Mary Jane called me from a mutual friend's home in Tenn while I was in NC. SHe was so excited. She descends from Charles and Jemima Hardy Phillips of Lenoir Co. They moved to Buncombe Co, NC, then to SC, and ended up in Clay County, Ky. There was a 10 to 15 years time period they disappeared and Mary Jane has looked for them for 50 years and her father looked another 50 years without sucess. While in Nashville, she had three days away from her opera business and went to the archives and found Charles and Jemima in McMinn Co, Tenn. She said that McMinn Co was adj to NC and was originally Indian land and that is an odd place for people from eastern NC although they did move to Tenn from SC, not NC. Will be interested to see if other names appear in the McMinn Tax list that sound interesting. In the meantime, it appears that David Cobb of Pitt may have moved with the Phillips family to all these places. Does anyone know of any connection between the Phillips family of Craven/Lenoir and the Cobbs of Pitt? Martha I'll send you the xeroxes of the 1829-31 and 1836 Tax List index next week. Do you know what the connection might be between David Cobb SR and JR. in Pitt County and our Phillips families? In McMinn Co. TN, Mason Phillips sold his land to David Cobb (I think Jr.), who was also his neighbor. From the NC census, I see that David Cobb lived in Pitt County, and also that a David Cobb was in Buncombe Co. (I think 1800, without going back to look it up) with my Charles Phillips. Same page of the census. An important Cobb family was also in Prince George Co. VA in 1720s. Much love, and more later.