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CHEROKEE -- MELUNGEON
&
Other Families of Ashe and Wilkes County

Extracted From

NEW RIVER GORGE
PROCEEDINGS
New River Symposium 1984

EARLY SETTLEMENT ALONG THE NEW RIVER (NC AND VA) BASIN
William D. Bennett
Raleigh, N. C.

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21. John COX	Ch B: Edward SIZEMORE - John COX Jr
30. William LENOIR	Pr Occ: Robert Gipson   Ch B: James CRAIG
33. Benjamin HERNDON	Pr Occ: George COLLINS William HOWELL
34. George REAVES	Adj L: David COLLINS  William Bell was living at Colonel Chiswell's mines. Andrew Baker settled on land in the present county of Grayson, within the grant to the Loyal Company. It was originally surveyed in 1753 for Peter Jefferson, Thomas and David Meriwether and Thomas Walker. It was the Peach Bottom tract. John Cox settled there the same year. George Collins and George Reeves settled there in 1767.
35. Moses TOLLIVER	Land Grants
36. Not Used	South Fork of New River -- Land Grants - #966 Moses Tolliver & #967 George Gibson
51.Abraham ROWLAND	Pr Occ: William NALL Micajah BUNCH
103. Vincent HOLLENSWORTH	See-- Hollandsworth, Collins and Reed Records Found Here
104. Vinson HOLLANDSWORTH	See-- Hollandsworth, Collins and Reed Records Found Here
105. Benjamin WRIGHT
106. Stephen REED	See-- Hollandsworth, Collins and Reed Records Found Here -- Testimony in Morgan Co., Ind., by one Henry Ridenour states that John and Jame Reed were 'uncles' of Abraham Collins. The Reed, Collins, & Hollandsworth moved from Ashe to Clay Co., Ky., then Indiana together. Telitha Collins, believed to be wife of Ambrose is living next door to James and John Reed in Clay County, Ky., in 1820.
112. George MORRIS
113. Owen SIZEMORE	James Blevins married Lydia Sizemore. 11 June 1776 - The Fincastle Committee of Public Safety ordered that William Blevins, James Blevins and John Blevins be summoned to appear at Captain Evan Shelby's on Saturday 22nd of this month to answer the following Complaint: That they have refused to bear arms or muster in Capt. Shelby's Company of Militia agreeable to the Ordinance of Convention by reason of their attachment to the Enemies of American Liberty and Correspondence with Tories and the Cherokee Nation More Here
114. James MULKEY	772 - James Blevins settled along Little River, buying the land from James Mulkey.
115. William STURDIE
116. William STURDIE
117. Benjamin CLEVELAND	Benjamin Cleveland and his father in law settled near Mulberry Fields, indentified as an old Cherokee Indian Village by the Moravians in 1752.  More Here Micajah Bunch - King of the Melungeons; The Melungeon, who called their leaders "king" instead of  "chief,"  intermarried with the Cherokee Indians and were considered a branch of the tribe. Micajah Bunch was part Melungeon and part Cherokee
118. Benjamin CLEVELAND
119. Memican HUNT
120. John COX
121. John COX
122. John CATE
123. Joel GIPSON
126. Henry HARDIN	Adj L: Reubin STRINGER Samuel COLLINS

 

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NAMES APPEARING ON ENTRIES FOR LAND GRANTS AS ACTUAL OCCUPANTS OF THE LAND

Micajah BUNCH — Cranberry Creek — 16 Mar 1780

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ASSESSED VALUE IN 1778 OF TAXABLE ESTATES IN THAT PART OF WILKES COUNTY WHICH BECAME ASHE*

Northern Part of the New River Basin

ADKINS, Wm.	119.00.00	COLLINS, David	41.15.00 FLANNERY, Silas	33.05.00
BOGS, Jas.	112.00.00	COLLINS, George	26.06.00 FOSTER, Mark	132.16.00
BURTON, John	431.08.08	COX, John	60.00.00 HAMMONS, Ambrose	1621.17.08
COLLINS, Amboise	20.08.00	FEE, John	40.14.00 HAMMONS, John	45.05.00
COLLINS, Charles	44.01.02	FLANNERY, John	122.10.00 HAMMONS, John Jr.	198.02.00