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Here is some stiff, with sources, that I found in a book while researching my family in Mecklenburg, N.C.:

Taken from:
Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762
by Robert W. Ramsey
Published by the University of North Carolina Press, 1964

Names:

Black, David - Pioneer settler from Chester County, Pennslyvania who migrated to Bradford Township in the Fourth Creek Settlement in Northwest Carolina between 1752 and 1762. See the Chester County Tax Lists for 1737 and 1738 and the N.C Land Grants, Vol VI, page 109.

Turner - An Edward Turner was one of the original members of the Concord Momthly Meeting of Friends in Chester County, PA. See Quaker Arrivals page 14.
     Thomas Turner was in New Castle County, Deleware in 1739. See New Castle County Pleas, folder XIV (1727-30), 25; folder XXV, (1732-40), 17.

     Between 1735 and 1761, Edward, Thomas and Roger Turner obtained more than two thousand acres of land on both sides of the Yadkin River near the shallow fork. See N.C. Land Grants, VI,pages 222-28; Rowan Deeds, V, pages 268-60.

White, Hugh - In 1722 a small group of "newcomers from Ireland" were recieved by certificate into the Neshaminy Presbytarian congregation of Bucks County, PA. This group included Hugh White. See "Church Record of Neshaminy and Bensalem, Bucks County, 1710-1738," ed. W. J. Hinke, Journal of the Presbytarian Historical Society, 1901-1961, I, page 129. Hugh White left Neshaminy the same year and proceeded westward, settling on Little Chickaslunga Creek in the Susquehanna Valley. See Lancaster County Pennsylvania: A History, 3 vols, ed. H. M. J. Klein, (New York and Chicag0: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1924), Vol 1, page 109. His sons were Hugh, John, Henry and Moses. See ancaster County Pennsylvania: A History, 3 vols, ed. H. M. J. Klein, (New York and Chicag0: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1924), Vol 1, page 109. Moses White of Neshaminy removed to New Castle County, where he was a schoolmaster at the time of his death in 1735. See Calendar of Delaware Wills, page 31. He left sons David, Joseph, James and John. See Calendar of Delaware Wills, page 31. Of the eight sons of Hugh and Moses White, two made significant contributions to North Carolina and American history. Joseph White removed to North Carolina in 1745 or 1746 and settled on the Pee Dee River south of the Granville line. See N. C, Land Grants, V, pagees 246-247. Together with Edmund Cartledge and William Phillips he was a key figure in the development of the Pee Dee settlement (in the vacinity of modern Wadesboro) and was onr of the original justices of Anson County. SeeNCCR, IV,page 951. Phillips also originated in New Castle County(Beandywine Hundred). New Castle Assessment Lists (Brandtwine Hundred, 1739) unpaginated folder, Hall of Records, Dover Delaware. 

White, Henry - Went to North Carolina after May 1, 1749, accompanied ny his nephew Moses, who settled on Davidson's Creek. The grandson of this
moses White was Hugh Lawson White, Whig candidate for President in 1852. See N.C. Land Grants, XI, page 21; C. L. Hunter, Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical: Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Perion of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln, Much of It Never Before Published )Raleigh, N.C. : Raleigh News Stream Job Print, 1877), page 202, Hunter was incorrectly stating that Hugh Lawson White was the grandson of Moses White of New Castle. Land granted to Hugh White, See Northampton County Will Books, Office of the Clerk of the Court, Northampton County Courthouse, Jackson, N.C, I, page 122; Northampton County Deed Books, Office of the Registrar of Deeds, Northampton County Courthouse, Jackson, N.C, I, Page 302. On March 25, 1752, Henry was granted land in the Irish Settlement.