This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vertrees, Burris, Haycraft, VanMeter, Kennedy, Stith, Feild, Bradbury, Stewart, Hertel, Schwab Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iBH.2ACIB/958 Message Board Post: A number of us are stuck on Rebecca Burris who married Capt. John Vertrees, in Berkley County, VA before 1766. She died, leaving him with a number of children, and he remarried twice more. Capt. Vertrees was born in Holland, but came to the colonies long before the Revolution and settled in Virginia, before he became involved with Jacob VanMeter and others during the Revolutionary War. These men were given land grants by the Commonwealth of Virgina to land in what is present day Hardin County, KY. Capt. Vertrees and Rebecca established the small town of Vertrees, KY, near Elizabethtown. This is all any of us seem to know about Rebecca Burris. Any help out here? Donna Vertrees Nichols