Thursday, April 4, 2013

Cunninghams of Rowan County, North Carolina: A Timeline

1762 March 8 John Cunningham Sr. made a will that was probated July 1762. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.

1762  John Cunningham Jr. was born in Rowan County (later Guilford County).

1788 Joseph Cunningham signed a petition. The signers were men who had purchased land in 1782 from Henry Eustace McCulloh. (Source General Assembly Legislative Petition, Committee on Revenue, Nov. 1788, North Carolina State Archives.)

1791 Nov 15 Joseph Cunningham to Jacob Weaver for 127 acres on the north fork of Reedy Creek, proved by Hu Cunningham (Deed Book 13, page 104)

1793 Feb. James Cunningham, an orphan and poor child, 8 years old was apprenticed to Martin Rablin to learn the trade of a shoemaker until 21 years of age. (Minutes of the Court of P@Qs, Feb. 1793)

1796 Joseph Cunningham,John Cunningham, Robert Cunningham signed a petition in favor of dividing Rowan County.


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