The
Trivettes of
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The Earliest
Trivettes ||||| North
Carolina Political Boundaries ||||| Whose Child Is Whose?
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||||| How Do You Spell
Trivette? ||||| Sorting Out
the William Trivettes ||||| Trivettes in the Civil War |||||
||||| Descendants of John and Richard Trivette ||||| What Was It Like
As An Early Trivette? |||||
|||| What
Happened To Nathaniel C. Tribet?
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When analyzing the census and property transfer data, it has to be remembered that political boundaries (i.e., county lines) moved frequently between 1750 and 1850. Usually, new counties were formed from the breakup of existing ones. So various legal documents from that period reflect the county map as it existed at the time they were generated. It is possible for an ancestor to be shown as a resident of one county in one census and another in the next without having moved. These western North Carolina county boundary changes should be noted (47):
1750 - Anson county formed from Bladen county
1753 - Rowan county formed from Anson county
1770 - Surry county formed from Rowan county
1777 - Wilkes county formed from Rowan county
1777 - Burke county formed from Rowan county
1788 - Iredell county formed from Rowan county
1789 - Stokes county formed from Surry county
1799 - Ashe county formed from Wilkes county
1822 - Davidson county formed from Rowan county
1836 -
1842 - McDowell county formed from Rutherford and Burke counties
1847 - Alexander county formed from Iredell, Caldwell, and Wilkes counties
1849 - Watauga county formed from Wilkes, Ashe, Caldwell, and Yancey counties
1850 - Yadkin county formed from Surry county
1861 - Mitchell county formed from Yancy, Watagua, Burke, Caldwell, and McDowell counties
1911 - Avery county formed from Mitchell, Watauga, and Caldwell counties
A good source showing the county configurations of all states for all census years is Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (37).