Let's try and get this piece of research right! ----- Subject: Moses Byers - Born 1790 NC > I am the great-great granddaughter of Moses and Elizabeth(Cook(e) Byers. W. > Joanne(Byers)Thompson. My son Gary Thompson and I have been researching the > Byers and Cook(e) families for more then ten years. Gary traveled to > Cookeville. Tn. and other locales in the south. NOT ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE > was found to support Moses's parentage! When we first started to research > we were told Moses was born in Caswell Co, NC too many records were > destroyed from that county and makes research difficult. Ever since the > bastard bond was found it has been NOTHING BUT SPECULATION! I have also > researched the Waston and Bumgarner(Bumgardner)families, finding and sending > for wills and etc.Nothing there that says Moses was in the Watson (Byers) > family! A lot of manual research needs to be done here such as going to > libraries and travel to sites of their origins. Gary and I have always > located three pieces of information to cross-reference our findings. I do > not want my descendants misled! There was a John Byers listed in the 1790 > Lincoln Co NC census.,more research needs to done on him also. FOR NOW THE > LINE STOPS WITH MOSES TILL ACUTAL PROOF BESIDES THE BOND IS FOUND. People > who are descendants of Moses and Elizabeth (Cook(e) Byers who are able to > travel to Cookville,Tn. will find history of their's in the Cookeville > library and graves. They were two fine old families to be very proud of. > W. Joanne(Byers)Thompson >