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i Cummings 1976 ; Tate 1891 ) , old and new soil and geologic maps ( Carpenter and Wilson 1975 ; Dunn 19770 Vanatta, Brinkley, and Davidson 1921 ) were examined and compared to one another. The scale of many of the early maps is too large for effective comparison to the actual route of modern St . Mary ' s Road, but the general trend of the historic trading path and historic roads is the same as that for the modern roadway. Granville Grants- For more particular assessment of the original route of the Trading Path, the eighteenth- century Granville Grants located in the State Archives were examined. First, the Markham map ( 1973 ) showing the probable location of eighteenth- century parcels was examined to create a list of names of project area property owners and associated dates . This list was compared to the microfilm of the original Granville Land Grants on file at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh ( in the Secretary of State Papers) . These papers were also searched for mention of the Trading Path in deed descriptions . A total of 12 pertinent grants were researched . These granted lands, extending from west near Hillsborough to east (present county line) area as follows : Churton 1754 , Reed 1756, Wiley 1760, Jackson 1754 , Nelson 1751 , Taylor nd, Wade 1753 , Jackson 1760 , Dennis 17611 Dennis 1759 , Jackson 1755 , Synnott 1752 , Synnott 1762, Day 1755 . It is interesting that some of these individuals owned more than one tract of land. This underscores the fact that some of these grants were not the primary residence of the land- owners . One has to read the land descriptions and search for mention of structures in the deeds . Michael Synnott ' s 500 acre grant ( 3 /25 / 1752) has a small map (Figure 5 ) that depicts the Trading Path heading just north of Buck Quarter Creek near that creek ' s great bend towards the Eno to the south. It also shows "Mount Misery" west of the creek, which shows up on the Hillsborough U . S . G . S . topographic map as an unnamed high point for the area. Synnott sold this land to Thomas Holden in 1755 (Browning 1965 ) . Synnott ' s principle residence may have been located on his adjoining grant to the east ( 640 acres , 5 /2/ 1752) . That land grant mentions his house , which appears to also have . been used for a tavern. Michael Synnott, who owned the land along the Trading Path in the vicinity of St . Mary ' s Church and Buckquarter Creek, was an Englishman who first appeared in North Carolina ' s colonial records in Bertie County in 1748 . By 1752 he had a mill on the Eno River and a large home tract on the Trading Path where he kept a tavem described as "the d Michael Synnott now lives . " The Moravian Bishop August plantation on which the sal Spangenberg and his party of explorers stayed with Synnott in 1752 on their way to the western frontier, where they hoped to find (and did find) a tract of land for the Moravian colony. Captain Synnott and the Hillsborough based land surveyor William Churton accompanied the Moravian on their trip to the west . Synnott appears in the public record in September 1752 , when John Dunnagin became the overseer in charge of maintaining the Trading Path road from Granville County to Michael Synnott ' s place, probably referring to the tavern for which Synnott was granted a license (Anderson 1990 *020 , 23 % Browning 1969) . Synnott sold this land to Thomas Holden in 1755 (Browning 1969) . 26