brook issuing out of Bennett's Creek, (Book M, No. 1, page 90.)

Theophilus Hill, of Edgecombe Co., N. C., to Samuel Hicks, Nov. 8, 1763. 200 acres land in Chowan Co., known as the Punch Bowl, (now Centre Hill) part of a Relapsed patent bearing date 1718. M, No. 1, page 130.

William Hill of Chowan Co., N. C., to Hardy Griffin, of Nansemond Co., Va. 150 acres land on Mirey Branch near Gabriel branch, March 1, 1758. Book N, No. 1, page 37.

Henry Hill to Timothy Walton, July 15, 1767. 150 acres land on Crooked branch issuing out of Bennett's Creek, formerly part of the grant to the Chowan Indians. Book N, No. 1, page 56.

Abraham Hill to Moses Speight, Feb'y 21, 1763. 174 acres of land patented by said Abraham Hill in 1759. Book N, No. 1, page 97.

Micajah Hill to Thomas Trotman, Dec. 28, 1764. 75 acres land on the Middle Swamp. Book N, No. 1, page 118. Henry Hill to Robt Taylor, July 10, 1767. 160 acres land, part of Grant to Chowan Indians on Bennett's Creek. Book N, No. 1, page 141.

Hugh Hill, of Nansemond county, Va., to James Jones, of Perquimans Co., March 9, 1768. 100 acres land which land formerly belonged to Abraham Hill (his son) who and wife Elizabeth sold the same to Josiah Riddick and Edw'd Riddick and they sold to Hugh Hill. Book N, No. 1, page 167.

Robert Hill, of Pasquotank Co., to Elisha Hunter Dec. 5, 1766. Two tracts of land in Chowan Co., granted to Thos Spivey and by him given to said Robert Hill. Book N. No. 1, page 187. Abraham Hill, to John Ownley, land adjoining land of Guy Hill.

160 acres

Reg'd Sept. 29, 1769. Book O, No. 1, page 137. Henry Hill to William Coffield, Nov. 19, 1769.

100 acres land on

Bennett's Creek Swamp. Book O, No. 1, page 176.

Guy Hill to Abner Eason, Dec. 9, 1769. 50 acres land part of

a patent to Thos. Blitchenden dated in 1730.

page 179.

Book O, No. 1,

25 acres land on

Henry Hill to Edward Briscoe, Oct. 26, 1771. Bennett's Creek Pocosin. Book P, No. 1, page 91. Henry Hill and Thomas Taylor to Everard Garrett, Aug. 20, 1771. 250 acres land on Maple Branch. Book Q, No. 1, page 29. Guy Hill to Amos Trotman, Feb'y 10, 1775. 250 acres land, part of the Blitchenden patent named above. Book Q, No. 1, page

188.

Aaron Hill, of Guilford Co., N. C., to Jacob Bagley, Feb'y 20, 1774. Three tracts of land containing 355 acres on Catharine Creek. Book R, No. 1, page 33.

Henry Hill to Robert Hardy, of Edenton, Apl. 20, 1777. One lot and one half lot in the town of Edenton where the widow Littledale lives formerly belonging to Everard Garrett. Book R, No. 1, page 60. Henry Hill, of Gates Co., to Thomas Garrett, Aug. 19, 1782. Lot No. 20 in the Town of Edenton, N. C. Book R, No. 2, page 314. We cannot follow any further from the Chowan Records, part of Chowan in which the Hill family resided, was taken in 1779, to form Gates Co., where the rest of their conveyances are recorded.

SOME SAVAGE-BARKER DATA.

