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Subject: [BLACK-L] Re: Rachel Black
Date: 15 Dec 2001 13:54:51 -0700

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I believe there is a connection here.

The David Black Family Lineage

Amount pioneers of the northern part of Gaston County, NC were the Black's of Cherryville. They were of Scotch-Irish origin and came with many of their countrymen to America, first settling in PA. Four men: David, Thomas, John and William Black arrived in North Carolina in the 1750's. David was assumed to be the father. Thomas, John, and William Black were his sons.

Thomas Black is the established founder of the Black family of Cherryville. He first appears in the records of Mecklenburg County, NC (remember that Mecklenburg Co was not in excistence at this time) when he purchased a tract of 200 acres on November 23, 1762, which was in the neighborhood of the Shoal Bridge near Cherryville. He married Elizabeth ??. Evidently Thomas Black did not remain on the land along Indian Creek. Family tradition has preserved the story that he lived there for only two or three years and then moved to a farm near Shelby, NC. He lived there until his death on or about March 15, 1779.

Sometime between 779 and the end of ht eighteenth century, Elizabeth Black, with her son, Ephriam, appears to have moved from the Cleveland County farm to the land on Indian Creek. In the 1790 census of Lincoln County, she was listed with one boy under 16 (Ephraim) and two free white females in the house hold.

Ephraim Black b. Feb 11, 1767; d. Sept. 24, 1843 lived on the land on Indian Creek until his death in 1843. He built his house near the west end of Crouse, overlooking Indian Creek. Ephraim married Doshey Homesley on December 21, 1790. Her name was also listed as Tabitha, they were buried on this farm. Their children were:

Jemima Black/Michael Mauney
Thomas Black/Elizabeth Lenhart
Elizabeth Black
Stephen Black/Elizabeth Brown
Ephraim Black, Jr.
Lawson Black
Samuel Black/Ann Carpenter
Wiley Black
Abel Black
Lorenzo Dow Black/Melinda Weaver
Alfred Black
Benja Black (assumed to be first postmaster of Cherryville)

You also need to do some research into the counties of NC in the 1700's and 1800's to put some of these times and places together. ie. Gaston County was established until the 1880's.

One other question...do you have a brother named Mike Mundy??

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