one I'm talking abt?

The reason I found these maps at all was because I did a search on 'Terrible Creek', and on the 14th page of hits, I found the Woodward page.
What a Phenomenal Stroke of Luck!!
David willed some 200 acres on Terrible Creek, land purchased from John Phillips, to his son David. In the 1790 and 1800 census, David and Solomon are noted as living near Johnsons and Coats. Both these names are just below Terrible Creek, along with Utley, I might add. I'm more than a bit puzzled by this, don't know quite what to make of it.
I have every certainty all these little mysteries will unlock themselves. One way or the other.

So there are Maps and More Maps. Pretty soon I'm gonna see Grandpaw just walk right out of one of em, I swear. My goal is to find David's clothes line in his back yard. From the sky. They talk abt yer old quiltmakers. I've made my share of quilts, By God!, only these are digital things, Then overplayed with Now, or overlaid with streams and sometimes not.
Here's a little confused Patch Work from the beginnings ob my obsession, makes me smile seeing it now.

And here's the name Stephenson, located right where Angier is today. That was a Eureka! moment, I remember. Things were.....falling into place.

It was very cool finding my Cousin in Alabama--awesome, infact. She is a triple great or greater granddaughter of Polly Stephenson (Jonathan's sister) and Alvin Utley.
Alabama Cousin
I have also located the actual tombstone of Tabitha Stephenson, who married William H. Pegram, and is buried across the street from an historic grand old house, even comes with a story. They're having a little bit of trouble with Tabitha's name over there, but hey!, I think Tabitha (there I go) herself was kinduv responsible.
Click on Photos, look for William H. Pegram.
I still want to be excited abt the Stephenson House, which was alluded to by my cousin descendant of Brittian Stephenson--she being the fourth sibling line of David Stephenson using the web to search for roots--but all I have now is a bigger mystery. Whaaaaaaa???????
But even if if it is not the David Stephenson (son of Solomon Stevenson) House, it is *a* David Stephenson House, and the land it's on is positively David Stephenson (son of Solomon Stevenson) land.. I guess my excitement could easily be mistaken for insanity, but so it goes.
What you could say is that in many ways I wisht I'd never left Raleigh. But somebody had to do it.

One of the things I've had the hardest time getting used to is the following: Sarah Matthews McKinney [Mackenny McKinnie] Stephenson (wife of Solomon) is my ggg gg Grandmother, I finally accept this. And I'm in awe. Sarah. Matthews. Mackenny. Wife of Solomon.
And Isle of Wight County? Are you kidding me?
(Sarah's brother Joseph married Solomon's sister Elizabeth, incidentally.)
I've spent more than 40 years knowing David but not David's Mother's name. It's going to take awhile to feel the same abt The Ones Before. To love them the same way. It might seem strange?
It's like TV, man, I swear. One of those lost and then found things.
Sarah's bros' and sisses' kids'd be my 6th cousins, on a straight line, simple as that. hmmmmm.
I think I've seen some of these critters around. What am I going to do with them all?

Owell, So I guess that'll abt cover it for now, but in this section I have a final lame thought:
going by David Stephenson's Will, d. 1808, and the proximity of Yates Mill with PlaceNames like Coates, Johnson, McCullers and even Langdon (Stephenson Road, NC 1322, crosses Langdon property as it crosses I-40), I felt like a hawk, circling above North Carolina, and circling and circling and circling.
I'd like to land at an Old Haunt, but I just don't know if that'll fly...

I was last here on the 22nd of October, 2004