This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WOOD, ROGERS, SWOPE, WADE, COWAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oAB.2ACE/2462.1 Message Board Post: Hi Hank, I can't help you with your Thomas WOOD, but I'm from the ROGERS line and a few years ago someone sent me this info below. It might help you with other connections. After seeing this I was wanting to find out if the WOOD and SWOPE surnames is kin to my ROGERS line. Theresa ( see below ) * Book B p. 129 " Surveyed October the 15th 1828, for Hiram Rogers a_ William Wood, 50 acres of land in Cumberland County on the head drafts of Smith's Creek, by virtue of Kentucky Land office warrant NO. 18120. Beginning at two white oaks, a beech and dead polar, corner to George Swope, thence with his lane, N. 83o W. 33 poles to a beech and lynn, John Wade's corner; thence with his line N. 58o W. 40 poles to a beech, white oak and sugar tree; thence N. 20o E. 33 poles to two poplars and a black oak; thence N. 52o W. 40 poles to a black oak and white oak, thence N. 12o E. 20 poles to three dogwoods, thence N. 40o E. 40 poles to a black oak and white oak; thence S. 50o E. 55 poles to an ash; thence N. 70o E. 16 poles to a cedar and hickory above the head of a spring, thence S. 17o E. poles to a stake, thence S. 33o W. poles to the beginning. James Cowan C.C. Wm. Wood D.S.