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The below was posted today to Jean-Pierre Paats Williams, and others:
Attached is a screen shot of Doolittle Mill Pond on Potacasie Creek, at Pates Delight, in Northampton County, North Carolina. Doolittle Mill Pond is just below Conway, NC, on the aerial photo map shown. Mr. Jarvis Martin, Conway local oral historian, does not know of any history of Doolittle Mill Pond.
My impression from different official Northampton County maps, is that the pond has been drained during some periods of time. It is interesting to me that Martin is the surname of the captain of Arthur Pett’s ship Unity (and an old Casa Paetus (Capetien) surname). It is also interesting that Conway is a given name among Roses of Wayne County, North Carolina, in the light of the fact that a Sir John Pate with Merovingian connections changed his family surname to Rose.
There are now neither Pates nor Roses in Conway, but Mr. Martin knows of the ancient Pate family now living on Occaneechee Neck Road. He’s knows of no Pate nor Rose connections to Conway, which is an old naval stores manufacturing center. This would have put this area into the business and social purview of Montagues and Deanses of Wayne County, whose principal business was naval stores.
Garris is an ancient and prominent family in Conway, who run the Northampton County Garris counterpart of the Pate Dawson Company in Goldsboro. Garris is the maiden name of my cousin Audrey Elizabeth Garris Todd Smith. Audrey is now married to a John Thomas Smith. Blood calls to blood. You know about the ancient Pett/Pate Smith connections.
Anywhere I go in North Carolina is home to me. No. I couldn’t make this stuff up.
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