Editor's Introduction: During the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of North Carolinians migrated to new territories west or south. Their experiences on the road were generally unrecorded, unlik those of the Harding family which were related in a rare family record. In an article which offers a vivid sense of the challenges and rewards of migration, a Harding descendant illustrates how a researcher may evaluate a document, how a family record can be used, and how such a record can be frustrating as well as informative. Mrs. Casstevens expresses particular gratitude to the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill.
As a child, I often heard the story of how my grandfather, Dr. Thomas R. Harding, had fallen out of the back of the wagon as it crossed a stream and then moved up a steep hill on the Harding family's way to the West . . .
. . . Only recently did I learn that a diary existed which had been kept on that journey by my grandfather's sister, Keziah Ann. . . .
The diary had been kept by the oldest daughter of William & Jane Elizabeth Speer Harding, fifteen-year-old Keziah Ann. It described a trip taken in the fall of 1855 by the Harding family, which at that time included nine children. The oldest, Samuel Speer Harding, was seventeen at the time. The youngest, my grandfather, was only a few months old, having been born 30 July 1855. Accompanying them was "Uncle Sam Ell," as Keziah calls him (either her uncle, Samuel H. Speer, or her grandfather, Samuel Speer, surveyor, and soldier in the War of 1812). Family members believe that it was Keziah's grandfather, the elder Samuel Speer because his second marriage to Nancy Speer in 1848 was not a happy one, and she later divorced him. The younger Samuel was also married and had a number of young children.
Although my copy of the diary begins with page two, it appears that the numbers have been added much later and that many of the first pages are missing. Just when Keziah began keeping the diary is not known, although page 2 is dated 5 November, just a day's travel east of Kinston, Tennessee. The Hardings probably left Yadkin County in late October after the crops were gathered. William Harding had sold his large, two-story home on the old Mulberry Fields Road near present-day Speer Bridge Road in Yadkin County, and with wife and children (and possibly some slaves, although Keziah does not mention them in the diary) began the long journey. The first stage of the journey probably followed the old Mulberry Fields Road, going by way of Hamptonville (Yadkin County), Wilkesboro (Wilkes County), Jefferson (Ashe County), to Elizabethton and Jonesboro in Tennessee. This was a regular stage coach route which ran from Salem to Jonesboro as early as 1842 or before, a distance of one hundred seventy-one miles. Assuming this portion of the trip was covered at a rate of twenty miles per day, the party probably started a week or ten days earlier, sometime around 27 October.
. . . The family traveled in a carriage (probably the same one that William Harding had listed for taxes in 1851, which was valued at $75.00), with probably one or more wagons, because there were at least twelve persons in their group. Once she wrote that there were some very interesting sights, "but we could not see anything for window was shut up in the carriage . . . "
At night they stopped and made camp, usually by a stream, and they slept in tents. On 7 November she noted: "It rained & rained all night & very hard. Some very hard showers. Our tents did not leak any, though they were spattered through a little. Once it rained so hard a trench had to be dug around the tent to keep out the water." At a spot in Giles County, Tennessee, she noted that "camping is rocky & the rock is so small it would take any one some time to throw them away." Nevertheless, after traveling twenty-two miles that day, camp had to be made, regardless of the rocky ground. Usually, the family slept on beds of straw or hay, but when they reached [Post] Oak Springs on 6 November, neither was available and they had "to buy fodder to put under our beds." To make matters worse, "our bed clothes are wet," something she found unpleasant enough to record.
The Hardings were not the only ones on the road. According to Keziah, there were "a great many moving to Texas . . . five wagons one day['s] travel before us & six wagons with us." By the time the Yadkin [County] family had reached Harden County, Tennessee, she counted "72 in camp," probably referring to seventy-two people. Near Waynesborough she stated that there were "a great many movers. We see more or less ever[y] day."
After a camp site was found, the animals had to be cared for, and a fire started to cook the evening meal. Keziah never specifically mentioned what was cooked or who did the cooking. Only once did she refer to food or drink. On a cold November morning (the 16th), she began her diary entry with "Coffee this morning." A crisis nearly occurred when two men "forbid us from getting wood," and stated that wood was "worth a great deal here." The men demanded payment for the wood, bu then the Hardings learned that the men did not own the wood, and drove the men away. A fire was kept going all night, and a watch kept for fear the men would return and harm them. On 17 November she noted that it was very cold and the wind blew so hard they could "hardly keep fire." . . .
