I had a good number of responses to my recent request regarding the whereabouts of Robert Scott in the 1880 census of Washington County. Thanks again to all. This time, the subject is quite a bit more challenging. I am looking for information regarding James Thompson (possibly two James Thompsons) in very early Washington County. One was the wealthy grandson of James Patton, and a Fincastle County militia captain who lived in the Town House near Chilhowie and later in Kilmachronan near the middle fork of the Holston. Gordon Aronhime states that he died in 1811, presumably in Washington County. (I know he appears in the 1810 census of Washington County.) Does anyone know whether this James Thompson left a will? He certainly should have, based on his extensive property, but Aronhime doesn't cite any will. I will call this James Thompson "middle fork James." And recently I have begun to believe there was possibly another James Thompson who lived in early Washington County, apparently in the northern part, in the Powell River Valley. He may have migrated to "Kentucky" in the 1770's and was to become the first county surveyor for Lincoln County, which was formed in 1780. He may have been associated with some Scotts (Samuel, George, and others) who (I believe) also migrated from northern Washington County to "Kentucky" in the late 1770's. I will call this James Thompson "Powell River James." At first I thought there was just one, rather ubiquitous, James Thompson in early Washington County. Now I'm thinking otherwise, partly because the land of "Powell River James" was so far away from that of "middle fork James" and partly because I find a prosperous James Thompson in both the Washington County and the Lincoln County tax lists of 1787. I find only one James Thompson ("middle fork James") in the 1782 census of Washington County. Dwight Scott