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Facts and Events
Records in Tennessee
- In addition to the lure of cheap and fertile lands, other settlers were enticed to remove to the Canebrake for other reasons, namely family associations which were strong within the area. From Virginia, Reuben Vaughan and his sons, Alfred, Samuel Watkins, and Ingram, and his sons-in-law, Henry Duggar, A. J. Kidd, and Robert Montague bought contiguous plantations near Prairieville. Samuel, Israel, and James Pickens from North Carolina settled south and west of Greensboro. George W. H. Minge and David Minge, along with their brother-in-law, Richard Adams, purchased adjoining plantations east of Uniontown near what would become the Faunsdale community. In addition, there were brothers Kimbrough and John H. Dubose, William and Samuel Fitts, John and Richard Walthall, Alfred and Durant Hatch, James and Amos Manning, Hudson and James Ware, and John and Richard Napier. Census records indicate that Marengo was settled primarily by settlers from Virginia and South Carolina while Greene County was an area favored by North Carolinians. Even as early as 1822, Samuel Strudwick, residing near Arcola, in a letter to Thomas Ruffin, described the community of emigrants at Greensboro as the "Carolina Colony," in reference to the majority of North Carolinians comprising the town's population. Similarly, the majority of Perry County residents, especially in the southwestern panhandle, were from Virginia and North Carolina. [Source: Dubose, "Chronicles," various pages; Williams, p. 288 -289. Census Records for Marengo, Greene, and Perry Counties, 1830-1860].
- 1783 Tax List of Greene County, TN: James Pickens. Genealogy.com
- 9-1-1801, Petition of James PERKINS/PICKENS states that some time ago he laid off 30 lots (of A each) with streets and alleys on the "plantation whereon your petitioner now lives" for the purpose of establishing a town In Sullivan County; he asks that a law be passed to establish the town "on KENDRICK's Creek on the Grait Road by the name of Peggysville ••• " Signed James PICKINS, Thos KING, Jacob SALE. No date. [1]
- 11-1-1801, Petition to the General Assembly of Tennessee: "The within subscribers taken in the County of Sullivan residing on the south side of the River, taken at the plantation of Capt. Allen's now owned by Walter JAMES on the Great Road leading from Bluntsville to Green County ... also another cross road leading from COMB's ferry to-Jonesborough at a large spring called the Pleasant Garden Spring, considered to be most convenient by said subscribers for said muster, the purpose of said petition.", [signed by] James Pickens Sr. [others omitted]. [2]
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