While browsing through Richmond Co., GA (Augusta) records looking for Allen Cain Gentry and father in law, Peter Youngblood, I found a book . . "Personal Name Index to the Augusta Chronicle" Vol. 1, 1786-1799 by Alice O. Walker 1987 [LDS library 975.854 B32w v.1] This newspaper covered a very wide area. This book is an index of all the names in these newspapers which were filmed by the LDS church. I found Elisha, Elijah, John, James, Simon and Isaac Gentry were in the published list of Tax defaulters as I worked my way through the film. This old newspaper difficult to read. Sample . . >Saturday, Oct 9, 1790 - pg. 4, col.1-3 A Return of Defaulters in Wilkes Co. for 1790 Capt. Smith's Dist. . . . Elijah Gentry >Saturday, Oct 1, 1791 pg. 3, col. 1 A Lift of Defaulters in Col. Donley's Battalion -Wilkes County Capt. Zimmerman's Co. . . . Elijah Gentry, Capt. McKinney's Co. . . .John Gentry >Saturday, Oct. 22, 1796 - pg. 3, col 3 Tax Defaulters for Jackson Co., GA Capt. Sparks Co. Dist.#1 . . . Elisha Jentry >Saturday, Mar 24, 1797 pg. 2, col 3 ditto - Elisha Gentry Also . . . Elijah, Elisha and John and Simon and Allen Cain Gentry - sons of David Gentry and Sarah Brooks who began moving out of Edgefield Co., SC into GA. before 1790 "Jackson Co.,GA Superior Court Records" 1796-1803 by Teresa Wilson Dunn and Vivian Phillips Walls. Elijah, Wm. and Cain Gentry were on the 1796-1802 Petit Jurors list for Jackson.Co., GA. Then on pg. 138 "State vs Cain Gentry - Ind't Assault - recognizance cont'd." In 19 Oct 1791, Cain Gentry and John Gentry entered into an agreement with one John Mann and bound themselves for 16,000 lbs of Crop Tobacco, 8,000 of which was due by 1793. Apparently the debt was never paid because this lawsuit appears in 1801 brought by the widow, saying that Cain had been served notice, but that John Gentry could not be found. Cane Gentry is on the 1790 census for Edgefield Co., SC with 4 males over 16 and 2 males under 16 and 7 females leading to the theory that he had 11 children. Yet there is also a Jonathan Gentry on that census with 1 male ov 16 and 2 females, one of which was probably a dau. I think he was also a son of Cane Gentry. Another thought is that one or more of the males over 16 in Cane's household is married and living at home. The 1800 census of Edgefield Co., SC shows Cane Jintry over 45 with 3 sons living at home possibly married. So if Allen Cain Gentry was in Georgia, he returned to SC - or is there more than one man by this name? Did he name a son Allen Cain also who is the man who appears in Jackson Co.,GA records with a brother John? It seems unlikely that a man b. 1740 who would be 50 years old by 1790 would bind himself out for a crop of tobacco or be charged for assault. I didn't find Allen Cain in the 1810 census, but there was an Allen Gentry on the 1811 Tax list in Edgefield Co., SC. By 1820 I see Cane Gentry in Pendleton Co.,SC over 45 and looks like he has a married son or dau at home. Other children in Pendleton Co. - Bartly, Matthew and John. Allen Cain Gentry supposed to have died in 1820, no will has been found. Pamela Geisler Smith Gresham, OR