Tom, I have lots of information on
Silas Weeks, especially his father, grandfather, and about seven generations beyond that all the way to Martha's
Vinyard in Massachusets.
The
Weeks and Osteens have lived within two or three miles of each other and have intermarried since the early 1700s, first in
Cartaret County, on the
North Carolina Coast where Theophilus
Weeks,
Silas' grandfather, laid out the lots for the town of Swansboro from his farm. Later the two families migrated together to
Camden County,
Georgia on the St. Mary's river, the Florida/Georgia boundary. They fought together in the Revolutionary War in
Georgia along with other future
Levy County families who lived within a couple of miles of them up and down the St. Mary's: the
Drummonds, Higginbothams, Barbers, Kirklands, Worthingtons and Prevatts. All of them had
Spanish Land Grants across the river in
Florida from as early as 1812. The Prevatts and Osteens were founding members of the very first
Baptist Church in the State of
Florida in 1821,
Pigeon Creek Baptist Church, just across the border in Fla. near the present day town of Bolougne. About 1830, Theophilus
Weeks Jr. and Sr., Shadrick and Solomon
Osteen, Samuel
Worthington and John
Prevatt migrated together to the community of Alligator (called Lake City today) where they all bought omestead land within 5 miles of each other. They fought again in the
Seminole Indian Wars. Twenty years later they all moved together again to
Levy County. There's more if you'd like....