Here's an article shared with me, regarding my 4th gr grandfather and his oldest son, Isaac. Jean C. Bedsault Family Elisha Bedsault and John Bedsault acquired lands in Fincastle County in 1774. John was the son of Elisha and his wife Mary Bedsault as proved by the Friends' Records of North Carolina. John Bedsault had to be of age to acquire land, which would make his birth date about 1753 and his father, Elisha Bedsault born about 1730 or earlier. John Bedsaul, son of Elisha and Mary Bedsault, married Sarah Brown in Orange County, N.C. June 9, 1774. They had a son Elisha Jr. born 1775 since his name first appears on the tax lists of Grayson Co. in 1796 (tax lists in Va. State Library) son Daniel and probably others born later, since he is listed in the 1800 U.S. Census of Buncomb Co. N.C. with one son and two daughters under 10 years of age. Daniel first appeared on the Grayson Co. Va. tax listss in 1799 continuing through the year 1807. (Tax lists VA State Library) Elisha Jr. in 1794 married Margaret Edwards, daughter of Isaac Edwards. (Grayson Co. Marr.Bond) Isaac died in 1825 in Grayson Co. and mentions his granddaughter Polly Bedsault. (Grayson Co., abstracts in Over the Mountain Men by Worrell.) Daniel Bedsault, son of John and Sarah Brown Bedsault, born circa 1778 married about 1798 wife unknown at present, and had son Isaac Bedsault, born December 24, 1799 in Grayson County, Virginia. According to his own published biography, he moved to Tenn. when a small boy and that his mother died when he was eight years of age, making her death occur about 1807. Daniel, the father of Isaac, decided to follow his father John Bedsault who had left Grayson Co., for the western section of North Carolina. Daniel Bedsault pushed on westward into Tenn. and was killed by the Indians having been a member of a scouting party. Isaac Bedsault, son of Daniel Bedsault, was born in Grayson Co., Virginia December 24, 1799. He could not have been the son of Elisha Bedsault Sr., as he was too aged, he could not have been the son of John Bedsault for he had moved out of the county, hence the conclusion he was th son of Daniel who was the only one, with the exception of Elisha Jr. (who married in 1794 and remained in Grayson Co.)living in the county in 1799 the year Isaac states he was born. (See tax lists in VA State Library) Elisha Jr. probably had a son Isaac since there is a record of one in that county of the marriage of one Isaac Bedsault and Jane Davis Dec 6, 1833. Which makes it all the more conclusion that Isaac who migrated west was the son of Daniel Bedsault. Richmond, Virginia, August 8, 1942. (signed) Mary H. Pollard