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Note: OUR CHRISTIAN MESSER WAS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE HEAD OF HOUSE HOLD IN THE 1771 SURREY COUNTY CENSUS . IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE CHRISTIAN MERCER THAT WAS LISTED IN THE 1781 1784 SURREY CO. TAX LIST COULD BE AN ANCESTOR BUT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THISCHRISTIAN WAS LISTED WITH THE HOUSEHOLD OF WILLIAM WINGFIELD . IN 1783 A CHILD AWSBAPTIZED IN THE HOME OF WILLIAM WINGFIELD BY A MORAVIAN MINISTER . FROM THE VARIOUS DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE RESEARCHED THIS IS BELIVED TO BE THE CHRISTIANMESSER WHO WAS MARRIED TO SARAH HUNTER AND LIVED IN HAWKINS CO. TN. AND DIED IN. 1831 HIS WILL MENTIONS HIS WIFE SARAH SONS JACOB JOHN ISSIAC AND THE REST OF MY. CHILDREN . THERE ARE OTHER EXAMPLES OF A CHRISTIAN MESSER ONTHE EARLY TAX LISTS OFN. C. BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW IF IT IS OUR ANCESTOR THE FIRST LISTING THAT SEEMS MOST LIKEYTO BE OUR AQNCESTOR IS IN THE 1790 ROWAN CO. N. C. CENSUS HE WAS LISTED AS SARGENT MESSERIN 1830 HAYWOOD CO. N. C. CENSUS AS SERGETT MESSER AND 1840AS SARGERITT MESSER HIS WIFES NAME WAS NOT KNOWN AS OF APRIL 1977. . CENSUS RECORDS 1790 ROWAN CO. N. C. MESSER SARGENT 1 MALE 16 1 MALE 16 3 FEMALES LIVING IN AND AMONG PETER MILLER CHRISTIAN MILLER MICHAEL MILLER JACOB MILLER AND JOHN MESSEMERCENSUS 1800 NOT FOUND 1810 NOT FOUND 1820 NOT FOUND 1830 HAYWOOD CO. N. C. PAGE 384 MESSER SARGETT 1 MALE 60 TO 70 1 MALE 20 TO 30 1 MALE 15 TO 20 1 FEM. 50 TO 60 1840 CENSUS HAYWOOD CO. N. C. PAGE 116 SARGERIT MESSER 1 MALE 60 TO 70 1 MALE 40TO 50 1 FEM. 60 TO 70 NO FURTHER CENSUS RECORDS FOUNDREPUTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER BUT NO EVIDENCE FOUND ALLENS ANNALS OF HAYWOOD CO N. C. INDICATES HE WAS THE THE SON OF CAPTIAN MESSER A REGULATOR WHO WAS HUNG AT HILLSBOROUGH N. C. FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE I HAVE READ OTHER PEOPLES WRITING WHO SAY TRERE EXISTS NO PROFF THAT THIS IS TRUE ANDTHAT INDEED THE NAME OF CAPTAIN ROBERTS SON IS NOT KNOWN THIS REFERENCE IN ALLENS ANNALS SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN SERIOSLY WITHOUT PROFF HI NAME DOES APPEAR THOUGH ON A STATUE IN HAYWOOD CO. N. C. AS ONE OF THE COUNTYS REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS NO LAND RECORDS FOUND NO VOTONG RECORDS FOUND REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS MAY 1997 RESEARCH OF BRENDA MESSER 1782 13 JUNE N. C. REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ACCOUNTS VOL 1 BOOK 2 (249)- #116 VOL 1 BOOK 2 FOLIO 11 SPECIE CERTIFICATES PAIN INTO THE COMPTROLLERS OFFICE BY JOHN ARMSTRONG CONTINUED# 191 BY WHOM GRANTED BAGGE & HUNTER TO WHOM GRANTED CHRISTIAN MESSER DATE 13 JUNE 1782 SUM 10.5- INTEREST -016.4 TO WHAT TIME DITTO PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST 11.1.4NORTH CAROLINA REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ACCOUNTS SECRETARY OF STATE TREASURY AND COMPTROLLERS PAPERS VOL. 1 VOL 11 PART 11 TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORDS BY WEYENETTE PARKS HAUN 243 ARGONNE DRIVE DURHAM N. C. 27704 PAGE 191 CHRISTIAN MESSER APPERANTLY DID NOT STAY IN HAYWOOD CO. N. C. ALL THE TIME AFTER SETTLING THERE . IN TALKING WITH ELDERY GENTLEMEN IN HAYWOOD CO. N. C. IN 1996 I AWS TOLD THAT CHRISTIAN MESSER MADE TRIPS BACK AND FORTH INTO TENN. THROUGH OUT HISLIFE AFTER COMING TO HAYWOOD CO. N. C. HE SAID HE WENT TO A PLACE CALLED GREEN BRIAR TENN. HE DID NOT KNOW IF HE MADE TO OTHER AREAS OR NOTSOURCE SHELTON FAMILY HISTORY 4--343ACCORDING TO A SHELTON FAMILY BIBLE JOHN SHELTON AND HIS WIFE CATHERINE WERE MARRIED IN HAWKINS TN. IN 1805 ACCORDING TO THE 1830 CENSUS OF SCOTT CO. VA. THE WIFE OF JOHN SHELTON CATHERINE MESSER WAS BORN BET. 1780 AND 1790. THE 1880 CENSUS OFOF SCOTT CO. VA. LISTS MARTIN SHELTON SON OF CATHERINE MESSER AND INDICATES THAT MARTINS MOTHER WAS BORN IN TN. . THE 1880 CENSUS OF JACKSON CO. ALA. LISTS NOAH SHELTON ANOTHER SON OF CATHERINE MESSER AND INDICATES THAT HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN N,C, SINCE TN, WAS WAS PART OF N. C. WHEN CATHERINE MESSER WAS BORN AND BECAUSE TN. DID NOT BECOME ASTATE UNTILL 1796 IT IMPLIES THAT CATHERINE MESSER WAS PROBALLY BORN IN N. C. MAYBEE THE PART THAT LATER BECAME TN. CHRISTIAN MESSER WAS THERE FORETHE FATHER OF AT LEAST ONE DAUGHTERIN 1819 CHRISTIAN MESSER PURCHASED 103 ACRES OF LAND ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE HOLSTON RIVER IN HAWKINS CO. TN. CHRISTIAN PAID $900.00 TO WILLIAM YOUNG FOR THIS LAND 1N 1821 THE WILL OF A CHRISTIAN MESSER WAS WRITTEN IN HAWKINS CO, TN. THE WILLMENTIONS CHRISTIANS WIFE SALLY . IT ALSO MENTIONS THREE SONS BY NAME AND STATES THAT THE THREE SONS PAY EACH OF MY OTHER CHILDREN THE SUM OF FIVE DOLLARS FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE OF ONE TRACT OF LAND. THE THREE SONS MENTIONED WERE JOHNMESSER--ISAAC MESSER--JACOB MESSER. IN 1834 JOHN MESSER SOLD A PARCEL OF LAND THAT FELL BY HEIRSHIP TO HIS BROTHER ISAAC MESSER. 1N 1835 THE LAND OWNED BY CHRISTIAN MESSER WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS THREE HEIRS. JACOB MESSERRECEIVED ONE LOT AND ISSACMESSER RECEIVED ANOTHER LOT. ISSAC MESSER ALSO RECEIVED JOHN MESSERS SHARE WHICH ISSAC PURCHASED FROM JOHN IN 1834WILL HAWKINS CO. TN. CHRISTIAN MESSER SIGNED MAY 28 1821 PAGE 1 OF 2SHELTON FAMILY HISTORY 4--353OTHER MAJOR MESSER LINES ORIGINATE FROM HAYWOOD CO. N. C. ACCORDING TO ANNALS OF HAYWOOD CO. N. C. THERE WAS A CAPTAIN MESSER WHO WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE REGULATORS AT THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE ON MAY 17th 1771. IT CONTINUES