Found this info in the book referenced above. Don't know if this group is related to my Reuben Ross or not but suspect there may be some connection. Alas, I've no proof of that but thought I'd share in case it helps someone out there. I do not own the book but photo copied these pages. The House of Plant of Macon, GA by G.S. Dickerman published 1900 page 114 "There were plants on the James river(Virginia) as well as in New England, and the names Parrish, Cooper, Powell, Bassett, Hall, Matthewes, Gibbes, Wilson, Ross, Bennett, Grimes, Redding, Taylor, Halloway, Holt, Lane, Battle and Alford were sommon to the Northern ands Southern colonies. The Ross families are noticeable in this way. There was an Alexander Ross in New Hampshire in 1688, another at Mount Holly, New Jersey, who came from Scotland before 1752, another, also from Scotland, who was an officer in the British army in the Revolutionary War and another in Old Norfolk county, Virginia as early as 1658, who was probably the progenitor of the Ross family of North Carolina and Georgia. Again, we find a John and a James in Pennsylvania, a Hugh in Berwick, Maine, a William in New Kent County, Virginia and all these names repeated in the Rosses of North Carolina. It seems highly probable from this that the several American families are all from a common Scottish ancestry. Mr. Luke Ross, who went with his family to Macon in 1721, was a native of Williamstown, North Carolina where his father John Ross and his grandfather William Ross had lived and brought up their families. It is recorded of William Ross that he bought of Edmund Smithwick, March 25, 1749, one hundred and fourty-seven acres page 115 of land for which he paid 224 pounds and the boundaries indicate that this was the homestead. This seems to fix the time of his coming to Williamstown. Previous to that is a deed of Oct. 12, 1742, in wihcih William Ross sold seventy-four acres of land with houses and orchards at Creswell, from which it would seem that his home had been there up to this time. In February, 1760, William Ross deeded two tracts of land containing fifty acres each to John Ross, and fifty acres more, including his house and plantation to William Ross, Jr., from which it would seem that these two were his sons. William Ross, Jr. was the father of a large family among whom were Rev. Martin Ross and Rev. Reuben Ross who were distinguished Baptist ministers. A book entitled "The Life and Times of Elder reuben Ross" by his son James Ross says that "the family originally came from Scotland and settled in Virginia, branches emigrating into Maryland and Virginia. William Ross emigrated from Virginia to Martin county, North Carolina. He was born August 9, 1731, O.S." Alexander Ross, who was in Old Norfolk county, Virginia in 1658, mentions in his will two sons, John and Alexander; and the former of these, called John Ross, Sr. mentions in his will, Oct. 20, 1712, his two sons of the same names, John and page 116 Alexander. Some twenty-five years later the two brothers John and Alexander Ross from Norfolk were land owners at Edenton, North Carolina and in 1753 Alexander bought an extensive tract on the west side of the Scuppernong river in the vicinity of Creswell. This indicates plainly that William Ross was of this Norfolk family though it does not appear exactly who his father was. When he bought the property at Williamston the deed was signed by John Ross as a witness. This, however, gives no intimation of the relationship. The mother of Luke Ross was Elizabeth Bennett, a dughter of Thoams Bennett, who was at Williamston as early as 1735".......... The remainder of this section was about the Bennett family and this was pretty much all there was in the book about the Ross' Hope it helps someone. Audrey