A map in the Frederick County, VA, Court House shows a plot of the Carter Grant of 50212 acres made in the year 1740. This map shows property belonging to William TIDWELL located on the west side of the Shenandoah River just south of Ashby's Gap, through the Blue Ridge Mountains. The road from Washington to Winchester, VA, now passes through this gap and crosses the Shenandoah just north of the site of William TIDWELL's property. The map also shows the name of neighbors as HELM, John ROUT and Samuel EARLE. A house belonging to Lord Fairfax was located just across the river. It appears that this Helm was Joseph, son of Leonard, the immigrant.] This property may well have been the last property owned by Richard TIDWELL (II) and inherited by William TIDWELL after his father's death in 1739 or 1740. The proximity to Lord Fairfax's property also supports the idea of some connection between Richard TIDWELL (II) and the proprietors of the Northern Neck.

In early 1743, William TIDWELL was appointed overseer of a stretch of road that passed nearby. In 1744, he bought 100 acres from JACOB FUNK, who ran a mill nearby. That 100 a. would be near Strasburg where a Joseph Helm, son of Leonard, also bought 200 a. from Funk in July 13, 1744 (Fred Co. Deed Bk 1 pa 112_113), per Conkwright and, where the Falkenburg, et al survey went behind the place of George Helm. Feb 1744. There is no present known record of a George Helm there then. George Helm. Jr, son of the Winchester Merchant was too young to have owned such a place, as he was less than 21 at the time of his father's death. Similarly, George, the unproven (supposed) son of Meredith and Ann Helm who was born about 1725 would have been only 19 when the Falkenburg survey was made. So, we are still looking for a specific George Helm to be there. I think the fact that George Helms in NC was the son_in_law of one of the Falkenburgs in NC, later, is compelling reason to expect that our North Carolina George Helms was probably there. Conkwright goes on to say that the Tidwells moved into South Carolina after the French and Indian War. "The first record of TIDWELLS in South Carolina is a grant of 100 acres of land to Richard TIDWELL (III) which was surveyed on April 7, 1763. The land was located on Wateree Creek in Fairfield County, South Carolna. The survey shows that the land lay next to property owned by JOSEPH HELMS. The association of Richard TIDWELL and JOSEPH HELMS had already lasted over thirty years, and had survived the moved from Virginia to South Carolina. This relationship is certainly interesting as this is a long time for a famial relationship.

The commonly held belief is that Joseph's Helms' daughter Rachel married Richard TIDWELL. Their son Edmund lived next to Joseph Helms in South Carolina in 1790.

From another source I have the following: "In 1705 the town of Kinsale was established on land owned by Richard Tidwell." Kinsale advertises it as the oldest incorporated town on the Virginia side of the Potomac. In 1790 William Tidwell, lived in Wilkes County, Georgia. He was a Tory, and on 1 August 1783, William Tidwell, setting forth the extreme hardship endured by himself and his family, having his land and other property sold under the Act of Sequestration, with his old age and infirmities, and large family of small children and praying that the said property be ordered to be restored to him, he be allowed to reside thereon. The Committee are of the opinion that the prayer thereof ought to be granted." (by Maudie Fudge Tyler, Lafayette County, MS Heritage).