Welcome to my CAROLINA FAMILY history website, a summary of my family surname and their early family connections and allied families in the Carolinas.
My documented paternal line currently is centered in South Carolina, mostly around Lancaster, Kershaw and Chesterfield Counties. Many of the families were living in that area by the time the Revolution was over, if not before. Some of the surnames for these families are:
BIRD, DEASON, EUBANKS, GARDNER, HILTON, MILLER, MORGAN, PHILLIPS, and SELLERS.
My paternal grandmother's families connection were centered in Iredell (ROGERS, HUGHES, BEATY), and in Union County (BREVARD, GILLON, McCAIN, MORROW, NISBET, PICKENS, RICHARDSON, RODGERS, STEWART, WALKUP, WHITE, and WYCHE) in NC. Unon County was formed in 1842 from Anson and Meckenburg Counties. Most of these families lived in the Waxhaw Settlement and Old Mecklenburg County.
[For a more complete list of surnames, see tab E-mail / Sources / Links ]
My documented maternal lines are mainly in North Carolina, center in and around Guilford and Randolph Counties. Many lines are connected to SUMMERS such as BIRD, CAGLE, CHAMNESS, CLARK, GERRINGER, HARTSOE, LOY, SILER, SMITH, and many more.
With my participation in the Phillips DNA Project, I have learned that my PHILLIPS line focuses in Chatham, Randolph, and possibly Guilford Counties, prior to their settling in Lancaster District, SOUTH CAROLINA.
I welcome correspondence with descendants of these families. Learning more about our earliest family relations, establishes the foundations for their descendants in America. They experienced hardship and difficulty as they settled a new land to establish their families in their communities and their faith. But they succeeded as the proof is in their descendants, and the part each family contributed to make America's history and the road to a great nation.
Select a tab on the top left for a new page with associated topices. Names highlighted in "red" are direct descendants.
ROSTER OF MILITARY SERVICE has the latest revision date posted on top of the page.
MAKING HISTORY has a list of known ministers, pastors, and preachers of the family.
Also read the story of "The Execution of James Madison MILLER"and the reply of my inquiry "Where Are The HILTON Boys Buried?"Added more data for family connections to the US-Mexcian War (1846-1848).
* Roster of those family members who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863.
MATERNAL Under this Tab is an article from The Greensboro Record about Ludwick SUMMERS, my grt-grt-grt-uncle. He was a son of Captain Peter SUMMERS.
MAKING HISTORY: Recent information regarding my earliest NISBET ancestors and their role in SCOTLAND and as Covenanter Martyrs.
FAMILY PIONEERS tab has the personal stories that mark the lives and events as passed down or discovered in public records. See the tax rates paid by my Great-great-grandfather William Burrell PHILLIPS (1868-1871) on what he owned at the time.
(For PHILLIPS DNA participate data [see PHILLIPS 1786 to Present tab])
DNA matches determined for Group 10 DNA [FTDNA Kit #69666] for the PHILLIPS surname;
12 Y-markers - 3 matches; 25 Y-markers - 1; 37 Y-markers - 8; and 67 Y-marker matches - 4. DNA 67 y-markers provide the greater degree of determining genetic matches and ancestral ties of which there are four. One individual, for whatever reason, refuses to discuss or disclose his ancestor links. That is most unfortunate!!
FTDNA has determined and posted the results of my personal Ancestral Origins based on the 12 y-marker results. >2% is considered significant indicators of ancestoral family origin. These results match the results of the Deep Clade test results.
NORTHERN IRELAND - 2.1%
SCOTLAND - 2.3%
SLOVENIA - 2.6%
SWITZERLAND - 3.1%
WALES - 2.3%
Haplo-Group R1b1b2a1b5 (authenicated by FTDNA):
The following is a comment by the R-L21 Plus Project Administrator, Richard Stevens. It offers a evaluation of where, long ago, our ancestors roamed in their migration west.
"Calculations by Dr. Ken Nordtvedt, Vince Vizachero, Dr. Anatole Klyosov and others estimate the age of L21 at 3,000-4,000 years. Thus the current view is that L21 probably arose among the Bronze Age Celts or Proto-Celts of SW Germany and SE France and spread into Britain and elsewhere from there."
Last update: 1 October 2009
For those interested, I am a participate in PHILLIPS DNA Project, and DNA y-SEARCH.
(For MORGAN Family DNA participate [see Paternal Ancestor tab]);
Other DNA projects that relate to my families:
A match has been determined for Matthew RODGERS in Union County, NORTH CAROLINA and I am in progress of expanding that data base;
The last living male member of the ROGERS from Iredell County, NORTH CAROLINA has agreed to participate in DNA testing. The results are back for the 12 y-markers (test done was for 25 y-marker the remainder results due in about 2-3 weeks). Already I have been contacted by three of the six matches. An interesting finding for this DNA testing was the Haplo-group was determined to be 'G'. For those interested in ROGERS DNA Project, our Kit Nr. is 150374. An accompanying note about Haplogroup G on the website states "less than 1% of the British population is Haplogroup G".
The following is from Wikipedia:
In Europe:
In Europe Haplogroup G is found at 4.88% on average throughout the continent. Frequencies range from 5% to 11% north of the Caucasus, in southern Russia and eastern Ukraine. Frequencies also increase to >5% in central and southern sections of the continent, such as Greece, Italy, and parts of Spain. It has relatively high concentrations in the Greek island of Crete (approx. 7% to 11%), Sardinia(approx. 21% in Tempio, 14% in Cagliari, 12% in Sorgono) and the Tyrol region of Austria (8%). Moving north and westwards from the Alps, concentrations drop to around 7–5% in parts of Germany, Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary. In the British Isles, Scandinavia, northern France, northern Germany, the Netherlands and the Baltic countries it is less common, e.g. Britain and Norway at 2%. Around 4% of Welsh men are in Haplogroup G.
