[email protected] wrote June 28, 2000 Subject: [LONGHUNTERS] WATAUGA, HOLSTON, CASTLEWOODS & NEW RIVER SETTLEMENTS ca1775-1790 > Also, does anyone know the exact location of what was termed the "New River > Settlement" and "Castlewoods." In other words, where were they located > approximately and where can they be found on a present day map? Archibald Thompson gives a first-person account of events in the French and Indian War, and frontier attacks in his diary, index and transcript by Lula Hankins Hunter of which are posted at Doug Moore's web page http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/archibald/ PAGE 102 June 1755 New River Brokeup July 9th 1755 Brave Bradak Defatted Sertifyd (symbol) a true Copy (symbol) Me Archibald Thompson PAGE 103 June 1755 New River Broke up and was Drove By the french and Indians . . . The 9th day of July in the year 1755 Brave Bradock Defatted & Kild These dates, of course, are twenty years earlier than those posted by Mr. Perry. Archibald was the brother-in-law of Henry and Charles Skaggs. Although I've been unable to track Archibald before he shows up in the 1767 tithable list of Pittsylvania Co., Va., the year that county was formed from old Halifax, the Clan Thompson researchers have found that at least four sons of the Skaggs family (Archibald Skaggs, Henry Skaggs, William Skaggs, Hezekiah Whitt) were born in South Carolina 1759-1760. So did the families go to SC from Virginia following these attacks on the frontier? In a following post, I'll give references from the diary to other early events and hope someone will be able to identify the locations.