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Hello Karen,
Your research tools have by far surpassed my simple old fashioned methods. And that, may very well explain why my ox is in the ditch. My response here doesn't relate to your post. However, it does appear that you’ve been all over the Garretson/Garrison map and may have some knowledge of where my bunch might link to yours.
I descend from Aaron Garretson’s son Mason. Then from his youngest child Martha Ann, my great, great grandmother. I began researching this line some twenty years ago -- hit an impasse early on -- and have been staring at a brick wall ever since. The earliest public record I’ve found on my Garretsons is Mason’s bond, to marry Betsey (Elizabeth Jane) Hartin, dated 19 Aug 1808 and filed for record in Sumner County Tennessee. By 1816 their first four children, Mary, James, William and Aaron, were born in that county. The second four, John, Elizabeth, David and Martha, were born between 1821 and 1828 after the family had relocated to Giles County Tennessee. Seeking greener pastures, as most people did in the period, the family again relocated to Phillips County, Arkansas Territory.
In 1889, Goodspeed published a bio by Aaron, Mason’s and Betsey’s fourth child, wherein Aaron gives this timeline: He was born 10 April 1816 in Sumner Co TN. His ancestors were farmers of Carolina. (North or South not stated) His grandfather died in 1824. (name and location not stated) His father Mason was born 1782 in Carolina and came to Sumner Co TN in 1805. Then on to Giles Co TN in 1818 and on to Phillips Co AR in 1832, where Mason and Betsey died in 1838.
I have a copy of a Garretson family narrative, written by Oliver Kelleam Garretson who was a professor at the University of Arizona and was a grandson of Aaron and great grandson of Mason. He asserts that Mason was the son of Aaron and Mary Garretson, and that that was the first entry, under births, taken from the Garretson family Bible, which was in his possession.
I think I’m well documented from 1808. But to date, finding Aaron in Sumner Co TN, or in the Carolinas, hasn’t happened. I’m in hopes that you know something of this line from your Garretson digs in North Carolina.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tom Clark
Dallas, Texas.
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