Dear John: (Sigh.....) Although not in my DANIEL line (but in my FAULKNER line), allow me to introduce you to some of my ancestors who arrived, by my perception, early on in GA. Nancy Ann WELDON, b. 1752, SC, daughter of Jacob below, met and married there another early immigrant, Michael GRIFFIN, Sr., b. 1758, SC, who also received a Land Grant in 1774, both died in Columbia Co. (old St. Paul) by 1808. Old Jacob WELDON was an Indian trader as well as a "planter", and was already living on part of the land granted to him in 1773 and 1775. Now, a couple of her younger brothers, and friends WHITFIELD and WILLIAMS, got passports in 1801 for passage to the Tombigbee, and apparently scoped out the area out "west". When Isaac, one of old Jacob's son, drew land in the 1807 Land Lottery, he trucked on out "west" and sold the land the next year to the City Commissioners of a fledgling town named Monticello in old Randolph Co., now Jasper, for $903 plus, whereupon now still stands the Civic Center and who knows what else. He bought and sold other land around there, leaving a sizable estate. At least one of my other collateral ancestor lines hung out around Wrightsborough waiting for the additional Quaker Land Grant of 15,000 acres finally granted in February 1769, and mine, at least, stayed in GA.when the rest of that group (many of whom lost their shirts, and lives, in that fiasco) pulled up stakes and moved en mass to the Ohio Territory. I realize the term "early" can be subjective, but in this case of my lines and collaterals, I did mean the time frame before the post-Rev. War period. >>>In the "Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", Vol XIX, published in 1907 is recorded: Georgia. At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Savannah on Tuesday 7th Jany 1772: Present The Honorable James Habersham Esq. President. Read a Petition of Jacob Weldon setting forth that he had been some time in the province, had a Wife and Eight Children but never had any Land and being desirous of Obtaining Land for Cultivation Therefore praying for three hundred Acres of Lond on Cagg (Keg) Creek St. Paul's parish to include the place whereon he had made some improvements. Resolved Than on Condition & the prayer of the said Petition is granted. >>>Book "Georgia Land Owners' Memorials 1758-1776" Abstracted by Eve B. Weeks and Robert S. Lowery Mary Bondurant Warren, Editor >>>Page 206 "46 Jacob Weldon, 500 Acres, St. Paul's Parish, 2/100. Bounded by vacant land. Granted 1-19-1773. Signed 5-10-1773 by Jas. McFarland for Jacob Weldon." >>>Page 271 "212 Jacob Weldon, 300 Acres, St. Paul's Parish, 2/100. Bounded by vacant land. Granted 3-7-1775. Signed 11-14-1775 by Jas. McFarland for Jacob Weldon." Anne