1751 : Wilhelm Adam and Maria Elizabetha immigrate from Amsterdam to PA on the Edinburg.
1751 : First Child born on trip or in PA (Frederick Lorenz).
1755-1757 : Next two sons born in York, PA (John Adam and John Lewis).
1759-1765 : Anna Elizabetha, John Daniel, Anna Katherine, and Gottlieb born in Monacacy, MD. He [Gottlieb] was baptized in the Moravian church shortly after his birth in 1765.
1769 : Family moved to Wachovia Tract near Bethania, NC, in present Forsyth County.
Frederick - 18 yrs old stays for while in MD,
John Adam - 14 y/o,
John Lewis - 12 y/o,
Anne Eilzabetha - 10 y/o,
John Daniel - 8 y/o,
Anna Katherine – 5 y/o,
Gottlieb - 4 y/o.
1773 : Wilhelm Adam (Patriarch) died. Gottlieb is 8 y/o. Not named in will.
1782 : Gottlieb (age 17) marries Christina UNK (age 17). Changes his name to Caleb before the 1790 census.
1790 : Census Stokes County, Caleb is listed with:
1 male over 16 (himself) around 25 y/o,
2 males under 16 ( Solomon and ?, born from 1783-1790),
4 females (Christina and 3 daughters, possibly Elizabeth, Susannah, and Catherine).
April 1799 : John Mcquirt sold 60 acres to Caleb Wolff for L140 on Waters of Muddy and Anderson Creek. Witmess: James Black and James Mcqurit.
1800 : Census Cabarrus County, Caleb is listed with:
1 male under 10 (one more male, born between 1790-1800?),
1 male 10-16,
1 male 16-26 + himself (35 y/o),
1 daughter under 10 ( one additional daughter),
3 daughters 10-16,
+ Wife Christina (26-45).
1802 : Elizabeth Wolf marries Isaac Garman in Cabarrus County. Bondsman is Gottlieb Wolf.
1803 : Maria Elizabetha dies, Gottlieb is 38 y/o.
1808 : Haywood County is formed from Buncome County in 1808.
1809 : Susannah Wolfe marries George Durham in Haywood County, NC. Caleb Wolfe is Bondsman.
1810 : Buncombe County Census, Caleb is listed with:
1 male 10-16,
1 male 16-26,
1 male 26-45 (himself at age 45 y/o),
2 females 10-16,
1 female 26-45 (Christina).
In the same census, a George Durrum (Durham) lives with his wife and 2? Children, 6 doors away from Isaac Garman.
1815 : Caleb gives son Solomon power of attorney to settle the estate of his brother Johan Adam in Sevier, TN.
Abt 1815 : William Wolfe marries Jane Hayes.
1816 : Christina files petition for divorce. She states they have been married 34 years with 11 children resulting. She was 50 y/o.
1817 : Caleb relocates to Barren County, KY, where he marries Sally Adams. He us listed in 1820 census there. In same census is a George Durham with family (census alphabetized).
5-7-1818 : William Wolfe bought 242 acres on Glen’s Creek from John McClatchey (attorney, polititian, assistant to NC Marshall, probably not a relative).
1819 : Catherine (descendants state that she was the daughter of Caleb Wolf), marries Enoch Cunningham in ? Buncombe County living two doors away from William in the 1820 census.
1820 : Buncombe County Census , William Wolf is listed with:
1 male 0-10,
1 male 26-45,
2 females 0-10,
1 female 15-26 (his wife Jane Hayes who he married around 1815).
Living 2 doors away is Enoch Cunningham with his wife, one son under 10 and an older female, possibly Catherine who was not granted a divorce and was left destitute.
In between, lives Thomas Foster, probably the father of Benjamin Foster who married their (William and Jane’s) daughter Caroline Elizabeth).
In same census, Issac Garman is living with his wife and children, listed several pages away.
1823 : Jane Wolfe receives licence to sell “spirituous liquors” from the State of NC.
1832 : William Wolfe, et al, sold 200 acres on Gooches Branch to John Hayes, bk 16, pg 433*.
1836 : William Wolfe bought 210 acres on Beaverdam Creek from Joseph Killian ,bk 20, pg 266.
1838 : William Wolfe bought 100 acres on Beaverdam Creek from the state of NC (#3723), bk 22, p 56.
5-7-1839 : William Wolf bought 67 acres on French Broad River from Reuben Deaver, bk 22, pg 83
(Reuben Deaver was county coroner, no relation that I know of).
9-10-1839 : William Wolfe bought 100 acres Dix(Dick’s) Creek from George Hise, bk 22, p 117.
9-10-1839 : William Wolfe bought 95 acres on Newfound Creek from George Hise, bk 22, p 116.
9-10-1839 : William Wolfe bought 12 acres Dix(Dick’s) Creek from George Hise, bk 22, p 118.
1844 : Catherine Wolf dies. Enoch Cunningham remarries.
1845 : William Wolfe bought 100 acres from William Hill, bk 23, p 120, (William Hill, a surveyor, no relation known of).
1847 : William Wolfe dies by supposed suicide outside Asheville, NC. William H. Garmon who signed the bond of special administration on estate ofWilliam Wolfe was the son of Issac Garmon and Elizabeth Wolfe, daughter of Caleb Wolfe.
The Beaverdam and Glen’s Creek properties are just outside present Asheville, the other land on Gooches Creek, Dix Creek, and newfound creek are all in the present Leicester area outside Asheville. The French Broad River runs through Asheville, covering a lot of territory.
I have no idea what William did for a living, other than farm, or how he got the money to buy the land. Family legend had that he sold bootleg whisky. Given the 1823 entry of Jane Wolf selling spirituous liquors, this may have actually been the case, except that she made it legal.
I found an 1812 military record on a William Wolfe, but he was from Charleston, SC, with records tied to Raleigh.
Summary:
Given the fact that two of William Wolfe/Wolf’s male direct descendants match on a 67 marker DNA test to a descendant of Caleb Wolfe, census data placing Caleb in Buncombe County, married daughters of Caleb living within a few households of William in Buncombe County, and naming pattern similarity, I am inclined to believe that Caleb and Christina Wolf were the parents of our William Wolfe.
However, I would not want this to be printed anywhere as fact without more documentation.
Unfortunately, after much research by many people, including a professional genealogist in Raleigh with access to the NC State Archives, a thorough search of the Moravian Archives in Winston Salem, searches of land and court records in Cabarrus, Stokes, Forsyth, and Buncombe, plus many years of research by all of us, I do not know how or if we can ever find further documentation. Records for that time period are few.
In the above data, you will note that if Caleb is the father of William, his abandonment of the family would explain why our William did not name a son after his father. He did however name his children after his “would be“ sister Elizabeth, his “would be” mother Christina, and his “would be” brother Solomon. His son John Jackson could have been named after any of his uncles Johann/John Wolf. His daughter Harriet had the middle name of Christine, similar to his “would be” mother.
If Elizabeth Wolfe, wife of Issac Garman was William's sister, her son William H. who signed the special bond for the estate settlement of William Wolf, was his nephew.
If Caleb was the father of our William, this means William had seven other siblings we do not know the identity of. Caleb had 11 children, at least 3 males and 3 females, with the remainder unknown.
This would also mean that our William was named after his “would be” grandfather, Wilhelm Adam Wolff, making him of German descent. We now know from the DNA results of our Wolf/Wolfe descendants that William was not of Cherokee heritage, as we had all been led to believe.
Warm thanks again to Cousin Carol for hiring a Pro and putting together such a comprehensive timeline! - Jim
]]>Generalhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=10Fri, 8 May 2009 10:57:55 -060067 Marker DNA Test Supports Wilhelm Link
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At 37 and 67 markers, Robert is a genetic distance of 1 (36 out of 37 match) and David a genetic distance of 2 (65 out of 67 match).
]]>DNAhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=9Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:12:37 -0600DNA Test Indicates Relationship to Wilhelm Adam Woolf Line
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That proves we're related, but does it prove Gottlieb was William's father?As much as we would like for the results to be proof that Gottlieb was William's father, the DNA results only provide a probability of "Most Recent Common Ancestor". The DNA tests we've been getting don't indicate paternity, but rather a probability that we're related within a certain number of generations.
The current, 12-marker results indicate only a 50% probability that our common ancestor was within the past 7 generations, as would be the case if Gottlieb was William's father. Identical 37-marker results would raise the probability to 90% probabillity that our common ancestor was within 5 generations and to 95% within 7 generations.
That still won't identify William's father. But, it will at least help us better direct our efforts for finding documentation that does.
]]>DNAhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=8Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:22:25 -0700What do the DNA results say about our Cherokee ancestry?
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The DNA pages say that everyone descended from a common East African ancestor. As the groups migrated from Africa, some of them split off in differerent directions. The group identified with the R1b haplogroup, eventually migrated into Europe.
The group that migrated into Asia and eventually into the Americas via the Bering Strait land bridge, is identified as the Q3 haplogroup.
The genetic mutations that identify them as Q3 happened after they split off from the other groups. That is, the R1b haplogroup doesn't contain those mutations.
So, if our William had been of Cherokee origin, he would have had the Q3 mutations and would have passed them along to his children and my test would have had them.
The R1b results supports the other theory that William might have been of German descent, possibly related to the Lewis/Ludwig line.
There's been nothing found to substantiate any relation to Lewis except the Florida lady's comment to brother Joe that "you need Lewis"...]]>DNAhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=7Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:00:58 -0700Y Search
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YSearch does say that out of 5156 results, the R1b haplogroup is the most common and represents 70.25% of the total.
This map shows the origins given by the R1b participants:
Europe]]>DNAhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=6Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:46:23 -0700Family Tree DNA
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Their database of "Recent Ethnic Origins" listed the orgins of Haplogroup R1b as:
So far, I've sent emails to two of the people listed in the group but haven't received a reply.]]>DNAhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=5Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:23:35 -0700The Genographics Project
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Genographic.
A few days later, the test kit arrived. It contained two numbered vials with sterile cotton swabs. The instructions said to swab inside a cheek, put the swab tips into the vials and mail them in.
Progress can be checked via an anonymous kit number. Although it took several weeks to pass through analysis, the results were available via the Genographic site.
No earth-shattering revelations but it does coincide with known ancestry through our William's wife's side of the family. Laura Jane Hayes' GGGrandfather, John Hayes, b1680-d1750, was "of Scottish ancestry and born in Ireland. He immigrated to America, VA Colony in 1740."
The Genographics info did say that Haplogroup R1b was Cro-Magnon and displaced the Neandertals in Europe. www.atlantisquest.com shows a map of Cro-Magnon archeologival sites, noting that they're were centered around rivers and on the favored the Atlantic side:
Cro-Magnon Man]]>DNAhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=4Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:47:27 -0700The Lewis Connection
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There's a William Adam Wolfe listed as son of Lewis that looks about the right age. However there are several discrepancies:
- William Adam was born in 1792. Our William, if the census data was correct should have been born 1775 or earlier.
- William Adam died in 1857. Our William died in 1847. That could be a single-character transcription error somewhere along the way.
- William Adam was married to Catherine Huffman and later to Christina/Tina Chromer. Our William was married to Laura Jane Hayes.
This William could be ours except that the birth date seems to be off by one digit - 1782 versus our expected 1792. The interesting thing is that it shows Lewis in Stokes County as his father.
I've writen to the submitter, Pinkney Smith, and I'll post his response, here.]]>Lewishttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=3Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:05:16 -0700Possible Ties in Stokes County
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But, where did he come from?Our William first appears in the 1820 Buncombe County Federal Census:
The 1820 Census shows him being between 26 and 45 which would put his birth between 1775 and 1794. The 1830 and 1840 censuses narrow his birth date range to between 1790 and 1800 (thanks, Carol!).
There was a Wolf line living in Stokes County about that time and the Stokes censuses show:
It's interesting to note that there are two separate, identical entries for "Gottlieb" and "Calup". I had read elsewhere that "Calup"/"Caleb" is the Americanized version of "Gottlieb". Gottlieb may have been visited by two difference census takers, as the identical stats would indicate.
Also of note, is Lewis. Brother Joe had talked to a Florida lady that claimed to know our William's origin. She wouldn't tell him though; she wanted him to "enjoy the hunt". She did tell him that "you need Lewis" and she hinted that there was an adoption involved.
Unfortunately, I don't recall her name. Maybe someone out there knows her. Please speak up if you do!
]]>Stokeshttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=2Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:38:20 -0600Welcome to Searching through Time
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Joe WolfeAbout three years ago, my brother, the late Joe Wolfe, ignited my interest in researching our family history. He had already traced the Wolfe line back to William Wolf, who died in Buncombe County, NC, in 1847.
But where William came from was a mystery.
This site is dedicated to Joe's memory and to the Search through Time, for William.]]>Generalhttp://www.bearfood.net/genweb/index.php?itemid=1Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:08:20 -0600
