Sources

Sources and method

We keep the working tree on Ancestry and the documents themselves in a family archive we control. On this site, every date and claim traces to one of the following, or is labeled as family tradition.

Archives and record sets

• State Archives of North Carolina, land grant files, via nclandgrants.com.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Research System (Patriot Index).
• Weynette Parks Haun, North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts (transcriptions of State Archives records).
• United States Federal Census, 1790–1910 (Halifax, Rutherford and Cleveland counties, NC).
• North Carolina Marriage Records, 1741–2011; North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909–1976.
• National Archives, Compiled Service Records of Revolutionary War soldiers (M881).
• North Carolina estate and probate files (Rutherford and Mecklenburg counties), via FamilySearch and the North Carolina Genealogical Society.
• Civil War pension files, National Archives (Bartlett McMurray).

Secondary sources

• NCpedia, State Library of North Carolina.
• North Carolina Historic Sites and the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
• American Battlefield Trust.
• Piedmont Trails, on early Mecklenburg settlement.

How we handle uncertainty

Dates that records disagree on are shown as ranges. Links in the chain that rest on one document are called plausible, not proven. We correct the site when better evidence turns up, and we note what changed.

A note on privacy

This site is about people who lived before us. We don't publish details about living family members here.