there is no surviving archive of spurgeon family. what i can you is a map of how the spurgeon and many other families from pennsylvania and western maryland and virginia migrated down. this the great wagon road which is more or less where interstate 81 is today. i guess it's actually really 11, which is the old federal highway, but kind of running down area. and they will move down that area to settle in the carolina backcountry in the middle, the 18th century. jane and settled with some of their maryland neighbors in an area called abbot's creek in the eastern part of rowan county, which is where the red blob, is on the map. and this area was called abbot's creek. it's the eastern part of rowan county, which at the time was this enormous county in western north, the north carolina backcountry at the time, the spurgeon arrived, there was the fastest growing in the fastest growing colony in british north america. so of people were going there. and jane and her family prospered in north carolina. within a few, william acquired roughly