1 Jan 2008 a relative sent me genealogy information. The oldest date was for a gggggrandfather, Adoniram Allen, born in 1734, New Hampshire colony near the Vermont border. His family came to North Carolina and built and iron furnace and sawmill. Adoniram, his father, and younger brother fought in the Battle of Moore's Creek and later in the Battle of King's Mountain. Adoniram traveled on to Georgia, then to Alabama. He lived, with the permission of the chiefs, on the edge of the Chickasaw Indian nation. Adoniram returned to Surry County, North Carolina, and from there claimed his pension grant: 5K acres in Clay County, Kentucky. At the age of 76, he moved his family to Kentucky, built another water mill and house, and lived to be 104.
My ancestors include two different sets of Bakers. One, Robert and Samuel, came from England to be gunsmiths to the colonial Americans. They lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and developed the Kentucky long rifle. The other Baker line descends from Pocahontas. Time magazine had a feature article on Jamestown, and I probably will purchase a back edition.
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