Hi Jim, Do you have anything on the following Ambrose and Elizabeth Barton Hodge? They apparently moved from Va. to the Watauga Settlement in Washington District (Tn.) and then on to Grainger/Jefferson Co., Tn. ca 1780-85. Elizabeth Barton b. 11/20/1751 Fredrick, Md. m. c 1765 sp. Ambrose Hodge b. c 1741 Circa 1765, Ambrose md. Elizabeth Barton d/o Joshua Barton. No record of marriage has been found but it was recorded in Isaac Barton's Bible. 1769 Land Entry in Pittsylvania Co., Va. Hodges, Ambrous (sic) Page 458 in Index to Pittsylvania Co. Land Entries 1737-1770 "Ambrous Hodges 400A on Pigg River beginning on Joshua Bartons line then down the river on both sides ( Brunswick Entry rec. Bk 1-458) 8/25/1769" [ This land is located in the Blackwater District, about 3 miles west of Rocky Mount, Va., on Route 756 and south of Route 640. The intersection is called 6 Mile Post.] 1775 Deed to 350 Acres on Brush Creek. Watauga Purchase Bk. 11/19/1775 N.C. Index P.36-37 [ This land is just across the Watauga River from Francis Hodge's land in Sullivan Co.] 1775 Patent #34 near Watauga River by John Robertson 1776 Signed Petition of Annexation for Tn. to become a county of N.C. Ken in Orlando