Re: Jedidiah's Black Sheep Ancestor
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Re: Jedidiah's Black Sheep Ancestor
d.j. pass 10/05/00
Dolores Haller and Marilyn Robinson, compilers, Gleanings from the Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion's Herald, Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1989. FromSep 1827-Aug 1831 back copies of same. Abstract follows as submitted by his minister son, Levi, in Greenville, SC: "Jedediah Garrason, age 78, (died) March 3, 1830, Franklin County, Georgia, b(orn) 1752 in County of Cortwright, North Carolina of English parents, sometime after 1786 he lived in SC and later moved to Georgia..." Cortwright has been verified by COURT CLERK AS VALID spelling on several documents of the period this was written as Carteret County. Only one Garrison can be found living in Carteret Co. as an adult in the 1750s - James Garrison, who was the known father of Isaiah Garrison, later of Orange Co., and neighbor there of his purported brother, Jedediah, who is listed on tax lists there. Other obvious brothers were Adonijah and Ebenezer of old Duplin Co (next door). James live in a community of former Delawarians, just like him in Carteret Co. And so it goes...Sam