Keziah meticulously noted fees charged for travel over toll roads, all of which seemed exorbitant to the family. On the turnpike roads, "They charge us very high for traveling it. They even charge us for walking on it and the road so bad we went on that evening several miles." Toll fees varied. Sometimes the fee was $1.35 for every five miles traveled. Another stretch of toll road charged $1.15 for every seven and a half miles. Once they did not pay at the toll gate because the bridge was down and they had to ford a stream at a "very bad ford."
She usually noted the number of miles traveled each day, which ranged from as few as twelve to as many as twenty-two over good road. Over an especially rough stretch of road, she noted that although they have traveled only seventeen miles, the horses were more tired than if they had traveled twenty miles over good road. Apparently road conditions varied greatly from "some very good road" to very bad roads of "sticky mud." Some stretches were very rocky, others crooked, and one stretch wound "first around one man's farm & then another." . . .
Some of the Harding children were sick throughout the Tennessee portion of the trip. As early as 9 November, Keziah noted that Rebecca, her nine-year-old sister, had been sick. Numerous times she wrote that brother Joe had a bad cold "and cough a great deal." What exasperated her the most was the baby. On 11 November she recorded that the baby's cough was worse, and it was believed that he had the whooping cough. Several times she mentioned that the baby coughed all night, and when he coughed he "throws up ever[y] time."
Yet, except for the children having either bad colds or the "whooping cough," the family fared very well. Greenberry (nicknamed "Berry") was injured when he attempted to put his gun in the wagon and the wagon wheel ran over his foot, bruising it badly. . . .
Although no mention was made of how many dogs accompanied the family, the diarist several times wrote that her brothers Boone and "Berry" took the dogs hunting to try and find something that could be cooked and eaten. Once the dogs caught six rabbits, and as a result of the chase were so worn out that they were allowed to rest. In addition to an abundance of rabbits, she stated there were "some deer & Liones," probably a reference to mountain lions.
In the days before canned foods, getting food along the way was sometimes a problem. In Sparta one of the boys was sent to a mill to obtain corn meal. Another time they could find "no pork or beef so we had [to] buy some chickens." Once, however, a "gentleman" promised to kill a hog for them if they could wait, which they gladly did.
Keziah's most detailed entry concerned the family wash. On 16 November she noted that "We thought we had better wash for we had a good many dirty clothes so we went at it." Because they had had so many rainy days, their clothes were wet and the boxes in which they were packed were coming apart. The problem was solved by taking the boxes out of the wagon, emptying them, and putting pieces of wood in the corners of each. They were then nailed up again. Once that was done, the clothes were "sunned" as best they could be on a November day. The job of doing "four weeks washing" took until midnight to complete. Many of the clothes had to be dried by the fire. . . .
Many of the things I had hoped to learn about the family and why they left Yadkin County were not in the remnants of the diary. Keziah did not mention the baby falling out of the wagon, and maybe this occurred on the return trip home. She mentioned her father only once, her mother never. References to sisters Ruth and Alice Jane are omitted. . . .
Much of the time she was obviously bored: "saw nothing of interest today." Other times the tiresome journey was broken by places of interest, such as the "milertary road" along which ran telegraph lines. . . .
The diary ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence. . . . The Harding family eventually arrived in Paris, Texas. Family tradition holds that Samuel Speer, who accompanied his daughter, did not like what he saw, and so the whole group was back in Yadkin County by July of 1856. . . .
William and Jane Speer Harding lived out their lives in a house on the Old Georgia Road near Wyo. William died in 1876, his wife ten years later. Their daughter Keziah Ann (after rejecting several suitors) married Dr. Thomas Long of Huntsville and died in 1863 after having her second child. Her sister Ruth married Thomas Brewbaker and she was appointed postmaster at Huntsville in 1886 and served until her death in 1929. Alice Jane married Thomas G. Scott and died in 1870 after her only child was born.
The oldest of the boys, Samuel Speer Harding, died in the Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia, 24 August 1864, while serving in Company H Twenty-eighth Regiment, North Carolina Troops, a Yadkin County company. Greenberry also serve in the Confederate Army and later bought a farm near Farmington (the present site of the Farmington Drag Strip). Squire Boone ("Boone") ran the Red Store at Huntsville, operated a sawmill, and ran a small plug tobacco factory until his death in 1888. Joseph married a cousin, raised a large family, and died in Huntsville in 1916.
