Mero district of TN and William Morrison's family

 The Mero District of TN is the part of TN outlined in Red in the below map.  It is where Nashville is now located.  

William and Rachel Witcher Morrison may have moved to Middle TN at one time.  There are a couple of things that point to that possibility.  One is that Patrick Henry (son of William and Rachel) said that he was with a group that tracked Indians who had stolen their horses in Giles County, Va to what is now the Salt Rock Community in Cabell County.  They found the horses and returned home.  Patrick Henry liked the area so much that he and his brothers and sister traveled through the Cumberland Gap to settle at Salt Rock in what is now Cabell County, WV.  

If you look at a map, you will see that it makes no sense that the family traveled through the Cumberland Gap from Pittsylvania County to what is now Cabell County.  This statement only makes sense if the family had traveled through the Cumberland Gap between middle TN and Green County TN or Pittsylvania County, VA....and that that place had made a big impression on Patrick Henry.  So that he included it in his information about his families move.

The Cumberland gap is located just north of the word Tennessee that is farthest to the right in the above map.

The other piece of information that would lend credence to this idea is information given to me by Luan:

There were so many William Morrisons in what was briefly "Mero District," perhaps as many as six or seven from the late 1790s. I couldn't attribute any of the other Morrisons there as being H2s. But it wasn't for lack of trying.

The William Morrison, of Mero District, attorney for Patrick Morrison in Greene County in 1795 is the link of a William Morrison to H2 Patrick and to middle Tennessee. I believe that is why the Roane County loose papers said Patrick's son William Morrison went west, unless there was a family story of William's migration.

Luan

I am not clear when William and Rachel left Greene County TN to move to Metro district (if they did).  I do know that Daniel Witcher (father of Tandy Witcher) was living in Smith County, TN when he died in 1815.  Smith County would fall into the Mero District of TN.  Daniel would have been an uncle to Rachel Witcher Morrison.  It is possible that several relatives had all moved together to Mero district.

But now the piece of information that I wanted to save.  I have told the story that the reason that William and Rachel Witcher Morrison moved back to Pittsylvania County was that Rachel said to William:  "Honey, I want to go home.  I am tired of worrying about the Indians.  My father and mother are getting old.  I want them to see our pretty children.  I want to go home and take care of them,"  And William said OK.  Of course, that is made up....but it has been my story.  Here is information supporting the part about the Indians:  (you may have to manipulate it in order to read it...I had to make it large to be readable)