Dick: Thanks for responding! Joseph SKIDMORE (b. 1761) and wife Hannah McKINNEY were my gggg-grandparents. Their daughter Polly SKIDMORE (b. abt. 1793) married Samuel McANINCH 1813 in Lincoln Co., KY. I am descended from Daniel H. McANINCH, son of Polly and Samuel. I really have very little on Joseph SKIDMORE. He and Hannah married in Lincoln Co., KY in 1791. Joseph's will was probated in Lincoln Co. in Feb. 1847. I really don't have enough info to tell whether Joseph and your James were related. Since Joseph is shown as living in Botetourt Co., VA at time of 1776 enlistment in the Virginia Line, there certainly is a good possibility he and James were related--But how? Their birth dates would suggest the two could have been brothers or cousins. What do you think? Lillian in IL