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Now we are getting somewhere. These folks are not Polk, they are Palk or Paulk. I have traced them some, enough to know they are not Polk. I have always kept Shubael Stearns in my mind as a possible father to the Catherine Starnes who m. a William Polk on 10 May 1806, Cabarrus Co., NC. These Palks or Paulks came from Massachusetts, then to Tolland Co., CT., then moved south and some scattered to SC and GA. I have run into descendants occasionally while researching Polks. Palk and Polk are two distinct families, Palk/Paulk not being one of the true variations of Pollock/Polk that one encounters. I often see Polks indexed as Palk simply because the indexer saw the name that way, but I know of only one Palk family that had Polk descendants, that is, the name was changed to Polk from Palk and kept that way by descendants. To answer your initial question, no, I don't think these folks had any kinship to the Polks over in Mecklenburg. Bill Polk, Kansas City, MO.
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