This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3R.2ADE/246.250 Message Board Post: See if this information will help you. If you find a connection, I'd like to exchange info with you. First, I want to suggest that you look in the 1850 Coffee County Census at the family of Jesse Allen Adams, who seems to have been the oldest Adams recorded in the census. If you find a connection there, I can furnish his Adams line back many generations. I have been unable to make a connection with Jesse Allen with my line. Second, I am seeking information about the ancestors of my gggrandfather Alfred/Alford Adams (January 6, 1813-January 19, 1880), who was married to Sarah H. Watson (January 4, 1816-August 4, 1887). Alfred and Sarah moved to Coffee County Alabama from Marion County Georgia sometime between 1842 and 1844. They show up in the 1850 Census in Coffee County, but not in the 1860 Census, then show up in the Covington County Census in 1870. Family speculation is that Alfred was in Walton County Florida after leaving Coffee County, and then moved to Covington County where he and Sarah lived for the remainder of their lives. They are both buried there, at Harmony Baptish Church Cemetery. Because Alfred and your Benjamin were living in Coffee County Alabama at the same time, there is a good chance that they are related. Again, if you find a connection, please share that info with me. The following information about Alfred Adams has been copied from a land grant and two Census records that might be helpful to you. Land Grant Record, National Archives, Washington D.C.: Coffee County Alabama Alfred Adams, Twp 3 North, Range 21 East Census Record of Coffee County Alabama- 1850, Ref: Page 533; 51-51: Alfred Adams, 35 Male Farmer b. South Carolina Benjamin Hart, 25 Male Farmer b. Georgia Sarah Adams, 33 Female b. Georgia Jonathon Wesley, 10 Male Attending school b. Georgia. Elizabeth, 8 Female Attending school b. Georgia Joseph A., 6 Male b. Alabama James T., 4 Male (my ggrandfather) b. Georgia Amanda L., 2 Female b. Georgia *Please note that Benjamin Hart was too old to be a son, but may have been a brother. Census Record of Covington County Alabama- 1870, Ref: Visit # 18 Page 497 Rose Hill Post Office, 6 July 1870 Adams, A. 55 Male White Farmhand Born: South Carolina Sarah 54 Born: Georgia Benjamin 17 Born: Alabama *Note that the youngest son was still in the household. His full name was Benjamin Allen Adams. That name keeps cropping up. Good Luck!!!