This passage is from Howard McKnight Wilson's book, "The Tinkling Spring: Headwater of Freedom page 178 and should help us when we decide to research in a particular area at a specific time in history. "A close examination of the list of cntributors, as compared with the list of members who built the Tinkling Spring log meeting house a QUARTER of a century earlier, reveals a large turn-over in membership. Absent from this list-some conspiciously so because of their prominence in earlier days-are the following names: Breckenridge, Cowan, Craig, Cunningham, Denniston, Edmiston, Gamble, Gay, Holme, King, Lewis, McCord, Maxwell, Miller, Patterson, Patton, Preston, Robinson and Scott. New family names are of special interest to this period, namely, Allen, Blackwood, Bratton, Coalter, Cloyd, Estill, Hittson, Jamison, Kinkead, Love, Marshall, Patrick, Pilson, Rutledge, Van Lear, and Williamson. Continued conflict with the Indians, a large exodus of substantial families, a decaying old log meeting house, the absence of a settled minister and the consequent tendency for the members to go elsewhere for worship were surely evidences of Tinkling Spring's worst day of tension and testing; but she survived with sufficient vigor to take her rightful place in defense of American freedom." In 25 years this area of Augusta county experienced a major turn-over of people and the original folks were gone, in the Cowan and Walker cases they were off to the Carolina's and then southwest Va. and east Tn. It would not help much to study Augusta county in 1840 if we knew our ancestors left there in 1740. I think the same thing would apply to Ulster. We need to study the Walkers and Cowans and whoever else we are looking for in the period of time they lived there. Regards, Robert Cowan Laggan, Sheepstown, St Johnstown, Raphoe