Take a look at the maps before 1800 and you find Augusta was a very large area.  The folks that came from there had the stayed on in VA would have ended up in many other counties as Augusta was divided and then divided again and again. Ft. Wayne has letters Asahel Skinner wrote home to his father Daniel (a Rev. Vet) and it seems part of his reason for moving was the year without a summer.  The family has always wondered it the bugs in ME in the Summer might have been part of the story too.  Unless you have experienced black flys, no see ums, and mosketoes you could saddle you might not understand that but it is true.  My Skinners and Evertons were Northerners most of the rest fit in with the VA migration.  Ginny in Cheyenne

Thanks Ginny . The short end of a no see um`s attack is a real pain . Have been thru that to many times ( skin so soft from Avon repels them) The migration to a better way of life takes many reasons. Food ,used up land , overcrowding, flooding ,mining, the list varies with the person. The stories as seen with my family lines, being Gordon ,Swisher,Fauber and so on. They all usually went as a group. The linage above from Orange and Rockbridge counties. The same was true for North Carolina` Ash ,Wilkes ,and Watauga. Brown ,Blackburn, and Arrowood ancestors. Still looking for proof of John Cee Brown b 1849 , Marriage to Fannie Louisa Blackburn Tim