Dear Cousins, I was prowling the internet yesterday, searching for a webpage I'd come across some time ago on Baltimore County neighborhoods which described where Josias Pennington's mills were located. As you know, I have computer problems all the time, and I couldn't find the address for it. So, I used a Google Search, and came up with a number of pages in addition to the one I wanted. http://www.livebaltimore.com/history/remngton.html One of the things that first got me interested in kinship as an identifier was the ownership of mills by many of the people the Penningtons were connected with both in Pennsylvania and in Baltimore County, and I noticed that many were also Quakers. Josias' mills and those of his father-in-law Jonathan Hanson were along the Jones Falls. I have a painting by Francis Guy of Josias' plantation and mill on another of my webpages: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Baltimore/josias.html Farmers brought their grain in from their country properties to have it ground in the grist mills that abounded along the many streams throughout Baltimore County. Daniel Pennington (a well identified Pennsylvania Quaker) owned a tract along the Gunpowder River which was named "Dusty Miller," purchased in from Jonathan Hanson, co-incidentally, Josias' father-in-law, with Quaker parents himself. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Balto/index.html I also came cross an excellent page on Surnames and Identity, which I thought sounded familiar, and turns out I wrote it! It fits right in with what we're doing. Totally amazing. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Pathways/surnames.html The new study pages are put up in connection with William Pennington AA Puritan, whose identity and relationships I am trying to understand. It is my hope that the study pages will assist you in establishing a methodology to help determine your own missing links and ancestral identifiers. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Chron/baltoland.html http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Resource/wmaa.html http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Probate/wmaa.html The next pages will reflect history of the Puritan settlement, their slow movement into what became Howard County, western Batimore County and ultimately in the 1830's Carroll County. They also moved across the Bay into the Eastern Shore counties, and they became assimilated into the traditional Church of England parishes and into the Quaker faith as well. My daughter purchased some Anne Arundel books as my mother's day present, and two have arrived. Not the two I was most interested in, but at least I have two new sets of data to add to the comparisons I have been making of these fascinating southern Pilgrims. A hearty welcome to our new subscribers, and especially to our newly discovered Cousin, Ellen, who has a Cecil County Maryland Ward family webpage. She also has some lovely family pictures, and some great maps and additional information. http://www.bcpl.net/~ellen/ward_family_tree.html NEXT! How to make your own databases. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn