1.  Stacy (born ca 1775, Pittsylvania Co., VA) married John Longmire.  They moved to Marion Co., MO.
2.  Nancy (born April 1776, Washington Co., NC - died, Buncombe Co., 2 Oct 1851) married John Gash (born 17 Oct 1769, VA - died 21 Oct 1856, Buncombe Co.).
3.  Mary (born, Washington Co., NC, ca 1780) married a brother of John Gash.
4.  James (born, Washington Co., NC 23 Jan 1782 - died, Buncombe Co., 25 Sept 1861) married Annie Dillard Love (born 1786 - died, Buncombe Co., 1867).
5.  Sarah (born, Washington Co., NC, 1783 - died, Buncombe Co., 14 May 1862) married Joseph Whitson (born, Buncombe Co., 1782 - died, Buncombe Co., 12 Dec. 1861).
6.  Elizabeth (born, Washington Co., NC, ca 1785) married Thomas Whitson (born ca 1781), brother of Joseph Whitson.
7.  William (born, Washington Co., NC, ca 1780 - died ?) married Nancy Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry of Buncombe Co.
8.  Joseph (born, Buncombe Co., ca 1791) married a Miss McRee.

2. Stacy Elizabeth Gudger (b. 1775; d. before 1837) married John Longmire, who served as Sheriff of Buncombe Co. and as Legislator (B. 1770; d. 1837)

3. Martha Longmire (b. 1794 d. 1828) married William Rice  (b. 12 July 1745;  d. 17 Aug. 1871)

4. John Longmire Rice (b.1825; d. 23 Dec 1864) married MathaRoseanna Stephenson (b. 1825; d. before 1900)

5. William Francis Rice, Reverend) (b. 1 Oct 1847 Buncombe Co., NC; d. 19 Jan  1929 Buncombe Co., NC) married Margartet Henrietta Lindsey (b. 23 Dec 1846, Buncombe Co., NC;  d. 15 Dec 1925,Buncombe Co., NC)

6.  Willie Marietta Rice (b. 14 July 1885 Buncombe Co., NC; d. 8 June 1985 married Frank David Roberson (b. 8 Aug. 1879, Madison Co., NC; d. 9 Aug 1948). Resided Buncombe Co., NC

7. Mary Louise Roberson (b. 16 Apr 1909 Buncombe Co., NC; d. 7 Feb1997 married Lucian Holt Felmet, Sr. (b.11 Apr. 1907; d. 7 Sep 1983.)

8. Lucian Holt Felmet Jr. (b. 8 Mar 1946, Wake Co., NC) married  16 June 1973, Harnett Co., NC Diane Everette Clayton (B. 3 Oct 1948)

     They were attacked at times when the Indians went on the war-path, but as times passed the Indians gave them less trouble and the settlers, feeling more secure, began to clear the land and build substantial homes.  After several years when the Indians were apparently subdued the settlers became less guarded and went about their work of building and improving the settlement. In one of their homes was an Indian maiden, captured when a child, and brought up with other children of the family by a kind and considerate mother to whom the Indian maiden was devoted.

     One day the woman found the Indian maiden sobbing bitterly and refusing to eat or tell the cause of her grief.  After much questioning she broke down and told her adopted mother that the Indians were planning to attack the settlement, kill all whites, loot and completely destroy the entire settlement.  Messengers were immediately dispatched to warn the settlers who were to come with their families to the fort.  The men set about planning its defense.

     In planning William Gudger suggested to deceive the Indians by making it appear that the meeting was purely a social one; the young people to dance, loud music, etc.  The men were to stand by port holes with loaded guns which the older women were to reload as needed.  To further deceive the Indians, Martha Young, who had married William Gudger a short time before, took her little spinning wheel and sat in the open doorway of the fort in plain sight of the Indians, spinning by the light of a torch, while her husband William sat nearby mending a pair of shoes to decoy the unsuspecting Indians.

