In a message dated 7/14/99 10:55:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] (Mary) writes: > 1780 land records on Cumberland River (today Nashville, TN) are found under NC records. < I don't doubt this at all. I do recall reading, however, that when Col. James Robertson and his fellow settlers first took up residence along the Cumberland at Ft. Nashboro ca. 1779, they thought they might be in Virginia. I think most of them were Virginians. So perhaps they were hoping to stay in their home state. Wonder when they figured out they were actually in North Carolina? Jim Brown ([email protected])