In a message dated 9/1/01 9:00:30 AM US Mountain Standard Time, AMXROADS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << A huge number of the Virginia Backcountry (Frontier) settlers came from Maryland. Their patterns are fascinating. Early research (Maryland settlement began in the 1630's) is complicated because of the writing and spelling. One must remember too that these people had accents almost impossible even for their English compatriots to understand. Dialects still abound throughout England, >> I read this post with interest. My George Burton is said to be from VA but so far no one has found him. He was with George Washington at Valley Forge and was a member of the VA Militia. He married a Rebakah (several spellings) and married her after his enlistment was done in First Shelby Co., KY in 1798. Rebakah's father was Greshom Lee of Hunterton Co., NJ and he also went west with several members of his family at this time. He was in Woodford Co., KY also. and my ggg grandfather George Burton landed in and raised a family in Jefferson Co., IN. I am in the process of documenting him for the DAR. He has been reaseached by other Burton's I am finding out so there is much more known about him than I thought. I just have to see if I can contact these Burton's as last letters to Jefferson Co., IN were dated 1984. But there were persons and books named that has info suppostedly on this George Burton. I have my family traced to him. His marriage bond in in the Library in Shelby Co., KY. So when you mentioned that VA pioneers were from Maryland it gave me a new place to check on for this man and his partents. I am doing as much by computer as possible as I live in AZ and a continent away from the east coast. I am not well versed in how to get into places so it is still stumpble along and pick my self up and try again. I have the CD of PERSI and several formes printed out to send for research do you feel that this is a good place also to look for people I am looking for on the east coast? I get so frustrated sometimes as I am doing all my families and feel sometimes that am spinning my wheels as I have two sisters wanting to do research and they expect me to pass on all I find plus sites that I find and if I did that I feel that I would be spinning my wheels realtime. I keep telling them to get on the net and start surfing and they would find things as that is how I started 3 yr. ago. One sis did genealogy 20 yrs. ago and see feels she has done her bit. She has passed on a few things but not much. She did not document only got names dates and places from others of the family. They have been very helpful as I knew where to look and find and get documentionation. Last summer spent three wks in Henry Co., IN ; Hancock Co., IN ; and Jefferson Co., IN, getting copies of birth and marrieages documented and cost me but no one else had done it. I copied much in Jefferson Co.,IN. about my George Burton also in tax lists, poll lists, town directories, plus other members of the family, my younger sister was with me so she has what I have. Sorry to get off on a tangent but have got so much to do I am going to have to start alotting time for certain areas now I am afraid. I do love your list and hope somewhere along the way to meeting a distant cousin of the Burton Clan. I have some Burton 1st cousins that are into Indy racing and one of them found were we are 5th cousins to some others of the racing Burtons but he died before I got that info and the other brothers had non of his info. His father was also a race car driver of midgets in and around Indiana tracks in the 40s and 50s, named Everett Burton. I will close for now and read your next postings with great interest. If any of this info is familiar to someone out there I would love to hear from you. Billie Jean (Ballenger/Burton) Reese PasaPeruva@aol.com In Apache Junction, AZ via New Castle, Henry Co., IN.