Gotta keep plucking away and eventually the circumstantial evidence mounts to the point that it can pretty well be taken as gospel. Searching through some old deeds a year or so ago and came upon the name of a creek near Cullowhee which was important to my research. The name today is Wayehutta Creek, but the name on the deeds was werry hut and some such stuff. Anyway, I accepted it as the same...plus the deeds "helped" prove my research if I interpreted it favorably that way. Anyone else ever guilty of that? Anyway, I visited Western Carolina University recently and viewed the maps/sketches of Robert Love's 1820 survey of western NC lands ceded by the Cherokees. There next to his sketch of Caney Fork was the name of "Wary hutta Creek. On another document was the name Weary Hut's Creek. That creek hasn't moved in 181 years...but today it's Wayehutta Creek and I no longer have to guess which creek is mentioned on those deeds. More convincing evidence that my Samuel Queen (ca 1776-1780) was in that neck of the woods in 1830. On a related subject, Love's sketch of "Newton's Creek" appears to be Cooper's Creek of today; his "Welch Creek" appears to be today's Galbraith and his North/South line to the Tuckasegee appears to almost or touch the Oconaluftee just East of Ela, then follows the Oconaluftee to the Tuckasegee. This would seem to put the old Haywood/Macon Co., NC line coming down Thomas Ridge, then Coopers Creek on to the Tuckasegee. But, the fly in the ointment, why did Love sketch out a "Newton's Creek" in 1820 when Ebenezer "Nuton" bought land in the area in 1830, then in 1836 Ebenezer "Newton" bought land adjoining land on the E. bank of Newtons Mill Creek? Was Ebenezer there in 1820 or was it some other Nuton/Newton? Ebenezer was on 1830 Macon census; where was he in 1820? Anyone? Gene