This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Busbey/Shinn/Deal/Cole/Shivers/Sherrod/Bagwell/Hughes Owen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SEH.2ACIB/1145.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Tracy and Paula, I am trying to prove a connection of my John Hamilton Busbey to the following John:Busby and Margaret Patterson, ,THE WILL OF JOHN BUSBY, HAMPSHIRE CO., VA Hampshire Co., VA Will Book 5, 1809-1815, p. 178 - 180 Transcribed by Patsy Skeels 10/11/00, names the following children: Elizabeth, Matthew, Samuel, John, Benjamin and Hamilton? Source: //homepages.rootsweb.com/~busby/bio13.htm II need hjelp? Edwina Also, I refer Tracy to LDS Ancestral File Samuel Busbey married Esther Shinn Dec. 9,1813 in Hampshire, VA. And died in 1816. Another LDS Ancestral File says he died about 1816 in Harrison, VA. On Page 517 of Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934 Frederick County, Virginia, there is an Esther Busbey (formerlyShinn) who was disowned on 9/12/1813 for having married contrary to discipline. Also, Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of America Quaker Genealogy, Vol.VI Page 374