Flat River, Elk River NC, Rebel Springs TN

Flat River, Elk River, Rebel Hollow Springs

Flatt River, Orange County NC

Partial 1755 Orange County North Carolina tax list from the Flat River area.

John Collins 1 tithe (mulatto); Micajer Bunch 1 tithe (mulatto); Gedion Bunch 1 tithe (mulatto); Moses Ridley 1 tithe and wife Mary (mullattoes); Thomas Gibson 3 thithes (Mulatto); George Gibson 1 tithe (mulatto. These are the Melungeon families who came to Tennessee. According to North Carolina records the Saponi Indians had a settlement about 15 miles east of Hillsboro, county seat for Orange County, North Carolina, and some of them may have been the ones named in this court case in Orange County, Virginia:

"Alexander Machartoon, John Bowling, Manicassa, Capt. Tom, Isaac, Harry, blind tom, Foolish Jack, Charles Griffin, John Collins, Little Jack, Indians being brought before the court for stealing Hogs, Ordered that their Guns be taken away from them till they are ready to depart of this county, they having declared their intentions to depart this colony within a week." (pp 309-312 Orange County, virginia Order Book 3, 1741-43, Courtesy of Virginia DeMarce.)

Elk Creek, Watauga County, NC

Mary Hill and I are standing at the mouth of Elk Creek , near this very spot was where Tory Captain William Riddle camped for the night after he and his men captured Colonel Benjamin Cleveland at Old Fields. This location today is near Todd, Watauga County, North Carolina. Riddle Knob is about 2 miles west of Elk Creek, where Tory Capt. Riddle's camp was located.

Mary E.Vassel Hill was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. She obtained a BA in Family and Community History and an MLS from Brigham Young University. Mary joined the teaching staff of BYU as an instructor in Family History and genealogical research in 1992. In 1995 she joined the staff of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City as a cataloger in Spanish and Portuguese. In 1998 Mary joined the US/Canada reference staff, and is an instructor in various aspects of genealogical research. She is an accredited genealogist in Eastern and Southern states research, and is a sought after speaker at genealogy fairs and conferences. The workshop she developed on setting up a paper filing system in this day of the computer has been particularly popular.

Mary Hill's Journal, a research trip to Tennessee locating her Riddles.

Rebel Springs, Hancock County Tennessee
Still trying to figure out what that is.