Source of the following Julia Burns websitehttp:// familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/u/r/Julia-A-Burns-nc/GENE2-0004.html
February 4, 2005
James S Brawley wrote (Rowan County: A Brief History, Page 2) that there were basically two ways on land that settlers traveled. "The trading Path stretched from Fort Henry ( Petersburg, VA) westward into Rowan County where it crossed the Yadkin at Trading Ford and continued on the over hill Indian Camps in South Carolina and Georgia. The other highway extended from Pennsylvania south through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia into Carolina as far as the Trading Path, which it joined just east of Yadkin River." It is understood that these trails were made by the Indians and the settlers just followed those established paths. (The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road -- 435 miles in length. )
Hunstville, NC. Town in southeast Yadkin County near Yadkin River. Chartered 1792, by Charles Hunt of Salisbury who sold lots here. Town re-charted in 1822 but long inactive in municipal officers. From all indication, I am of the strong assumption that the Hunts were not actually from present day Rowan County. They were just from the north of the District of Salisbury and about present day Rowan County
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Rowan County, NC Vacant Land Entries 1778-1789 by Richard A Enochs, 1988
p 67, #930, June 17, 1778, Richard Auton 400 acres on Ceader Creek adj, Jonathan Hunt, John Hunt, Charles Hunt and Andrew Hunt
p 66, #914, Charles Hunt 300 acres on E side of Ceader Creek at a pine tree, June 16, 1778
Surry Co, NC Deeds Books D, E and F 1779-1797, Mrs. W O Absher, Southern Historical Press, 1985
p 68-69, from Book E, p 188, March 16, 1793, Charles Hunt, Town of Salisbury, Rowan Co to Christian Sheekes, 13 pounds, lot #34, town Huntsville on High Street
p 73, Book E, 224, May 29, 1792, Charles Hunt merchant Salisbury, Rowan Co bought 158 acres S side Yadkin RIver from Abraham Creson estate
p 77, Book E, p 260, Charles Hunt March 16, 1793 sells town lot #48, Huntsville
p 261, March 16, 1793, Charles sells lot #5, Huntsville, High and Pine Streets
p 123, Book F, p 350, November 17, 1796, Charles Hunt and wife Elizabeth to Peter Eaton, Minister of the Gospel, Rowan County, lots 1 & 2, Huntsville High Street
