May I ask a question? Why would Regulators leave NC and go to Abbeville area---District 96? be one?What if they started out as LOYALISTS? [email protected] On 2 Apr 2004 13:48:29 -0700 [email protected] writes: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Riggin/s, Maddox/ux, Davis, Atkinson, Broughton, Boyce, > Teague, Culum, etc. > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/949.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Please tell me about your Porters...I have a cluster of names which > begin in 1660 VA and go to MD. They leave MD about 1760 and go to > the Granville,Bute ,Orange, Guilford, Edgecombe Cos in NC.They are > suspected Regulators, soooo, they leave for SC about 1770 or so and > mostly settle in Abbeville. After the Rev War, when GA starts > handing out land to Vets from anywhere...the bulk move out. From > 1730, some Porter or another keeps popping in and out of the > cluster...they live next door, they buy at an estate auction, they > witness this and that. In 1730, a crucial character in my lineage > is harbored by a Porter. Please tell me about your Porters. > Maryellen > > > ==== SCABBEVI Mailing List ==== > The breath no sooner left his father's body, > But that his wildness, mortified in him, > Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment > > >