This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhU.2ACEB/3184.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Since my line of Elliott's have been in Dorchester Co., Maryland since the late 1600's, I don't think that this would be the origin of the Elliott family in America. Check out the book "Elliott's Island, A Land That Time Forgot" by Freddie T. Waller. There is a lot of info on the early Elliott's. From another researcher I recently heard that her branch went from the Baltimore area to PA to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh and surrounding areas, and are still in Westmoreland Co., PA.