Dear Cousins, This coming week will be devoted to a lawsuit I have, and so I want to advise you of a new page at New River Valley Historical Notes. The site is searchable. Main page: http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nrv.htm The Ashe county page is of miscellaneous court records for 1807. This Ashe County page is so interesting because it portrays several of my theses: 1. Some stayed, and some rode on. Even if your Maryland, Pennsylvania, NJ, DE relatives stayed put, you will find others joined the migrations into Virginia, and then further south and west. Some repeated the cycle, and returned to the North. I think that is what happened to my Maryland Penningtons. It also happened with Quakers and their descendants. 2. Records and research pertaining to the kith and kin of your ancestors will enhance research on your own line. Most of my big "Finds" have been through looking for others that I didn't think pertained to me. 3. Look for spelling variants that might not quite fit. In this page, Osborn(e) is also spelled Ausburn. Talliaferro is spelled Tolliver. Minutes of the Ashe County, North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1807 http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nc/as1807co.htm On this page you will find Testerman, Burton, Smith, Sims, Williams, Davis, Crouch, Harmon (Herman), Pennington, and their kith and kin associated with them. And M-M-M. An extremely important clue is given in this page for our Cousin Mary (and all of us) in the Will of William Pepper. It begins, "Know all men by these presents that I William Pepper, Senior of Frederick County, State of Maryland, which lets us see that the connections to Maryland were not just early ones in Eastern Maryland, but late ones in western Maryland. It is wise to visit New River Valley Notes often, for Jeffrey Weaver's work is outstanding -- one of the best genealogy and history sites on the web. He has also added a local history published originally in 1900, "Foot Prints on the Sands of Time: A History of Southwestern Virginia and Northwestern North Carolina," by Dr. A. B. Cox, originally published by The Star Pub. Co. Print, Sparta, N.C. http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nrv/foot.htm#xi Love, and have fun with Ashe County, your legally correct Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads