Because I cannot find my own Moody lineage line back any further than my 5th grt. grandparents James Moody (b.c1750 or Before but Not after c1755) and Elizabeth DONALD/Donnell who were married in Jan. 1774 Buxton, York Co., Maine, I am have been researching the lineage lines of our Known Ydna Moody cousins.
The MOODY's of Darlington Co., SC to Covington Co., AL (and other nearby counties...Dale, Coffee etc.), are all part of our now growing Genetically linked Moody family.

From my own searching around (I'm sure others have run into these folks before too), I found an early mention of a Gilbert MOODIE (spelled in the original Scottish spelling of our last name) who was born sometime around c1750 who enlisted into the 4th Regt. of the SC line during the Rev. War in Dec. of 1775.
Because of his name I feel quite certain he was a Brother to John MOODY/Moodie b.c1750 who is our Known Ydna line.
This John's son John Moody, Jr. named a son Gilbert Gordon Moody and I suspect it was in honor of his Uncle.
I also believe that GORDON was a family name ~Possibly~ being John Moody (b.c1750) Mother's maiden name.

Again due to extensive research over the last several months, I found a Dr. James MOODIE/Mudie (found spelled both ways in the records) of Jamaica who was from the Edinburgh, Scotland area, whose daughter Janet MOODIE/Mudie married Dr. William KEITH whose family lived in the Pickens Co., SC area. From SC Court records (public records), I found that the KEITH's were somehow linked to the MOODIE's of Charleston, SC through marriage.

In turn, some of the linking families of the Charleston, SC area have intermarried with the families of our Darlington Co., SC lines. I do not believe this is by accident, I think these families had been intermarrying for quite some time as I have found many of these same names in the old Barbados (Caribbean Island records going back to the 1600's when the Scots were banished to the Islands...the America's for religious rebellious reasons of the times or because some of them had committed crimes etc.), and I have also seen many of these same surnames intermarried in the old Scottish records (OPR's...old parish records), as well as in the Nor. Ireland records (the ones that still exist anyway).

I have tried to track these same family surnames whenever possible and have been quite surprised to see them all clumped together in the same areas of Scotland, Nor. Ireland and America...from the earlier records that is. Once rapid transportation became available (trains, cars etc.) families spread out all over the U.S. and the same clans of families were not as heavily intermarried anymore.

The Diaries of Evan PUGH (some have his last name as Gough??), also make a statement that John Moody b.c1750 or before, aka John 1 Moody, that his Father's name ~MIGHT~ have been James Moody. If this is true, then Perhaps he was a descendant of the Dr. James MOODIE of Jamaica.
This is Purely a guess on my part, but since so many of the families that intermarried with the MOODY's/Moodie's of SC are found in the old Barbados VR's, and because MUDIE's were known to live in the Jamaica/Puerto Rico area dating a good while back, I believe it is quite possible that some of them could be our Ydna lineage line.

Briefly I will say that our Ydna Haplogroup is a known Norwegian line that most likely came from Norway to Scotland during the early Viking raids. Because the MOODIE's of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland also claim to be descendants of an early Norwegian line (although the line that they claim to be descended from has now been pretty much disputed, but they still most likely do descend from a Norse line), and because we are MOODY's/Moodie's with a Norse Ydna signature and we now have about 10 families (8 of them MOODY's and 2 are of other surnames but who are Very Closely matched to us via Ydna results, AND both of their early families have Duplin and Johnston Co., NC links and Darlington and Charleston Co., SC links), it is believed that ~Perhaps~ somewhere in their male lines an Adoption took place OR a female of their surname had a male child born out of wedlock to a Moody father, but the mother gave their sons their own family names).

Anyway, it is all very twisted and intermingled but the connections Do appear to be there.
If anyone ever finds a link (his parents or siblings, wife etc.) to this Gilbert MOODIE of the Cheraws Dist., SC who enlisted into the SC Rev. War line in Dec. 1775, Please leave a message or email me.
We are making some progress with our Ydna MOODY/Moodie family lines but the more help the better.
Thank You for anything at all.