At 03:27 PM 7/9/2007, you wrote: >-------------------------------------------------- >NOTE: >There was a David Maxwell and a James Maxwell listed in other very early >records. >David Maxwell received 640 acres from a NC Grant in 1787. >------------------------------------------- David Maxwell never got to use his land grant. He was killed by Indians at Caney Fork one one of the later trips he made from VA to Davidson County. William and Moses, the heirs of David inherited his land grant and sold it to Judge John Overton. The land grant is located around the site of Traveler's Rest. David's brother Jesse (my ggg-gf) claimed 640 acres to the south of David's. My ggg-gf William Phillips did not have an original land grant, but lived on adjoining property to the west of Jesse. He married Jesse's daughter, Elizabeth. Judge Overton's son, John Jr, married Jesse's granddaughther. Harriett. Her father was Jesse Jr. John Overton Jr built the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville. He named it after his wife's family. Jacob Cheek, a coffee merchant persuaded him to serve his coffee in his hotel. That was the start of the Maxwell House Coffee Company. Also a history of the Maxwell family says the William and Moses Maxwell went to Cincinnati "Northwest Territories" Gene