I would like to share information with you about the McCullochs.

My original U.S. ancestor, Thomas McCuluck, came from northern Ireland around 1770-80 and moved to northeast Tennessee by 1788 when he first appears listed as a witness to a land transaction in Washington County NC (later TN). We think he is last listed in a Washington County TN deed in 1807 or a Greene county tax roll. All we know about him is that in a 1909 newspaper article his grandson said that Thomas McCulluck's youngest son was named Samuel David McCulloch (born in 1797), and he came down the Tennessee river to Lawrence County, Alabama, where he is in the 1830 census onward. Samuel named his sons named Samuel, Joseph, David, and Thomas.

I have had my dna analyzed and it contains a good bit of Gillespie dna, a remnant of my east Tennessee origins, but I haven't been able to establish a solid link with the well-known Blount County McCullochs.

My McCulloch line contains a lot of Samuels, James, Williams, and Thomas Christian names, but no Alexanders or Benjamins.

Thanks, Tom McCulloch