Group, I am sending this list a copy of a post I just made to the Chestnut Ridge Cousins list for it may be of inter to others. Please go to the end of this email to learn about the book this email is all about. Below is part of an email from a fellow Wright researcher, Nita. Nita, Will Johnson, Jim Danley, myself and others have been working on Wrights of LCT and related families for some time. Will Johnson has an extensive GEDCOM on rootsweb with many LCT families for he and Jim are researching all Middle TN families. Nita lives in TX so she is able to use local resources to research LCT families that migrated to TX. She found the 2 Vol's mentioned below. I did a search for the books printed around 1983. But there are only two copies available to the public. So I do not think that we could get them from inter library lone. However Nita has agreed to copy the pages that would relate to our SC families and send to me. John and Bobby, after looking at the Descendants of your James Armstrong that John sent to me I believe more and more that your Armstrong's are related to mine for as far as I can tell there were only 2 Armstrong families to migrate from SC to LCT. My Thomas Armstrong who was born in York, PA 1755 and your Mary Jane Armstrong. At first I thought that Mary Jane and Thomas were siblings but after looking at what John sent I believe that there is a good chance that your James Armstrong b 1712 and my Thomas's grandfather Joseph b. 1711 were brothers. I know nothing about Joseph or John the father of Thomas. Only got those two names from Vicki Moore. Another family that came to LCT more than likely with our Armstrong's was Thomas Cummins and wife Esther Armstrong. Esther could be a missing daughter to Thomas Armstrong. Charles Schull has that line as well as other Armstrong researchers that I have run into. I have two books "Pendleton District, SC Deed 1790-1806" and Pendleton District and Anderson County, SC Wills, Estates, & Legal Records". I find Mary Jane Armstrong Foster, Joel Lewis Foster, Thomas Armstrong, Moore, Gants, Crenshaw, and other LCT surnames in these books. Emily, Will Johnson now has Solomon Wright as the undocumented father of Esther, James, Griffin, Elizabeth (who married William Cone but believe the name was Crane), Mary Ann (married John Harbison)George Washington. The mother Annie was born in SC as was Griffin. Cannot remember the other female off the top of my head. There also was a Joseph Wright who I believe was the other son of Solomon. Solomon had 4 sons and 4 daughters. All of the above were members of the Mt. Hebron Cumberland Church at Norris Creek. Exception is Griffin for I cannot find his name on the membership list. But some of the above could have been Baptist before the Mt Hebron Cumberland Presbyterian church was started. Elizabeth Wright married to William Cone 11 Feb 1840 was married by John Gilbert. Also John Gilbert signed the pension application of Thomas Armstrong for his Rev. War Pension. John Gilbert was a Baptist Preacher but he helped organize the Mt. Hebron Cumberland Presbyterian Church at No! rris Creek. Emily, Esther Wright Crenshaw was a Baptist before she crossed over to the Mt. Hebron Cumberland. So hopefully the info from these Vol.s will help with putting these families together. Julia From a book "Old Northwest Texas", mainly for Navarro County, there is reference to a group in South Carolina where Medlins and Ambrose Foster and relatives--Armstrong, Hall, Smith, Gibson and Roberts--were among the first members of the Turkey Creek of Saluda Baptist Church about 1785, later the families were living in Bedford/Lincoln area along the panhandle of LCT adjoining Bedford (Sinking Creek and Little Cane Creek area) where they were members of the charter New Hope Baptist Church, Fosters in the old Hannah's Gap Baptist Church. By 1822 some of them were in Marion County, Alabama, with some settling in Missouri--Cole/Platte/Moniteau counties. Medlin was the first to move to Tarrant County 18654, joined by Anderson, Hallford, Malone, Gibson, etc where they again were members of Baptist churches there. Their tradition was that an entire Baptist church made to the move to Texas. Before 1860, more from Tarrant, Hays/Travis counties moved to California where they again es! tablished Baptist churches.Other names were: Sorrels, Harris, Allen, Leterel, Henry, James, Phillips, Freeman (usually a preacher), Hodges, King, Leonard, etc.