This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Guthrie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IBh.2ACIB/1223.1 Message Board Post: Morris, I believe that you will find your story to be an old wives' tale if the proof was ever offered up! John Guthrey arrived in Jamestown, Virginia about 1652 and settled in old York Co., Virginia. This area encompasses present day Middlesex, King & Queen, and Gloucester Cos where most Virginia Guthrie origins seem to begin.. Essentially, there were no settlers in NC in the 1600s. The first Guthrie to take up residence was Daniel Guthrie in old Pasquotank Co. around the turn of the 18th century. John of York Co. was born ca. 1634 and likely married after arrival in Virginia. My guess is that Daniel was a son...or more likely a grandson of this first John Guthrey. I think all coastal NC Guthries will descend from this line via Pasquotank Co.