Wilkes County, North Carolina was cut from Surry County in 1778. This page is currently unfinished research notes.
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From the best information. the county of Wilkes originally embraced all the territory included in the following boundary lines: Beginning at the white oak mentioned as the starting point . . . and running west to the Mississippi river, then north with said river to the Virginia line (now the Kentucky line), then east with Virginia line to the north-west corner of Surry County, then south with the Surry county line . . . to the beginning. When the county was formed it included all of the counties of Ashe, Alleghany, Watauga and Mitchell, and a portion of the counties of Iredell, Alexander, (the line ran a mile or so south of where Taylorsville now stands) Caldwell, Burke and Yancy, and probably others, and also a large portion of Tennessee. In what is now Tennessee there were local governments organized within the borders of Wilkes and later were admitted as counties to the State of Franklin but until Tennessee was organized Wilkes County was the legal division of all the territory included in the borders of the county.
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1790 Census Morgans District encompassed Burke, Lincoln, Rutherford and Wilkes Counties. Wilkes then encompassed current Wilkes, Ashe and ??? These four are the only Jacksons listed for Wilkes County in 1790.
A) James Jackson Wilkes, NC 1790 First Company 1-3-2
B) Jas Jackson Wilkes, NC 1790 Third Company 1-4-2
A) Wm Jackson Wilkes, NC 1790 Third Company 1-3-5
B) Wm Jackson Wilkes, NC 1790 Eleventh Company 1-3-3
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B) Jas Jackson Wilkes, NC 1790 Third Company 3-2-1-0-1//0-0-1-1
--Janiejac 21:34, 8 July 2008 (EDT)
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