Hi Cousins. I think I remember someone on this list telling about Speculation Land Company Records at the Ramsey Library of UNCA. I may be confusing that with something else I read somewhere else. Anyway, despite my confusion, there is some interesting reading available on-line in the "Heritage of Western NC" sestion of Library website. Go to http://toto.lib.unca.edu/ and have a look around. Among the stuff you will find are information on and records of the "Speculation Land Company" which acquired and sold a kazillion acres of land in WNC. In a short time browsing I found a pair of land surveys where Meriday Queen was a chain bearer. Item #0498 Survey for Butam[?] Leles, 50 acres on Robinson's Creek. Back: Warrant No. 1730, survey for Arthur McClure, 4.5 acres on Mountain Creek. Chain Bearer Merida Queen http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/speculation_lands/images/jpegs/slc0498a.jpg Item #0622 Warrant No. 1011, survey for Benjamin Newton, 200 acres in Rutherford County on Crooked Run. Signed Francis Alexander Chain Bearer Meredy Queen http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/speculation_lands/images/jpegs/slc0622a.jpg I suppose Gene will be rushing over there as soon as he reads this. The rest of us had better step aside and let him run past. --Phil Minch--