>At 01:27 PM 10/22/98 -0400, you wrote: >>One last request and I'll quit for awhile. Does someone have the Family Tree >>Maker CD185? It lists a family history from some Francis Downing. Is he the >>same Francis Downing of Harford County, MD? He would have arrived in Fayette >>Co., KY in the late 1780's. Sue Hodnett > >Hello Sue, >I saw your message in the DOWNING list and I just happen to have CD 185. >Yes, your Francis is the same one who came from MD to Fayette Co. I have >copied 10 pages from the CD, hard copy. I can't seem to get it to give me >a text file. If you will send me your address I will send it to you snail >mail. >Robb Russon >Providence, Utah, USA >robborob@mtwest.net > > >==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== > > More Maryland sources from Sherry who does not have them in her library :0 ... Index to the Probate Records of Prince Georges Co MD 1696-1900 Elizabeth Downing 1840 James Downing 1750 executor Ann Downing James Downing 1748 Joseph Downing 1798 Thomas Downing 1748 executor Ann Downing. Index to the Probate Records of Prince Georges CO MD 1696-1900 by name of the executor: Ann Downing; Ann Downing; Nicholas Downing three times. Maryland Archives Vol XV111 film #M2730, Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland during the War of the American Revolution, 1773-1783, page 43: Enrolled by Capt Benjamin Spyker, Reviewed and passed by Will. Deakins, Jr. Frederick Co July 29th, 1776, list of men including Francis Downing #24. This is Francis Woodward Downing, son of Joseph and Jemima Woodward Downing, Francis Woodward Downing was of Monongalia Co WV, Madison Co OH and Jasper Co IN. This family includes Simeon Downing who married as his 2nd wife Rachel Foster in Madison County OH 7 November 1824, Rachel dau of Rev. Lewis Foster and Nancy Ann Davis Foster, was sister to Elizabeth who married Francis W. Downing 1804 Ross Co OH.This family was published ... The History and Ancestry of Rev. John Foster, 1735-1800 and his Family, His Life, His Ancestry....by Wayne E. Dawson, 1984 and is LDS micro 1035761 item 7...Downing and Foster, according to my notes. The History of Madison County OH , Jefferson Township, page 628 also about this family of Foster-Downing. I believe Simeon Downing died 1836 in Jefferson Township. There is some thought he married Rachel Highland, and that two of his children were F.L. and Stephen F. Stephen went to Lancaster Co NE by 1872.