Tom, Carol Middleton has a web site that includes Hugo LeBird. She and I have both been exploring these "early Birds". (But did they really get the worm??- very small genealogy humor) Her site is: http://home.att.net/~cmiddleton None of this is ironclad, of course. I checked what I have of my two Bird/Byrd lines and don't have a Susan Byrd at that point. It would not be inconcievable that Thomas Bird went to NC, although it does seem a little early. William Byrd II wrote _History of the Dividing Line_ in 1730 after extensive exploration of the area between NC and VA for the government of Virginia. This is from the book, _William Byrd of Westover_. Hope this helps. "While exploring North Carolina, ... Byrd made an arrangement with one of the commissioners of North Carolina for two hundred pounds, a little more than his own salary for the expedition, he bought 20,000 acres at the confluence of the Dan and Irvine Rivers. Later, in 1743, he added 6000 acres to that estate, which he named the Land of Eden. with a double meaning since Governor Eden was then serving in North Carolina. He had hoped to settle this area with Swiss emigrants which he deemed the best colonists he could find. As early as January 1729, Byrd had purchased a plantation on Meherrin River, that "might serve as a convenient stage or halfway house to the distant territory he owned on the Roanoke River. as another stopping place between Westover and the Land of Eden, between 1730 and 1738 he acquired more than 5000 acres where the Staunton and the Dan rivers join to form the Roanoke." Founded the City of Richmond and fixed the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina."