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Hi Ed,
Yes, they settled on Broad River and Floyd's Creek prior to the Revolutionary War. The following is copied from Bridges to the Past:
"Bushrod Doggett, progenitor of the pioneer Byars, Doggett and Suttle Families of Rutherford County was born and reared in Lancaster Co, Virginia. He married Nancy Ann Stripling(Spribling), daughter of Joel and Mary Stripling. He moved to what later became Culpepper Co, Virginia, where he died in 1791. His will names nine children; Molly, George, Benjamin, Sarah Ann, Richard, Elizabeth, Nancy, Suanna and Joel. All four sons served in the Revolution and two were killed.
Molly Doggett, eldest daughter of Bushrod, married Joseph Suttle in Fauquier Co, Virginia about 1754. Around 1768, she and Joseph moved to Orange Co, North Carolina where they were joined by other related families, including that of her sister Sarah Ann who married William Byars.
Before the Revolution, the Suttle and Byars families moved westward across North Carolina to Old Tryon(Rutherford County) where they settled on Broad River at Floyd's Creek. During the Revolution, both Joseph Suttle and William Byars died, leaving Molly and Sarah Ann with large families to rear alone. Later in life the sisters remarried. Molly to Isaiah Blackwell and Sarah Ann to Joel Blackwell.
Sarah Ann(Doggett) Byars-Blackwell died 12 August 1823. Estate proceedings disclose the names of seven of her children by William Byars; Nancy Ann who married her first cousin George Suttle, James who married Elizabeth Walker, Sarah wife of Rev. George Kelly, Elizabeth who married John Kelly, Stripling, George and Charles."
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