This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CROSSETT BYRN BURNS ESSEX Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADE/551.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Gary, I am a Campbell but my mother was a Crossett. We are from the David Boyd Crossett(1854-1940) line. I know a little about the Burns/Essex connection.Richard Byrn (later changed to Burns) lived 1774-1850. He married Sarah Essex (1786-1852) in Halifax County, Virginia in 1802. Then they moved to Carroll County, TN around 1831. Two of their daughters married Crossett brothers. William Andrew Crossett married Catherine Birns and Millt Birns married Henry Crossett. I have the names of the other Burns children and spouses if you need them. Good luck with the Native American angle. I have no knowledge of that. - Larry Campbell