Fellow Davidson Co Researchers: (Saunders Researchers see end) I have been looking into my heritage and migration patterns, which starts mostly in VA/MD/PA/NC before (way before in many cases) the Rev. War and ends in SW MO ca 1855, except one group of stragglers from Greene Co TN in 1880s. I was wondering why they moved and how they got there. I have an answer now as to why folk would migrate to Nashville area, without stopping in between in Eastern TN. I'd appreciate any commentary. I read on some list that migration patterns were driven by the search for good bottomland. I recently flew Southwestern Airlines to Califronia from Baltimore. The flight stops in Nashville. It struck me as we flew over Western VA, probably parts of WVA (flight attendants had no idea of the route) and then into TN that all there was for a good deal of the distance was Hills and hills and hills, only a few valleys with cropland visible from the air. Then as we approached Nashville it all changed. There were still an abundance of hills and ridges and topography as compared to Nebraska shall we say, but there was also an abundance of flatter land and water resources that appears perfect for farm land. I can understand why Robertson/Donelson, et al settled there. And I have immense respect for anyone, I guess that would be Daniel Boone and his co-explorers and my ancestors, that made any sense out of the endless hills in between. Regarding SAUNDERS: I have recently made a breakthrough on a semi-brickwall on the ancestors of my Caroline WASH who married Archibald Bolling BAUGH 1827 in Powhatan Co VA. Her father is Lipscomb WASH who married in 1794 in Powhatan Co Elizabeth SAUNDERS who was the daughter of Rev. John Hyde Saunders. The most reverend Saunders according to some sources was expelled from WM and Mary College for childish pranks) and ???. John Hyde Saunders was the son of Samuel Hyde Saunders and Phyllis DUDLEY. >From another Saunders Researcher I have learned that some of John Hyde's descendants moved to Davidson Co TN. I was wondering if there are any of you on the list? I am looking forward to learning more about these Saunders. Janet Hunter