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| | Wheeler's Reminiscences - Surry County, North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In 1775 this was a frontier County and was cousidered to extend with the territorial limits of North Carolina to the Mississippi. |
 | | II, Betsy, married to Hicks; III, John married Williamson, settled in North Carolina; issue: (a) Christopher H., member of congress from Tennessee 1837-1843 and 1849-1853; (b) Elizabeth, married to General Azeriah Graves, grand-parents of Judge Thomas Settle. |
 | | Meshach Franklin, the brother of Governor Jesse Franklin, was distinguished statesman and politician in Surry County. |
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