33/44 It is said that the greatest proportion of the early settlers came from Wake County, N.C., as did Robertson; but many of them, like Robertson, were of Virginian birth; and the great majority were of the same stock as the Virginian and Pennsylvanian mountaineers. Of the five members of the "court" or governing committee of Watauga, three were of Virginian birth, one came from South Carolina, and the origin of the other is not specified. In Collins, II., 345, is an account of what may be termed a type family of these frontier barbarians. |