David Bray Sr. (ca. 1744-1836), probably the son of English immigrants Peter Bray and Martha Scott, moved from Brunswick County, Virginia to Northampton County, North Carolina between 1747 and 1762, served in the Revolutionary War, and acquired land in 1784 in Surry County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, California and elsewhere.

This book concerns traditional music in upper North Carolina and southwestern Virginia. The historians are its practitioners. This collection of anecdotes, stories, and utterances came from the musicians as they talked about themselves or about other players with whom they are or were familiar. This historical-musical census-of-sorts cites and identifies more than 1,300 players of traditional music in an area that, in terms of its music, disregards state borders. Of the musicians who could be dated, about 120 were born prior to 1870; at least 400 between 1870 and 1900; and more than 220 after 1900. The majority of these musicians have never before been documented. Of the 1,300, only some fifteen percent are women; only some five percent are black. This book functions by letting the informants take their lead, and an effort has been made to keep auctorial intrusion to a minimum. -- From product description.

Although West Mosley was born in 1751 we do not know where. It may have been in Scotland, America or somewhere else. However, in 1797 he was in North Carolina where he married Rebekah Shore. She may not have been his first wife. He died in 1821. He is known to have had 4 children. Many of his descendants are included in this record. They now live in North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Kansas, Missouri, and elsewhere.

This book of spectacular full-color photographs of common eastern aquatic insects is a fly tyer's dream.