There is no surviving 1800 census for WC. 1810 census of WC. The last 3 lines of page 692 have the following 3 RAMSEY's: Benjamin, Joseph and Daniel. The first line of page 693 has: John RAMSEY, 1 male & 1 female under 10, 1 male & 1 female 26-44. The 1810 census was not put in alphabetical order as was the 1820-1840 censuses. Thus the 1810 census will be more or less in order by how the census taker made his rounds, neighbor to neighbor, farm to farm, etc. As the 4 RAMSEY's above were next to each other in the census, they probably were all neighbors and most likely were related. The "neighbors" on the 3 lines just before Benjamin RAMSEY on page 692 were John LARRIMER, Mary DAVIS, and John F. WIDNER. The "neighbors" on the 4 lines just after John RAMSEY on page 693 were Charles H. SMITH, Isham PEARCEY, John KEYS, and Wm. FARRIS. Those neighbors were persons living in the Damascus / Laurel Fork [now called Laurel Creek] area of WC. A Wm. RAMSEY owned land near Damascus in 1809, but had left WC before the 1810 census. There was a deed dated 19 Sep 1809 from Wm. RAMSEY & Ann his wife of Davidson Co., TN -to- Mary DAVIS of WC VA, for 98 pounds, 150 acres in WC VA on the Laurel Fork, a branch of the South Fork of the Holston River, granted to said Wm. RAMSEY by deed from Archibald McSPADDEN agreeable to the original patent dated 20 Jul 1787. Bounds: head of a spring. Recorded 19 Sep 1809 (WC VA Deed Book 4:218-219). [Source: WC VA DB 4, 1808-1811, (2004), by Jack Hockett, page 48]. (Note that Mary DAVIS was a neighbor of the four RAMSEY’s above that were in the 1810 census of WC). Know all men by these presents that I Wm. RAMSEY of Davidson Co., TN do hereby nominate ... appoint my son Jacob W. RAMSEY of WC VA my true & lawful attorney for me ... to convey ... land, 150 acres in WC VA on both sides of Laurel Fork of Holston River immediately below the mouth of Beaver Dam Fork, adjoining a tract of land formerly belonging to John KEYS Sr. ... authority to execute ... deed ... 11 Aug 1809. Witnesses: Joseph COLEMAN & Joseph GREEN, Justices of the peace ... at Court, 19 Sep 1809, Power of Attorney Recorded ... (WC VA Deed Book 4:219-220). [Source: WC VA DB 4, 1808-1811, (2004), by Jack Hockett, pages 48-49]. WC Survey Book 1, page 40 - Archibald McSPADDIN [McSPADDEN] ... 150 acres ... Commissioners Certificate ... on the Laurel Fork waters ... Beginning under Tumbling bank on the Laurel Fork ... May 28, 1782 - Archibald McSPADDIN ... 150 acres ... on both sides of the Laurel Fork , a branch of the South Fork of the Holston River, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1775 ... August 29, 1781. [Source: The Washington County Surveyors Record 1781-1797 by Rhonda Robertson, 1998, http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nrv.htm ]. VA Land Grant Book 9:730-731 - Land Grant for Archibald McSPADDEN - 150 acres on the Laurel Fork waters granted 20 Jul 1787. According to Archibald McSPADDEN’s Rev. War pension records -- on 27 Nov 1833 he personally appeared in open court, gave his age as 83 and said he was a resident of Monroe Co., TN. He moved from WC VA to Jefferson Co., TN [that part of Greene Co. that later became Jefferson Co.] where he lived till about 1818 or 1819, when he moved into Claiborne and lived till about 1823 and then moved to Monroe Co. "In or about the year 1778, in the spring, while living on the head waters of the Holston, the settlers were much annoyed by the Cherokee Indians, and applicant and other new settlers forted at William EDMISTON’s. about 5 months." Greene Co., TN Book 1:206 - 100 acres to Archibald McSPADDEN ... Registered 09 Feb 1789. Archibald was in Greene Co., TN less than 2 years after he was granted a Land Grant for the 150 acres in WC VA. Thus Wm. RAMSEY may have acquired the 150 acres around 1789. I cannot find any reference to the deed from Archibald McSPADDEN to Wm. RAMSEY that was mentioned in the 1809 deed above, in either WC VA Deed Book 1 or in WC VA District Court Deed Book A that cover that time frame. Archibald McSPADDEN’s brother, Thomas McSPADDEN is said to have owned land that included part of Damascus, which was a Land Grant for 85 acres dated 01 May 1787 [VA Land Grant book 8:547; WC Survey Book 1:38]. Archibald’s 150 acre tract was west of his brother Thomas. The tracts of Archibald and Thomas were separated by about 500 to 600 feet by the lower part of a 391 acre Land Grant for Andrew RUSSELL that was dated 03 May 1800 [VA Land Grant book 44:433-434; WC Survey Book 2:61]. There was one additional RAMSEY in the 1810 census of WC on page 714: Mary RAMSEY - 3 males under 10, 1 female under 10, 2 females 16-25, 1 female 45 or over. Mary’s neighbors would indicate that she may have been living father west on the Laurel Fork or on the South Fork of the Holston River or in that general area. Josephine R. JURNEY (now deceased) wrote an article on the Hiram RAMSEY family ["Families of Washington County and Bristol, Virginia, 1776-1996," family # 745, page 278]: "Hiram RAMSEY, ca 1795 - 1847, lived on the Laurel Fork of the South Fork of Holston River, about two miles west of Damascus, Virginia. This was the same tract of land that had been granted to and surveyed for Robert RAMSEY in 1776. I don’t have the family of Robert; Hiram may be his grandson ... I can remember at a very young age living next to my Grandparent RAMSEY’s farm ..." Bob Ford