From: "myrone capstu" <[email protected]> >Old-To: [email protected]> >This history of migration is very interesting. Somewhere in this time >period, a CAPPS/CROSBY lineage settled in Ware Co.,GA. Would they have >taken one of these routes, say, from NC? If so, how did they wind up in SE >GA, do you suppose? Any info or ideas on this are greatly appreciated as I >cannot find a "starting" place for these people. Thank You. I have rec. several message such as the above where I think I did not make myself clear .....I am not always the best at that. What is today Tennessee - look at it - about 2/3 of it was before and after the Rev War - North Carolina. The western third was Indian lands. So dont think I mean people went to NC of today and then to TN of today. I mean they went into what is today TN, but back then it was part of the colony of NC. You have to look at the early frontier like this.....you have your colonies such as Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina - they went from the Atlantic Ocean to for ever. They did not know anything about their western boundries so claimed the land to where ever it went (which would have been the Pacific Ocean I suppose). In doing research before and just after Rev WAr you mush keep that in mind to know where to look for records. Who claimed the land where your ancestor was sitting? There was not provision before Independence for new colonies, also until the land was surveyed, places such as the border between what is now TN and KY - back then that area was claimed by both VA and NC. Then a survey was done and a line drawn, so you lived either in NC or VA (since there was no Tennessee or Kentucky). Also places such as the area where PA, MD, VA, meet - that was in dispute. Maryland nearly went to war over boundries. These were originally land grants given by the King - Lord Baltimore was given Maryland and the southern border really went into what is VA today. I guess I am not very clear on this, but when I talk about Rev War soldiers from all over being given land in NC - I mean the part that is today TN.....but the records are often found in NC. Early militia records before Rev WAr on what is now TN - some of those are found in NC. Look in TN first, but dont forget to then try NC. Someone else will have to explain this I guess. Mary