This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bratton-Wood-Miller-Mitchell-Hitt-Askin-Jett-Browning-Holtzclaw-Douglas Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdF.2ACEB/349.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you to the person who said they'd go check out the book at Robertson County Public Library. Here is an interesting response I received via e-mail for this thread: "Hello, > > Some of the information is correct, some is not. Robert Bratton came from >County Antrim, Ireland to Virginia with three brothers in about 1733. >Robert and his brothers were the sons of Andrew Bratton and Grandsons of >John Bratton. The research I've seen has the Bratton's as Scotch-Irish >originating from England. Capt. Robert Bratton settled in Augusta County, >Virginia, where he lived out his life. The McFarland line he married into >in Augusta County has also been fairly well documented. Two of Roberts >brothers, Samuel and James, moved to Ohio and Pennsylvania. William >Bratton was not killed in the French and Indian War. He was a sergeant and >later moved to South Carolina to found Brattonsville. William's son became >and revolutionary war colonel. One of William's descendents was >Confederate Brigadier General John Bratton, M.D., who was well know in South >Carolina during and after the Civil War. Mel Gibson used the houses of >Colonel Bratton and General Bratton when filming Patriot near Brattonsville. >Robert Bratton's grandson, William Bratton, was on William and Clarke's >Expedition and served in the War of 1812. He later settled in Indiana. I >have been able to find approximately 300 direct descendents of these Bratton >brothers that fought in the Civil War for both the north and south. I'm a >direct descendent of Capt. Robert Bratton. My line migrated from Virginia >through Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and finally to Barber County, Kansas. >It was near Kiowa that my Father, William Henry Fulghum, met my Mother, >Georgia May Bratton." >