Food for thought in case anyone is interested. John 1. The Arrival of Autry's - Bundy and Brooks, 1996, Page 1 The earliest record is of a Simeon Autrey at Johanna in 1379. 2. The Arrival of the Autry's - Bundy and Brooks, 1996, Page 1 In the report on "The Voyage Made by Sir Richard Greenville for Sir Walter Raleigh to Virginia in the Year 1585" as published by Richard Hakluyt, Vol III, p. 307, from which extracts were published by Samuel A'Court Ashe, History of North Carolina (Charles L. Van Noppen, Greensboro, NC, 1908), Vol. I, p. 4: The 6th (of July, 1585) Master John Arundall was sent to the main and Manteo with him; and Captain Autry and Captain Boniton the same day were sent to Croatoan, where they found two of our men left there with thirty others by Captain Raymond twenty days before. The 8th Captain Autry and Captain Boniton returned with two of our men, found by them, to us at Wocokon (present Ocracoke Inlet). The colony under Master Ralph Lane stayed at Roanoke Island from August 17, 1585 to June 18, 1586, returning to England with the fleet of Sir Francis Drake. 3. Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666A Attore, Edward, 1650, by Mordecay Cooke, -- Co. 4. Family Treemaker 200 Years of Ancestors 1706, June 7: King William County, Virginia Thomas MackGehee, Samuel Norment and William Lacey are sworn as appraisers of the estate of Alexander Autry, the value of which they place at 4000 pounds of tobacco. 5. The Arrival of the Autry's - Bundy and Brooks, 1996, Page 2 Before we assign all Autry's in America to Cornelius, Immigrant, we need to look at the earlier record in North Carolina records of Alex Autray. Could it be that he is our immigrant since he was here 16 yeas before Cornelius? Could Cornelius be his son or brother? At a council held at the 5th of June, 1740, Present His Excellency the Governor and The Honorable North Rice, Robt. Halton, Math Brown, Roger Moore, Eleazx Allen, Alex Autray was granted 110 acres in Beaufort County, (Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. 4, p.454). Since an Alex Autray received land 16 years before a known record of Cornelius Autry receiving land in 1756, it would appear that Alex Autray, not Cornelius may have been our progenitor if he had children. The Cornelius who received land in 1756 may have been his son. This recent information is in conflict with the generally accepted and published theory that all Autry's are descendants of Cornelius Autry of Edgecombe County. Alex Autray had to have been born no later than 1719 to have been 21 by 1740 when he received 110 acres in Beaufort Co., the age required to receive land grants. There were no Autry's in Beaufort Co., listed in the 1790 census, but there was a James Ottery (Autry) with a wife and son under 16 listed in the 1790 census for Beaufort Co. who may have been Alexander's son.