The baby during the journey, Thomas Renny Harding, clerked with his brother in the Red Store, then attended medical school after the Civil War. He returned to Yadkin County, married Effie M. Kelly, and practiced medicine until his death in 1929. He raised a large family, all of whom pursued careers of public service.
Whatever his reason, I'm thankful that "Uncle" Samuel Speer did not find Texas to his liking.
McBride, Ransom. Revolutionary War Service Records & Settlements, NCGS Journal, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Genealogical Society, Nov. 1988, Feb. 1990, Nov. 1990, Nov. 1992
63. Par(r)ish, Jacob. Pay account of the United States with Jacob Parrish, private, from July 1778-February 1779. Settlement from this account of £25.8.4 received by John Stanton, 30 July 1792.
Power of Attorney from Jacob (x) Parish of Wayne Co., NC, 10 May 1792, who appoints Henry Haywood, attorney, to receive the pay due said Parish as a soldier in the Continental Line of NC for the term of nine months. Wit: John Stanton, JP; Willis Bryan, JP.
86. Perry, John. Pay account of the United States with John Perry, Private, from 1 Jan - 15 Sep 1777. Amount due received by Isaac (x) Kirkcey on 22 Aug 1792 as a final settlement.
361. Runyan, John (minutes of Haywood Co., NC Superior Court, October Term 1829) - On 10 October 1829 John Runyan aged 77 years and resident of Haywood County, made a declaration on oath in open court "That he was enlisted by Captain Thomas Arthur for eighteen Months, that he belonged, and was attached to the Twenty fourth Regiment of the Virginia Continental line, That he rendezvoused at Petersburgh, and while there his Colonel was Colonel Alexander Parker, and his Captain was Thomas Parker, That he was at the Seize of Savannah, and at the Battle of Little York, and was Regularly discharged at the Close of the war at Petersburg by General Muhlenberg, That he has lost the Certificate of his discharge, and has no means of proving, that he Served as aforesaid Save by the Muster roll, deposited in the War Department, and by the affirmation and Oath of Thomas Sheperd, and Nancy Shepherd who remained with his family while he was absent in the Service of the United Confederate States, That he is incapable of Supporting himself, That he has no family with him but his Wife, his Children having Married and gone off in different parts of the United States, That some Still remaining in this County and State, and that he lives first with one, and then with another. That he has no property of any account, not even of the Value of Ten Dollars Saving his wearing apparel, and his Bed and furniture - . . . " He was a resident citizen of the United States on 18 March 1818. Sworn 10 October 1829. /s/ John (x) Runyan [Test.:] Jno. B. Love, Clerk
"I, Thomas Shepherd upon my Oath do say that the said John Runyan was enlisted by said Thomas Arthur, and that I was present at the time he enlisted, That he went off with the said Thomas Arthur, That he was absent from his family for about two years, and that he returned after the Capture of Cornwallis, That he was present when he showed his Certificate to his old Captain the said Arthur who told him that it was regular - Arthur resided in Virginia being near to that of John Runyan, and that the Schedule and Sworn to by him is true to the best of my belief . . . October 10th 1829." /s/ Thomas (x) Shepherd [Test.:] Jno. B. Love Clrk.
Certified by John B. Love, Clerk of the Superior Court of Haywood County, 10 October 1829.
34. Spears, Joseph. Pay account of the United States with Joseph Spears, Private, from 20 Jul 1778 to Apr 1779. Balance of £25.8.4 received on 29 Aug 1792 by Lewis Dicken.
Administration bond of Halifax Co., NC, 21 Aug 1792, which notes that Joseph Spear, late of said county, is dead, and that no will was made. Administration of said Joseph Spear's estate is thus granted to his brother William Spear. /s/ Wm. Woollen, C.C.
Power of Attorney from William (x) Spear of Halifax Co., NC, administrator of Joseph Spears, dec'd. appoints friend Lewis Dicken of the same county and state, attorney, to receive the pay due the said Joseph Spears, dec'd. as a nine months soldier in the NC Continental Line. Acknowledged by E[g]bert Haywood and S[tephen] W. Carney, Justices of the Peace of Halifax Co., NC, 21 Aug 1792.
