This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XeB.2ACE/3413 Message Board Post: a store, saloon, butcher shop, used to exist in Tarpin Valley, (Hawkins Cty.) known as "Tate Town" Probably named for David Tate, Jr. This is just a guess on my part. The Tate's were from Botetourt Co., Virginia though. David Tate, Sr. & his wife had ten sons. David, Jr was married to Comfort Knox. Charges were brought against him by the Commonwealth on supsicion of his being a torey. The Commonwealth ordered him to enlist in the Continental Army for eighteen months without any bounty or other gratuity except his pay as a soldier. The Peck's that lived early in Tarpine Valley were from Boetourt Co. also. They must have moved into the area about the same time, perhaps together, as many families did.