8 Mar 1983

Dear Thelma,

Thank You for Your letter of March 4! You are certainly .making the Dilley line an interesting and intriguing one for me. And thank you for John Buchanan’s address as I have just written him.

Enclosed are family group sheets and pedigree chart concerning my descent from Martin Dilley.

Martin Dilley's plantation--Dilleys Mill as it came to be called, consisted of several hundred acres in the southeastern portion of Pocahontas Co., near the border with Highland Co. also prior to 1822! Pocahontas and most of Highland were part of Bath Co. And with Henry Dilley living in the area this may account for the Dilley-Bird connection.

Your list of Dilleys in the 1800 census is certainly puzzling, as is the family group sheet. I would be interested in knowing more about the children of Christian Dilley, as well as any more on the family of John Dilley and Elizabeth Ackland. Please keep in touch if anything turns up.

Thanks, keep in touch,

Darrell Collins

11710 Woodview

Pinckney, MI 4816?

 

The 1800 census records for Pocahontas Co. Dilleys were spurious because Mrs. Pohlemann subtracted the ages of those 19th century Dilleys from 1800 instead of the 1880 census where she found them. .JDA

Mr. Collins was descended from Martin and Hannah Dilley through their son John and Naomi McNeil whose daughter Rebecca m Gratton Weiford. His chart gives full vital records on the Ancestral Chart for these ancestors except for Martin and Hannah.