Do you have U.S. pioneer ancestors? Join the Southern Pioneers Project! [closed]

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The Southern Pioneers project focuses on the people that left the original colonial settlements of America and ventured into the wilderness to expand our early nation. The project's mission is to preserve and protect the genealogy of these early pioneer families and to provide accurate connections between their immigrant ancestors and modern-day descendants based on careful research and reliable sources.

To join the project, please click on the 'answer this post' link below and say that you would like to join (please don't use the 'comment' link as it makes it hard to keep track - thanks!).

Note:  The Southern Pioneers Project is a sub-project of the United States Project; as such, it does not have a separate badge.  If you are already a member of the U.S. Project (or any other sub-project of the U.S. Project), you already have what you need.  Feel free to review the project page and add a sticker to your profile or those of your ancestors.

Here is a link to the project page:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Southern_Pioneers

If you would also like to join the project's Google discussion group, click here.  On your join request, please include your Wikitree ID number.

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I know this group has good members, doing a great job. I also know that most are the scots Irish from NC, Tennessee.,kentucky. In my reading of early Tennessee, Franklin county militia commanded by Col. Anthony Bledsoe, Under command of general Richardson, I believe, mustred the group of Tennessee mountain men known today as the Over the mountain men.

That part is known, but what is not known is. That land on the backside of Kings Mountain SC is also the plantation bought by his father Abraham Bledsoe, When their mother Kathryn Bledsoe married Their father.

Word was sent, They would burn the plantation. Anthony his brother Issac their slaves.  Their neighbors. The longhunters. Took those men over the mountain and killed the man who threatened that. Now you know.

The Douglas, Shelby, Cage, Bledsoe, lewis, Martin, King, all beat the British that day. Without the Bledsoe knowledge of that area, who knows?

Answer 1

Hi there!  I would like to join the Southern Pioneers Project.  I have interest currently in the Harwell family that utimately settled in Giles County TN.  I am a direct descendant through Warren Harwell.  

Thank you!

Nanette

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Hi Nanette, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  Please review the Southern Pioneers project page regarding tasks, stickers, etc.  You may want to join our Google discussion group (be sure to include your Wikitree ID if/when you apply to join the Google group).  It isn't very active right now.  The project has been without leadership since Covid struck...

Answer 2

Hello, I would like to join the Southern Pioneers Project. I am descended from numerous early Tennessee families including several Revolutionary War veterans who traveled west during and after the war.

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Hi Janet, thanks for your interest in helping with the Southern Pioneers Project.  I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge (since it's a sub-project of that).  Please review the Southern Pioneers project page regarding tasks, stickers, etc.  You may want to join our Google discussion group (be sure to include your Wikitree ID if/when you apply to join the Google group). 

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Hey Janet!  You and I went to elementary school together at Highland View in Oak Ridge.

Mary Jo (Johnson) Dailey

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Hey Mary Jo, Small world!

Answer 3

 Howdy, Joe Muse here. I'd  like to join the Southern Pioneers Project. Most of my ancestors came here early, grew south, then westward. My Layton ancestors are proven pioneers of Taney County, Missouri, but I'll work on the others that settled early in other states.

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Hi Joe, thanks for your interest in helping with the Southern Pioneers Project.  I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge (since it's a sub-project of that).  Please review the Southern Pioneers project page regarding tasks, stickers, etc.  You may want to join our Google discussion group (be sure to include your Wikitree ID if/when you apply to join the Google group). 

Answer 4

Hello! I would like to join Southrrn Pioneers Project. I have Todd, Harsh, Wilson, Rutledge, Cooper, McKee, Gildehaus (Gildhouse), Stoner, Shrier, vorderhake, Gould, Callaway, Weatherford, Vanderburg, Perry...just to name a few.

Also researching my husband's line: Roberts, Vaught, West, Hastings, Stallings, Apple, Schaefer

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Hi Misty, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 5

Hello, I would like to join the Southern Pioneers Project too.  My paternal line is Funderburg from SC-GA-AL and descendants westward.  My maternal line is Avery-Stanley from NC - AL.

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Hi Noah, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 6

I'd like to join the Southern Pioneers Project.  My maternal line of Bennetts left New Hampshire and started a trading post in northwest Louisiana that became Shreveport and then across the Red River started Bossier.

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Hi Barbara, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 7

I am requesting to join the Southern Project in order to verify and continue researching my family ancestry and share my over 30 years as a family history researcher. Primary surnames include: Harrison, Hodges, Ware, Cooley, Tuggle, Yates, Wagoner, McGhee/McGee, Thurston, and more.

I have taken DNA test from Ancestry, MyHeritage, and 23&Me. My primary family tree is in Ancestry.com Thanks for your critical work on behalf of other genealogy researchers, Michael Colon “Collie” Harrison Sr

mikeharrisonsr@gmail.com

I have both, a biological father, Jesse Leonard Hodges, and an adoptive father, Van H Harrison. I have researched these families extensively.

