Mike, you have a theory that would be intriguing were it accurate, but I think you will find that it is not - at least in terms of the origin of the settlers of northeastern Nelson Co. The overwhelming preponderance of settlers in that area came from up and down the Potomac River. By far the greatest proportion of these people came from the northern Virginia counties of Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William. If you were to subscribe to the Nelson Co. Genealogist, a quarterly publication of the Nelson Co. Genealogical Roundtable, you would find an article that I wrote that would at least partially explain the reason for this. And you would find many other articles of use to the researcher. I should thank Mary Yoder for also mentioning my history of the area in her response to you. Note also her explanation for the origin of the name Bloomfield. This brings to mind another erroneous theory that I once had. It is a fact that Bloomfield was first called Middleburg, the land on which it grew up having first belonged to Leven Powell, the founder of Middleburg, Va. Very near Middleburg in Virginia is a little village called Bloomfield. For a time I thought that this was the explanation for the origin of the name of our Bloomfield. Sometimes theories can be so wonderful until facts get in the way! Robert P. (Bob) Moore Examples of the Virginia origins of the area: Prince William Co. Bland, Calvert, Davis, Dial/Doyal, Foster, Grant, Grayson, Grigsby, Hardin (Mark, Martin), Harrison, Hughes, Kincheloe, King (Valentine), Milton, Overall, Randolph, Selec(t)man, Tennill, Thomas, Whitledge, Wickliffe. Fairfax Co. Berkley, Cotton, Dulin, Edwards, Ferguson, Gray (Drakeford), Hall, Hammond (Gervis, Job), Hardin (Moses), Langley, McCrocklin (=McLaughlin), Moxley, O'Neal, Owsley, Stone (Eli), Summers. Loudoun Co. Bayne, Berkley, Bodine, Carter, Coombs (earlier of Pennsylvania?), Connelly, Davis, Duncan, Fox, Fryrear, Gist, Gore, Grigsby, Hagerman, Hibbs, Hopewell, Hunter (Eliphalet), King, Lane, Lewis (Vincent),Linton, McMakin, Mason, Minor, Neafus/Nevius, Neale, Osburn, Parrish, Pash, Porter, Pullen, Remey, Rhoads (Basil), Rightmire, Skinner, Shields, Simpson, Tyler. Stafford Co. Bridwell, Humphrey (apparently all of them Summers descendants), Kendall, desc. of Peytons, Stone (Josiah, Spilsby - around line with Prince William), Wells, Wigginton. Fauquier Co. Bullitt (or Prince William), Chinn, Bland (Thos., d. 1788), Dawson, Glasscock, Thos. Kincheloe, Searles Lewis, Morehead, Ransdell, Settle, Young, Singleton, Shumate, Wilkinson[?], Young, and Joseph Robinson's descendants through the Murrays.

Bob, I read the list of names below who came from Northern Va. and did not see one Herrell, Harreld, Harold etc. among them. I am curious as to how you missed those Harrells, Harrills, Harrelds who were among the earliest settlers in Nelson and other counties of Ky, many of whom came from Augusta, Prince william, Fauquier, Frederick and other northern Va. Counties. They obtained good sized tracts of land in Nelson co. One of them, William Herrell, Herreld etc. was sent by Capt. William Russell in 1774 to scout in Ky during the Indian Wars to observe the numbers of Indians gathering there and to locate the Treaty Line between the Cherokee and Virginia lands. William and the three other scouts traveled three weeks, on foot, and returned. Daniel Boone and Stoner were sent about the same time to warn the surveyors in Ky about the Indian uprisings and they were gone 58 days, got back too late to go to Point Pleasant for that battle. The Harrells were the "silent" frontiersmen, but they were there! Check it out..........Thanks, G.Lee Hearl >>>Bob Wrote: Mike, you have a theory that would be intriguing were it accurate, but I think you will find that it is not - at least in terms of the origin of the settlers of northeastern Nelson Co. The overwhelming preponderance of settlers in that area came from up and down the Potomac River. By far the greatest proportion of these people came from the northern Virginia counties of Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William. If you were to subscribe to the Nelson Co. Genealogist, a quarterly publication of the Nelson Co. Genealogical Roundtable, you would find an article that I wrote that would at least partially explain the reason for this. And you would find many other articles of use to the researcher. I should thank Mary Yoder for also mentioning my history of the area in her response to you. Note also her explanation for the origin of the name Bloomfield. This brings to mind another erroneous theory that I once had. It is a fact that Bloomfield was first called Middleburg, the land on which it grew up having first belonged to Leven Powell, the founder of Middleburg, Va. Very near Middleburg in Virginia is a little village called Bloomfield. For a time I thought that this was the explanation for the origin of the name of our Bloomfield. Sometimes theories can be so wonderful until facts get in the way! Robert P. (Bob) Moore Examples of the Virginia origins of the area: Prince William Co. Bland, Calvert, Davis, Dial/Doyal, Foster, Grant, Grayson, Grigsby, Hardin (Mark, Martin), Harrison, Hughes, Kincheloe, King (Valentine), Milton, Overall, Randolph, Selec(t)man, Tennill, Thomas, Whitledge, Wickliffe. Fairfax Co. Berkley, Cotton, Dulin, Edwards, Ferguson, Gray (Drakeford), Hall, Hammond (Gervis, Job), Hardin (Moses), Langley, McCrocklin (=McLaughlin), Moxley, O'Neal, Owsley, Stone (Eli), Summers. Loudoun Co. Bayne, Berkley, Bodine, Carter, Coombs (earlier of Pennsylvania?), Connelly, Davis, Duncan, Fox, Fryrear, Gist, Gore, Grigsby, Hagerman, Hibbs, Hopewell, Hunter (Eliphalet), King, Lane, Lewis (Vincent),Linton, McMakin, Mason, Minor, Neafus/Nevius, Neale, Osburn, Parrish, Pash, Porter, Pullen, Remey, Rhoads (Basil), Rightmire, Skinner, Shields, Simpson, Tyler. Stafford Co. Bridwell, Humphrey (apparently all of them Summers descendants), Kendall, desc. of Peytons, Stone (Josiah, Spilsby - around line with Prince William), Wells, Wigginton. Fauquier Co. Bullitt (or Prince William), Chinn, Bland (Thos., d. 1788), Dawson, Glasscock, Thos. Kincheloe, Searles Lewis, Morehead, Ransdell, Settle, Young, Singleton, Shumate, Wilkinson[?], Young, and Joseph Robinson's descendants through the Murrays.>>>> G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.