This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/674.827.830.831.836.2 Message Board Post: Hello Sue and all, Just across the southern border of Caswell County lived my Grahams whose progenitor was John Graham born in Chester County, Pennsylvania in January 1741. My John Graham was closely allied to the Alexander Mebane family who also hailed from Chester County, PA and settled into the Hawfields of Orange County, NC. John Graham was first married to Frances Mebane, daughter of Alexander Mebane, Sr. I have always had a curiosity about your set of Grahams [sometimes spelled Grayham] since they were in such proximity to each other. I hope that you will share with the the original settlement of your Grahams. The given names of Elijah, Peter, Johnson, Edward, Jeremiah and Harbert, are unfamiliar to my clan, but we share in the William's, Robert's, John's, and Georges, but add variety with the addition of Thomas and James, which seemed to have entered our line from John Graham's second marriage to Mary Bird. One of the early Graham females did marry a Herndon of Caswell. I will look foward to hearing from you. Best regards, John Fox Winston Salem, NC