Folks -- Thomas Hynds, son of William Hynds in the story below, was also the brother of Col. Andrew Hynds who built Elizabethtown, KY and named it for his wife, Elizabeth. The senior Mr. William Hynds was married to Hannah Combs, who after William's gruesome death, married secondly to James Barnes; both James Barnes and Hannah Combs Hynds died in Nelson Co., KY, which is the county where many of the names mentioned below finally resided. William R. Hynds, believed to the son of Col. Andrew Hynds, settled the Colonel's estate. A more detailed account of this marriage can be viewed at: Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/ extra/proceedings.html Also, more can be found on the Combs &c Families of Coombs Fort, Tonoloway Settlement, MD & PA at their website: www.combs-families.org/combs/records/md-pa.htm >From Combs &c ---- This settlement is across from the mouth of Little Tonoloways Creek at Hancock, Maryland, and only a few miles south of Coombs Fort of the Tonoloways Settlement ... Warm Springs Run of the Potomac River is almost directly across from the mouth of > Little Tonoloways Creek at Hancock, Maryland, and only a few miles south of > Coombs Fort of the Tonololways Settlement. In 1772, Warm Springs became > part of Berkeley Co. VA and in 1820 part of Morgan Co., VA (now WV). In 1763, > the town of Hancock was in Frederick Co. MD but in 1776 became part of > Washington Co., MD. The land of Joseph Combs was adjacent to that of FAIRFAX, and he > was probably the same as the Sep 1767 "Mr. Combs" listed in George > WASHINGTON'S Accounts below. Also note that Thomas Bryan MARTIN was the s/o Frances, > sister of Lord FAIRFAX, replaced George William FAIRFAX as agent of the > Proprietorship. > > Some more names of families living at the Tonoloways: > Joseph COOMBE > John J HERROD (his mark)  > William JAMES > Thomas T YATES (his mark) > Lewis WILLIAMS > Elias STILWELL > John MESSER > Joan 2 NEWHOUSE (his mark) > Rees SHELBY > William O. LOFTON > Thomas HUSTON > Charles O WOODS (his mark) > Henry PEIRSON > George REES > William W M MORGAN (his mark) > John 4 LLOYED (his mark) > William LIN > Andrew COOMBS > John POOLK > Levi TM MOORE (his mark) > John GRAHAM IErnie In a message dated 11/25/2003 4:23:39 PM Central America Standard Ti, 71532.734@compuserve.com writes: > > Hi: > I spotted this while reading some private family research of a Christopher > & Nicholas Carpenter family of early WV - it was then VA - which involves > the names McClellan and Moran. The fact that the Hynds name is involved is > incidental to this family paper. > Do any of you have this Frederick Co MD Hynds family? Frederick Co. is > just across the border from Lancaster Co. PA. > It would be interesting to know if this marriage lasted. > > Regards > Nan > 71532.734@compuserve.com > ======================= > ( Note that this entry was put in the family research paper because of the > names McClellan and Moran. > > "1765 (November Court, Frederick Co): Robert McRea brought suit again Evan > Shelby. 272 > > "Dec 2, 1765: Evan Shelby issued a controversial writ for the taking in > custody of the daughter of Catherine Wheat, the daughter of Conrad Wheate, the > accusation being that this child was the bastard child of Catherine Wheat and > Thomas Hynes. The writ was served by the constable of Linton Hundred, > Barnett Johnson, who was accompanied by five men, including Edmund > Moran, James Dawson, Nathan Lynn, John Gerloh and Thomas Hynes. Considerable > violence ensued when Conrad Wheate refused to comply with Shelby's order. > The child was finally seized and taken to the house of Ralph Matson where > Shelby was then located. Shelby later required the two parents to be married, in > a crude fashion, under his auspices. 273 > > "(Note that for Linton Hundred, James Dawson was the constable in 1763, > Barnard Johnson in 1765 and John Gerlough in 1769, and William Hynes (the father > of Thomas Hynes and who was also mentioned in the complaint about Shelby > 274), was the the overseer of the road from "Great Town allaway to Fifteen Mile > Creek" for 1772. Ralph Matson, to whome house the child was > first taken, was likely the Ralph Matson who was appointed constable for > Linton Hundred in 1760, although his name was then crossed out of the court > minutes. 275. (Andrew Linn, Jr., presumably related to Nathan Lynn, was > constable for Old Town Hundred, to the west, in 1765. James Dawson was constable > for Wills Town, to the west, in 1773.) From trhe description of > this incident, and the people involved, together with the locations earlier > mentioned of the two tracts of Moran and McClellan, one can be virtually > certain that Edmund Moran (and probably William McClellan) was living either near > Fort Frederick west of the Conococheague or in Linton Hundred west of > present-day Hancock, MD, in 1765. 276 It would seem reasonable to assume that > McClellan had recruited most of his "Maryland volunteers" from Conococheague > and Linton Hundreds in 1764.) > > 272 Frederick County Court (Docket), 1765, op. cit., November Court, 1765, > "Judisicial Writs...," entry 3. > > 273 Archives of Maryland, op. cit., Vol. 32 (1912), pp. 131-34 and 155-57. > > 274 Ibid. p. 132 > > 275 Frederick County Court (Minutes), 1758-1762, November 1765, 1769 & > 1770-1772; MdHR C831-4 to C831--7, loc. 1/40/13/5 and 1/40/13/6, Hall of Records, > Marylandj State Archives, Annapolis, MD. > > 276 Unfortunately, there are no extant Frederick Co. Court Minutes for the > periods March 1763 to August 1765, and March 1766 to November 1768. > > >