Wilminton, N. C>
                    April 12th, 1921,


My dear Mr. Hill:-

              I feel that I
owe you an apology for not
having answered your letter
of some weeks ago.  The truth
of the matter is that I have
been so awash? with C.D.
Society work and writing
out papers for new members
that I have had very little
time for my correspondence.
The April meeting will
be on tomorrow afternoon,
it having been postponed

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from last week, on account
of the Episcopal Convention of
this diocese.  The C.D. President
was a Delegate and had to
go to Edenton, where it
was held.  The Society will
close in June for the summer,
and people are rushing
things just now.  I am
sorry your sister’s Application
has not been sent in
but hope it will come
before the season is over.
I am enclosing a letter I
received in reply to one
I wrote to Mrs. Brenard.
I am going to write to Miss

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Julia Robertson and Miss Rankin and
will let you know the result.  In
the meantime I want you to write
to Mr. Pope Reese of Pensacola.
What do you think of this suggestion?
I have been examining the Colonial
Records and some Histories &c. night
trying to find something about
Joseph Brown.  I found one
connected with the Watauga association(*),
but could not get anything of
any value.  I shall continue to do
my best for you and will
let you know as soon as I have
anything.  I shall be glad to
give you any assistance in
my power at any time.
With best wishes

    Very cordially and hastily yours,
        Mary Sumner Kingsbury

(*) Watauga Association:

"Government (1772-1775) formed by settlers along
the Watauga River in present E. Tennessee.  Virginians
made the first settlement in 1769 and, after the collapse
of the Regulator Movement in North Carolina, citizens from
that colony under James Robertson established homes farther
west on the river. For their mutual protection these
settlements united in 1772 and drew up a written agreement.,
called the Watauga Association.  A five man
court constituted the government.  Other settlements along
the Holston and Nolichucky Rivers also adhered to the
Watauga Association.  In 1772 the Wataugans secured a
10-year lease from the Cherokees for the land along the river;
in 1775 they organized as Washington's district,
but in 1776, at their own request, they came under the
protection of North Carolina, which created (1777)
Washington Co. for the area.  After the American Revolution
the Wataugans belonged to another new, short-lived government
({State of Franklin}) before Tennessee became a
state in 1796." - Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001-05,
Columbia University Press.  

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