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