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