Dennis, Here's the quote from Bonnie Summers book, "The Colonel Frederick Hambright Family" : Page 10 It is recorded in the State Records of NC (Clark), Vol. XXII p. 281, that Frederick Hambright was one of Captain Samuel Cobrin's Company of 48 men in the Spanish Alarm, 1747-48, at Wilmington, NC. The patent for land where he first lived on the Catawba River is dated Aug. 30, 1753 (part of which he conveyed to James Leeper in 1762.) On September 24, 1754 he patented other land on the Catawba; and in May 1769, a tract in the fork of Long Creek and Still House Branch, near present Dallas, NC where he lived until after the Battle of Kings Mountain. In 1782 he sold parts of this tract and moved to a new home on Kings Creek in South Carolina. Sharon S