In a message dated 2/9/00 11:15:56 AM, turniproots@coastalnet.com writes: << "About 1707 a group of Huguenots from Virginia, -considerable in numbers- crossed the Pamlico River and took up lands along the Neuse and Trent.">> Thanks, Trish, for all of the information! As for the Huguenots, John Lawson wrote about them in his travel journal in the first decade of the 1700's saying that Manakintowne in Va. would soon be emptied of Huguenots (was getting too crowded in Va.) as so many were arriving along the Trent River. Wouldn't you love to see a list of those settlers! I have seen surname LeGrand down that way. Of course I am guessing but would seem easier to travel over land to the area of current I-95 and come into NC that way rather than overland to a place in the rocky James river, at least near Richmond it is, until reach navigatable part of the James, them board ship, then cross the Chesapeake and out into the Atlantic before heading south then into inland waterway into the general Albemarle, etc., region of NC. Just a guess. Bebe Bebe