Just back from a wintry visit to Brown County. I had no idea that it is such "mountainous" terrain, as they say. I did make some progress through land records and things, even with the library and historical society in the middle of moving their collections to new space. Looks like the new library in Nashville, just north of the county offices building, will be very nice! It took me awhile to figure out that "Township 10" in land records did not quite mean the same as Hamblen Township, so I went back a second day to locate ancestral lands to the north and northeast of Bean Blossom. A little more chance of farming there than in the extreme NE part of the county? At any rate, a summary of my updated SHANNON information can be viewed on the query page at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/In/Brown/891 Other surnames mentioned in this query are: Prosser, Gray, Bass, Caughron, Hoagland, Rawlings, Wilson and Duhamel. Happy New Year! David