This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crawford;King;Moore;Hicks;Wyatt;Bibb;Graham;Hancock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACI/1068.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi List I think it is more so that it was the seat of goverment at the time our forfathers were moving down the Valley and westward, If you look at all the families that moved through the Valley of Va to Tn and later over the Gap into KY you would find that most of the families all took this path. My line of Crawford;King;Moore;Hicks;Wyatt;Bibb;Graham;Hancock did Dave