In a message dated 9/27/00 12:01:48 AM, NCALAMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Posted on: Alamance County, NC Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/NC/Alamance/659 Surname: Rogers, Gant ------------------------- I am told that in Alamance County there are two wills for William Rogers, early to mid 1800's, one of which lists Lot Rogers as a son. Does anyone know this family or this will? I am a descendant of Lot Rogers married Phebe Gant, Guilford Co. 1818. To date have been unable to find ancestry of Lot. Can anyone help? You will have to go to Orange County Records to find anything prior to 1849 when Alamance was separated from Orange as a new county. Some families of Rogers were in Caswell and Person Counties much before the 1800's. Perhaps your branch came from one of those, as people kept moving west by degrees, if not by bounds, looking for new places to make a life. Guilford was already establishing itself as a manufacturing area very early, which may have made it attractive for families who did not pursue or want to, the farming process. Marriages usually took place in the county of residence of the bride, and Guilford being adjacent to Orange in the time period you mentioned would have afforded the suitor who lived just over the line from Guilford fair access to a young woman who lived over that line. Going to Guilford for a marriage license in your families case, was a might closer than traveling to Hillsborough for one. John Fox Winston Salem, NC