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Hey PappyDick….tis true….there is also a Point Pleasant there in WV …and yikes, it is the site of the “Moth Man” Prophecies/legend. I only mentioned the Point Pleasant in Ohio because another member mentioned my home state. The Ohio River from Point Pleasant in WV flows downstream to Point Pleasant in OH as well…Dunno where all of this is going yet but I’ll sit back and watch. Have a great day~~~Laurie
Daniel Boone CHRONOLOGY http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/HNS/Boone/chronology.html
I’ve read this thread before but somehow missed the ferry connection: the ancestor driving me nuts, James Addair, lived right there, across from Radford, Va., and had a ferry in the 1790’s. It was on the west side of the New River, somewhere in between the Ingles ferry and Pepper’s ferry – evidently there was a huge amount of traffic from the main Wilderness Road crossing the river around there. And according to our family story, he was at least part Cherokee. He was in the area as early as 1772, but I haven’t been able to find him anywhere before that.
reading these posts reminds me why it is so hard to trace these families…I don’t think their only reason for leaving was greener pastures…There is a fictional book…however, many here may note the similarities with their own familes.
The book is “Thirteen Moons”, Charles Fraizer, yep, the Cold Mountain author. For mountain families the connection will be inevitable. Oh, and ok, there is a wee bit of romance…but the history is great!
Thanks, Shirley! I’m now halfway through “Thirteen Moons.” Hope you have more fiction to recommend, ’cause I can tell I’m going to be sorry when I finish it. Just the thing to help get through February.
Barbara Adair Bauer wrote: Thanks, Shirley! I’m now halfway through “Thirteen Moons.” Hope you have more fiction to recommend, ’cause I can tell I’m going to be sorry when I finish it. Just the thing to help get through February.
Barbara,
I am glad you like it…I don’t buy to many fictions, but this one caught my eye and I like the author….I figured his first took place in Appalachia…I actually liked this better than “Cold Mountain.” It seemed to detail the people and the surrounding country much better.
Shirley
Rachel McCraw wrote:
Another possible connection to that one: I have not found source material on this, but I understand that my Taylor g.-g. grandmother’s relatives actually ran a ferry there at about the same time, on the other side of the river. Descendents claim no connection to the Ingles bunch, who are still not overly popular with a number of locals. (No offense intended toward any Ingles who might be reading!) This would be on the land where the Trigg site was located, in one of their cornfields by the river, and the house Granny Terry was born in was still visible from my window in Radford last time I was back. I do not know the surname(s) at that point, and am short on records right now. This same family was later joined, as I understand it, by some Cherokee fleeing NC–thus the Taylors who were not connected to ones on the Census, if I recall correctly, and who did not appear on it themselves if they could help it. I had clean forgotten how many Cherokee were in and out with Fort Frederick.
This seems likely to be the ferry Rachel’s family mentioned:
http://www.radfordpl.org/library/radford_then_now/full/RadfordThen&Now2.pdf
“Radford, Then and Now, A Pictorial History,” Elmer D. Johnson, 1975
p. 13-14
“The area now inside the Radford city limits had few residents during the Revolution, and much land in the vicinity had been granted to non-residents. John Mills and Francis Riley had grants of land by the 1750’s and James Addair owned 880 acres across the New River from the mouth of Connelly’s Run. In 1786 the Montgomery Coumty Court authorized him to open a “bridle way” or road from Pepper’s Ferry across the Horseshoe Bend by his house and thence over the New and along Connelly’s Run westward. This was apparently a popular road because in 1791 he petitioned the legislature for a permit to operate a ferry across the New River near the mouth of the Run. He received this permission in 1796, and by this time another road, from Back Creek in Pulaski County to Christiansburg, also crossed at Addair’s Ferry. Other family names in the Radford area before 1800 included Craig, Bingamin, Haven, Taylor, Penner, Skaggs, Cassiday, Taylor, Trigg, Wall, Wiley, and Sallust.
The Early Nineteenth Century
The early nineteenth centuy saw the Radford area still sparsely settled. What is now Fairlawn, then known as the Upper Horseshoe, passed from the hands of the Addairs to John McCandless Taylor about 1817, and his home “Rockford” stood in the middle of his large holdings. Other members of the Taylor family owned land on the East Radford side of the river, including the “Race Path” where horse races were held.”
p. 12 has an old photo “Another nineteenth century cabin near the site of the Taylor home, Rockford, across the river from Radford”
would love to know more about the NA connection here – my guy James Addair’s origins have been elusive.
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