This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dowell, McCoy, Payne ETC! Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AST.2ACEB/424 Message Board Post: Taken from Chronicles of The Scotch - Irish Settlement of VA. Volume II ---- Carroll County, VA Major Dowell, Jr vs Major Dowell, Sr -- O.S. 232; N.S. 82 -- Major Dowell, Sr., was employed as a blacksmith at the Barricks, near Charlottesville, in Revolution. Orator was son of John Dowell. Nancy Salmon, cousin of Major, Jr., and daughter of Thomas Dowell and sister of Major, Sr. Nancy's mother was Avey Dowell. I found these notes that I had written down and thought that I would post it to this board. This appears to have come from a newspaper in North Carolina, maybe it will help some one who is researching Major Dowell. Cricket