This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas, Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qk.2ADI/2030.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I have a copy of a map showing John Thomas' land in Clinton County, Iowa. However, I have not been able to find out how he came by that land. John arrived in Clinton Co., with his father in-law, George Turner. The "History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen written in 1879 indicates how George Turner acquired land but nothing about how John did. Turner may have given the land to John and his daughter but I have not been able to find such a record.