Hello Charles, Yes, In Bell's OLD FREE STATE, Volume I, page 78-79 you find: "the approach of the early pioneers and settlers into the original Lunenburg area was largely up the Meherrin and the Nottoway from the territory that is now Brunswick, and from the lower Appomattox, on up that stream and its branches, such as Bush Creek, Briery and buffalo, and thence across to the branches of the Roanoke, such as Horsepen Creek, Ward's Fork, Turnip Creek, Falling river, Difficult Creek, Banister River and the waters of the Staunton and the Dan. It would be difficult to tell which route was followed by the greater number. Others came from the same general direction, that is, from the eastward up the Roanoke. Colonel william Byrd in his account of "A JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF EDEN", page 10, records the fact that after leaving BLUESTONE CASTEL, September 20, 1733, he and his party proceeded up the river, 'as far as Hagen's, above which about a quarter of a mile we forded into the little Island, and from thence into the Fork of the river.The water was risen s! o high, that it ran into the top of my boots, but without giving me any cold, although I red in my wet stockings. We landed 3 miles above the point of the fork, and , after marching three miles farther, reacht the Tenement of Peter Mitchell, the highest Inhabitant on Roanoke River.".. Charles, there are two other pages regarding BLUESTONE CASTLE. I shall type them for you shortly. I am sending this to the list in case there is interest. Regards, Margaret Driskill [email protected]