According to my ggg-grandfather, Samuel Right Brown's book, "The Western Gazetteer, the Emigrant's Directory", pp.328-329, Simeon went to TN and settled there with his wife and eight children. "The climate proves congenial to northern constitutions...about a half dozen families removed to this state, from the state of New York, nearly 30 years ago. Residing in the same county (then Albany, now Saratoga) from which they migrated. I have twice had occasion to visit them, in Overton county, near the junction of Oby and Wolf rivers. The Unprecedented health and increase of Simeon Barber's family, since their residence in Tennessee, deserves to put on record. He left New York with a wife and eight children, five girls and three boys: his daughters are all married, the eldest has ten children, the second, ten; the third, eleven; the fourth, ten; and the fifth, five. The eldest son, ten; the second, seven; and the third, three, making a total of sixty six, all perfectly formed, and living in May, 1816. They have enjoyed almost uninterrupted health. Old Mr. Barber has six or seven great grandchildren, which make the increase from one family upwards of 70 souls. Not a single death occurred in the different branches of the family, until two of the sons removed to Indiana, in 1816, when two of the children died of whooping cough. Mr. Barber is now 77 years of age, and his wife, 74. I do not recollect having ever seen in the northern states, the heads of any single family , of so advanced an age, possessing so great a degree of activity, bodily and mental vigor, or of so young and healthful appearance. Mr. B. thinks nothing of walking fifteen or twenty miles; and labors occasionally in his fields. None of the other families which accompanied him, have had the same rapid increase of numbers: but they have enjoyed fine health, and all concur in representing the country so healthy beyond example. Indeed from my own experience and observation, I do not hesitate to pronounce the country between Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, as incomparably the most healthy of any part of the western country, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico." ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.