A cousin sent me the following URL, which is the diary of Josephus Newton Davis. www.ls.net/~newriver/misc/jndavis.htm The diary contains so many references to so many families, regions, religion and so forth that I cannot cite specifics, and thus will cross post this message hoping some descendants will find a reference to family. I can, however, identify some folk that connect to my family line, which is why my cousin sent me the link: The Jacob Lorton in this piece is the stepfather of Mary Elswick, Archibald Thompson's wife. He married Lydia Unknown Elswick after the death of her first husband, John Elswick, II. Davis says this about their son, Israel, b. 1749 " . . . But Israel Lorton who was the captain of the Company with which my grandfather enlisted on his return from the war pretending to settle the business for my grandmother got hold of the titles he had for a most splendid tract of land on Meadow Creek Montgomery County, Virginia. " Two other references that I can connect to my Thompson line are Moses Scaggs and an Archibald Whitt. Garrett Davis, raised by Moses Scaggs, is said to be his only heir; if this is the Moses Skaggs, brother to Longhunters and other Skaggs siblings, then he was not around when Moses died, or at least he's not mentioned in the Moses Skaggs Estate Suit in Green Co., Ky. But these are only small references in this vast history of a remarkable man.