This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: my440sixpack Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.russell/7523.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Found the following - is this the book you're looking for ? Carter, John Denton. 106 "The Carters of Greene County, Tennessee: An Early American Family," Part One, 1981. One folder, typescript. This is a history of the Carter family by a descendant in Biloxi, Mississippi. Part One is subtitled "From New Jersey to Tennessee." Later members of the family moved to Missouri. The author of this family history, John Denton Carter, is a descendant of John Carter I, the patriarch of the Carters of Greene County. John D. Carter is a native of Texas. He attended Southern Methodist University and earned a doctorate in American history at the University of California-Berkeley. After serving as a historical officer in the U.S. Air Force, he taught at West Virginia University in Morgantown. In the twenty years before his retirement in 1967, Dr. Carter was a research analyst for the Air Force and Defense departments in Washington, D.C "The Carters of Greene County, Tennessee," is a history of an American pioneer family. It is based primarily on census data, military service and pension records, and land claims. The Carters of Greene County, not to be confused with the more prominent family of the same name in nearby Carter County, Tennessee, were prosperous landowners and farmers who arrived in New Jersey, probably from England, in the 1750s. They migrated to the Monongahela Valley, in what is now West Virginia, in the 1760s. They remained there only briefly before removing to Surry County, in western North Carolina. Fearful of the consequences of Lord Cornwallis's march through the Carolinas, the Carters moved westward in 1780-1781, crossing the mountains into the area that became Greene County, Tennes Although the Carter family did not attain more than local prominence, its members were industrious, responsible yeomen who have been an integral part of the Greene County community for two centuries. They were citizens and patriots, and members of the family served under generals Gates and Greene in the Revolution, and under Jackson in the War of 1812. Their story is typical of hundreds of families who migrated to the western frontier in the mid- and late-eighteenth centur Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.