Thanks Noah for posting this data on the Smothers line from North Carolina. This probably is a part of the line that I posted last year from the Free People of Color census, there in North Carolina, you think? Mine was an earlier year, if I recall correctly. Wish that I knew more about North Carolina geography to know whether my Elisha (b1800) was connected to this line that you posted. I have in my note to file that someone on the List had posted migration data on Elisha and his brothers and this data supported the theory that Elisha's older brothers were born in North Carolina and that the two youngest in Tennessee, which the later included Elisha. Found the note and it was none other that our Ed Oxford, long time Smothers researcher........ <<Note: Ed Oxford in 1998. Carroll Co., Tennessee was formed in 1821 from Indian land. No one was allowed to settle in that area until after that date. There were four brothers, Jacob, John, Elisha and William that settled in Carroll Co., Tennessee in 1822. Jacob and John were born in North Carolina and Elisha and William were born in Tennessee. Tennessee was formed from North Carolina in 1796. So, Jacob and John were born before that date, 1796. Elisha and William, after that date, 1796.>> So, per this note......It makes me think that the early Tennessee settlement (prior to the opening of Carroll Co., Tennessee in 1821) was the Sumner Co., Tennessee area that we are seeing the records of various Smothers' families of record? The Ridge? Ex: Poll tax lists from 1816-1818? Could be that if Elisha (b1800) was Mulatto.....that his first wife could have been Indian or Black and a marriage record may well never be found of record. So far, it hasn't........I do have a theory of which Virginia tribe that I THINK that Sarah may have been born into and this particular tribe was a mixture of Black and Appreciate your sharing this and maybe one day, I will get to look closer at North Carolina boundaries. Bernie