BY STATING DIRECTTRADITIONAL INFORMATION IS THAT CAPTAIN MESSER HIS GIVEN NAME NOT KNOWN WAS THE FATHER OF CHRISTIAN MESSER WHO CAME TO THE DUTCH COVE SECTION OF HAYWOOD CO. N. C.IN 1796. THE BOOK FURTHER INDICATED THAT CHRISTIAN SARGENT MESSER WAS TWENTY ONEYEARS OLD AT THE CLOSE OF WAR. HE HAD BECOME A SEASONED SOLDIER DURING THE THREE OR FOUR YEARS THAT HE HAD SHOULDRED ARMS IN BEHALF OF AMERICIAN INDEPENDENCE. ALTHOUGH THE AUTHORS DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS CHRISTIAN MESSER IS THEIR DIRECTANCESTOR. HIS BIRTH DATE AND GEOGRAPHIC RESIDENCES ARE TO SIMILAL TO THE AUTHORS MESSER ANCESTRY TO BE IGNORED. THEFORE CHRISTIAN MESSER OF HAYWOOD CO. N. C. WAS BRIEFLY RESEARCHEDSHELTON FAMILY HISTORY 4--354THE AUTHORS DO NOT BELIEVE THAT CHRISTIAN SARGENT MESSER OF HAYWOOD CO.N. C. IS THE SAME CHRISTIAN THAT DIED IN HAWKINS CO, TN. . THE ANNALS OF HAYWOOD CO. N.C. SITES THAT CHRISTIAN MESSER DIED IN 1850 IN THE NINETH YEAR OF HIS AGE. CHRISTIANMESSER OF HAWKINS CO. TN. IS DEFINITELY KNOWN TO HAVE DIED PRIOR TO 1834WHEN HIS JOHN MESSER SOLD A PARCEL OF LAND THAT FELL BY HEIRSHIP OF CHRISTIAN MESSER DECEASED. ANOTHER SET OF FACTS ARE THE KNOWN CHILDREN OF EACH CHRISTIAN MESSER . CHRISTIANMESSER OF TN. IS KNOWN TO HAVE THREE SONS JOHN--ISSAC JACOB.. THE CHRISTIAN MESSER OF HAYWOOD CO, N. C. CHILDREN ARE ( LINE NOT READABLE) REMAINED IN N. C. HAYWOOD CO. AND RAISED A LARGE FAMILY WHILE JOHN MESSER OF HAWKINS CO. TN. MOVED TOJACKSON CO. ALA. AND RAISED A FAMILY THERE HOWEVER BOTH CHRISTIAN MESSER OF N. C. AND CHRISTIAN MESSER OF TN. WERE BOTH BORN AROUND 1760 WHICH SIMILARITY WARRANTED FURTHER INVESTIGATION ACCORDING TO LOUISE MESSER PATRICK OTHER REFERENCES TOCHRISTIAN MESSER LIVING IN N. C. WERE FOUND CHRISTIAN MESSER AND WIFE SARA AT THE MORAVIAN SETTLEMENT OF BETHANY . IN 1783 A SON JERAMUS WAS BAPTISED . CHRISTIAN MESSER WAS LISTED IN STOKES COUNTY N. C. IN 1790--1784--1787NSTATE CENSUS OF N. C. .THERE ARE ONLY FOUR MESSERS OR MESSARS HEADS OF FAMILY ONLY ONE CHRISTIAN HE BEING IN SURRY CO. N. C. AND THE OTHER THREE BEING IN JONES CO. N. C. IT IS NOT KNOWN THAT THESE REFERENCES ARE THOSE OF OF CHRISTIAN MESSER OF HAYWOOD CO. N. C. ORTHOSE OF CHRISTIAN MESSER OF HAWKINS CO. TN. . WITH RESPECT TO THE MORAVIAN REFERENCE WHERE CHRISTIAN MESSERS WIFE IS LISTED AS SARAH . IT IS KNOWN THAT CHRISTIAN MESSER OF HAWKINS CO. TN. DIED LEAVING A WIDOW NAMED SALLY WHICH IS A COMMONNICKNAME FOR SARAH. BECAUSE OF THE INCLUSION OF CHRISTIAN MESSER OF HAYWOOD CO. N. C. IT IS LIKELY THAT OTHER MESSERS ORGINATING FROM HAYWOOD CO WERE PROBALLY RELATED . OTHER MESSERS LIVING IN HAYWOOD CO. N. C. WERE GEORGE MESSER B. 1797 N. C.SOLOMON MESSERB. 1838( ? LET THE READER BEWARE OF THIS INFORMATION IT IS CONFLICTING I ONY PUT ALL THIS HERE HOPING IT WOULD HELP SOME ONE ? )
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