Those Couches, "Cooch" in Delaware early are very likely some of the Couch Quakers who were in Guilford County NC (now Greensboro NC) before the onset of the Rev. War in late 1770's and tended the injured on both sides during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Guilford heavily German, i. e. Quaker, Moravian, Lutheran etc. They were pacifists and took neither side. The Couches in Orange NC 55 miles away were Patriot as were the Couches in Greenville/Spartanburgh Dists. SC. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce H. Reeves" <JoyceHouseReeve@webtv.net> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: August 22, 2003 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [COUCH] State Historical Libraries > Lee, > I think you might be onto something with Delaware Couches. I was > looking at a handdrawn map of the Great Philadelphia Wagon Rd., just > last night and saw where the Delaware Bay/River juts up into SE PA. A > researcher from another family has made mention that a host of families > who later ended up in VA/NC/KY were in New Castle Co DE, and the biggest > portion of them are mentioned in PA Quaker records. > Joyce > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237