My Elliott family includes the NC patriarch Jacob Elliott who was married to Elizabeth unknown. Jacob and his family moved from Pa to Rowan County, NC in the mid 1700's. 1763, 11, 26. Jacob (Ellott) & W& ch, Jacob, Elizabeth, Hannah, Israel & William rocf Warrington MM, Pa, dated 1763, 9, 20 (I have a copy of the original MM records for this) This is found in the records of New Garden MM in what is now Guilford County, NC. It would have been Rowan County in 1763 The land that Jacob bought is now in Randolph County, NC. And many of the land transactions are found in the records of Randolph County. Jacob and family lived on Polecat Creek as neighbors and friends of Jacob's brother, Abraham who was married twice: Priscilla and Sarah. I mention wives as an identifier because there were three Abrahams in the area in 1790 on the census: Abraham brother to my Jacob, Abraham son of that Abraham, and MY Abraham who was the son of Jacob....I was a long time sorting these Abrahams from one another. I am going to leave out the stories that led me to the information that my Jacob and Elizabeth Elliott moved to Montgomery County, VA during the Revolution for safety. They lived on the Chestnut Creek area in what is now Carroll County, VA and Wytheville, VA. The area was full of Quaker families in that era. Many or possibly most of these Quakers moved west during the first decade of the 1800's in the mass exodus of the Quaker families out of the south and into the non-slave states of Ohio and Indiana....many also stopping in TN as well. I thought that I would share just a bit of the information that I found just over a week ago at the Rowan County library and the Kegley library in Wytheville, Va on a quick research jaunt. It may take me a couple of months to read through everything, but as I see things of interest to others, I'll pass it along via this mail list. Marsha Moses