Hi Vicki, Happy to iterate with you on the Moore / Harkins thing. ===============Vicki's Email================ What time frame are you looking at. John Harkins Moore was married to Esther Harkins. I don't know why John had Harkins for a middle name -- his son John H. Jr. also so it must have been an important name. John Harkins Moore the senior was born about 1770 in South Carolina. Esther Harkins born 1783 in South Carolina. John Harkins Moore Jr. born 1815 in Lincoln Co. TN. Vicki Moore McCarty =============End Extract of Vicki's Email================== Here's what I know based on my ancestor migration: 1) - migration(s) of sorts are traceable back to NC and beyond (i.e. VA, PA, etc.). 2) - migration(s) from NC to SC must have taken place 1795-1804 or so. This would appear to have included my Stewart, and allied family Harkins. Could have also included Clement, Moore, Hogan, Burford, and others (possibly Kennedy, Howell, Foster, Parker, Dodson, Mathis, White?, Lewis, Martin, etc.) 3) - migration(s) from SC to GA must have taken place 1804-1807 or 1809 These would have included the above, as some of them were competing in the 1805 and 1807 GA land lotteries. Others, such as probably the McConnells, Lewis, and Martins, etc., may have come from Davidson County / Nashville. 4) - As LCT opened up in 1809 and officially in Jan 1810, a host of families or family reps were 'in place' in LCT somehow (perhaps when still Bedford Co). My Stewart research shows it to be 'baby time' starting as early as 1807 or 1809. My Solomon's first three children were born in 1810, 1813, and 1815. Larkin Stewart, Reuben Stewart, and probably William, Benjamin, Charles, and Walter Harkins (married Johanna Stewart, sister to the brothers here) Your John Harkins Moore Jr. might have been the 3rd or 4th child in that family? John Harkins Moore Sr and Esther Harkins would have been about the same age as my Solomon (b. 1786), so they would have been part of the pioneering of LCT together, in their various career capacities (my Stewarts owned land in Flynt River areas. Walter Harkins lived on Stewart's Creek). Reuben Stewart married Elizabeth McConnell, probably in GA or SC. Larkin Stewart married Martha Parker probably in GA or SC. William Stewart married Mary Hogan Benjamin Stewart married Nancy (W.) Pullam/Pullum/Pulliam Charles Stewart married Sarah Mathis, I think. Charles Stewart the dad of all of these had married Elizabeth Clements/Clemons probably in NC. Solomon Stewart married Sarah C. Hogins/Hogan 5) - There is a lady on the LCT list who maintains that her two (male) Howels in LCT were married to Stewart ladies. There was one source on LCT list who said that an Elizabeth W. Stewart married a Moore either in LCT or prior to arriving in LCT. 6) - 'formal' migration(s) occured from LCT to Marion / Fayette Co., AL around 1819-1822. These included as a minimum the following families: Stewart, McConnell, Harkins, Moore (and possibly Foster, Dodson, Bobo, Hubbard, Kennedy, etc). (some of these - Stewart, Clement, and other - had already been in the gigantic Monroe Co, AL, by 1816) 7) - Your John Harkins Moore ,Senior, probably picked up the Harkins middle name after one of his uncles who would have been a Harkins, or possibly after his mother, who may have been a Harkins. 8) - My Solomon had three children (one female, two males) with middle initials of H. We don't know if it was Hogins / Hogan, Harkins, or something out of the blue. 9) - Walter Harkins bought land from a Kennedy, I believe. McConnell had land, but may not have lived there, nearby, and had possibly bought it from a Lewis and a Martin (I don't recall all of the land deed records exactly). My Solomon's land grant was as assignee of William T. Lewis. Lewis's daughter, Anne, married John P. McConnell back in VA prior to moving to NC. I believe William T. Lewis married a Martin back in VA, long prior to moving to NC. Both John McConnell and William T. Lewis had land on the Yadkin River back in Surry Co, NC, prior to moving up to the Nashville area / Davidson Co, TN. And so it goes, ..... Anyone have any more links in the chain? :-) Dick Stewart Colorado