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JOHN LONG, born in Londonberry, Ireland of scottish parents, migrated to
America and settled in Rockingham County, Va. during the years 1753 - 1754
He fought in the Battle of Kings Mt. He Married Mrs. Jane Young Henry, a
widow from Stanton, Virginia. Son Robert was born December 29, 1770. James was
born during the year 1773

     ROBERT LONG born December 29, 1770 ad died October 7, 1857 married during
the year 1793 to ISABELLA LEEPER born April 15, 1773 and died October 17, 1870.

Children - JOHN LEEPER LONG was born November 20, 1798
	   JAMES YOUNG LONG was born February 7, 1803
	   GAVIN LEEPER LONG
	   ROBERT WESLEY LONG
	   WILLIAM PATTERSON LONG
	   MARY LONG
	   JANE LONG
	   TWINS  (died at birth)

ROBERT and ISABELLA lived in Grainger County, Tennessee on a farm called
Riverside in the beautiful Horshoe of Holston.  Since the Long, Leeper and the
Young families migrated to Tennessee from Virginia, thre has to be some
connection of the three families through marriage.

	   JOHN LEEPER LONG born November 20, 1798 died during the year 1870
He married Charity Taylor May in Blount City, Tennessee during the year 1816.
Their son ROBERT LEEPER YOUNG LONG was born August 20, 1818 at Marshall Ferry,
Tennessee.  John and Charity were the first white settlers to move to Carrollton
Georgia. John was for thirty two years a county clerk and a judge.  He served
in the legislature during the years 1868 and 1869. Ten years after the death of
his wife he married Nancy Young Long. There were seven children from this
marriage. WILLIAM LEEPER LONG,  THOMAS LEEPER LONG,  EDWARD LEEPER LONG, THE
other children's names, not known to writer.

	   JAMES YOUNG LONG born February 7, 1803. He married Caroline Elizabeth
Grantland of Upton City, during the year 1845.Their children were: GRANTLAND
LONG, WALTON LONG, JOHN LONG, MYRTLE LONG, MARTHA LONG. Myrtle, the only one
to marry, I.L. Chandler, had three children: CAROLINE , MARTHA AND MAJOR LONG
CHANDLER

There is no other information found on the other children of Robert and Isabella
Leeper Long.

ROBERT LEEPER YOUNG LONG born August 20, 1818, whose mother CHARITY TAYLOR MAY
died when he was six months old, was raised by a nanie named Betty. He married
Pearl Gulteny and had two children. He married a second time to Martha Ann Powell
Children were EDGAR LONG, JOHN LONG, JAMES LONG, EUGENE LONG, CHARLES LONE, HELEN
LONG, ROBERT LEEPER YOUNG LONG JR., MARY IDA,LONG,  MARTHA ANN LONG.


(The above ISABELLA LEEPER is too young to be the sister of Nicholas Leeper
that we find no record of but there must be some connection to this family as
she has the name . Could be she was named after the older Isabella Leeper)

Information as of 1968 and 1969
Re-typed 1980