Hi, All, I think genealogy is very much the study of clans as they form, move and reform , and so offer the following. Harrison Co., KY was the home of the RILEY/MARSH family after 1810 where it is likely they came in contact with the Larkin GARNETT branch. Several of the MARSH girls married ALLNUTs there and the clan moved to Owen Co., KY. The ALLNUTs married heavily into the DAWSON family in MD in the latter 1700's and some of those in Owen Co. are likely to be cousins. One of the ALLNUT girls married Charles COATS. The 1850 census, Owen Co., KY, finds COATS and "CATES" as neighbors of the ALLNUT families and Margaret (WRIGHT) MARSH. COATS, ALLNUT and DAWSON names are also found together in Co E, KY Mtd Inf roster posted earlier. The WRIGHT family connection is strong. William ALLNUT m. Mary RILEY 1778. She was the daughter of Ninian and Sarah (TAYLOR) RILEY, and sister of Ninian and Gerrard RILEY. 1783/4 the family left Maryland for Surry Co., NC. William ALLNUT's son, Jesse ALLNUT, m. Patsey WRIGHT in NC, daughter of John WRIGHT, who reportedly had 18 children. Margaret/Peggy WRIGHT m. Samuel T. MARSH in NC and migrated with Garrard and Ninian RILEY to Harrison Co., KY by 1810. Margaret (WRIGHT) MARSH 83 is on the 1850 census Owen Co. with her ALLNUT son-in-law. Margaret's son, Andrew MARSH 40, is also in Owen Co. on this census. William and Mary (RILEY) ALLNUT likely came to KY with the rest of the clan from NC around the same time. Information about the WRIGHT family and its connections to the above - MAJOR FRANCIS WRIGHT AND ANN WASHINGSON: WITH ALLIED FAMILIES, by Anne Reed Ritchie, 1973, FHL 4 fiche, #6048014 (RILEY family, also ARNOLD, BOWMAN, CARTER, COX, WASHINGTON) SUPPLEMENT -CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO MAJOR FRANCIS WRIGHT AND ANN WASHINGTON, WITH ALLIED FAMILES, BY Anne Reed Ritchie, 1979, FHL 2 fiche, #6048015 (RILEY family, also CARTER, GRAVES HARMON, LOCKARD, ROBERTS) SUPPLEMENT NO. 2 - CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO MAJOR FRANCIS WRIGHT AND ANN WASHINGTON, WITH ALLIED FAMILIES, by Anne Reed Ritchie, 1982, FHL 3 fiche, #6048016 (ALLNUT, MARSH, RILEY families, also JOHNSON, PORTER, SCRUGGS) Little of the above is my original research. See- MARYLANDERS TO CAROLINA, Peden, 1994 (RILEY family) MORE MARYLANDERS TO KENTUCKY, Peden, 1997 (ALLNUT family) KENTUCKY GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY, VOL VIII, from KENTUCKY: A HISTORY OF THE STATE, by Battle, Perin, Kniffin, Ed. Sam McDowell, 1981 (ALLNUT, WRIGHT) See also - 1850 census, Owen Co., KY Harrison Co., KY marriage, deed and tax records. Fred Westcott fredwes@planet.net