The Genealogical MS. Company, of 152 West 46th St., New York, furnishes the following:

"The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards," a work compiled by "G. F. A." published we believe by Marcus Ward & Co., London and New York, under chapter devoted to the Virginia branch, contains the statement that Thomas Savage I. born 1592, arrived in Virginia from Chester, England, in 1607, married Hannah (or Ann) and had a son Capt. John Savage who was born in 1624 and was twice married. First to Ann Elkinton of England. The children of this marriage were: Susanna who married John Kendal and Grace who married George Corbin; Capt. John's second wife was Mary Robbins, and the children of this marriage were Thomas II., John, Elkinton, and Mary. Capt. John died 1678. Thomas Savage II. b. 1669 married Alicia Harmanson. The children of this marriage were Thos. III, George, Margaret, Mary, Zerebee and Sophia.

Suspecting that "Zerebee" was identical with Ferebee, the wife of Col. Francis Pugh and afterward of Mr. Thomas Barker, we pr, ceeded to investigate.

Mr. James Francis Savage, of Lowell, Massachusetts, (Massachusetts branch) informed us that the initials "G. F. A" were those of Professor George Francis Armstrong, M. A., Queen's College, Cork, Ireland, and that Mr. Charles Chauncey Savage, of Philadelphia, was a descendant of the Virginia branch, whereupon we communicated with both these gentlemen and learned from the latter that the data in "The Savages of the Ards" relative to the Virginia branch was supplied by his mother from facts gathered by his father; that "Zerebee" appears in some papers as Ferebee, the name being written both with the "Z" and the "F" and that she married Francis Pugh in September 1722. Later a letter from Professor SavageArmstrong, who since the death of the last male representative of the Savages of Glastry in the Ards, has assumed the double surname, reassures us of the correctness of our theory.

The lady's name was undoubtedly "Ferebee" read "Zerebe." through some indistinctness in the early MSS.

The Savages come of noble stock, boasting even royal blood, and it is to be regretted that Professor Savage-Armstrong has not attempted to establish the connection between the different branches of the family. If, however, all continue the search in the right direction whenever oportunities present themselves, we may yet succeed in establishing the line.

By reference to this Register under date of January 1901, at page 28, it will be seen that as late as 1782 there was evidently intercommunication among the connections in Virginia, North Carolina and County Down, Ireland.

It may be of interest to your readers to know that Professor-Savage-Armstrong has attained literary distinction and is known as "The Poet of Wicklow," his latest work being "Ballads of Down."

It will be seen from the above that the statement which appears in Mr. Newhall Barker's History of the Barker Family that Ferebee Savage was a native of Cornwall, England, is therefore conclusively disproved.

*We would like also in this connection to correct two other errors, one in the North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register of October, 1900, at p. 515 to the effect that Thomas Barker was born in "Rhode Island"; and the other in an article on "The Historic Tea Party of Edenton in 1774", by Dr. Richard Dillard, published in the Magazine of American History, under date of August, 1892, stating that Mr. Barker was a "Scotch Lawyer".

The branch of the Barker family to which the husband of Ferebee Savage belonged came from England to Massachusetts, settling first in Pembroke, where the old Garrison House, the home of the first Barker, stood from 1640 (we have also seen it stated 1628) to 1894. The immediate family of the subject of these corrections moved to Hingham, Mass., the writer, a descendant, having had the pleasure of visiting both towns and owning some of the wood of the old house. Thomas Barker, afterward distinguished at the North Carolina Bar was undoubtedly born in Massachusetts, most likely in Hingham.

QUERY. PORTER-BROWN.-The remains of "Colonel" Reese Porter, "of North Carolina," lie buried at Pulaski, Tennessee, where the inscription on his tomb states that he was born February 26, 1744, and died February 13, 1821. "He owned a large body of land

Dr. Dillard in his article on the Edenton Tea Party, published recently as one of the series of Booklets, has corrected the statement in his article published in the Magazine of American History. The REGISTER received the information from a descendant of the family.

there, probably granted for military services, as he was proud of his scars won in the Revolution." *** He was undoubtedly a Revolutionary soldier, and is thought to have gone to North Carolina from Pennsylvania, and to have been related to David Reese, a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence." He married Jane Brown, who died August 30, 1806, a woman of haughty bearing, said to have been exceedingly proud of her family. Tradition says that on one occasion she stole through the enemy's camp in war time and liberated her husband, who was confined in a log cabin. Jane Brown was a daughter of William and Margaret Brown, Colonists, who lived in Londonderry, Ireland, at the time of their marriage, and emigrated from there to America, settling in North Carolina. Margaret Brown died in 1801, aged one hundred years.'

Wanted, the military record of Reese Porter, land grants to him, the record of his marriage, evidence of his parentage or connection with David Reese. Was he identical with Reese Porter, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, son of William Porter and Mary Price, and mentioned in his father's will, which was proved at West Chester, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1749. This Reese Porter had an uncle Reese Price, and was a grand-son of Thomas and Ann Price.

Wanted also wills, land grants or any other data relating to William and Margaret Brown and their immediate descendants. It was their son Colonel James Brown, whose murder, and the kidnapping and massacre of his family, form a famous incident in the history of the earliest settlement of Tennessee.

Address, Porter Farquharson Cope,

4806 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn.

QUERIES.

Col. Matthew Moore, of Albemarle Co., Va., settled in Stokes Co., N. C., at the foot of Sauratown Mountain, where he owned 1,000 acres of land including "Moore's Knob." He married 1757, (aged 19) his school-mate, Letitia, (aged 15), daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Redd) Dalton. Her father Samuel Dalton, died in 1805 aged 106, at the home of his grand-son Matthew Redd Moore, Jr., and his daughter Letitia, who died in 1838, all buried at the foot of Sauratown Mountain. Can any one tell me, if there are any tombstones at their graves, and if so, give the copy of their epitaphs?

Did "Col. Matthew Moore serve in the Revolution? or was he only one of the Militia? His father Wm. Moore, of Albemarle Co., Va., had two other sons, John and Edward Moore, a daughter who mar

ried a Martin, one a Bullock, one a Crockett, one Andrew McAlley, whose son John Moore McAlley was in Congress at the same time, his cousin Gabriel Moore was in the Senate, (from Alabama, 182935), he was son of Matthew and Letitia (Dalton) Moore. Frances Moore (another daughter of William Moore) married Captain John Henderson, and her great grand-son, Hon. John Wesley Gaines, of Nashville, Tenn., is now a member of Congress.

Was this Captain John Henderson a son of Bennett and Elizabeth (Lewis) Henderson? Captain John and Frances (Moore) Henderson had sons, William, Bennett, Matthew, etc., Henderson. Any information of these families will be gratefully received.

Also any information relative to the ancestry of William Ward, who went from Virginia to Kentucky and settled near Frankfort. From one authority we have it that Colonel Seth Ward, of Virginia, was the ancestor of the Kentucky Wards. George Ward, son of William Ward, once met a cousin of his from North Carolina at Covington, and seeing so many Ward wills, and noting the relationship of the family of William to a North Carolina Ward, we hope to gather some information to enable me to connect William Ward, (who. had sons Junius, Matthew, George W. and Robert J., father of the celebrated Sallie Ward, of Louisville, Ky.) with his proper ancestors either in Virginia or North Carolina.

MRS. S. L. C.

Rev. Adam Boyd, Chaplain, in one of the Ten Regiments of the North Carolina Continental Line, "Rev. War," married in 1774 the widow of Dr. M. J. DeRossett, of Wilmington, N. C. There was no issue by this marriage. The date of his death has been published as occurring during the year 1800, but there are letters in existence written by him from Natchez, Miss., bearing date Dec. 30, 1802, which is positive proof that his death occurred after 1802. Our information was furnished by a descendant of the lady whom he married. (See page 82, History N. C. Society of the Cincinnati.) Who was the 1st Secretary of the Society? A writer in the News and Observer of Raleigh, N. C., in an issue of March 16th, claims that Curtis Ivey was. How is this? We had understood it was Rev. Adam Boyd.