I sure garbled this message up late last night. Thomas Wilson was the son-in-law of an Indian Trader, but not one for whom I have seen any official documentation. His name was Nathaniel. Thomas Wilson was living near some of the others who were however mentioned as having been sanctioned for trading with the Indians in North Carolina. Yes there was a Hix/Hicks brother-in-law. I also see the Hicks name in Surry Co. A Robert & William Hicks appear in Northampton, NC just across the border. I believe that it was this Thomas Wilson who was at one point the surveyor for Brunswick Co. He lost a lawsuit and then seemed to disappear around the 1730s. There are people who followed his only known child, Thomas Jr., that I have seen on line. All of this is strictly from memory and needs to be checked out. For those interested in an Indian connection, Brunswick, Southampton Va and across the border Northampton, NC are considered a tri-racial area where lots of mixing of the blood lines occurred quite early. Richard Smith was a registered Indian trader who helped in the building of Fort Christiana right after the Tuscora War. He also had a brother named Nicholas and some of that family ended up in Edgecombe, NC. The land connected to the fort was sold off ca 1719, as I recall. That date would need to be checked on. Indian traders: http://www.mindspring.com/~baumbach/ppoole/ppoole3.htm --------------------------------------- "The Thomas Wilson I referred to had a son named Thomas also and I get the two generations confused. One married a McLin and the other married an Irvin/Urvin/Irwin/ spellings unsure. At any rate the elder Thomas Wilson was married to a Nathaniel either Urvin/Erwin, or McLin. His son married the other surname."