Unknown Unknown (abt. 1790)

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Creating profile for possible DNA matches for father of Branson Elliot Coltrane

THE CAROLINA QUAKER EXPERIENCE , p114 Disownments for "marrying out of meeting" reached undue and extremely sad proportions during the period when North Carolina Friends found themselves becoming a minority in their own communities. They felt threatened by this "invasion of non-Friends. As they saw the Quaker influence waning and more of their young people marrying outside the membership, they resorted to harsh measures. The Discipline of 1838 (p. 20) made the action of mending a "disorderly marriage a disciplinary offense! Cupid was not allowed to jump the Quaker matrimonial fence — nor to come anywhere near it. Many Friends, along with strict adherents to some other religious groups of that time, assumed that Paul's admonition to the Corinthian Christians to avoid being "unequally yoked together with unbelievers" should be construed quite literally.

BLACK IRISH OR MELUNGEON As the years went by, some did not allow their descendants to have any information about their American Indian bloodlines. They passed the family off as Black Dutch, Black Irish, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian or anything that the family elders felt could not and would not be checked out by the white people in their new community."

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• Profile created for possible DNA matches for father of Coltrane-48. (Use yDNA or auDNA to confirm Coltrane-48 is the son of Unknown-371909).

Research Notes

To DO: Vet out Isaac Bolen

Already Researched:

• "Marriages of Carroll Co Folks, Outside the County," http://vagenweb.org/carroll/vitals/carr_mxg.htm, August 31, 2017.

Virginia made a notation in the Coltrane-Frazier Genealogy book that the father of Nancy's children was "Isaac." The following Isaac's lived in Carroll County, VA during the 1850 Census (Nancy would have been 52). Assumption that Ira's father would have to be at least 50 in the 1850 Census, Ira is 35. Isaac Gardner Isaac Maybry (52) Isaac Branscome (85) - would have been 50 when Ira was born; living 6 hh away in 1850 census. Isaac Edwards (50) Isaac Nestor (50) Isaac Bolen died in 1850 while visiting in Indiana.