Re: William Blalock, father of Thomas, Sr. b. 1754
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William Blalock, father of Thomas, Sr. b. 1754
Gail Tomlinson 6/19/09
Gail: I have posted recently on this page. Most all of my research is done in the courthouses, and in the Archives. I have read deed records for 4 straight hours at a time and found one clue - sometimes the clue needed. I have found records that are not right - several of them death records - it depends on who was giving the information: For instance, an elderly gentleman and descendant took me to a graveyard a short distance from where I live in Person County and wanted me to help him decide what a man's first name was - the family had put a first name on the tombstone and his grandfather had told him they "thought" that was it as the man had been called by his middle name "Cook." Fortunately, he was buried between two wives, and so I went to the courthouse and looked up the marriage bond certificates. The man's name was Alexander Cook (last name)but on his tombstone it reads Roland Cook (last name).Marriage records are the most accurate as the persons applying for such were giving the information - even those are not always right because sometimes they lied about their ages and I have even seen an individual put down his father as someone else (just so he could come into some money from a long dead single rich man). I am sure you know all of this, however.
All the records that I have quoted in my recent postings are in the deed records of Johnson, Granville, Orange, Caswell, Person and Wake Counties - I frequent these county offices. Recently I gathered four pages of notes with about 8 records per page from the Johnson (current Wake) Co. and when I hurriedly jotted them down as there were so many, I did it by date and made sure I had the creeks - both very important. The chain bearers or chain carriers on these deeds were usually teenage sons of the transactors. I too have met with Mr. Ernest at his home, and read all of Mr. Burch Blalock's (deceased former Reg.of Deeds in Caswell Co.) records in Caswell Co.I live within 1/2 mile of one of the old John Cash homes (there is still a log cabin standing), and I live between one of the branches of Cubb Creek and Rocky Fork Creek (2/10 of a mile from my home)where the Blalock's owned land. His name is on one of the deeds of my fathers' land as a former owner. The Cashes lived for 150 years in what is now Moriah (a store and a church) after they moved the 1 mile from Camp Creek and Little Creek which are on the border of Person/Durham (formerly Orange Co.), which is where the Blalocks also lived. One correction to what the Blalock researchers have put in several records is that Cubb Creek and Deep Creek are the same - that is absolutely incorrect.It was Cubb Creek in the 1700's and Deep Creek in the 1700's and it still is (reference old maps available in the Granville County Library).
When I state "I believe" it means it is a studied guess based on all the deed and will records. When I quote records - that is exactly where I got them from records.
John Cash's wife was Lucretia Sherman, as John Sherman (Shearmon) gave his son-in-law's name as John Cash in his will of 1784 in Granville Co. and his wife was Catherine. John Sherman lived on Stoney Creek in Granville Co. which is now called Shelton Creek, though his first grant in N.C. was a little north of there on Grassy Creek. I recently went with several Shermans and Hicks to an old graveyard of his grandson John Sherman who married Hannah Jones in 1815 and one tombstone has been found buried in the dirt.
I was on the Editorial Board of the 1st Granville Co. Heritage Book printed in 2002. I have some information on the Cashes if you are interested.
Betty Adcock Blalock
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