Arleta Galloway wrote: > Linda: > Thank you for replying. I would have to place John or John Wm or William in > that neck of the woods around 1784 as an estimate. One son was born in KY 1788, he > was supposed to have been the first settler South of Panther Creek, Daviess Co KY > in 1797 if it is the same fellow, I haven't proved that to my satisfaction. I will > keep looking. Thanks again. > Arleta Galloway You do have a problem. If he had a son in 1788, we will assume he was born before 1776 at the very latest, probably more like 1770 or so. But there is hope. I have seen an article in "Heritage of Transylvania County" based on oral tradition which says "The Galloways were some of the first settlers on the upper French Broad. Some were there at least fifty years before the Revolutionary War." So you're not the only one who has heard early NC/SC Galloway rumors. But oral history can sometimes be a little foggy on the details. It more likely that Galloways were just here for hunting trips. The earliest formal attempt to settle this are was a group from SC in the 1780's or so. And SC revoked their land grants the next year and turned the whole are over to the Federal government since it was so uncivilized. His participation in this attempt is possible, but I can't find any sort of a list of the folks who moved in. They formed a development corporation, so I assume legal papers were created somewhere. This was very much "Indian territory" at that time - even says so on the old maps. There is a John Galloway listed as Head of House in the 1779 Old 96th Dist. of SC census. Does anyone know anything about this John? If I run into any braided Galloways I'll grab them for you. -- Linda Hoxit Raxter lraxter@citcom.net See Indexed Western North Carolina Cemetery Surveys http://www.geocities.com/~alextreehouse related to at least half the county - at least once ; )