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/1756.1 Message Board Post: I believe that Bryant/Briant Davidson was the son of John Davidson, and I believe that this family is the one that was in Pittsylvannia Co., VA by the late 1760s (they had come there from Buckingham Co., VA). I have traced that "Buckingham Davidson family" back to James City Co., VA in the 1680s. There was a William, a William "Junior," a John, a Richard and a Goulder Davidson on some of the Henry Co., VA tax lists between about 1777 and 1790 (and SOME of these names continued to show on the Patrick Co., VA tax lists into the early-1800s). Across the state line in Stokes Co., NC was one of their relatives named David Davidson, and by 1790, a David, a John and a Richard Davidson all appeared in Stokes on the census. I suspect that the above John Davidson in Henry Co., VA and then Stokes Co., NC (or his close relative) was the father of Bryant Davidson, and we know that a John Davidson was the bondsman for Bryant's wedding in 1816 in Grainger Co., TN (where David and Goulder Davidson are known to have also gone). It apears that Sarah (James) Davidson was age 56 and a widow on the 1850 Lawrence Co., TN census (living with a Joel Davidson, age 23, a William D. Davidson (age 20) and a Burwell Davidson (age 18)). I did not know that Jesse Davidson (who was in Lewis Co., TN in 1850) was associated with this family, but if he was involved with the estate of Bryant Davidson, then he was probably part of the family. I SUSPECT that John Davidson married a Miss Bryant in Henry Co., VA, and I note that there were two John Bryants (in separate households) who were listed on the 1782 tax list in Henry Co., VA. The Davidson were also associated with a George Isom/Isham, Jr., a Robert Hall (who married a Isom/Isham) and a Joshua Hudson (and there was a man in Henry Co., VA in 18782 who was named Hall Hudson). Comments?