In a message dated 1/29/00 10:30:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Could someone direct me to a title or source for a book on the Great Wagon Road and the people who went to Meck. Co on it? I am particularly interested in Smiths, Watsons and McKees. I am interested in where the majority of the Scots came from in the colonies who settled in NC. >> The Carolina Cradle book mentioned earlier is a good source, as is "The Scotch-Irish: A Social History". Despite using Scotch instead of Scots (:), it's a good source of the whole scots-irish migration on both sides of atlantic. Author is James Leyburn, I believe (can't put my fingers on book at moment).