In a message dated 5/17/99 12:59:10 PM, [email protected] writes: << Somewhere on Rootsweb in the past couple of years I have read that Scottish, if these are Scottish names... were sent, or needed, because of their hard working tenacity and fierce battle hardy spirit, to tangle with the very wily Native Americans who had been pushed, during that same time period farther and farther south along the colonial coastline into Georgia and Florida... The Scottish were the toughest and the best for "the job" or something to that effect... Seems that they may have wouned up marrying a few instead of killing them off! >> This may have been true, but I wouldn't count on it. My Scottish, Murray line came to Canada and then on down to Southern Illinois. They were farmers and I always believed they went south for the fertile farmland.....some also worked for the RR-(MKT). It is an interesting concept, however and I would love to hear more about it. Eileen