I just found some information on a land survey for Isaac Smith for 615 &3/4 acres with the date 1757 on it. It shows the "Indian line" and Rockey Branch and only one adjoining land holder whose name is either William Little or William Settle. The surveyor is John McClenahan. In 1787 Isaac Smith got a lease from the Catawba Indian which called for an annual rent of ten Spanish milled dollars and was signed by two state-appointed agents or commissioners: Andrew Foster and Charles Miller. The Indians who signed the lease were General Newriver, Col. John Ears, Maj. John Genet Brown and Capt. Peter. In 1792, Isaac Smith sold off 140 acres of the lease to John McElwain for $80 and transferred one-half of the yearly rent over to McElwain stating that on each 27th of October McElwain was to give the Indians $5 Spanish milled dollars. One notation was that in 1811 McElwain paid the rent (probably not in Spanish milled dollars, however) to the Indian William George. I am writing a book on the white settlers in the Catawba Indian Land and about the leaseholding system in general. I know that Isaac Smith did not have the first written lease (that was Samuel Knox in March 1785) but he may have had a verbal lease. In any case 1757 is a very early date for a white settler in the Catawba Indian Land (predating Thomas Spratt for instance). Anyone out there who knows anything about Isaac Smith including where he came from and if he had children? Louise Pettus