Ah, Rodney, that is a good thing to know. So, I'm safe enough to use NC or I could use SC, but not, since the man was born in 1770/80 Hot Spring Co, AR, since AR itself wasn't there as a legal entity until 1819 ... and as you say, the County wasn't there til 1829.
Sometimes an answer is defined by "what is no"t, rather than by "what is". I have a growing stack of what it is not (his birthplace)