Hi Bob, While you're looking at the Franklin Co. area, please let me know if you run across any on my Ambrose Hodge/s. 1759 Halifax Co., Va Pleas Bk. 2, Part 2, P. 360 (Wm. file) Ambrose Hodges assigned to road work with Edmund, Welcom, and James Hodges Circa 1765, Ambrose md. Elizabeth Barton d/o Joshua Barton. No record of marriage has been found but it was recorded in Isaac Barton's Bible. 1769 Land Entry in Pittsylvania Co., Va. Hodges, Ambrous (sic) Page 458 in Index to Pittsylvania Co. Land Entries 1737-1770 "Ambrous Hodges 400A on Pigg River beginning on Joshua Bartons line then down the river on both sides ( Brunswick Entry rec. Bk 1-458) 8/25/1769" [ This land is located in the Blackwater District, about 3 miles west of Rocky Mount, Va., on Route 756 and south of Route 640. The intersection is called 6 Mile Post.] Ken in Orlando At 07:26 PM 06/05/1999 -0400, you wrote: >I found my first clues to the connections that I am exploring here in the >old Entry Record Book for Lunenburg and Halifax Counties, Virginia. It has >been republished by Marina Dodson Chiarito and is an invaluable source on >this area.