     The attack began and the Indians were allowed to climb the stockade walls and enter the enclosure. When the attack began and an arrow whizzed by William Gudger's head, he swept the lighted torch to the ground with one hand and picked up his musket with the other and fired it as a signal for a volley of musketry by the men at the port holes, whereon Martha Young fainted.  The Indians were taken by surprise and in panic tried to rescale the walls, and many were killed or wounded before they could escape.  The slaughter was great, the Indians subdued and the settlement saved, never to be bothered by Indians again.

    For the part played in this drama William Gudger was given a citation signed by the prominent men in the colony.  The writer (probably Judge James Cassius Love Gudger of Waynesville) when a small lad saw this citation and asked his grandmother many times to tell him the story and read him the citation.  He cannot remember it or its signers, except it began, "Ye William Gudger did plan the defense, lead the assault, and did fight valiently."  No citation nor mention was made of Martha Gudger for her heroic part in this act, to sit calmly in plain view and within arrow range and spin.  The little spinning wheel used by Martha Gudger in this story was preserved by her descendants for many years and no later than 1954 was in the old home of her grandson Samuel Bell Gudger near Candler Heights, N.C.

     Several members of the colony left Maryland before or during the American Revolution.  They came through the valley of Virginia, into Tennessee, then to Western North Carolina.  Among them were William Gudger and his wife; John Young, Jr. and his family; John Webb and his wife Stacy; and others, all with slaves.  They settled for a time on Nolychucky River in Tennessee, and came up the Tennessee and French Broad Rivers into North Carolina.

     William Gudger, born in Virginia March 1, 1752, died in Buncombe County, N.C.  July 12, 1833, and was a soldier in North Carolina troops during the Revolutionary War.  He served approximately two and one-half-years in the regiments of Colonel Williams and Colonel Christy (Christie).  He was with troops in the march to Long Island of the Holston, and against the Indians.  From papers on file in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. he was granted a pension for this service.  His claim was No. W.-15772, Certificate No. 30457, in which Martha was named as his wife.  His claim was supported by men who served with him or knew of such service, among whom was Colonel Robert Love.

     William and Martha (Young) Gudger had ten children, five sons and five daughters, among whom were:  Joseph Gudger, William Gudger, and James Gudger.

     James was born Jan. 23, 1782, at Old Fort, N.C. during an Indian uprising.  He died Sept. 25, 1861.  He married Annie Dillard Love, born 1786, died March 1, 1867.  Both are buried in the Turkey Creek Cemetery, Buncombe County.  James Gudger served at State Senator in 1830 and again in 1836.

     About the time James Gudger was born at Old Fort, an event occurred which brought grief to the inhabitants.  The young and able bodied men were out fighting the Indians, leaving only old men, women and children at the fort. Around the fort were cultivated lands and orchards, and all was at peace with no signs of attack.  Peach trees in the orchard were burdened with ripe fruit and some of the young women prevailed on one of the old men to take them to the nearest trees to pick some of the fruit.  While they were occupied with picking peaches some Indians slipped up and caught them by surprise.  They all ran and got away except one of the girls, by the name of Burgin, who had climbed a tree, was unable to escape.  The Indians killed and scalped her.

     James and Anne Dillard Love Gudger had 8 sons and one daughter, Lucinda (married Wm. Johnson), Jackson, Samuel Bell of Chandler, Franklin, Galatin, Robert, Lorenzi, Dr. Monteville, and Adolphus.

     Samuel Bell Gudger was born Feb. 7, 1808, and died Jan. 24, 1888.  He married Elizabeth Siler Lowry, Feb. 14, 1832.  Elizabeth, born in 1810 and died in 1902, was educated at a school for girls at Morgantown.  Samuel was educated in the old Newton Academy at Asheville.  Both are buried in the old Cemetery at Candler Heights, with many of their descendants.

     The children of Samuel Bell and Elizabeth (Siler) Gudger were Mary Caroline (married William Hamilton Moore); Lucinda Matilda, (married W. G. Candler); James Cassius (married Mary G. Willis); David Madison (married Louise Taylor, later Mrs. Bessie Whitlow); Leonora Thomas (married James Washington Rice, who after the death of Leonora married Estella Lowry); Laura Ann (married John A. Stikeleather); Louisa Lane, who died young; and Eva Lane (married Jasper L. Young, also a descendant of John Young).