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The ancestry of William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor has been proven by my research and by DNA testing of proven descendants of this William Polk, along with results of testing of Robert Polk (who m. Magdalen (Tasker) Porter, and whose son William Polk, who m. Ann-Nancy (Knox) Owens, said William shown as the father of William Polk, who m. Margaret Taylor in about everything ever written on the Polks)to be incorrect. ... the William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor has no known ancestry at this time. His ancestry is a major quest of mine and a few others, but we simply do not know who this William Polk's parents were. Also, Charles Polke, the Indian Trader, long thought to be a son of the above mentioned William Polk/Ann-Nancy (Knox) Owens, is not a son of that couple, nor is he a brother of William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor. His line is a third and distinct family, separate from Robert Polk/Magdalen (Tasker) Porter, and separate and William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor.
Three separate and distinct major Polk progenitors - Proven by DNA.
(Source: Bill Polk ... bapokc@gmail.com http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/l/Billy-F-Polk/ )
Polk researchers are aware that the Thomas Polk who blazed the family path to Carolina was the third son of William & Margaret Taylor Polk, based on information given in the autobiography of a son of Thomas Polk (Col. William Polk, included among “The Papers of Archibald D. Murphey, Vol. II”, edited by William Henry Hoyt). Quoting therefrom: “William Polk is a descendant of a family who emigrated from Ireland about the year 1722 and settled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; where they resided until about the year 1740 when they removed into the State of Pennsylvania and in the neighborhood of Carlisle. Thomas, the 3rd son of William & Margaret, a young man of great athletickness, of much energy of both mind and body; could not bear the dull persuit of a Pennsylvania farmer, especially in a section where nothing was presented which promised to better his situation; left his parents about the year 1753 to seek his fortune in a country that furnished greater scope to his active mind. In company with several young men, he traversed the country bordering on the East of the Blue ridge crossing the Dan and Yadkin untill he fell in upon Sugau or Sugar creek a branch of the Catawba River; in the neighbourhood of which there were a few settlements. Here he made a permanent location of himself. In 1775 [sic – 1755?] he married Susannah Spratt the daughter of a respectable farmer, who had emigrated from Pennsylvania about the same time, by whom he had nine children.” [emphasis added, spelling per original]
List of Children of William Polk II and Margaret Taylor: Mrs. Frank M.
Angellotti, "The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee" (Originally
published by the New England Historical and Genealogical Soc.,
1923-1924; republished for the James K. Polk Memorial Association,
Columbia, TN., 1984, by Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC.) pg 4
According to a letter from Mrs. Susan (Barnett) Smart dated 15 Feb.
1849 to Bishop Leonidas Polk. Susan Smart was a Polk descendant.
William Polk who was married to Margaret Taylor died at least
twenty-five years before the Revolutionary War. He married Margaret
at the North, in Pennsylvania, and moved to North Carolina to settle
west of the Yadkin, where he died.
"Pedigree of the Pollock or Polk Family From Fulbert the Saxon (A.D. 1075) to the
Present Time" The American Historical Magazine, The University Press,
208 N. College St., Nashville, TN. April 1896 issue begins the series
and concludes with Vol. 4, 1899; Vol. ii, No. 4, Oct. 1897, pg 383:
Referring to William Polk, list the children of William as William
Polk, the eldest child; 2. Charles; 3. Deborah; 4 Susan; 5 John; 6.
Margaret; 7. Thomas; and 8. Ezekiel.
(Source: Miss Mary Winder Garrett of Williamsburg, VA.)
"The last public record for William Polk II is dated 1757, Anson
County NC." The 1757 record referred to is a purchase in the estate
of Thomas Spratt, Anson Co., NC.
Much of the following is taken from "The Polks of North Carolina and
Tennessee," by Emma Angellotti, and "Polk Family and Kinsmen," by
William Harrison Polk.
General Report Polk, found in the Carolina Room of the downtown
Charlotte, NC., library, shows the following sequence for William Polk
who married Margaret Taylor:
1700 born eastern shore of Maryland
1720 moved to Cumberland County, Pa. (near present city of Carlisle)
Cumberland County did not exist until 1850, so this area was part of
the parent county for Cumberland.
1750 migrated to western North Carolina with family
1757 last known record, Anson County, N. C.
Note: The details of his death have not been found. It is known that
wife Margaret survived him. Her date of death was 10 January 1763,
according to some sources.
No sources provided for above information in General Report Polk.
Marriage Notes for William Polk and Margaret Taylor:
The circa date of 1725 for the marriage of William Polk and Margaret
Taylor is based on the approximate birth of their oldest child,
William Polk III. Many published PA. church records as well as the
published Pennsylvania Archives have been searched and as of early
1997, no marriage record has been located. Even some Maryland records
have been searched, to no avail.
(Source: Billy Polk)
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Abt 1700 - Abt 1754 (~ 54 years)