My friends - I want to pass along the URL to a Library of Congress site, which contains images of the "Ten Thousand Name" Petition. There are some 10,000 signatures on this Petition, which was an early Virginia religious petition(1776) aimed at gaining religious freedom and removing an established church doctrine imposed by the English. People came from all over the Commonwealth of Virginia to sign this Petition. To locate this particular item, click "Search by Date" and use the date of October 16, 1776. The URL is: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/repehtml/repehome.html There are some 250 digital images for this particular item(and there are other petitions available on this site as well. Although it required a fair amount of visual searching, I found my Utterback gggggg-gf's signature within this Petition. It is the only known example of his signature. While this is not directly related to the JP region, it has an indirect connection, since many of our JP families originated in Virginia. -B =========================================================================