This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harrison, Barclay, Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QBB.2ACI/1634.1637.2405.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Pat, I can't seem to get through to you, even though this time I pasted the e-mail you gave me. Strange. Anyway, I'll just paste the e-mail correspondence that you missed below: Pat, I'll try e-mailing you again, pasting the previous (failed) message here, and hope I just typed your address wrong last time. I've since heard from Judy Lyne in response to the below message. I'll put her response at the bottom of the other message. (Hope I'm being clear.) Written 6/6/05: Judy, thanks for giving me an address where I can e-mail you as the representative of the Logan Co. KY Genealogical Society. It's hard to read those e-mail addresses as they appear on RootsWeb. I've attempted to do so for Pat Cooper, who I'm copying in because she's expressed interest in our correspondence on Peyton Randolph Harrison and Elizabeth Mease Barclay. And of course Christine Czarnecki is being copied in because she's already helped me a lot, and I understand she's writing to you, Judy, or to the Logan Co. KY GS. I've heard the LCGS has a lot on the Harrisons and Barclays. I feel like kind of a parasite here, in that I'm not contributing to your knowledge of the captioned. Some of us descendants of George & Ann Harrison of Madison Co. VA have seen our ancestor's 1822 Madison Co. VA will, and we've seen Jabez Harrison mentioned in it as a son, and we've seen a photocopied document showing that Jabez later signed off on his inheritance to his brother George Jr. & stated that he was the son of George and his mother was Ann Harrison. We further thought we'd found Jabez's marriage, which was to an Elizabeth Taylor 2/8/1820 in Orange Co VA. We had evidence that Jabez was in the Madison Co. VA area 1820-1821. Then, alas, another researcher claimed Jabez was the son of Peyton Randolph Harrison and Betty Barclay, and they had an obit for Jabez from an IN newspaper to back up this claim. It wasn't until recently that we noticed that the researchers who had claimed Jabez for Peyton didn't have a full list of children, usually had only Jabez (one also had Robert), and the obit was the only documentation they had for Jabez being the son of Peyton. The people who'd researched for a more complete list of children and whose research seemed to have more depth were not listing Jabez among the children. So I wondered about Peyton's will, and Christine told me that Jabez wasn't mentioned in the will, that only two surviving children were mentioned. I thought, if those were the only children surviving at the time of the will, and since Jabez was still alive, it would be significant if he weren't mentioned as a surviving child too. So the question I thought I should ask at this point is whether any other children were still alive. Do you have the dates of death of any of the children on the list? Christine has access to a marvelous group of letters, which she'll probably tell you about. She may discover all sorts of things there. Pat Cooper says she has lots of information that she'll be glad to share. What I'm interested in, again, is anything else that will help me show that Jabez was not a child of Peyton and Betty Barclay Harrison. I'm becoming convinced that he wasn't but don't want to pass up anything more firm. I appreciate all the help I've already gotten from you. Judy responded on 6/7/05: I think that you will find that Christine Czarnecki and Pat Cooper have far more on this line than we have -- that they both have corresponded with me in years past and have years of "thinking about" this line while mine is just a "passing through" study. I'll be glad to look through the research here while at Archives today but I've never hear the Jabez name mentioned in connection with this line. Will look however. Hope to hear from you, Pat, and will be glad to get any clues. Thanks for writing. Elinore