Ron, I am remembering that Samuel French's name appears on a list of Rev. War soldiers and is most likely our Samuel, as the others on the list are from the same area of NC. I am a member of the DAR, however, I haven't bothered to submit an Application on Samuel French because we cannot prove that he is Gideon's father. All of us know that he is because of the fact that Gideon says that he was born in GA, but the DAR requires proof for each generation. As for Elijah Clarke, I can't remember if Samuel was under him in the War, however, Elijah Clarke was involved in the big Georgia land fraud that followed the Rev. War. I can't remember all the details, but it seems that they gave warrants for more land than they had available, and many soldiers arrived there to find that someone else had laid claim to their land and / or that the land was not fit for farming. Elijah Clarke and other insiders claimed millions of acres for themselves and made fortunes selling that land. I do not know if Samuel French was there because he had a Rev. War warrant. I believe that he leased the land that he was on at first and then purchased. I wonder if the reason that he didn't stay there long was because he was cheated. Julia