35. Spears, Kindred. Power of Attorney from Kindred Spears, late a soldier in the Continental Line [in 1782 and 1783], who appoints friend D. Hall, attorney to receive of Francis Child, Esq., Comptroller, said Spears' final settlement certificate. Acknowledged before John Whitaker, Justice of Halifax Co., NC, 23 Feb. 1791. [On Reverse:] "Kindred Spears 22.60 Doll'rs.
17. Wright, Abraham. Request to "Francis Chileds [Childs?] Esqr. Comptroller of Publick Accounts for the State of North Carolina:" "Please to Deliver the Final Settlement Certificate made out in my name Which I am Intitled to for my Services as a Soldier in the North Carolina Line on Continental Establishment in the Year 1782 to the Bearer Andrew Gibson . . . " Dated 5 Sep. 1791 and acknowledged by Luis Franklin, Justice of Peace for Wilkes Co., NC [on reverse:] Wright, Abram - 63 30/90.
18. Wright, Amanuel. Request of Amanuel Wright to the Commissioners Appointed to pay to Thomas Price "the Wagars and Clothing Due me . . . for my Service as Soldier in the Contanentel Line of this State . . ." Dated 10 Nov 1785. No location stated.
19. Wright, Samson. Request of Samson (+) Wright to the Commissioners Apppointed "to pay the Wager and Clothes Due for my Savis in the Contals Line of this State to John Price . . . " Dated 15 Nov. 1785. No location stated.
Mitchell, Thornton. Papers from the NCGS Workshop: Problem Counties, Problems of Anson County Records, NCGS Journal, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Genealogical Society, May 1989.
On 2 April 1868 the Anson County courthouse burned. . . .
Let us begin by reviewing what records were lost, presumably in the fire, and which are missing. The most significant loss was the marriage records, both the marriage bonds and the record of marriages submitted to the clerk of court beginning in 1851. Equally significant was the loss of some minutes of the county court of pleas and quarter sessions; rough minutes for the period 1848-1858 have survived, as have a few minutes for the period of the 1770s. Also missing are the minutes and related papers of the superior court, although these records after 1868 appear to be complete. Equity minutes for the period 1847-1868 were not burned.
Despite the fire and the reported total destruction of the courthouse, some Anson County records survived, including some of the material commonly used in genealogical research. Anson began to record wills as they were proved about 1822. Wills proved before 1822 were later entered into will books 1 & 2 and the first fifty-five pages of book A. Since the names entered the will book 2 are in rough alphabetical order, we can assume that the book was copied from surviving original wills since people do not die in alphabetical sequence. . . . unfortunately, we have no idea how many were lost before the copying took place.
It should also be noted that estate papers from 1805 have survived. With the loss of other records both of the court of pleas and quarter sessions and the superior court, there is no way of knowing how complete these may be.
Recorded deeds have survived, but this statement may be misleading. Anson was formed from Bladen in 1750 with the Little Pee Dee River as the boundary between the two counties. It was created as the result of a petition submitted by persons living along that river, and although the county for three years consisted of the entire western portion of North Carolina it appears that the county court sat in the area of what is now the border with Richmond County. As a matter of fact, virtually all of the recorded deeds for the early years of the county concerned land on the Pee Dee or its tributaries. I found none that involved the western part of North Carolina. In addition, as late as 1775 there was only one significant road in the county, and that was a branch of the great wagon road that ran north and south into South Carolina; there do not appear to have been significant lines of communication from east to west.
I have concluded that one of the reasons Anson County records are difficult to search, aside form the 1868 fire, is that they never existed. We tend to look at Anson as the western half of North Carolina after 1750 and the southwestern quarter after 1753. In its early years, we expect Anson to have recorded transactions for vast expanses of the colony and the state. I am convinced, however, that none of the family data for these extensive areas was ever really recorded in Anson County. A lot of what we have expected from the records of Anson as a seminal county, I feel, never really existed.
We must also recognize that Anson in the antebellum period was not the kind of county in which there was reason to make a will or to buy or sell property. In both 1800 and 1820, less than twenty-five percent of the white population were males over sixteen years of age. As late as 1860, most of the male residents in the county were farmers and only a few of them were listed in the census as owners of real property. Thomas Farmer, my wife's great-great-grandfather, was a farmer; in 1860 he had no real property and only $125.00 worth of personal property. He did not own land, so he was neither grantor nor grantee of a deed; he had no land to leave to an heir, so he had no will. He appears to have been a typical resident of Anson County. In the period through 1900, 753 wills were probated in Anson; in contrast, 2613 wills were proved in the same period in Rowan, 1257 in Lincoln and 1513 in Mecklenberg.
