Hi: Found this Joseph and Samuel Hinds at a webpage for the Combs surname. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ======================================== Founda t: http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/nc-wilk.htm Wilkes County, NC Early Combs &c. Families A List of the number of Souls in Capt. JOHNSON'S Dist, July 7th, 1787, Returned by Ams. HAMMON. (3 Pages. Only Page 3 included herein) Page 3 WM WM WF Blacks Blacks Annotations Name 21-60 <21-60+ All <21-60+ 12-50 Arter Critchfield 1 2 3 0 0 Thomas Billings, Sr. 4 1 4 0 0 William Bradberry 1 1 2 0 0 John AMBURGEY, Jr. 1 0 1 0 0 later in Perry Co KY John HAMON 1 3 6 1 1 See Hammond Families John TOWNZEN 1 3 1 0 0 a.k.a. TOWNSEND? Silues (Silas) Adkins 1 1 1 0 0 Robert King 1 2 3 0 0 William Wyett 1 4 4 0 0 George Combs 1 1 1 0 0 George WHETLY 1 1 4 0 0 Jacob Baugher 1 1 2 0 0 William Hodges 1 3 3 0 0 John BURROUGH 1 1 3 0 0 George PAIN 1 2 1 0 0 James CAUDILL Sr. 0 3 1 0 0 John OREAR 1 3 4 0 0 Mary GAMBILL 0 1 2 5 2 William Holbrook 1 2 2 0 0 Edey Holbrook 1 0 4 0 0 John Cornwell 1 1 6 0 0 Samuel Hinds 1 0 1 0 0 Joseph Hinds 1 3 1 0 0 John Wyett 1 2 0 0 Thomas Joines 1 0 5 0 0 Willis ALEXANDER 0 1 0 0 0 James LARRANCE 1 0 0 0 0 Thomas Larrance, Sr. 1 2 3 0 0 James Caudill, Jr. 1 2 3 0 0 Thomas Caudill 1 0 0 0 0 Esom Fugit [Fugate] 1 1 1 0 0 William Hamon 1 1 3 0 0 James Gambill 1 1 1 0 0 Jshua Botts 1 2 2 0 0 Jacob Adams 1 2 5 0 0 Archelus Craft 1 0 3 0 0 John Adams, Jr. 1 1 2 0 0 Spencer Adams 1 2 2 0 0 Thomas Grimsley 1 1 2 0 0 Elexander Lyon 1 1 2 0 0 Stephen Hallowway 1 4 3 0 0 William Cornelius 0 3 2 0 0 Notes: Absher only notes one George Combs on 1787 list, but the above clearly shows two - with the second in a second district.