The location on the Peedee River is where my Samuel French was and Tryon County is the part that later became SC. However, I scanned all the names on that petition and didn't find any that looked familiar as being those who were in NC in all the documents that I have read of the time that Samuel French was in Anson on the Peedee River. The only names that I recognize are all from the Isle of Wight, VA area, and then to the Bertie, Nash, Edgecombe, Craven area. Like Culpepper, Braswell, Thompson, Wright, and Theophulis Williams (who is one of my ancestors). Julia In a message dated 8/15/2004 6:34:44 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I have reviewed a transcript of NC Regulator Petition of 1769 and find only two FRENCH names, Neal and Joseph, as earlier reported. The names are listed early on the petition and Neal and Joseph are within a line of each other but not adjacent. There are three columns of names. Neal is in the first column and Joseph in the third. There is no county identification among the listed names. Because Anson was a forerunner of Rutherford Co. which later (1779) became the home for some FRENCHs, it is reasonable to think that the area was in Anson and was considered to include what later became the North part of South Carolina about 1815. What I am suggesting is that the FRENCHs of the area may well have been considered North Carolinians. Why then did some serve in the SC militia (Roebuck's Regt.)? It may well have been which recruiter visited this ill defined area first. Some thoughts, Hugh