This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBB.2ACI/3023.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Ken, We've spoken before about my McDowell mystery - this is also part of that puzzle. When I looked at the 1797 and 98 taxes I found a Joseph Wells Sr and Jos Wells Jr along the North Fork of the Licking River in Bracken Co, along with my John McDowell. I suspect one of these is the one who married Frances Berry. I have a McDowell who m. Benj'n Berry's daughter, Elizabeth. Like a big jumble of tangled paperclips, pulling them apart one at a time!