Hi, Try checkig Tuscullum College, Greeneville, Tennessee, which also absorbed the old Presbyterian Greeneville College , Rev. Hezekiah Balch, Pres. They have archives of both colleges . Gov. Sevier was a board member of both. They were first and second college west of Appalichian Ridge. Greeneville and Blont College (now U. of Tenn. at Knoxville) were both co-educational- the first in the Nation. U. of Tenn. at Knoxville may be easier to access by Computer. Greenville College has records of james and Robert Wyly and others. Rev. Balch rode to Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church between Newbury and Clinton , South Carolina from Greeneville to ordain elders. and a young pastor he installed was either a John or James Kennedy. He also settled an argument temporarioy that only the scriptural Psalters should be sung, not thad blasphemous Isaac Watts modern stuff (this was Colonial days- the Laurens District was set up by the British to protect the Charleston and other coastal Episcopals from Indians. The Presbyterians of Mecklnburg and other colonies had first choice at the land to be a protective barrier like the Caddo farmers were for the first settlers in Erath County, Texas who protected them from Comanches. The German communities of the south Hill Country had no such buffer. Back to the subject- the men in Duncan Creek came to church in Buckskin shirts, wrap leggings, moccisans, and clubbed hair tied with deerskin strings. One was my ancestor John Copeland, an Elder. The next generations are in Huricane Baptist cemetery, Clinton, then Arkansas and Texas. The women wore long loose sack style dresses and nailed wood blocks on their deerskin moccisans for high heels. The men all brought guns. Rev. "Choctaw "Bill Robinson and Pres. Bro, Bloys and others in early Texas either wore a holster in the pulpit or kept a rifle handy in early camp meetings to keep drunks from breaking up church or protection from irate moonshiners. Visit Dr. J'G.M. Ramsey's home ar Holston River forks on Srtrawberry Plains south of Knoxville . His dad buildt a stone house still standinf with real live guides, not a punch and talk box. They said his Scottish stone masons, like most early Watauga and Knox County settlers came walking with backpacks and/or led pack mules on Indian trails not wide enough for wagons. Now, if the Spanish closed the port at New Orleans, see why Sevier, Blont, and others wanted to keep it open"> Dorcas Balch married Robert Wyly, Their baby son mentioned in Johnathan K>T> Smith's Wyly Saga was the Capt Alfred Henderson Wyly and His East Texas Redlanders (Including some Balches) who joined Sam Houston at Groce's Crossing with 3 other groups - 2 documented. The next day they defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto. The Mexican army was starving and low on all supplies, thanks to the Texian and Yucatecian Navies for blocading his supply ships in Vera Cruz. Happy hunting, Charles Wyly