6# MORE EARLY SETTLERS In addition to Robert Atkins, Francis Stringer, Lazarus Turner and John Gatlin early families to the Lenoir County area included the Mclllweans, the Rouses, the Turners, the Ramseys, the Owens, the Potts, the Bonds, the Brights, the Carruthers, the Slocums, the Lintons, the Hayes, the Wiggins, the Taylors, the Williamses and the Box family. In the 1740's and 1750's the stream of settlers grew thicker. Among those were many whose descendants still live in the area: Alexander Avery; Thomas Abbott; Anthony and William Arendell; John Becton; Simon and William Bright; Benjamin Bruton; William Bush; Richard Byrd; Stephen Cade; Theophilus Cole-man; Richard Caswell; Thomas Copeland; Major Croom; William Oupree; John Dudley; Job Ives; Abbingdon Feips; Peter, Joel and Edward Fitzpatrick (some of their descendants use the name Patrick). James, Menoah, and Edward Forest; Joseph, Joel and William Dawson; Thomas Dixon; Francis Dickinson; Thomas Edwards; Robert and William Hines; Nathan Giles; John Grady; John Gainery; John Grant; Frederick Bibble; Henry and Timothy Goodman; Joseph and Jonas Griffin; Robert Hayes; John Baker; Elias Aidredge; William Barrus, Senior and Junior; John Ballard; Thomas Brown; Edward and William Carter; William Collins; John Desmond. William Cole; Robert Hill; John and Frances Harrell; Christopher Harrison; William Hardison; Paul and John Hartsfield; Anthony, Anthony Junior, Benjamin, Henry, John, John Junior, Stephen, Joshua (a Baptist preacher) and Simon Herring; John Herritage, son of William Herritage; Charles Homes; Samuel and Thomas Holloman; Francis Harper; Edward Hood; Samuel Hawkins; Caleb Hughes; Robert Humphreys; Thomas Hardy; John Irons; Richard and William Ingram; Osbourne Jeifries; Ambrose Jackson. Henry, Jacob, and John Jernigan; the Johnstons-James, Peter, Richard, Solomon and William; several Jones and Smiths and Tay lors; Henry Kennedy; John Lister; Thomas Lewis; Samuel DeLoach; Jacob Langston; Gibson and Richard Martin; the McClendons - Thomas, Charles, Francis, Dennis and Bryan; John McDaniel; John and Archie McIIlroy; George Michaelwolf (whose descendants dropped the first part of the family surname and called it simply Wolfe). Joseph and William Miller; Jeremiah Rhem; William Poole; John Roach; George, John and James Norris; James and Richard Pace; the Pate family; the Parkers - George, James, Richard and William; George Petit; Mark Phillips; Thomas Pierce; John Parrott; Nicholas Porter; Isaac Powell and sons; John Rasberry: John and Rebecca Robinson; Abraham Sheppard; John Sutton; James Simmons; Samuel Singleton. James Stallings; William, John, and Sands Stanley; Absalom and Thomas Suggs; James, John, Jonathan, and Joshua Thigpen; Samuel Thomas; Nicodemus, Nicholas, Jacob and William Thompson; Thomas Thornton; George Turnage; John, Simon and Etheldred Turner; Edward Penny; John, Moses, Richard and William Prescott; Michael Rashure; Edward Vaughn. Thomas and Edward Vause; Jeptha and John Vining; William Wade; Thomas Walker; John and Robert West; John P. White and Nicholas White; Luke and William Whitfield; William Wilson; John, Aaron and William Wood; John Worthington and Thomas Webb. All of these families and a few others not documented, were settled in the area by 1757. The next year the Hookers came down from Bertie County ano settled near what is now Hookerton and the Graingers came up from Wilmington. The Harveys began here with the arrival of Captain Matihias Harvey in 1771. The Cobb family began when Jesse Cobb moved here from Bertie County around 1766. The Washington family arrived here after the Revolutionary War as did the Elliots. Cordially, Earl Sasser ewsass@writeme.com