I AM A 10TH GENERATION, DOWN FROM OUR JOHN CAMPBELL IN ESSEX TO CAROLINE COUNTY VIRGINIA & I HAVE A GREAT GREAT GRAND SON =ING 14 GENERATIONS; AS PER ALL OF OUR RECORDED CAMPBELL FMILY INFORMATION; THE THIRD MEMBER OF OUR CAMPBELL FAMILY. GEORGE CAMPBELL BORN 1720 IN THE AREA THAT BECAME CAROLINE COUNTY VIRGINIA IN 1727, TOOK UNTO HIM SELF A BRIDE/ AKA MATE, IN 1743 =ING 270 YEARS, KNOWN ONY AS; CATHERINE, OR CATTY? THAT IS AS IT IS. BUT SOMETHING INTERESTING JUST DEVELOPED. ONE MEMBER OF OUR CAMPBELL KIDS JUST DISCOVERED THAT ONE MEMBER OF HER FAMILY SHOWS UP WITH A PART OF A FAMILY & THERE IS NO KNOWN MARRIAGE RECORD <???> I DO NOT NOW HOW MANY OF THESE ,MY CAMPBEL COUSINS> HAVE ACESS TO THE FIRST EDITION OF TEAMHERST COUNTY HERITAGE BOOK? ON PAGE 226 THERE AN ARTICAL SUBMITED BY ELISE G. COLEMAN RESEARCHED BY CUZ CAROL HITE HARLOW . <THIS ARTICAL IS VERY WELL VERIFIED. MY REASON THAT IT COULD PROVE WORTH OUR/YOUR WHILE TO READ IS; THE INORMATION CONCERNING ,COMMON LAW MARRIAGE. THAT ARTICAL COULD VERY WELL SHED SOME LIGHT ON OUR ANCESTOR, CATHERINE, AKA CATTY UNK??? I WILL ALWAYS WONDER IF GRANNY CATTY, COULD HAVE BEEN NATIVE AMERICAN, OH YES I HAVE BEEN SHOT DOWN BEFORE, BUT COUSIN CAROL hITE HARLOW'S ARTICAL WITH WHAT THE OTHER COUSIN JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT A COMMON LAW MARRIAGE; OR SOME FAMILY FROM A GRAND FATHER WHO SHOWS NO MARRIAGE RECORD, INDICATEING A POSIABLE COMMON LAW MARRRIAGE. INDICATES THAT OUR ANCESTORS, GEORGE CAMPBELL 7 CATTY ARE PRIME CANADATES TO HAVE UNITED THROUGH A COMMON LAW MARRIAGE, WHICH DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ANY THING UNTOWARD. OR CAN SOME PRESS A BUTTON 7 PRODUCE THAT MARRIAGE RECORD GOR OLE GEORGE & CATTY, NO, AS I THOUGHT. SO COUSINS PLEASE LETS GIVE A COMMON LAW MARRIAGE SOME THOUGHT. TO THE POSIABILITY OF GRANNY CATTY HAVEING BEEN NATIVE AMERICAN???? THE ATTICAL IN THE FIRST AMHERST HERITAGE BOOK ON PAGE 226 RESEARCHED BY CUZ CAROL HITE HARLOW SHOULD BE READ BEFORE ONE BLOWS UP, PLEASE & THANKS CUZ AT _atpowelljr@aol>com_ (mailto:atpowelljr@aol>com)