This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FNR.2ACEB/3250.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I now understand that the Simonton family intermarried with the family of Rev. War hero General William Lee Davidson (no apparent relationship to the James Davidson who was in PA and then Bedford Co., VA). The college and county in NC were named for the General (ditto the county in TN, as I understand it). The General was the son of a George Davidson of PA, and George had a brother who is commonly called "Importation" John Davidson (who was in the Beverly manor area of Augusta Co., VA before moving to NC in the 1740s). I do not know, however, if different Simontons married into different Davidson families over the years.