This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CURTIS, HOLLINGSWORTH, HARLAN, DEMOSS, MAST, SHEETS, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TmQ.2ACIB/2005.1 Message Board Post: Dear Cheryl, I have researched this family quite a bit. I will be publishing a synopsis of my findings and theory in "The Curtis Chronicles" newsletter in December. I believe we have very good reason to believe that old Jonathan Curtis was one and the same as the one from Burlington County, NJ. I have no direct proof yet but do have a good circumstantial case. Jonathan was born 1675, gave a deposition in Cecil County, MD in 1719 and migrated down through Maryland to settle in Berkeley County, WV. I know that descendants through your James went west to OH but many of his descendants through Samuel Curtis (either a son or grandson) went to the Yadkin River area of western NC. I have a lot of information on the NC branch. According to one researcher old Jonathan Curtis was married to Mary Throckmorton. I have reason to believe he was in the Harford County, MD (Deer Creek just across the Susquehanna River from Cecil County) after leaving Cecil County. He may also have been in the Pipes Creek Settlement area of Maryland a little further west. Pipes Creek is a tributary of the Monocacy River now in Frederick County, MD and many of the families who settled in Frederick County, VA/Berkeley County, WV were there before moving into VA. I need to get to Maryland to do further research. Ruth