The following URLs and selected entries tie the John Thompson - Mary Unknown family to just about everybody in Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas. It is one of the best genealogical sites I have found. Lucy Skaggs, 1762, d/o Mary Thompson and Henry Skaggs, and John Stacy, link to this Combs-Cody family. More importantly, this site pulls together information about the loyalities of the settlers to the crown, military data, and the migration from Surry of many of the settlers mentioned in Archibald's Diary (transcripts at http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore ). Who's Anna Thompson? I will try and check the dates to see if she is Archibald, Lucy, Mary and George's sister. But just exploring this site is going to take weeks. The main URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~combs/ William Cody lineage at: http://www.mindspring.com/~baumbach/cody/william.htm In 1785 Nancy Cody, daughter of William and Sinai, married David Thompson in Montgomery County. The marriage bond named William Cody as father and as bondsman (14). David Thompson and William Cody were residents in 1787 (15): . . . . 1785 Petition House of Delegates To Form Russell County John Stacy [m. Lucy Skaggs; son of Benjamin and Ann Combs Stacy] Mashack Stacy James Davidson [father of Elizabeth, wife of Simon Stacy, brother of Sinai Cody] Henry Skaggs [father of Lucy] . . . One of the several William Combs, husband of Anna Thompson, lived on Weaver Creek, a tributary of the Clinch River, near the present Buchanan County and Washington County lines. =========================== Stacy lineage(Barbara Stacy Mathews): stacy@otn.net