Dennis and Charley, I've been reviewing my husband's Arrington research for my daughter this week, and I found something that may explain the patroller's being assigned to Captain Wynn's District in our background. In the Arrington documentation was a list of the Captains of tax districts in Nash County during that same era. Each person responsible for a tax district had the title Captain in front of his name. Perhaps that is what the references to all those Captains in Bertie County was all about. Jo