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Genealogical histories of the Forkner/Fortner/Faulkner/Falkner surnames.
Brothers, Stephen, Charles and George Heard, who were born in Ireland in about 1689 to 1692, came to America in about 1720. They settled in Sadsbury, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia and Texas.
Joel Perkerson served in the Revolutionary War, moved fromn Virginia to North Carolina in 1795, later moving to South Carolina and then to Jackson County, Georgia by 1806. He married three times--and was a grandfather of John Samuel Perkerson (1806-1862), who married Martha Frances Roseberry, and moved from Jackson County to Cobb County, Georgia. Descendants lived in Georgia, Michigan, Texas and elsewhere.
Seth Parkinson (b.1634), son of Seth Parkinson, immigrated from England to Henrico County, Virginia before 1677. Seth Perkinson (d.1735), his son, spelled the surname Perkinson, as did later descendants. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in England to the early 1200s, showing the Perkinson family as descendants of Elias de Featherstonehaugh (his great-grandson was John le Perkynson, who discarded the surname Featherstonehaugh).
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Despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the Civil War, surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the conflictÕs final months in the Carolinas. Resisting Sherman: A Confederate SurgeonÕs Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865, by Francis Marion Robertson (edited by Thomas H. Robertson, Jr.) fills in many of the gaps and adds tremendously to our knowledge of this region and those troubled final days of the Confederacy. Surgeon Francis Robertson fled Charleston with the Confederate garrison in 1865 in an effort to stay ahead of General ShermanÕs Federal army as it marched north from Savannah. The Southern high c...
"Many Brittains, Britons, Brittens ... came to America (from England) in the 1600's.