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Hi Michael, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 8

Hello, I would like to join the Southern Pioneers Project.  I am descended from a number of pioneers who moved to East Tennessee prior to 1800.  Thank you for your consideration.

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Hi Sherry, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 9

Good morning to you from Mississippi, I am very interested in joining the Southern_Pioneers, I have family who help start up many Southern towns, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Texas.  Surname list is long, that's for another post.  please let me know about joining.  Elisa Barnes (SunShine).

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Hi Elisa, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 10

Hi! I would like to join the Southern Pioneers project. My father’s line Bryan/Briant/Bryant can be traced from VA to SC to AL and westward.

Comments

I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 11

I would like to join the Southern Pioneers Project. I have at least 12 direct lineal ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War (NJ, DE, MA, - Jones, Andrews, Armstrong, others; VI, NC, SC - Haynsworth, Furman, Elliott, Holmes) then some ancestors from SC went west.  I know several Haynsworth’s and Anderson’s were in AL & TX. To my knowledge, there was a land grant to Haynsworth in Texas during the complicated 1830’s. He returned to SC in 1840.

Thank you!

Brooke

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I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 12

Hi there! I would like to join this. My interest in this topic comes from my research on my husband's lines. They are deeply rooted across the entire South (began in VA, Maryland, SC and went west to Texas, OK, and California). The surnames include Par(r)ish, Glas(s)cock, Harrison, Jackson, Hooten, Trevathan, etc

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Hi Tessa, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 13

I would like to join this group. I have many ancestors and collateral relatives who migrated from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Maryland to Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, then to all points West.

Thank You,

Margaret

Tull-5

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Hi Margaret, you already have the U.S. Project badge, so you are good to go.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 14

Hoping I might learn more about the western and southern migration of my family, and how they fit with the other pioneers. No one in my closest family lines had any notoriety as far as I know. They were mostly planters, and farmers.

The earliest data I have places most of these families in the Madison County, Virginia area. The Hutcherson, Willis, Garnett, and some Hudson ancestors settled in the W Central Mo region, near the MO River.

Others in my grandfathers line, the Masons, Hudson’s, ( Woodfins by marriage) went to the Perry County, AL region before and after the Civil War.

My Grandmothers line of Becrafts came by way of Maryland to bourbon, KY then to Missouri. The Grimes were in Virginia, then Kentucky and finally to Mo.

I would especially like to learn or research the wagon trains that made the journey for some of these families. There was a known written account of one of these trains by a girl named Arabella Little Hudson, daughter of Pioneer John Mason Hudson, detailing the trip beginning Sept 1 1854, from Madison, VA to Saline Co Missouri. The letter was in the possession of Sharon Irvine Griesan, ( gggranddaughter of Philander Young Irvine)  but it’s whereabouts are now unknown.

best regards,

Linda Hutcherson Simmons

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Hi Linda, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

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Thank you. I’ll try to help with the Southern Pioneers project goals.

Answer 15

Hi I’m Phyllis Stewart and have a revolutionary war GrandFather and would love to join the project. Thanks

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Hi Phyllis, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 16

107359  Mary Jo Dailey

I'm excited about this project!

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Hi Mary Jo, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 17

I would like to join the Southern Pioneers Project. Most of my husband's and my families came from Virginia and North Carolina after the Revolutionary War and settled in the Middle Tennessee area.

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Hi Kathy,  I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 18

Yes, I would like to join.  I have ancestors who were pioneers in VA, KY, TN, NC, SC, MO, and AL. Most of them lived in truly pioneer conditions for part of their time in the South.

Joan Whitsett Benton

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Hi Joan, I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

On another note, I've never seen '--' in the first name field for anyone on here.  Is that intentional?

Answer 19

Hello, I'd like to join the Southern Pioneers Project. I'm looking into the Thornton and Harris families that settled in Virginia and then moved further south to the Carolinas and then Mississippi.

Thank you!

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I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge.  You can review the Southern Pioneers project page which has information on project objectives, stickers, and a link to DBE errors should you want to work on those.  Thanks for joining.

Answer 20

I'm interested in more information, specifically on time commitment. My ancestors nearly all settles in the southeast prior to 1800 and then expanded west (ie, Tennessee, Alabama) and south (ie, Florida) very early in those states' development. Surnames include: Hendricks, Ward, Bush, Manning, Wilkinson/Wilkerson, Nettles, Copeland, Jackson, Freeman, Dious/Dias/Dyess, Marler/Marlow, Williams among others. I'm also researching my wife's family who pretty much stayed in NC until she and I met! Would love to contribute and participate if not too time consuming.

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Hi Paul, we have no requirements on what or how much you have to do to be a member of the project.  I've awarded you the U.S. Project badge, since the Southern Pioneers are a sub-project of it.  Feel free to help as you have time.  Thanks.

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Well, that was easy! I'll do what I can.

Paul