The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-13

| Visit to An Old Colonial Home in North
 Carolina" which have been very arlx- .lous to see, as Colonel Joseph Williams.
 whose home 1t wes. is an ancestor Of mine and l am collecting all the authen-
 tic~information l can about him. partic-
 ularly his wife, Rebecca Lanier. If you
 can tell me to whom to write for copy
 of the paper I shall be very grateful to
 you.
 field of Waynesville. N C.. State Regent
 of North Carolina. Will some member or
 the General Sumter Chapter please re-
 ply? The raper desired was read before
 i5o. HINES. Perhaps you can help me
 find rroof of the services or Cnarles
 Hines as Revolutionary soldier in North aseta. 2'd the "a daushter Rer'f of Mary Dixon and
 ufa on page na 4 ~SHss wSeeisrs History of North Hines had daughters, Martha Hall Hines, who married Henry Dixon; Rhoda, born i762, and Elizabeth, born ITO: There may been Sroshsr Sinsr of payd Hines of Pitt
 Thomas Hines of Wake County. North 'IsofpSrxo i5l. pfxoN. My grandmother. Mary
 Bacon Dixon. was the daughter of Henry Dixon and Martha Hall Hines and grand daushter of Henry Dixon and and Eli1sSeta
 Bacon. Wanted. proof of the services. of
 NHS iss BACON. Ann Bacon mentioned
 above was the daughter of Captain Lyd-
 dail Bacon. who was a grandson Of Ma
 thaniel Bacon the Rebel .rvpss Please ss daye giye colonial or Revolutionary serVces or Csp-
 'aIa IE. LANE. Ny great grandfather.
 Richard Lane, was born in Halifax Coun. ty. North Carolina, in 17Ss he married rlea born 1733 and died 1906; he married Wini- fred Ayoock. Jesse Lane was the son son of Joseph Lane. born mo. married lISo
 Richard. Jesse and Joseph. might have served in the Revolution either actively or in the civil service. Wanted. proof Of
 'helr l4. HERITAGE. HERITAGE have been told that
 William Heritage was Clerk of the Co-
 ionial Assembly of North Caroline;
 Where can find proof of these colonial l services? w.
 ANSWERS.
 6s. TROTTER. The name of Joseph
 Trotter of South Carolina Is found on the
 Colonel Col William Thomsons regiment; the
 2Oth of September, 1775 (See South Caro-
 ina Magazlne; volume s,, l. pa page ans: 2sSo 1as member of. the Lower House of the Gen
 S' e.. Nov. eth, 1727 {see page IF, vol
 s CLARKE N9Esh coHST4 R'fSSesf FSs little vol the tne 2stn l inst. "clarke County and its
 fan ba es haS @So frS% now tns rssdes
 at Crown Point, Ind. My copy cost me
 s25o wears ago. It Is valuable local history. This department has presen- tation copy from Mr. Ball. M OWEN Director Alabama Department Archives ,s aGg GPgsRsoSs. Fss5ss' Mrs J. N Cooper cMary
 Person. Is descendant of General Thom-
 as Perscn. She is a member of the Whit mel Blount Chapter of Henderson, N c: She can probably furnish intormst,Tn "a re,Iv oi In the thirteenth volume of the Lineage l Book may be found the name or MISS Laura Martin Mitchell who IS S1,s descena ;t,,s = Martha Eaton. William Person was a
 member of the Committed. of Safety and l represented Bute County in the Provin- e served as brigadier-general, Miss Mitch ) els address Is Danville, Va; 3 14O HARVEY. Boykin's History or e came came ;'' with the clarks. Coopers and An
 thonys from Virginia to Georgia. The - HarVeys settled in Hancock County on d the waters of Beaverdam creek IS aoous n therefore be better for Mrs. Latta to t search for the Harvey ancestry In vir- 2 ginia, perhaps in Henry county as the j. r. pANTHoNY. Ind october number. @ 1901, of the Virginia Magazine, page l4S, Is gives the name of Joseph Anthony among n those who took the State oath of allegi- U ance to the American cause in Henry n County in the year l71S.
 s 4. HARBOUR Joel Harbour took this a same oath of allegiance in 1777. In lfIS p Esaias Harbour and Thomas Harber took
 Unted fd SptR states; aaG pages p A. IF is Virginia 5 Magazine for October, 1901.
 | is0. ATKINS. A correspondent sends l. these notes: The Atkins family came T originally from Scotland and Wales and settled first at Jamestown, Va. Ihe last 4 two generations were of King and Queen U and Gloucester Counties. Virginia. A 3 3 branch of the family came to Alabama in 1886 and settled at Greensboro: It IS
 claimed that the estates in Wal, ,s came
 to this branch of the family twice, put
 the old papers were all burned up by kli- y patrick in his raid during the war e Another line of the family moved from ). Virginia to Kentucky and Tennessee; d from them came General J. D. c. Atkins n of Knoxville. The family names running d | through the last two generations are = William (always the oldest son).. John f There were two of the family at York 0 town; one of them killed there.
 = 121 MIZELL. This name is evidently of
 French origin The earliest mention we a have found Is in William and Mary Quar- s terly volume VIII, page 164 Luke Ml- zell is mentioned among those who were yeIS
 taxed in Surry County, Virginia in l6os s In the North Carolina Register Luke and , William Mizell Cor Meazlel are repeated | D | in 17l4-1716 and other times;; pages l46- . l4 Luke Mizell married Sarah Charl- ton, the daughter of William and Susan- nah Charlton as appears from deed I | from William Charlton to Luke Mizel - For love and affection I bear Luke Mi, zell and Sarah his wife. my son and
 daughter. l give them a tract of land on
 Moratuck (Roanoke) River; between 17O6
 and I'll, exact date lost, pages 9o-96.
 William Charlton was a man of promi-
 nence: he settled in Chowan. County be-
 fore 100, owning 240 acres of land (page
 3oSl. He was a man of influence, presid-
 ing at courts and called upon in many
 ways to direct affairs.
 We would suppose that Luke and Will
 liam Mizell of North Carolina were the
 sons of Luke Mizell of Surry County,
 Virginia Moses Mizell is mentioned on
 page 20 of North Carolina Register as
 having land grant of 47O acres near Cy-
 press Branch, in ChoWan County, and an-
 other land grant in the same county of T 420 acres. This was in 1759
 126. RUNALS. A sketch of Abraham Runas is to be found in the Genealogy . of the Runals family, published in 1873.
 This states that he joined the American
 Army in 1775 when more than 57 years
 old. Four of his sons embarked in the
 same cause; during the time of their ser