[Ditter]

I am not quite sure if it was Virginia or the Carolinas, not even positive it was an ancestor of mine but the name was sure passed down all the way, every other generation, to my great grand father.

[RegulatorCountry]

Old family stories and legends can be very interesting and shed light on local perceptions that were sometimes very different from recorded history. Some of mine were convinced they were fighting Hessians again in the Civil War, just as their grandfathers and great-grandfathers had in the Revolution.