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The Trading Path in Alamance County, a Beginning |
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NOTES
[1] Emphasis added. Trollinger obtained the maximum riverfront, the
typical practice. His 160 acres was in the shape of a right triangle,
with the river as the hypotenuse and the Trading Path the long side.
The 275 acres his father, (Adam Trollinger, 1681-1776), bought from
Granville in 1761also was on the west side of the river. As early as
1755, Moravian travelers recorded the expectation that travelers would
not camp on Trollinger’s side. North Carolina Division of Archives and
History (hereafter NCA), Secretary of State, Land Grants, 89-I, 101-K;
Adelaide L. Fries, Records of the Moravians in North Carolina.
(Raleigh: N.C. Historical Commission, 1922) 2: 145.
[2] Nancy Barger in the 1970s recorded oral tradition placing the
Indians’ c.1800 customary gathering place and camp site approximately
on the site of Granite Mill. Such lingering Indian usage reflected
their long use of the crossing place that Europeans called “Pine Ford,”
along the wide, usually shallow, stretch of the river at that spot.
Alamance County Historic Site files,[Nancy Barger], 1978 Inventory of
Haw River Historical Sites.
[3] Joan de la Vandera, Memoria de Joan de la Vandera. Coleccion de
varios documentos para la historia de la Florida y tierras adyacentes
compiled by Buckingham Smith 1857. Tomo I. Londres: Trubner y compania.
[4] Greensboro Historical Museum, “A Map of North Carolina,” (London:
J. Stockdale, 1795); maps by Nicholas Comberford 1657, Ogilby c. 1672,
Edward Moseley 1733, John Collet 1770, Henry Mouzon, 1775 in William P.
Cumming, North Carolina in Maps. Raleigh: Archives and History, 1966;
U.S. Geological Survey Maps, Alamance Co., ed. 1981-1994, Mebane
Quadrangle (hereafter, U.S.G.S.); Alamance County Board of
Commissioners Road Map, 1992; William L. Spoon, Map of Alamance County,
1893; Douglas L Rights, “The Trading Path to the Indians,” NCHR 8:
403-426.
[5] NCA, Orange County Minutes Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (hereafter Orange CPQS) 1752-1754.
[6] Minutes of road commissioners, March 1753, filed following Sept
1755 court minutes, Orange CPQS; NCA, Secretary of State, Patent Books
(hereafter SS PB), 12: 20, 35, 36, 48, 14: 346, 40: 460.
[7] Orange Co. CPQS Sept. 1752.
[8] The tract was bounded on the south by James Stockard, on the north
by Freeland, and on the east by Hutcheson. James Anderson also listed
it as adjacent. Chain carriers were John Elmor and Jacob Bason. SS PB
40:294, abstracted in abstracted in Pat Shaw Bailey, Land Grant Records
of North Carolina Volume I Orange County 1752-1885 p.p. 1990, 21.
[9] Similarly, a near-crossroad of four components showed between
Quaker and Stag’s creeks in Spoon’s 1893 map, and much of it is
retained today in Miles Chapel, Mebane-Rogers and Bason roads. These
roads between Quaker and Stag’s creeks offer some visibility for
details that could not be incorporated into eighteenth century maps.
Spoon 1893; U.S.G.S.; North Carolina Collection, Chapel Hill, [School]
map of Alamance County, n.d. [1855].
[10] Walter Clark, ed., State Records of North Carolina (hereafter SRNC) 23: 390, 399, 25:271-272.
[11] Orange CPQS July 1752.
[12] Orange CPQS 1752-1754.
[13] NCA, “Journal of a Journey to Pee Dee,” John Saunders Notebook.
[14] Orange CPQS Feb 1779.
[15] Adam Trollinger (1681-1776) moved his family to the Haw River by
1745. They used the river for fishing, grist milling and later cotton
manufacturing. With land along the Trading Path on the west side of
Pine Ford, the family pursued commercial uses of the crossing site
itself. Local tradition associates Adam Trollinger’s oldest son, Jacob
Henry, with the ferry and the latter’s son, Henry, with the first
bridge at the crossing, a toll bridge replacing the ferry. Orange
County records show that in 1832 a bridge was built at county expense.
Adam Trollinger grave marker; Orange CPQS November 1832; 1926 Address
to Trollinger Family Reunion, William Thornton Whitsett Papers, SHC.
[16] Orange CPQS August 1761.
[17] Stanford and Barnwell lived on the east side of Haw River; Holt
and the men listed in his road crew lived on the west side. Ibid.; SRNC
26:1286-1290.
[18] NCA, Orange County Superior Court Minutes September 1815.
[19] U.S.G.S.; Spoon 1893.
[20] Alamance County Deed Book 2:155.
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