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Thank you for your help.
I do have a couple of other questions though. I used goggle map to trace the Pee Dee from Buffalo Creek Road north to almost the state line. Although there were several islands only a few had names. Do you think the island was covered by backed up water from the dams? Here is the information that I have gleaned from other web pages, mostly Clarks. The land marks mean nothing to me, if you would be kind enough to look at it. Where would the records be housed in Raleigh or local court houses and would they have the location?
Dumas descendant Doug Morgan, Trussville Alabama
There are numerous land grants and deeds recorded in the early Anson and Montgomery County records which involve the Dumas families and their relatives. These records are a valuable resource to the family historian. Many of these records are listed in McBee's abstracts of early records. In transcribing these early documents, I have found a very good description of not only the location of properties, but the names of family members and their relationships. One such deed found in McBee's abstracts, dated 15 Jan. 1753 reads:
"Benjamin Dumas to Edmund and Sarah Lilly for 5 shillings and fatherly love, 350 acres N of the Pee Dee River on Buffalow Island
Benjamin Dumas I owned a great amount of land in Virginia. More and more immigrants continued to come to Virginia, and by the mid 1700s the old colony was crowded. Families began to migrate into the rugged North Carolina territory, for although established in 1653, it was still sparsely settled. Mary L. Medley wrote in her history of Anson County, "By 1750, the trickle of settlers into Anson had become a steady stream, spreading up and down the Yadkin, Pee Dee, smaller rivers and creeks".
In 1748, Benjamin purchased land in the Pee Dee River Valley area of North Carolina called Buffabe Island. In 1750, according to a deed registered in Louisa County, Virginia, Benjamin Dumas I,"for the sum of foure hundred pounds current money of virginia
John Clark first acquired land near Buffalo Island on the Great Pee Dee on 2 FEB 1743/44. Over the next 12 years, John Clark would receive separate land warrants in Bladen and Anson Co. NC. He would sell his Buffalo Island property to Benjamin Dumas Sr. of Hanover Co.
Clark's numerous properties along the Pee Dee River, some of which were close to the property of the Dumas family who operated a ferry across the Pee Dee at Buffalo Island. Later, two of John Clark's married sons would also live on the Pee Dee River properties.
29 OCT 1748. John Clark of Anson Co. to Benjamin Dumas of Louisa Co. Va, for L200 proclamation money...land in Bladen Co. on north side of Great Pee Dee called Buffaloe (sic) Island, applied for 2 FEB 1743/44, granted Clark 20 JUN 1746. (DCT--This is where Ben Dumas established his ferry.)
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