The son of President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, Jeff Carter is a researcher for the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Foreword by President Jimmy Carter
Preface
Introduction

1. THE CARTERS

Jamestown

Bacon's Rebellion

The Thomas Carter Conundrum

Another Thomas Carter

Moore Carter and Jane Kindred

Kindred Carter and Mary "Molly" Odum

Isaac Carter and Sarah Browne

Kindred Carter and the Rozier Mystery

James Carter and Eleanor Duckworth

2. THE MORRIS, COX, AND ANSLEY ANCESTORS AND THEIR ANCESTORS

Monmouth County: A Haven for Baptists and Quakers Except for the Government

Thomas Cox and Elizabeth Blashford-Puritanical Persecution

Lewis Morris of Passage Point: Uncle Lewis Morris of Tinton Falls; The Monmouth Riots

The Almys and the Cornells: They Thought Quakers Were Bad Until They Met the Antinomians

The Very Strange Case of Thomas Cornell

The Pottses Arrive from England

More Scots: All Is Forgiven Between the Ansley, Cox and Morris Families

More Taxes, the Regulators, and the Battle of Alamance

Duckworths and Ramseys and Carters and Ansleys

Wiley Carter and Ann Ansley

3. ANCESTORS OF MARY ANN DILIGENT SEALS

The Terrells: Polecat Swamp, Some Quakers Some Not, More Than One Affair

The Burnleys: Revolutionaries, Friends, and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse

The Barksdales: Early Virginians

The Muses and the Seales: An Illicit Relationship

A Tory Loyalist in the Family

The Seals: A Muse No More, the Yazoo Land Fraud

Littleberry Walker Carter and Mary Ann Diligent Seals

4. ANCESTORS OF CAPTAIN JAMES PRATT

The Kays

Captain James Pratt and Sophronia Cowan

5. ANCESTORS OF SOPHRONIA COWAN

Ireland and Charles II

Immigrations at Charlestown, Boonesborough, and the South Carolina Wilderness

The Clinkscales from Scotland, Probably Not That Ann Buchner

The Brownlees: More Irish Ancestors Who Marry Irish Ancestors

The Seawrights: The Battle at Pratt's Mill, Bloody Bill Cunningham, the Cloud's Creek Massacre

The Cowans: More Irish, More Revolutionaries

William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt

6. ANCESTORS OF JAMES JACKSON GORDY

Perry Scott and Captain Allen McLane

Wilson Gordy and Mary Scott

The Helms Family, the Waxhaw Settlement and the Revolution

7. ANCESTORS OF MARY IDA NICHOLSON

The Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson Line

Patrick Jack

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

Joseph Nicholson and Lillis McAdoo Jack

Were John Nicholson and John Candor Nicholson the Same Person?

Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson

The Very Interesting Dawson Ancestors

The Nicholsons from Ireland

The Gaines and Brown Families

Malekiah Dawson and Mary Marcus Brown and Back to Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson

8. ANCESTORS OF JOHN WILLIAM MURRAY

The Provable Murrays

The Albrittons

The Search for Susan Champion

The Bethunes in America

The Legend of Martin Bethune

The Short Ancestry of the Lawhons

The Short Ancestry of the Parkers and the Kellys

John William Fulwood Murray

9. ANCESTORS OF ROSA NETTIE WISE

If Not for Martin Luther, Half the Family Wouldn't Be Here

The Palatine Ancestors

The Trip from Wittenberg

Dutch Fork

The Coogles and the Kleckleys, Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, More Civil War

The Wises

The Etheridges: In Theory, Five Names Are Enough

10. ANCESTORS OF WILBURN EDGAR SMITH

Colonial Maryland

The Prathers Arrived in 1622, the Odells, Ridgelys, and Biggers a Little Later

The Offutts and Captain Edward Brock Arrived Before 1672

The Isaac and Pottenger Families Arrived Around 1670

The Jacobs, Cheyneys, and Westalls Arrived in the Mid-1600s

The Halley, Haley, Hailey, Hawley, Holly Family

The Fulford and Bell Families

The Smiths

The Descendants of George Lynch Smith

Afterword: The Quest

Appendix A: What's a Cousin and How Do They Get Removed?

Appendix B: Pedigree Collapse

Appendix C: The Search for Kindred Carter's Wife

Appendix D: The Bethune Lineage in Scotland

Appendix E: Loyal "Regulators" Association

Appendix F: Land Grant to Ellis Marcus by the Earl of Granville

Appendix G: Wills

Last Will and Testament of Dr. Samuel Browne

Last Will and Testament of Francis Clinkscales, Sr.

Last Will and Testament of Charity Dysart

Last Will and Testament of William Nicholson

Last Will and Testament of Wilson Gordy

Last Will and Testament of Abel Ansley

Last Will and Testament of Joseph Pratt

Last Will and Testament of James Brownlee

Last Will and Testament of George W. Carter

Last Will and Testament of Peter Gordy

Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index