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    1. [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Agnes McCord - baptized in Augusta Co., VA
    2. EVELYN WALLACE
    3. While advising someone on Harris-Hunters about the volumes by Lyman Chalkley about the Scotch-Irish in Augusta Co.,VA which book has been digitized, I got curious about other books about Augusta Co. listed by Dr. George K. Schweitzer, former lecturer and author of many genealogical how-to books.  (His books are inexpensive -- and packable.  I have worn out my older Virginia book and had to buy a new one.  The old one goes on trips with me.  Google for his name.  He is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.  He is a retired professor in science [I forget which one]. As my large city library has the digitized database called HeritageQuest, I did some searching for Augusta Co., VA  which was/is not too distant from Albemarle Co.,VA where one Agnes McCord became the second wife of Christopher Harris of Madison Co., KY and mother of many of his children. Well, HeritageQuest has a number of books on Augusta Co., and one caught my interest.  More later. What should I find but the baptism of Agnes McCord, whose father was John McCord.  (Wondered who her father was, as she had a number of brothers, but I could not sort them out!!!) Now I have to do some research on the minister--John Craig.  By the way, Staunton, VA holds the Woodrow Wilson museum--complete with one of his limosouines [sp?  I don't have one myself]. Here is one of the books about Augusta Co. on HeritageQuest.  Check to see if your State library has a subscription to HeritageQuest. If you know about the minister John Craig in colonial Augusta Co., drop me a line.  Help is always appreciated.  I believe there were a fair number of Presbyterians in that area--coming down from Pennsylvania. E.W.Wallace Craig, John,  List of baptisms by Rev. John Craig, Augusta County, Virginia, 1740-1749 Staunton, Va.: L.B. Hatke, 1930, 39 pgs.

    09/16/2012 06:18:30