David, how do you subscribe to the William and Mary Genealogy Publications? My Grandmother is from the Forrest line, Thomas Jefferson Forrest married Tabetha Caroline Salter and I have her parents as John Thomas Salter and Frances Goodwin. According to your records is this the correct line?

Annette

I am not aware of any Salter migrating from Edgefield to Indiana. They all went to Georgia andAlabama. I have a ggg uncle John Salter who had a son named James. You can find information about them at www.oldbillyrodgers.com. I am quite sure he stayed in Edgefield. I hope this will help.

David Salter

I am certain that the Partin's migrated from Surry County Virginia, but what info makes you believe that James's parents were from Virginia. I was in Edgefield last weekend researching James and Nancy Ann Partin. James was my 5th GGrandfather and I have been researching him for years trying to track down his parents. I live in Virginia and can research in person with a little help on leads to start from. Of course I would share what I find with all fellow Salter researchers. There is some inaccurate info being posted regarding James Salter and I want to be able to cite sources to anything I post. Any help you can provide will be appreciated.

I am not familiar with a middle name of Thomas for John Salter, but John Salter married Frances Goodwin Wright. She was the widow of James Wright of Newberry County. The Goodwin family informes me that John Salter was a baptist minister who performed the ceremony of Frances Goodwin to James Wright. He later passed on as did Hannah Eidson, 1st wife of John Salter. The children of John and Frances were, according to Goodwin family genealogy, Charity, who married a Criouch, Margaret, who died unmarried, Simpson Goodwin,who married Eliza Denny, Larkin, who died unmarried , and Savannah, who also died unmarried. There was a first child but it is not named and possibly died at birth.

I am interested in the name Thomas as a middle name and how you may have come by that. I have heard that his middle name was Larkin or Lemuel.

Excuse me but I forgot to explain that I purchased a CD from Genealogical publishing company, Inc which contained the information.

David Salter

David,
did any of the Salters in your database/family tree ever cross-paths with any WARDs?
sincerely,
Melanie Ward

My information is that James Salter of Edgefield was born in Edgefield around 1767. His parents are unknown, but information from genealogist in Edgefield indicate that there was a substantial group of people that migrated from Surry County Virginia to Edgefield in the mid 18th century.

Per contacts with people that have researched the Salter family, they appear to have started in Virginia and then migrated to the coast of North Carolina and westward.

Melanie:

John Salter of Edgefield County, whom I believe was a son of James Salter married a Darkes or Dorcas Ward who in 1798 gave possessions that she had purchased from her father's (Abdan Ward) will to her brothers James and John Ward per conveyance book 15, 1798, Edgefield County.

This is the only occaswion that I am aware of. I have not yet connected my Salter family to James Salter.

David

hummm...thank you David,
sincerely,
Melanie Ward

David, are you aware that Dry Creek and Richland Creek are just a ridge apart in some places - less than a mile? James Salter of Dry Creek, the one who purchased William Herrin's tracts on Lucas/Lucys Branch adjoined Jacob Smith's 500-acre grant on drains of Dry Creek on the west side. On the northeast side, this same Smith tract adjoined John Salter's land on Richland Creek