-----Original Message----- From: MoonsWish2@aol.com <MoonsWish2@aol.com> To: TNDAVIDS-L@rootsweb.com <TNDAVIDS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, March 13, 2000 5:05 PM Subject: Re: Governor William Carroll ><<This is probably cute, but what does it have to do with Davidson Co. >genealogy?>> >If Bill had bothered to think before writing he would have seen some basic, >very helpful information on Governor William Carroll at the linked that was >included with my email. I for one, found good, supplementary information on >Col./Sen. James Edmund Bailey and on Newton Cannon. As a very serious >researcher I feel what I would consider a moral imperative to help other >researchers and not spend my time writing mean spirited email. I have to >admit -- mea culpa -- that the individual she was researching was not from >Davidson County. Are we that parochial? Davidson county was erected as early as 1783 by the state of North Carolina, and then included "all that part of this state lying west of Cumberland mountains and south of the Virginia line, beginning on the top of Cumberland mountains, where the Virginia line crosses, extending westward along said line, to the Tennessee River, thence up said river to the mouth of Duck river, thence up Duck river to where the line of marked trees run by the commissioners for laying off land, granted the Continental Line of this state intersects said river, (which said line is suppose to be in 35 degree 50' north latitude), thence east along said line to the top of Cumberland Mountain, thence northwardly along said mountain to the beginning. > >