Lest anyone accept as fact the postulation attributed to Mr. Kermit Stell that the father and mother of William, John and Charles Pyron were James Pyrant and Mary Bell of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, I must say that the evidence so far as I know has not been corroborated. There is a possibility that it is true, however, it requires a long leap over a wide chasm of uncertainties with a landing on shaky ground to be acceptable. There are, indeed, records of a James Pyrant or Piron who lived in Virginia in the early years of settlelment.. Also, there are records that a James Pyrant moved to Edgecomb County, North Carolina where his will was probated in 1757. I doubt that William Pyron, the Revolutionary War veteran who was born about 1756-7 was the son of this older couple. A James Pyrant was baptized in possibly Henrico County, Virginia in 1701. It is not without reason that James could have fathered a chld born in 1757, but his wife, Mary would need to have been younger to have born children at that date. More research needs to be done on this line of Pyrons in both Edgecombe and Caswell Counties in North Carolina. MBush