John ROPER is mentioned several times between 1745 and 1760s either in Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Granville Co, NC, Halifax and Edgecombe Counties, NC. No wills in any of my books, and I have will books for all of these counties/states. He must be the patriarch of the ROPER families because there aren't any in the area old enough to be those younger men's father. That is, none in Southside VA and the above mentioned NC counties. It is interesting a John ROPER is on a Tax List in Granville, 1757, Samuel HENDERSON List... SIMS-SEARCY-SIMS-MITCHELL-HICKS-RARDON-Moses QUARLES-Valentine WHITE-Fra. MABRY-Absalom LANGSTON-Thomas MORRIS-Tho. LISLES-NEWTON- etc. More Southside families. John ROPER is mentioned in Early Settler of Mecklenburg..."being the plantation and land where John ROPER formerly lived, 100 acres on north side of Roanoke River..." This is on a deed for James COLEMAN, Deed Book 1, Page 239, 1747. Sorry I couldn't find a will, but will keep in mind he may have left one somewhere other than where I looked. The following may be the immigrant. Source: Some Emigrants to Virginia, Second Edition, compiled by W. G. STANARD 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Shealy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Wagon Road Question > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >