Benjamin Bolling had a son Delaney, according to the Price papers. This would be the earliest use of the name which I know of, and would suggest the name came from the Phelps family of VA. Most folks don't know that NC opened it's doors a generation earlier than many places, and thus, many earlier settlers came into NC, then left for KY, TN, OH, IN, GA, AL, etc...in the next generation or two. Ken