This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grierson/Grayson Harris Hampton Torrance White Warren Mordecai Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bd.2ADE/714 Message Board Post: The following information was graciously given to me by Lynda Eller. She has given permission to share with the list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie, I had to go back through the notes on the pre-formation of Heard Co. before I could find the names needed. (1) Robert Grierson/Grayson - He had an Indian Trading Post where Philpot Ferry Site was on the Chattahoochee River just above Troup Co. (2) H. Harris - first name unknown; was in the area prior to 1830 as a trader (3) John Hampton - was believed to had been killed by the indians in his cabin prior to 1836 somewhere near the area near Yellowdirt (4) Mansfield Torrance - believed to be an agent of the government in the area (5) Mr. White (6) Mr. Warren - #5&6 were in the county mapping the area and checking the AL/GA line dispute (7) A. Mordecai - We don't know if he was a traveling minister or a trader. The only two that we have been able to find any information on are Robert Grierson/Grayson and Mansfield Torrance. Most of the information on the seven men in the early days of Heard Co. had come from field notes and brief mentions in old histories of GA and Heard Co. prior to the 1930's. Some from old newspaper records from some of the older legal organs that covered the area of early Troup, Carroll and Coweta Co. and the early days of Heard Co. Also the early Indian depredations. Lynda