The next stop (after Virginia) on our Sams migration was North Carolina. Five of William-the-first's seven sons moved there (John, James, William, Edmund, Rice). John, James and Edmund possibly died there. Our next ancestor, William, moved on, first to Kentucky, then to Illinois.
1800 Buncombe - census
Sams, Edmund 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1
John 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 1
William 1 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1
James 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
John 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 1
Ivy Township cemeteries, Buncombe County, North Carolina : tombstone
inscriptions and genealogical identifications / compiled by Margaret W. Haile. (Barnardsville, N.C. : Big Ivy Historical Society, 1985)
Ethel Sams - 1897-1970
Sams MA 30 Aug 1823 - 1889 wife of JC (Morgan Hill Cem)
William C. Sams 1861-1890 son of LeRoy
Wooley, James E. Buncombe County, North Carolina, index to deeds, 1783-1850. (Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, c1983.)
William Sams
1799 May 3 22 a from John Strother
1801 Aug 8 22 a to Jonathan Hunt
1805 Jan 21 (Wm sr) 80 a on Little Ivy to Thomas Love
other Sams: Reuben 1806 - Little Ivy; Edmond 1796 Big Ivy; Hackley 1806 Little Ivy;
James 1794-6 Little Ivy; John 1806 Ivy; Lot 1802 Ivy; Warren 1818 Little Ivy.
Burdit 1807; Benoni 1810; David 1844; Edmond jr 1837; Greenlee 1811;
Larkin; Nancy 1832; Rachal 1819; Sarah 1815.
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