The land entries I cited in part 2 describe claims in two areas. I will try to describe the geography but a map will be a lot of help. In Franklin Co., Va., east of Rocky Mount, is a large plateau called the Coaling Ground, because it was the site of charcoaling operations to support the iron works near Rocky Mount. At the eastern edge is the valley of Chestnut Creek, cutting steep ridges and hollows along Chestnut Mountain. Pigg River runs along the north side of the Coaling Ground, turns the head of Chestnut Mountain, where Chestnut Creek joins it, then flows east . To the south, on the east side of Chestnut Mountain, is the valley drained by Snow Creek. Snow Creek flows southwest to northeast, until it is turned north by Turkeycock Mountain. Snow Creek enters Pittsylvania County, turns the head of Turkeycockand is joined by Turkeycock Creek, which drains the area on the east side of Turkeycock Mountain. A short distance later, Snow Creek joins Pigg River. Just to the east is a long unnamed ridge that forms the watershed between Pigg River and the Banister River watershed. Several shorter creeks flow from this ridge into Pigg River below its confluence with Snow Creek, including Harping Creek and Pie Creek. Tributaries on the opposite side of Pigg River include Reddies Creek and Jonakin Creek. Owens Creek also flows into the Pigg River on the north side, but further west in Franklin County, near the end of a long lowground that extends along Pigg River between Chestnut Mountain and Turkeycock Mountain. In the 1730's raiding by northern Indians, particularly the Seneca, drove out the local Indians along both sides of the Warrior's Path, later called the Carolina Road, and approximately the route of present day U.S. 220. Early settlers arriving found old Indian cornfields inthe low grounds. This area is hilly and rocky, but the low grounds or "corn bottoms" are fertile. William Grey and Ashford Hughes were land speculators who obtained "orders in council" for a grant of 10,000 acres. The entry for the grant is found in the Land Entry Book on page 11: (Jan.9.1743 Surv.d R.W.) W.m Grey and Ashford Hughs enter by Order of Council for 10.000 Acres on both sides of Pig River beginning at the lower End of the first G.t lo grounds extending on both sides up the s.d River for Qu.t The other land entires that I have mentioned are clustered around either end of this huge grant. Typically, these orders in council grants were conditioned on the grantee settling a certain number of families on the land within a certain period. My supposition is that the men that I am interested in may have come to the area as "settlers" on the Grey-Hughes grant, but, while nominally tenants of Grey and Hughes, were developing their own properties along the borders of the Grey-Hughes tract. Bob Hodges