Margaret asked, >Also, one other ?? when did Carolina split to become North C and South C? > 1712 was the official date, but actually they had separate governments well before that. Early on, there were settlers in northeastern NC near the Virginia border, and settlers in what is now South Carolina, but very few in between, so they pretty much operated as separate colonies from the beginning. Elizabeth Harris NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/ Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://users.erols.com/fmoran/