This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carson, Sowder, Owens, Holman, Griffin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DiH.2ACEB/1719.1 Message Board Post: Gary, I am interested in your research. My ancestor is the David Carson (b. 1741?) of Abingdon, Washington Co., VA whose children migrated to Rockcastle County, Kentucky. (For an overview, go to www.theRadkes.com and click on Carson Family Reunion.) There are a number of Carson family researchers who believe that this David is the son of the Samuel Carson who left a will in 1752 in York County, Pennsylvania. ("Kentucky Pioneers & their Descendants" compiled by Ila Earle Fowler, York Co. PA Will Book A, page 216. This assumption is made in the "Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, Supplement." by McClung, page 143 and page 280) Other Carson researchers believe that the David Carson mentioned in the York County PA Will was the David Carson of Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania who married Susanna McBride, the daughter of Andrew McBride. I have not spent much time studying the Carsons in PA, but from time to time I run across something and save it. Please make you findings public. Jerry Radke Harrisburg, PA