. . . Until 1789, Anson was within the area of the Salisbury District Superior Court, and the minutes of that court are compete although some loose papers are missing. In 1789, however, citizens of Anson petitioned to be transferred to the Fayetteville District Superior Court, and the records of that court are virtually nonexistent. Minutes and case records of he North Carolina Supreme Court, including the earlier Court of Conference, are complete and if you have a name the index to those cases should be searched.
Several other counties were created from Anson, and the records of Rowan (1753), Mecklenberg (1762) and Union (1842) are virtually complete. . . . Although Richmond (1779) and Montgomery (1779) were created from Anson, their records present problems.
Other records with which we are all familiar can be used for Anson research. None of the Federal census schedules for the county are missing, although there are some discrepancies between the duplicate originals in the State Archives and the copies microfilmed by the National Archives, with the quality of the latter being particularly bad. The 1784-1786 state census of Anson has not survived, but there is a tax list of 1763 that may be substituted.
There are also voluminous land records other than deeds recorded in the county that are available. Margaret Hofmann has abstracted the Royal grants that were made in Anson County, and many of the loose papers after about 1758 have survived in the land grant records. There are also some records in the Granville District papers, but these are for land located above the Lord Granville line in what became eventually Rowan County.
Remarkably little about Anson County has been published. There is a county history and an unindexed volume entitled Miscellaneous Records of Anson County which consists principally of cemetery an Bible records. Brent Holcomb has published abstracts of early deeds (1749-1766) and will and estates (1749-1795) and has included a transcript of the 1763 tax list. . . .
Pittman, Betsy. Papers from the NCGS Workshop: Problem Counties, Burke County Bypasses, NCGS Journal, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Genealogical Society, May 1989.
. . . What IS missing? Mainly early bound volumes of wills, deeds and some court minutes are missing. Why are the records missing? In the minute docket of the Spring Term, 1868, of Burke County Court, a petition to record a copy of the will of John Sudderth tells of the destruction of court records. Sudderth's will had been recorded at the April, 1865, term of court, but the will and records were "destroyed in the raid made upon the records of this Court by the Military Authorities of the Army of the US in the year 1865." The courthouse itself did not suffer fire damage; the bound volumes seem to have been heaped onto a bonfire in the courthouse yard. . . . Many of the loose papers survived and are now housed in the North Carolina State Archives. There is even one box of Burke County wills in the Archives.
In the Archives there are also some records of Morgan District Superior Court, which met in Morganton. While the early bound volumes appear to have been destroyed, approximately eight cubic feet of loose papers, dating from 1779, have survived. Weynette Parks Haun has published on volume of Morgan District Superior Court Estates Records, 1779-1806, and plans to publish more of these records. . . .
As a Bicentennial project, in 1977 the more than six thousand four hundred original Burke County land grants in the Land Grant Office in Raleigh were copied and taken "home" to the Burke County Library. They were a major source of information - a starting point for every search. By looking at the watercourses described in the surveys, an idea is gotten of what present-day county will be likely to contain records of the family. It is hoped these grants will some day be indexed by all names mentioned and by place names and watercourses.
More should be said about the land office, which had been closed in 1763. It re-opened in 1778 about the same time Burke County was formed (1777). Therefore the earliest land grants reflect a "roll call" of landowners present at the beginning of Burke County. In some cases, there is mention of land "adjoining his own line," so it is evident that the person had been living there for a period of time.
Many of the original Burke County land grants which are in present-day McDowell County even tell the names of former inhabitants or owners of the land. . . .
It may be recalled that Burke County was formed in 1777, from Rowan County. Since parts of eighteen present-day counties had land lying in the original Burke County - which included much of western North Carolina - the first order of business in research is to place the land in the modern county involved. . . .
Also of assistance in locating families are the tax lists. The 1805 Burke County tax list was abstracted by Ransom McBride and published in the November 1982 issue of The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal. The 1815 Burke tax lists are especially definitive, and they seem to be fairly complete; I am presently transcribing them. . . .
