Hello all you Bridges researchers! I've enjoyed reading all of your postings and learning about other Bridges families. I found some info in this book called "Gone To Georgia" at the library that had tons of Bridges names in just a few paragraphs, some originally from NC, some moving on to AL. I decided to share it with y'all just in case someone might be able to use it. I'm not a longtime researcher but I thought this was real interesting (especially since I just recently received info that a Wiley J. Bridges is the father of my Ezekiel J. Bridges)... Happy Hunting....Anne (WiserM@aol.com) from: Gone To Georgia Jackson and Gwinnett Counties and their Neighbors in the Western Migration Compiled and with an introduction by William C. Stewart National Genealogical Society 1965 p. 75 **This is an enumeration of Joshua Bridges in 1820 Jackson Co., GA** 318. Joshua Bridges 100010 - 20010-0 Also in Jackson Co., 1820 was Aaron (No. 335); and in Gwinnett County, Wiley (No. 521) and Soloman (No. 619). John was in Morgan County where in 1827, Susannah, widow of a Revolutionary soldier, participated in the lottery); and others were in Jasper (where Wiseman in 1827, also a veteran, drew Lee County land granted 1836), Jones, Washington, Greene, Putnam and Oglethorpe Counties. Joshua in 1827 was listed in Hall County. Nathaniel, Thomas and Wiseman were in the Ellsberry district of Wilkes County, 1785 tax list, and Benjamin and another Thomas in Karr's district. One Thomas died c1790 leaving widow Susannah as administratrix with Wiseman and Jonathan (see Jones county 1820) as securities. Nathaniel was appointed administrator of David Bridges estate in Wilkes County jan. 26, 1790, with James Bridges and Drury Cade as securities; David's heirs were Berry T., Bayns or Barnes, Merrell, Nancy and Jesse Bridges; and a Daniel Bridges made a purchase from the estate. Nathaniel Bridges (also spelled Bridgers) married Writter Simms in Wake County, N.C., 1778. Nathaniel's will (Feb. 2 1809/ July 7, 1809; Oglethorpe County, Ga., Will Book B, p. 35) named his wife Ritter; and children: Wiley Jones Bridges, Darrell D., Kiles Crawford Bridges, Esther, Bidde Jones Bridges, Polly C. , Patsy B. and Julia. His wife and William M. Stokes were appointed executors; James and Berry Bridges and John Luckie were witnesses. A number of marriages were recorded in Oglethorpe, including that of Aaron to Amey McDaniel, July 30, 1818, and others from 1796. The will of James Bridges (Feb. 10 1820/ Nov. 11, 1820, Oglethorpe, Will Book B, p. 185) named his wife Susannah, and appointed his son jacob, and George Crawford as executors. Witnesses were Robinson Hendon, Burwell Bridges and Violett Ponder. The Bridgers or Bridges family is found in Bertie Pct., N.C., as early as 1728 and a generation earlier in York, isle of Wight and other Virginia counties. One Richard Bridges took land in St. Clair County, ALa., Oct 11, 1820 and was enumerated there that year with his family and 12 slaves. Other members of the family settled in Calhoun, Wilcox and Washington Counties, Ala. Another branch of the family became established in Botetourt County, Va., where Mary Bridger married William Dougherty Jan. 30, 1786, on a bond issued in adjoining Rockbridge County, two days earlier with James Stewart as security. John and James Bridges were spies on the frontier in what is now West Virginia; Their deaths at the hands of the indians on the Greenbriar River was described by John Day in his pension declaration based upon his service in Botetourt 1775-1776. James Bridges was among the first settlers in Kentucky, making a crop in what is now Madison County in 1775; years later we find Jim Bridger, the famous mountyain man, advising the Mormons they could raise as good corn in Utah as was "ever raised in old Kentucky".