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Page 324 211 State of North Carolina To all To Whom these presents Shall Come Greeting
Know ye that we for and in Consideration of the Sum of fifty Shillings for
Every hundred acres hereby granted paid into our
treasury by George Dodd have given and granted and by these presents Do
give and grant unto the Said George Dodd A Tract of
Land Containing One Hundred acres Lying and being in our County of Anson on
South West Side of Pee Dee river on the
branches of the flat fork of Brown Creek Beginning at John Williamsons
first Corner red oak and runing South thirty East Eight
Chains Richd. Ratliffs Corner post oak then with the said Ratliffs Line
West five chains to the Said Ratliffs Corner Stake twenty five East thirty
four Chains to a Stake in aron bakers Line then with Said bakers Line South
fi--- Eight West thirty two Chains to the Said bakers Corner black jack
then with the Sd. bakers Line North thirty two West Thirty four Chains to a
Stake in John Williamsons Line then with the Sd. Williamsons South twenty
five West forty Chains to the Begining J. GLASGOW SECRETARY NOTE: I believe this Anson Co., N.C., Grant may be to GEORGE DABBS, rather than GEORGE DODDS. The reason for this is the land abuts land of one of the RATLIFFs, and the RATLIFF FAMILY was a collateral family of the DABBS FAMILY in Anson Co. NATHANIEL DABBS' parents were JOSEPH & NANCY (HOGGETT/HOGGATT/ETC.) DABBS. From records that I have found, the HOGGATTS & RATLIFFS were Quakers. I have not been able to find any records that show the DABBS as having been QUAKERS. However, in the mid 1600s there had been a *JOHN DABBS in Maryland (Kent Co.), where a large group of Quakers had lived. He first married a NAN EVANS (Some say it was EATES, and some say EVANS.) in Anne Arundell Co., Md. After NAN died, JOHN DABBS moved to Kent Co., Md., and married **ANICAKE (HANSON) (1st husb. ELENA/ELENOR) (2nd. husb. MacKENNEY). There are a number of families in the old Anson Co. area that had come into Maryland; migrated south into Virginia; then into N.C. It appears the RATLIFF FAMILY was one of those families that followed this route. I have copied this document as it appears, leaving in all of the misspelled words, etc. I have not double-spaced the body of the document as it appears, in order to save space. I can be off the track, and completely wrong, but I believe the above to be the case. If anyone has any correction/s for the above, or documentation to counter it, please contact me at BLSL@IJ.NET. *JOHN DABBS/DABB came into Virginia in the early part of the 1600s; went to court and demanded the "land promised me in Maryland", which he received. JOHN & ANICAKE had one RECORDED son, JOHN - b. c1662-5; living in 1703. However, there was a BENJAMIN DABBS that was in Kent Co., Delaware, in the early 1700s. He died testate in the early 1700s. JOHN & ANICAKE had several recorded daughters, whom I have on record, and their husbands. **There is a wonderful article about ANICAKE in THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST; WHOLE NO. 215; JULY, 1978; VOLUME 54; NO. 3. The title of the article is "Anicake (Hanson) (Elena) (MacKENNEY) Dabb of Kent County, Maryland, 1652 - 1674". This article shows the resilience of our Colonial ancestors. There were a lot of people from Sweden that migrated to Maryland in the Colonial days, and Portugese, as you can see, by the name "Elena". Elena was spelled many ways in the early records, and evolved other spellings. Donated May 2002 |