Underestimated, and almost totally ignored, because - supposedly - "Burke doesn't have any," are deeds. Often, land was passed along in the family for several generations and the family saw no need to take the deed to the courthouse for registration. Eventually, the land was sold out of the family and the deed, at that time, was registered. An example of that is a Caldwell County deed, from Book 54, page 387. An 1826 deed for original Burke County land was not registered for some eighty-six years, when, in 1912, the land fell in Caldwell County. While Burke County deed books were burned in 1865, Caldwell's were not. In Burke County research, it is often necessary to check the records of other counties. The aforementioned deed illustrates a basic rule: do not stop with the last known date that the person resided in the county; read on, in the index books. . . .
There were numerous instances of deeds having been re-registered after the Civil War, when the far-sighted landowners took their old deeds to the courthouse. So far, the genealogical information and migrations contained in early Burke deeds (beginning 1865) have not been abstracted and published. There is much there. . . .
Another source of genealogical information is church records. The early minutes of the Globe Primitive Baptist Church of Caldwell County give a special glimpse into the early 1800s. The Globe is a valley located in the shadow of Grandfather Mountain; in 1800 that was Burke County. . . .
Old letters have been found in home attics, old deeds in a grandmother's trunk. Recently a man brought into the North Carolina Room of the Burke County Library an original land grant with seal attached. The original ledger of the Morganton Store, 1791-1792, is a holding of the said library in Morganton. The names contained therein are a "census" of Burke County families.
The sixty-two boxes of estates records from Burke County in the North Carolina State Archives often yield information to substitute for wills. In the absence of deeds, help can sometimes be found in court minutes, tax lists, or land grants.
Military and pension records in the state and federal archives contain much valuable information. In print, Dr. Emmett White's Revolutionary War Soldiers of Western North Carolina: Burke Co., Vol. I, is a compilation of soldiers, their war records, their families, and their migrations.
Many searches have involved people who were passing through Burke County. There were few records generated, because the folks did not tarry long enough for anyone to die. In some cases, they did not even purchase land. Yet, they may show up in the court minutes or in the loose papers in the Archives.
Dr. Edward W. Phifer's Burke: The History of a North Carolina County, 1777-1920 is essential for Burke County research. . . .
General Locations of Military Companies Described in the 1790 Census of Burke County:
- 1st Company - present McDowell County & part of present northern Rutherford County
- 2nd Company - northeastern Burke County & present southeastern Caldwell County
- 3rd Company - mid & western Burke County, Oak Hill area
- 4th Company - western Burke County; portions of present southeastern McDowell & northern Rutherford counties
- 5th Company - upper Burke County & portions of present Caldwell County - Globe, Edgemont, Collettsville
- 6th Company - western Burke County - Bridgewater, Lake James; some in present eastern McDowell County
- 7th Company - mid Burke County, Quaker Meadows
- 8th Company - north side of the Catawba River in present-day Caldwell County, Granite Falls
- 9th Company - north of Catawba River in present Caldwell County
- 10th Company - present Mitchell & Avery Counties
- 11th Company - cut off in 1791 to form Buncombe County
- 12th Company - present Mitchell & Avery Counties
- 13th Company - south & southeastern Burke County - Salem; South Mountains, George Hildebrand areas
Selected List of Printed Resources on Burke County
- Bennett, William. "Early Settlement on the Upper Catawba," NCGS Journal, August 1982, pp. 130-134.
- Bennett, William. "Josiah Brandon's Burke County, NC, 1777-1800,"NCGS Journal, Feb. 1981, pp. 2-11.
- Bennett, William. "Pre-1865 Burke County Records," Burke County Genealogical Society Journal, Sept. 1986, pp. 34-43.
- Burke County Genealogical Society. Death Certificates of Burke County, NC, Volume I, 1988.
- Burke County Genealogical Society. The Heritage of Burke County, NC, 1981.
- Genealogical Society of Utah. Burke County, NC, Marriage Bonds, 1942.
- Haun, Weynette. Morgan District, NC Superior Court of Law & Equity, Book I, Estates Records, 1779-1806, 1987.
- Huggins, Edith. Burke County, NC, Land Records 1778, Volume I, 1977
- Huggins, Edith. Burke County, NC, Land Records, 1779-1790 & Important Miscellaneous Records 1777-1800, Volume II, 1981.
- Huggins, Edith. Burke County, NC, Land Records & More Important Miscellaneous Records, 1751-1809, Volume III, 1987.
- Huggins, Edith. Burke County, NC, Records, 1755-1821 (Including Wills Index 1784-1900), Volume IV, 1987.
