Margaret, daughter of John Butler & Agnes Hackley
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Re: Margaret, daughter of John Butler & Agnes Hackley
 saylorscreek
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Posted: 28 Nov 2009 5:13PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Hey, Bigdaddy !
Thanks for writing ! I will post a couple of things here, but would love it if you could write me offboard at saylorscreek@aol.com. I am an active researcher and most readers of the boards are bored with the process of the research, looking instead for final proven facts. i will try to post those without too much verbiage (though shutting my mouth is hard. Obviously, I come from the bloodline of William the Regulator even if not his direct descendant--he was not known for keeping his mouth shut) .
First of all, I looked at the GNIS website to find the location of Dutchmans Creek. There are 3 in NC, but only one (Dutchman without the S) would, according to the Newberry Library's historical counties map, have been in Rowan at that time. This one is in present day Davie County , only about 5 miles (as the crow flies) from where I live now! it is licky that you live near proven ancestral lands--i don't but landed here on a fluke which ended up to be straight in the middle of unknown ancestors).
This location is, by the way, pretty close to where William the Regulator Butler settled after the Revolutionary War. Now there are a number of DNA matches among Butlers to William's family that are clearly not in his immediate family, so there are relatives whose common ancestor is unaccounted for.
Because of the historical counties thing, I believe this is the one you discuss. I will be happy to take a trip to the Rowan Library down the road in Salisbury and see what is there. NC records are harder to find online than Virginia records online.
Second, have you participated in the Butler DNA study at www.butlerdna.org ? I highly encourage this, because Butlers in NC and VA of different DNA families regularly traveled and moved together often in the same counties! DNA is the only way to straighten them out, trust me--many unrelated Butlers in the same county at the same time had the same name!
If you haven't participated, there are a number on the board who ended up TN. If you will send me a simple tree offboard I will try to tie your tree to the lineages of the study participants as a way of placing your Butlers in other known Butlers.
Anyway, I very much hope you will write me off board so we can do the hypothesis chasing. There are also good Revolutionary War records I have with links to TN. I will look through these as well. I love the process of Butler hunting, and we can eventually publish something proven to the board.
Nancy
Thanks for writing ! I will post a couple of things here, but would love it if you could write me offboard at saylorscreek@aol.com. I am an active researcher and most readers of the boards are bored with the process of the research, looking instead for final proven facts. i will try to post those without too much verbiage (though shutting my mouth is hard. Obviously, I come from the bloodline of William the Regulator even if not his direct descendant--he was not known for keeping his mouth shut) .
First of all, I looked at the GNIS website to find the location of Dutchmans Creek. There are 3 in NC, but only one (Dutchman without the S) would, according to the Newberry Library's historical counties map, have been in Rowan at that time. This one is in present day Davie County , only about 5 miles (as the crow flies) from where I live now! it is licky that you live near proven ancestral lands--i don't but landed here on a fluke which ended up to be straight in the middle of unknown ancestors).
This location is, by the way, pretty close to where William the Regulator Butler settled after the Revolutionary War. Now there are a number of DNA matches among Butlers to William's family that are clearly not in his immediate family, so there are relatives whose common ancestor is unaccounted for.
Because of the historical counties thing, I believe this is the one you discuss. I will be happy to take a trip to the Rowan Library down the road in Salisbury and see what is there. NC records are harder to find online than Virginia records online.
Second, have you participated in the Butler DNA study at www.butlerdna.org ? I highly encourage this, because Butlers in NC and VA of different DNA families regularly traveled and moved together often in the same counties! DNA is the only way to straighten them out, trust me--many unrelated Butlers in the same county at the same time had the same name!
If you haven't participated, there are a number on the board who ended up TN. If you will send me a simple tree offboard I will try to tie your tree to the lineages of the study participants as a way of placing your Butlers in other known Butlers.
Anyway, I very much hope you will write me off board so we can do the hypothesis chasing. There are also good Revolutionary War records I have with links to TN. I will look through these as well. I love the process of Butler hunting, and we can eventually publish something proven to the board.
Nancy