About the Author

The people recorded in this book comprise more than a genealogy; it holds their stories and histories. In this book you will find English nobility, frontier settlers, Indian fighters, scholars, Revolutionary War, Civil War and WW II military combatants. Of particular interest is Nicholas W. Arrington, known as the Traveling Cocker who battled the famed General Sana Anna, Emperor of Mexico, Michael Collins of the Pleasant Hill Plantation in Eastern North Carolina and Nicholas Arrington (N.A.) Collins the Police Chief of Asheville, North Carolina.