This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/REX.2ACIB/1946.1960.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I checked my books and failed to find Barnabus Ford mentioned in any of them. I did find Jacob Ford and his family in the "History of Bedford County, Somerset and Fulton County". You can buy this book from the Fulton County Historical Society for about half the price that other societies want. It is a useful book. It states that he was an early settler and was born in Germany. I guess this will require research. I am currently working on the Feight family. I have to go to Baton Rouge in about a month and will check their genealogy library when I go. If I come across anything useful I will let you know.