Christine, your observation re the surnames found in Orange and the old Dobbs area puts you in good company. Ima and Aileen Mewborn made that observation 25 years ago when they discovered some of the Fields family of Culpepper County (formed from Orange) bought property in Onslow and maybe in Dobbs. They said the old street names that are surnames in both Madison and Culpepper were identical to Farmville yet they could find no connections other than the Fields family in Onslow. It has always been written that at least my Taylor family started with Richard Taylor who married Catherine Davis and Richard was out of Orange Co, Va. The Taylor family of Orange Co is considered a FFVA with a pedigree a mile long but it is certainly not connected with the Lenoir Taylors. The Orange Co family was written up in the Smithsonian Mag many years ago. Not to mention that most of us think William was the one who married Catherine Davis, or did think that until this past week. Martha >Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:02:50 -0700 >X-From_: CGT714@aol.com Sun Dec 9 19:02:45 2001 >From: CGT714@aol.com >Old-Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:02:37 EST >Subject: 1790 Orange Co., Va. Census >To: NCDOBBS-L@rootsweb.com, NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com, NCDUPLIN-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10536 >X-Diagnostic: Submission size exceeds 20000 bytes >X-Envelope-To: NCLENOIR-L > > Hi All, this was sent to me by Laurie Sullivan, have a Grimes/ Sullivan >connection in Duplin Co., NC. > anyway looking at these names from Va, have seen a lot of the surnames on >the mailing list, ie just today Martha mention Taylors, well there are some >Taylors, a few Suttons, Croom, Jones etc. one Grymes :-(, > this is a long file but i wanted others to see this , maybe it will help >someone. > Good luck to all > >The intro of this census transcription is interesting.  You'll find a >'Benjamin Grymes' listed here.  Some of these names - i.e. Sullivan, Minor, >Booth, Kendall, Atkins...  These are all my family lines.  I find the >Minor/Atkins and Kendall/Booth living together in Indiana (Sullivan too), >and Alabama.  If you find any Grimes/Grymes that are neighbors of the above >surnames...remember me! > >The Grimes tag-along with Sullivan/Parker/Wheat...or visa-versa:) > >Heads of Families - Orange County,Va. 1782 > >The original copies of the first census in 1790 for Virginia were burned >during the War of 1812. In an effort to reconstruct the census, manuscript >lists of state enumerations for the years 1782, 1783, 1784 and 1785 were >compiled. Please note that this list is NOT complete. >