Dear Carolyn, I can not get these first two web sites to come in. It just says "File Not Found". Marilyn Carolyn McDaniel wrote: > Dear Cousins, > I forgot the other Dr. Dickey bio I found last night and sent > to Jim. I also wanted to tell you about some additional Kentucky > information which makes it a terrific research area. The early > grants of Kentucky have been published. If you search this at > Ancestry.com, you can locate your ancestors' patent, which gives > the watercourse, and then search up and down the "crick" to see > who else lived in proximity to them. I have made a database of > these and in the case of the Pennington surnames, have > combined them with Virginia patents. The Pennington KYVA > patents are at the American Crossroads website: > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/lands.html > > I have combined several lists (tax, census, patents) and put them > together which is really helpful, but in some cases I have been unable > to determine where the information came from (I copied them at > Ancestry.com). The specific information I'm referring to is a 1755 > Rowan County Tax list. The source at Ancestry is only listed as > "early tax records, " yet there is an internet page which states that > the 1759 Rowan county tax list is the earliest extant (existing) tax > list. I'll have to think about this and see what to do -- I may put > in the same notation with each 1755 entry. > Additionally I have another Kentucky patents database, which > was the first I put up, and I seem to have loaded it improperly, or > not finished putting it up, for it stops at the "L" counties. I'll > get that corrected. It is at > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/kylands.html > > Here's the other Pennington bio: > http://www.starbase21.com/kybiog/jackson/pennington.j.txt > Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's > and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 12, No 4 > September, 1997, p. 89. By permission. Jackson County. > > "JOHN PENNINGTON (Hyden, Kentucky, January 20, 1898.) > I live in Jackson County, Gray Hawk Post Office. My grandfather > was Aaron Pennington. He came from North Carolina, at an early age > and settled on the head of Cutshin then called New Harlan. His wife > was a Coldiron. My grandfather's children were: Levi, Jesse, Henry, > William, Ephraim, James, Nancy, and Malinda. My grandfather had a > brother who came from North Carolina and settled on Poor Fork. He > was the grandfather of Capt. John Pennington of near mouth of Pond > Creek. I do not know Dr. Pennington of London." > > Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn > Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com > ========================================= > To send a message to the American Crossroads List: > AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com > --- Visit American Crossroads --- > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog