Audrey, I looked through your information and found nothing that I could contribute to help you in your quest. But I do have a comment on on settlers all along the Great Wagon Road. When one goes to the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia near Staunton, Va, they show you representative homes from the "old world" of the three predominant kinds of settlers: Germans, Scotch-Irish, and younger sons of the landed gentry of England. These men would not inherit in the homeland ....so they became men of the church, military men, or they migrated to where they could obtain land. Here is the website for this wonderful musueum: http://www.frontiermuseum.org/ I can not help but think that this Thomas Roper might have fallen into the last group named. Marsha Moses Audrey E Pool wrote: >..... >ROPER, Thomas (in Virginia 1623), 'of Milden in the County of Bedfordshire, >gent.' " I guess a "gent" or Gentleman was a high compliment during the >18th century, but you probably know this already. I thought it meant the >person had land, but guess it has a deeper meaning than that. Audrey > > > >

Marsha, How nice of you to send this, but I didn't mean to send it to this List. I need to pay attention to which button I hit. The reunion for Bush River folks was surely a success; we have a POOL/O'NEAL connection but not in the direct line. I am somewhat familiar with how the land was divided, or not divided, depending on whether they practiced the Law of Primogeniture, or not. Are you speaking of the Great Wagon Road through the middle of VA? Weren't there two main migration "roads" (The Great Wagon...& The Wilderness Road) during a certain period of time from VA-PA and further up in the states? I have a ggg-uncle who has a chapter dedicated to him in the Wilderness Road book, or one of them. His name was Aaron MYERS, a traveling minister. My Grandfather Roscoe C. MYERS was also a minister, my only brother, Harry E. MYERS, a minister...runs in the family. From studies of those families who traveled the Great Wagon Road, I followed some for a school project years ago, most of them Scotch-Irish (Is this a term?). Thanks again, Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "marsha moses" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:57 AM Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Roper in NC > Audrey, I looked through your information and found nothing that I could > contribute to help you in your quest. But I do have a comment on on > settlers all along the Great Wagon Road. When one goes to the Frontier > Culture Museum of Virginia near Staunton, Va, they show you > representative homes from the "old world" of the three predominant kinds > of settlers: > > Germans, Scotch-Irish, and younger sons of the landed gentry of > England. These men would not inherit in the homeland ....so they became > men of the church, military men, or they migrated to where they could > obtain land. > > Here is the website for this wonderful musueum: > http://www.frontiermuseum.org/ > > I can not help but think that this Thomas Roper might have fallen into > the last group named. Marsha Moses > > Audrey E Pool wrote: > >>..... >>ROPER, Thomas (in Virginia 1623), 'of Milden in the County of >>Bedfordshire, >>gent.' " I guess a "gent" or Gentleman was a high compliment during the >>18th century, but you probably know this already. I thought it meant the >>person had land, but guess it has a deeper meaning than that. Audrey >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Audrey E Pool wrote: >.... > > Are >you speaking of the Great Wagon Road through the middle of VA? Weren't >there two main migration "roads" (The Great Wagon...& The Wilderness Road) >during a certain period of time from VA-PA and further up in the states? > The Great Wagon Road had many names. We all "took" to calling it the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to what is now Roanoke Virginia which was then called Big Licks. At that point the settlers would have decided to travel into southwestern Virginia (and on into Kentucky depending on the time frame) on the Wilderness Road or to continue south on the Carolina Road that went south into the Carolinas and on to Augusta Georgia. It is said that part of the Carolina road was also called the Bryant Road after the Bryant family who are said to have widened the road from Big Licks to the area of the Yadkin River where they settled. And yes I use the term Scotch-Irish. It has become fashionable to call the drink Scotch and the people Scots.....but the term Scotch-Irish has been used so long that genealogists stick to that term to describe those who descend from lowland Scots who moved for a few generations to Ireland and then moved onto North America in 1700's. marsha > I >have a ggg-uncle who has a chapter dedicated to him in the Wilderness Road >book, or one of them. His name was Aaron MYERS, a traveling minister. My >Grandfather Roscoe C. MYERS was also a minister, my only brother, Harry E. >MYERS, a minister...runs in the family. > From studies of those families who traveled the Great Wagon Road, I >followed some for a school project years ago, most of them Scotch-Irish (Is >this a term?). >Thanks again, Audrey > > > > >>Audrey, I looked through your information and found nothing that I could >>contribute to help you in your quest. But I do have a comment on on >>settlers all along the Great Wagon Road. When one goes to the Frontier >>Culture Museum of Virginia near Staunton, Va, they show you >>representative homes from the "old world" of the three predominant kinds >>of settlers: >> >>Germans, Scotch-Irish, and younger sons of the landed gentry of >>England. These men would not inherit in the homeland ....so they became >>men of the church, military men, or they migrated to where they could >>obtain land. >> >>Here is the website for this wonderful musueum: >>http://www.frontiermuseum.org/ >> >>I can not help but think that this Thomas Roper might have fallen into >>the last group named. Marsha Moses >> >>Audrey E Pool wrote: >> >> >> >>>..... >>>ROPER, Thomas (in Virginia 1623), 'of Milden in the County of >>>Bedfordshire, >>>gent.' " I guess a "gent" or Gentleman was a high compliment during the >>>18th century, but you probably know this already. I thought it meant the >>>person had land, but guess it has a deeper meaning than that. Audrey >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >