>Out of ignorance... > >What are the Guice and Gamble books all about? > >Period-families-etc.? > >Thanks, > >Larry Woodard >In the Heart of Dixie >PS Laissez les bons temps roulez >('let the good times roll' for you northerners). > --Guice, Julia Cook. (1991). Frederick Stump; The Rest of the Story. Biloxi, MS: (privately published). Hans Frederick Stump, 1723-1820, PA>GA>TN, was one of the original setlers in Davidson Co., TN (Christmas Day, 1779). He was one of the more "colorful" characters in our early history. This book summarizes his experiences in Pennsylvania, where he got into trouble with the Quakers and the Indians after killing several Indians who broke into his house and then going to their camp and killing several more. (There are many variations of what actually happened, including the possible loss of several of his children.) This almost precipitated a war. He escaped from jail and next turned up in the Ceded Lands in Georgia, where he farmed and developed several mills. He fought with Marion ("The Swamp Fox") in the Revolution, was imprisoned in St. Augustine by the British, then escaped and moved his family away from the British-controlled area just in time to join the James Robertson party and go to what was to become Fort Nashborough. Once again he thrived in business, living in Davidson Co. until he was 97 years old. --Gambill, Nell McNish. ((1946). The Kith and Kin of Capt. James Leeper and Susan Drake. Nashville, TN.: (privately published). Nell Gambill was a descendent of Frederick Stump and of Susan Drake and James Leeper, the first couple married in Fort Nashborough, TN (1780), in what later became Nashville. James ROBERTSON performed the ceremony. Capt. LEEPER/LEIPER was killed in the Battle of the Bluff, April 2, 1781. Mrs. Gambill summarizes information about several branches of her family (DRAKE, SMITH, CRIDDLE, EWING, GAMBILL, WHELESS, McNISH, DEAN, STUMP, and MARSHALL). She also includes some "Tennessee Historical Miscellany." These book are both available at the Tennessee State Library in Nashville. Macalyne Fristoe Lafayette, IN 47905