Bill Davenport, Last PM at 1:00AM and this morning at 6:30AM I received a message from Leslie Bridges-L suggesting I write to you. I am not trying to beat a tired horse because I think you have probably received what I wrote yesterday about S C Jones and the Cameron Street Home Place...... HOLD ON Before you delete I have something new to say. There is a 5 1/2 foot tall monument in the Patrick Hamrick Cemetery in Manassas, Virginia on the Patrick Hamrick Home Place dedicated to him as the emigrant founder of the Hamrick family which you were probably not aware. On the Front it says: PATRICK HAMRICK c 1684 - 1764 MARGARET INGLES c 1689 ---- Lived at Clover Hill Farm 1740 - 1764 300 years after he arrived in Virginia this Memorial is Dedicated by the eighth and Ninth Generation Descendants in grateful rememberance and cellebration of their lives 30 September 1999 (on the reverse it has) CHILDREN PATRICK c 1715-1794 JAMES c 1717 - 1778 ROBERT c 1718 - 1757 DAU c 1721 --- Married James Bridges DAU c 1723 --- BENJAMIN c 1727 - 1793 JOHN c 1730 - 1757 JOSEPH c 1731 - 1792 Using the argument that whoever has the largest monument must be correct How large is the toombstone of Price Hamrick? (kidding of course) I have a copy of the publication of I presume the Cameron Hamrick Annual Reunion Committee entitled FOUNDING IN AMERICA with a picture of the Home Place and other data. It has the text and picture on Cameron Hamrick and his wife's tombstone and says it has on the back the names and birth and death dates of his sons but did not give what was on Price Hamrick's or how large his headstone was. (How does it compare with the above?) James above was the father of Samuel and Robert was the father of Mary his wife. Price was the son of Jeremiah, son of James. Why is it the German Hamricks in North Carolina will not consider the facts?? On page 14 S C Jones saya Nathaniel Hamrick and Enoch Hamrick were brothers of Price Hamrick. On 17 November 1812, State of North Carolins, Abednego Adams, Anna Adams, and Isaac Hamrick testified that Nathan Hamrick was a brother of David and Uriah Hamrick and Nathan was a son of Jeremiah of Prince William County, Virginia, It would appear that S C Jones would agree that Price was the son of Jeremiah. Other data shows Jeremiah son of James. The HAMRICK GENERATIONS publication of the BROAD RIVER GENEALOGY SOCIETY by Virginia DePriest strongly suggests that Patrick Amniner (Hamrick) is the Hamrick ancestor and that the first two generations of S C Jones are incorrect and yet no North Carolina Hamricks will even discuss it. I will appreciate any answers. J R