In a message dated 9/23/00 6:28:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, NBActon@aol.com writes: << Subj: [GASCREVE] SC NOTE: Brunson..Brinson Date: 9/23/00 6:28:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: NBActon@aol.com Reply-to: GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com To: GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com Are the spellings different but the family the same? Are these two different families? I am researching Brunsons from St. George Parish (Screven Co.) and would like to know if the spelling of the surname is the only difference. My line is John and Mary Brunson who came from SC to GA in the 1780s. They were land owners in St. George Parish which I believe is now part of Screven, Burke, Bulloch, and Effingham Co. Also, these Brunsons were linked to Washington Co. also. If anyone knows about these families and if they are or if they are not kin....please let me know. Thanks. Nora >> Nora - I have been asked this before, and can find no connections between the BRUNSON and BRINSON families. The BRINSONS were in VA (Pr Anne Co, and then in Onslow Co) quite early, by early 1600's, and many came down to GA from Onslow Co, NC not long after the Revolutionary War. I know that some of the BRUNSON ancestors were in Orange Co SC by 1750. I have not done much on the BRUNSON family as they are not part of my husband's ancestry, just married into a few lines, but my husband is a direct descendant of the BRINSON family of Jefferson Co, and Johnson Co, GA as well as the BRYAN family of old Barnwell Dist, SC and Screven Co, GA. Judy Canant