This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gillespie GILLESPIE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CiY.2ACEB/1345.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I would like to refrain from posting any history here as it is not verified and some may construe it as the Word of God. I will be happy to email my findings to anyone interested. I am thankful for the encouragement I have receieved from all and I am willing to help with what I can. I am not sure of the migration pattern (does anyone know how anyone got anywhere?) perhaps by the time I write my book ... "Ruts" (stagecoach wheels leave these) I will have that information. :) However it seems that William b1720 Northern Ireland had a son James b 1761 who lived in VA ... James had a son Mathew b1792 who ventured? into Kentucky ... and they told 2 friends and so on and so on .... I am still stuck on finding Charles W. with son Walter Dewey.