This is SO interesting Gwen. I agree with you on your initial thoughts on this line. I had no idea this DNA project could be so useful--I'm impressed with all the surprising results there have been lately. Susan --- Original Message --- From: "Gwen Boyer Bjorkman" <gwenbj@seanet.com> To: JAMES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [JAMES-L] RE: New DNA Test Results- Bucks co PA >Hi Lucy: Thank you so much for sending these articles. This will take a lot of study and first off >we must get that 25 marker test ordered so that we can confirm the match of Charles Wesley James >with our group descended from Joseph Rogers James. What I am thinking right now is that we are >going to have a match with Charles Wesley but that we are not descended from the Bucks Co, PA line >of . We found two big coincidences yesterday. Our Joseph J. James m. Elizabeth Ballard 1793 there >in Burke Co, NC, although the marriage was recorded in Bedford Co, VA by the traveling Methodist >minister. Charles Wesley has his Thomas James of Rowan Co NC who m. Amillia Ballard. > >I was reading David Alsup's website and I see that Riley James was born 21 MAY 1816 in Clay Co, KY >and our Joseph J. James m.2nd Luzima Williamson ca 1813 in Clay Co, KY. His dau Nancy was b. there >in 1814 and his son John was b. there in 1818. So Charles Wesley's Thomas James and our Joseph J. >James were both in Clay Co, KY at the same time!! By 1819 our Joseph James had gone north to Preble >Co, OH and it looks like Thomas James had gone south to Alabama. David Alsup says: > >1815 Moved to Kentucky. >1816 KY -First child, Riley James, born. >Note: Thomas James went from NC all the way to Central KY, probably late 1815. >A very large migration the family of Benjamin James took almost exactly the same route at the same >time > >Gwen Boyer Bjorkman >gwenbj@seanet.com