- Ingmire, Frances. Burke County, NC, Marriage Records, 1781-1868, 1984.
- Johnson, William. "Burke County Wills, Administrations & Orphans, 1791-1810, North Carolina Genealogy, Fall-Winter 1972, pp. 2753-2759; Spring-Summer 1973, pp. 2823-2830; & Spring-Summer 1974, pp. 2934-2939.
- McBride, Ransom. "Burke County, NC, List of Taxables for 1805," NCGS Journal November 1982, pp. 225-237.
- Phifer, Edward. Burke: The History of a North Carolina County, 1777-1920, revised edition, 1982
- Philbeck, Miles & Grace Turner. Burke County, NC, Surviving Wills & Probate Abstracts, 1777-1910, 1983.
- Pittman, Betsy. "Burke County Land Entries, 1865-1867," typescript in Burke County Public Library 1988.
- Pittman, Betsy. "1815 Burke County NC Tax Lists," incomplete typescript in Burke County Public Library, 1988.
- Potter, Dorothy. 1820 Federal Census of NC, Vol. VIII, Burke County, 1970.
- Swink, Daniel. Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Burke County, NC July 1791-July 1795, 1986.
- Swink, Daniel. The Minutes of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Burke County, North Carolina, July 1795 (part) - October 1798 (entire), 1987.
- Swink, Daniel. The Minutes of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Burke County, North Carolina, January 1799-October 1803, 1988.
- Walton, Col. Thomas. Sketches of the Pioneers in Burke County History, 1894
- White, Emmett. Revolutionary War Soldiers of Western NC: Burke County, Volume I, 1984.
Anson County was named in honor of George Anson, Baron Anson (1697-1762), then (1750) a rear admiral in the British navy, who had circumnavigated the globe.
Burke County was named in honor of Thomas Burke (ca. 1747-1783) of Orange County, member of the Continental Congress 1777-1781, governor of the state 1781-1782.
Poates Company. Routes to the West, 1815-1825 - map of United States from eastern lower New England, northern Georgia, Arkansas, Iowa and southern Michigan showing trails and roads.
Richardson, Rosemary. Franklin County, NC Lists of Taxable Property for the Year 1815, NCGS Journal, Nov 1988
Captain Gay's District for the Year 1815
- Perry, William 1 white poll
- Perry, Benjamin 1 white poll
- Perry, Mary - 50 acres, $3/acre valuation, $150 aggregate value
- Perry, Bailey 1 white poll
- Perry, Jeremiah (R) [redhead?] 304+ acres, $3/acre valuation, $912.75 aggregate value, 1 white poll, 3 black poll
- Perry, Green L. - 100 acres, $3.50/acre valuation, $350 aggregate value, 1 white poll
- Perry, John (F) - 287+ acres, $4/acre valuation, $1150 aggregate value, 3 black poll
- Perry, Joshua - 1027+ acres, $3/acre valuation $3082.50 aggregate value, 3 black poll
- Perry, Nancy - 100 acres, $1.50/acre valuation, $150 aggregate value
- Perry, James Jr. - 100 acres, $2.50/acre valuation, $251.87+ aggregate value, 1 white poll
- Perry, Nathaniel - 140 acres, $2.50/acre valuation, $350 aggregate value, 2 black poll
- Perry, James Sr. - 150 acres, $2.50/acre valuation, $375 aggregate value, 2 white poll
- Perry, John C. executor of Solomon Perry - 1573+ acres, $3/acre valuation, $4720.50 aggregate value, 9 black poll
Captain Jones' District for the Year 1815
- Perry, Joshua - 2567 acres, $3.50/acre valuation, $8984.50 aggregate value, 1 white poll, 16 black poll
Captain Williamson Harris' District for the Year 1815
- Perry, Willis - 100 acres, $1/acre valuation, $100 aggregate value, 1 white poll
- Perry, Jacob - 1 white poll
Captain Davis' District for the Year 1815
- Perry, Benjamin - 4085 acres, $3.50/acre valuation, $14297.50 aggregate valuation, 22 black poll
- Perry Elijah - 1651 acres, $2.50/acre valuation, $4127.50 aggregate valuation, 1 white poll, 9 black poll
- Perry, Elijah for Estate of Joshua Perry - 1651 acres, $2.50/acre valuation, $4127.50 aggregate valuation, 12 black poll
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