RICHARD, I READ SOMEONE'S E-MAIL SAYING THAT YOUR CAPT JOHN AND JAMES COUCH (OF BUCKINGHAM CO, VA) WERE THE SONS OF A JOHN COUCH. SINCE YOU AND I ARE DNA MATCHES I HAVE BEEN WONDERING HOW MY ANCESTORS (HYPOHESIZED) THOMAS AND ELIZABETH COUCH OF BRUNSWICK CO, VA (NOW LUNENBURG) MIGHT RELATE TO YOUR LINE. I HAVE FOUND A JOHN COUCH IN ST ANDRES PARISH, VA WHO BOUGHT 150 ACRES OF LAND FROM THOMAS COUCH AND THOMAS COUCH JR IN AUGUST OF 1836. I AM NOT SURE THAT ST ANDREWS INCLUDED WHAT IS NOW LUNENBURG CO, VA BUT THOMAS SR AND JR WERE IN LUNENBURG AND THOMAS AND ELIZABETH HAD A LAND GRANT THERE IN BRUNSWICK CO, VA IN 1720 PRIO� TO THEIR MOVE TO ORANGE CO, NC. HOW CAN WE TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS THAT CAPT JOHN COUCH (OF ST ANDREWS PARISH, VA) WAS THE FATHER OF YOUR JOHN AND JAMES? THE DATES SEEM TO FIT FOR MY THOMAS COUCH JR OF LUNENBURG WAS B THERE CA 1710-1720. IT COULD FIT. SOMETIME AGO I READ AN ACCOUNT SAYING THAT CAPTAIN JOHN WAS FATHER OF YOUR CAPT JOHN AND JAMES. PERHAPS IT WAS THE SAME SOURCE BUT I HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE. IF THIS IS CORRECT THEN THIS CAPT JOHN WAS PERHAPS THE FATHER OF YOUR JOHN AND JAMES OF BUCKINGHAM THEN HE MAY HAVE BEEN A BROTHER OF THE THOMAS COUCH THAT SOLD HIM LAND IN WHAT IS NOW LUNENBURG CO, VA. IN 1736. WHAT DO YOU THINK? COUSIN ROBERT H. COUCH P. S. IN AUGUST I VISITED LUNENBURG, VA AND SAW COUCHES CREEK WEST OF THERE WHERE THOMAS COUCH'S 500+ LAND GRANT WAS SUPPOSEDLY LOCATED IN 1720. ---------- >From: RCouch1148@aol.com >To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [COUCH] Elihugh K. Couch >Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 5:54 AM > >Joyce, > The best information I have about Jeremiah's siblings comes from Ellen >McKown's (emcht@oeadvantage.net) records. Her's and cousin Bev Blum's >research says that Jeremiah's father was John (born 1748)of Buckingham >County whose >wife was Rebecca. Their children were: B. G.; Thomsa & William (1770), >Fefrie (1775), Jeremiah (1776); Marton (abt 1780); David (abt 1782); Lewis (abt >1783); Nicholas (abt 1784); Marchant (abt 1785); and James (abt 1795). > cousin Richard of Tulsa > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >