Dear Dereck: Athanacius was my 6th great grandfather - I am descended from his son Thomas as follows: John Barnett b abt 1712 VA m. Ann(?) Athanacius b 1749 Louisa, VA m. Jane Hutchins Thomas b 1772 Goochland, VA m2 Theodate Vernon William b 1804 Deep Creek, NC m Julianna Ballard Elwood D. b. 1849 Crawfordsville, IN m. Sadie Francis Bunch Bruce Elwood b. 1886 Earlham, IA m. Florence Celine Wright Paul Wright b. 1910 Linden, IA m. Alice May Mendenhall Harlan Paul b. 1936 Earlham, IA m. Marilyn Ruth Barnes Kerry Lan b. 1957 Salem, OR m. James Kent Martin I will warn you - you will find many John Barnett's in VA at this time! >From what I have been able to ferret out, our John Barnett is NOT the John Barnett from Ireland who married Janette Powers. I also do not think he is the son of John Barnett and Katherine Farrar - though that is still a possibility in my mind. . . I trying to work that one out through land deeds and wills. The earlier solid record of John Barnett who is the father of Athanacius is from the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting records of the Quakers. (see Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Meetings) Another excellent source for this line is from the book, "Descendents of Strangeman Hutchins" - Jane Hutchins is a daughter and John's second wife Elizabeth is also a daughter of Strangeman. A cousin (2nd or 3rd) has posted much of the descendents of John Barnett on the web at: <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/h/Sheryl-J-Mahnke/index.html>. Sheri has done a nice job compiling some information passed down to her by her grandmother and other sources. There are some great documents on the BARNETT list archives - some old Barnett wills/deeds etc which have helped me start to sort some of this out. Janelle ([email protected]) who responded to your query has contributed a lot of old documents!! Others on that list are researching this line and trying to sort it out from the many John Barnetts in that area. I was able to do some research last summer in VA and actually found a document written by Athanacius Barnett, Sr. in 1780! I have a picture of it and want to but together a web page where I can post it. It was nice to actually see and hold something that he wrote! Let me know if you would like more information. Kerry At 04:51 PM 1/22/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Looking for any information on the parents and/or siblings of Athanacius >BARNETT. He was born 15 July 1749 in Henrico Co., Virginia and died >1808 in Indiana. He was married to a Jane HUTCHINS (1748-1833). > >Thanks in advance. > >Dereck Dietz >[email protected] > Kerry Barnett Martin Paternal Surnames: (actively working on some of these lines) Barnett, Mendenhall, Wright, Hoskins, Bunch, Wright 2, Blackledge, Hibbs, Ballard, Barnett 2, Wrightsman, Reynolds, Davis, Green, Vernon, Reynard, Burcham, Ruddick, Brock, Hutchins, Cox, Beeson, Watkins, Pierson, Grubb, Byron, Maris, Elam, Trent, Sherman, Pride, Hutchins 2, Stover, Boone. Maternal Surnames: (an uncle has researched these) Barnes, Mesner, Goff, Emry, Vincent, Norris, Shafer, Talbert, Lambert, Vincent, Wisby, Howell, Lime, Feeman, Adcock, Frazier, Talbert, Hart, Marietta, Woodward, Luzadder, Welsh, Howell, Gilmore, Mosser, Wuest, Moorman, Stanley, Bull, Beard, Buffington, Echardt, Lesh, Ballard, Talbot, Macy, Low, Reister, Kopf, Crew, Ball, Starbuck, Reister, Loesch, Gering, Gibbons, Gardner, Gayer, Latheimer, Candler, Hopcott, Shattuck, Coffin, Frier, Reynolds, Stevens, Thember.