Dear Cousins on the List: Beej, thanks for your postings, they are very appreciated. The Wyandot Levi record is in regard to one of Elijah Pennington's family. Elijah came from Maryland, went to Hampshire county, (W)VA and then into Ohio. His origins have switched directions so many times I don't know where the final resting place was, but I believe that as we get going with the Great Abraham Pennington Magical Mystery Tour we may tie him up and drag him home. We're going to do the same with your John Burton! Now, for others of you to ponder, here's an interesting deed from my Abstracts of Volume 1, Cecil County Land records: 1705 CECIL County PETER CLAWSSON to HENRY and MARY GUILDER I, 72 L PETER CLAWSSON of CC, carpenter for love and affection unto well beloved son and daughter Henry Guilder and Mary his wife of CC, all moiety of half part of land on John Coosinos Creek running to St. Johns Mannour being on W. side of Elk River on E side of the creek. The uppermost moiety. 13 Dec 1705 Peter (h.m.) Clawsson, SSDip Francis Maulden, Tho.s. (h.m.) Johnsson, M.V.Heyden, Will Dare. Rec. 9 Jan 1705 Jno. Dowdall Any comments?? Next, I hope you found the Washington county ownerships interesting. Moving right along into the French and Indian War, we find one of those names from Washington County, MD, Evan Shelby, moving down the frontier from Western Maryland into what is another of those nebulous areas that didn't know if it was Virginia, North Carolina or Tennessee. Called "Squabble State," it is under interpretation by the TNGenWeb Land History Project. The reason, once again, that we can't track folks is that other folks kept changing their names! Shelby may have been Selby sometimes, and since my Pennington folks were allied with Selbys from Maryland in Ohio and Iowa, I am very interested in Evan Shelby, and the Marylanders who also went into the NWSW Perimeter. The site has Fred Smoot's marvelous map collection to back it up along with great references. Remember that the Holsten River was named for Steven Holsten, gone out from among those very Swede/Finns we've been watching. http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/ The Potomac Perimeter is up. Did I tell you that before? I'm still working on the Books pages for the Bibliographies, but despite that, I have received the first book order from Cousin John O. Pennington. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Potomac/potomac.html Dear Cousins! I am so excited over the continued progress of these pages thanks to all of you and your interest and support. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads --- Visit Backcountry Crossroads --- http://www.backcountrycrossroads.com