Dunmore Appendix Origins and Migration

Appendix: Origins and Migration of New River Valley Settlers in the Herbert and Swift Companies

Table 1: Ethnic origins of persons in Herbert's company (1774) and their wives (Swift company from about 1781)
Origin	Now Grayson County	Now Carroll County	Now Wythe County	Swift Company
English	28	17	23	47
Scottish	19	0	33	23
Welsh	15	1	6	17
Irish	3	0	1	2
German	0	0	9	6
Dutch	2	0	1	1
French Huguenot	0	0	1	0
European/AmerIndian mix	18	1	0	4

Some of the men in Herbert's company from Grayson actually lived in what is now North Carolina.

The Carroll county numbers are low for two reasons. The eastern half of today's county is not represented and the Quakers who later made up Swift's company did not participate in Herbert's company.

Table 2: State or country of birth (men and wives)
State	Now Grayson County	Now Carroll County	Now Wythe County	Swift Company
New Hampshire	0	0	0	0
Massachusetts	0	0	0	0
Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
Connecticut	0	0	0	0
New York	0	0	2	0
New Jersey	2	0	1	1
Pennsylvania	6	0	7	27
Delaware	0	0	0	3
Maryland	12	3	16	6
Virginia	22	8	19	17
North Carolina	19	1	0	22
South Carolina	0	0	0	0
Georgia	0	0	0	0
England	1	0	1	0
Wales	0	0	4	0
Scotland	1	0	1	0
Ireland	0	0	1	0

Table 3: State where children of the men in Herbert's company died
State	Now Grayson County	Now Carroll County	Now Wythe County	Swift Company
Virginia	21	16	8	14
North Carolina	20	4	1	7
Kentucky	25	2	16	6
Tennessee	13	4	24	20
Ohio	1	0	0	13
Indiana	7	1	2	15
Illinois	7	1	1	6
Missouri	7	1	3	9
South Carolina	0	0	1	3
Georgia	0	1	3	0
Alabama	2	2	1	5
Mississippi	1	0	0	1
Arkansas	5	0	3	2
Texas	2	0	1	0

Table 3: State where children of the men in Herbert's company died
State	Birth Place	Children's Death Place
New York	2 (1%)	0
New Jersey	4 (2%)	0
Delaware	3 (1%)	0
Pennsylvania	39 (19%)	0
Maryland	37 (18%)	0
Virginia	66 (33%)	59 (19%)
North Carolina	42 (21%)	32 (10%)
Kentucky		49 (16%)
Tennessee		61 (20%)
Ohio		14 (5%)
Indiana		25 (8%)
Illinois		15 (5%)
Missouri		20 (7%)
South Carolina		4 (1%)
Georgia		4 (1%)
Alabama		10 (3%)
Mississippi		2 (1%)
Arkansas		10 (3%)
Texas		3 (1%)
England	2 (1%)	0
Wales	4 (2%)	0
Scotland	2 (1%)	0
Ireland	1 (<1%)	0