Mam-ma's Southern Family

This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. In 1811, John Core [Coor] of Sampson County, North Carolina, obtained a passport to travel through “Indian Nations to the Western Country.” He was with his mother, his four sisters and two small children – negroes. Also receiving passports at the same, and thus may have been traveling with John were Mr. John Keayhey [Kethley] with his wife, seven children, and three negroes from Richmond County, North Carolina, and William and Henry Toler, from Cumberland. [1] Here is the image from the book. This is a transcript of course, not the actual passport. [2] During the 1930s, the passports as a project of the WPA, were transcribed/abstracted by two members of the Samuel Sorrel Chapter in Houston of the Nationa