Around 10% of Ashkenazi Jewish males have Haplogroup G, and the Jewish diaspora to Europe from the Middle East and the Moorish (Arabsand Berbers) occupation of Spain are two other probable routes into Europe for certain types of G.
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS:
* Working to expand maternal lines from pre-Revolution to Civil War of SUMMERS, SILER, WYRICK, COBLE, and other allied families.
* Researching family Civil War Veterans, their regiments and their final burial sites, particularly those buried in battlefield grave sites.
* Adding more details about the Mexican-US War in 1846-1848;
* Quaker family members who were early pioneers.
New information recently found on the Death Certificate of Caroline Hughes CLARK, revealed her mother's maiden name was BEATY. Now I can add that Nancy BEATY, parents were David BEATY and Isabella HUGGINS.
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There are times when genealogy has a high degree of satisfaction, not necessarily in establishing a family connection, but to know that family members were active in the events of their time. I recently had one of those moments when I discovered the following document. I have tried to do more research for the Colonial period of NC, so my research has centered in two areas, Rowan County and the Waxhaws.
Committee of Safety, on the 8th of August 1774, seventeen days before the assembling of the first North Carolina Provincial Congress, adopted seventeen resolutions upon public affairs, showing they were in the very forefront of liberal and patriotic opinions. In its entirety:
“At a meeting of the committee, August 8, 1774, the following resolves were unanimously agreed to: Resolved, That we will at all times whenever we are called upon for that purpose, maintain and defend, at the expense of our lives and fortunes, His Majesty’s right and title to the crown of Great Britain and his dominions in America, to whose royal person and government we profess all due obedience and fidelity.
Resolved, That the right to impose taxes or duties, to be paid by the inhabitants within this Province, for any purpose whatsoever, is peculiar and essential to the General Assembly, in whom the legislative authority of the colony is vested.
Resolved, That every attempt to impose such taxes or duties by any other authority is an arbitrary exertion of power, and an infringement of the constitutional rights and liberties of the colony. Resolved, That to impose a tax or duty on tea by the British Parliament, in which the North American Colonies can have no representation, to be paid upon importation by the inhabitants of the said colonies, is an act of power without right. It is subversive to the liberties of the said colonies, deprives them of their property without their own consent, and thereby reduces them to a state of slavery.
Resolved, That the late cruel and sanguinary acts of Parliament, to be executed by military force and ships of war upon our sister colony of Massachusetts Bay and the town of Boston, is a strong evidence of the corrupt influence obtained by the British Ministry in Parliament , and a convincing proof of their fixed intention to deprive the colonies of their constitutional rights and liberties.
Resolved, That the cause of the town of Boston is the common cause of the American Colonies. Resolved, That it is the duty and interest of all the American Colonies firmly to unite in an indissoluble union and association, to oppose by every just and proper means the infringement of their common rights and privileges.
Resolved, That a general association between all the American Colonies not to import from Great Britain any commodity whatsoever (except such things as shall be excepted by the General Congress of this Province), ought to be entered into, and not dissolved till the just rights of the colonies are restored to them, and the cruel acts of the British Parliament against the Massachusetts Bay and town of Boston are repealed.
Resolved, That no friend to the rights and liberties of America ought to purchase any commodity whatsoever, except such as shall be excepted, which shall be imported from Great Britain after the general Association shall be agreed upon.
Resolved, That every kind of luxury, dissipation, and extravagance ought to be banished from among us. Resolved, That manufacturers ought to be encouraged by opening subscriptions for that purpose, or by any other proper means.
Resolved, That the African slave trade is injurious to this colony, obstructs the population of it by free men, prevents manufacturers and other useful immigrants from Europe from settling among us, and occasions an annual increase of the balance of trade against the colonies.
Resolved, That the raising of sheep, hemp, and flax ought to be encouraged.
Resolved, That to be clothed in manufactures fabricated in the colonies ought to be considered as a badge of distinction, of respect, and true patriotism.
Resolved, That Messrs. Samuel young and Moses Winslow, for the county of Rowan, and for the town of Salisbury, William Kennon, Esq., be, and they are hereby nominated and appointed Deputies upon the part of the inhabitants and freeholders of this county, and town of Salisbury, to meet such Deputies as shall be appointed by the other counties and corporation within this colony, at Johnston Courthouse, the twentieth of this instant.
Resolved, That, at this important and alarming crisis, it be earnestly recommended to the said Deputies at their General Convention, that they nominate and appoint one proper person out of each district of this Province, to meet such Deputies in a General Congress, as shall be appointed upon the part of the other Continental Colonies in America, to consult and agree upon a firm and indissoluble union and association, for preserving by the best and most proper means, their common rights and liberties.
Resolved, That this colony ought not trade with any other colony which shall refuse to join in any union and association that shall be agreed upon by the greater part of the colonies on this continent, for preserving their common rights and liberties.”
Twenty-five men of Rowan County, chosen from all parts of the county, approved the above document. Two of the men are my paternal 8th great-grandfather, John BREVARD, and another is a paternal 8th great-granduncle, John NISBET.
"Who we are, is who we were."
"He who feels no pride in his ancestors, is unworthy to be remembered by his descendants."
This website was last updated 3 September 2010 / RWP.