I know someone is working on the Panther surname...... I just got a listing of some of the first settlers of Ft Nashborough NC (today Nashville Tn) who left and went up into Kentucky during the Indian attacks of 1780. Since my Henry Turney stayed at Ft Nashborough during these attacks and he up till about 1772 was living around Edinburg VA....thought perhaps the Philip Panther might be also from Shenandoah Co VA. Logan Co Kentucky - court record dated January 15, 1782,.....Philip Panther...... My Henry Turney had in 1774 purchased land on Beaver Creek between Abingdon VA and Bristol TN/VA.....and a bit later on German Creek near Bean's Station - this is the Holston and Clinch river areas. I have said before that there were several other names from Shen. Co VA in this area at that time such as Teeter, Buhler/Beeler, Petre, Nuland/Newland, Funkhouser, etc....... early in 1780 a group of these men from the area went up into Kentucky, across, then down towards Nashville....I think a lot of the German speaking ones might have first settled at Mansker's Station, but were forced to move to other stations due to Indian attacks. There are lists of the survivors of these attacks, but I had never seen a listing of the ones who left and went up into Kentucky. Anyway, thought a Panther researcher might be interested in this. Mary