Robert Snead was born circa 1630 in England. He married Mary Lucas in England, He married Mary West in Virginia. He died in 1712 in Accomack County, Virginia.
John W. Spencer (1720-1776) married Sarah Watkins in 1742, lived in Charlotte County, Virginia, and served in the Revolutionary War. His grandson, Banister Dodson Spencer (1807-1975), moved to Halifax County, Virginia and married Elizabeth Y. Henderson in 1832. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Richard Arrow Smith was born about 1745. He married Esther Johnson in about 1770 and they lived in Cumberland County, North Carolina. They had ten children. Richard died after 1819 in Wake County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere.
Henry Eborn I (ad.1732/1733), possibly of German lineage, lived in Hyde (now Beaufort) County, North Carolina; his wife was Elizabeth. Descendants and relatives lived chiefly in North Carolina, with some living in Virginia, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Texas and elsewhere.
By: the James Hunter Chapter, NSDSAR of Madison, NC, Pub. 1977, reprinted 2022, 184 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-672-X. To complete this book, the publication committee of the James Hunter Chapter NSDAR used information from DAR applications for members of their chapter who descended from soldiers or patriots in this area. Most of the research on the families in this book was based on original records or publications of original records such as estate records, division of land, deeds, court records, cemetery, census, and Bible records, as well as pension applications of Revolutionary War soldiers or their widows. Guilford County from which Rockingham County was formed in 1785 and Surry County from which Stokes County was formed in 1789 were in Salisbury District of North Carolina. To be more specific, they were in that point of Salisbury District called the Upper Salisbury District. Rockingham is bordered by Pittsylvania and Henry Counties, Virginia and Caswell, Guilford, Alamance, and Stokes Counties, NC. Stokes County is bordered by Patrick County, VA and Rockingham, Forsyth and Surry County, NC. This Book has 156 biographical sketches of families/individuals of this area of North Carolina.