No, I understood you meant Orleans was a town. It is, in fact, a nice small town. Is the Clayton reunion in Clayton? If I were you I would look at some land entries for the gents you mention. While some give the county of current residence, the one where they are purchasing land, as their residence, others will state the place where they came from. That should clear up the WHICH Washington Co for you. And that information is available at the Indiana State Archives. You really need the physical description of the land (section, township, range) or the date of purchase to facilitate finding in the microfilm. It took an employee two minutes to find one for me on Monday. This was crucial to proving location and probable occupants of a Pioneer cemetery in Montgomery Co. The stones are completely beneath the ground now. But that's another story. Did you know that quite a few who migrated to Orange Co were from NC? A Quaker group came that settled part of Lawrence Co and some of Orange Co. You would be fortunate to find yourself researching Quakers. Sharon At 09:27 PM 12/16/1999 EST, you wrote: >George and Sharon > >My apologies if I implied Orleans was a County. My father-in-law was born >there and I and my wife have been there many times. Claytons have lived in >Orleans about 130 years. We have at least one cousin still there. > >By the way we have a Clayton reunion once a year outside of Indianapolis on >Labor Day. Small but fun. > >There is a William Clayton in the 1850 Census of Lawerence Co. He is either >in his 60's or 70's. It is not readable. I have misplaced my copy of the >extracted census. We cleaned up for Christmas. When I find it i will let you >know more about him and his family. What I remember is that he had some >children of young age and there was a great discrepency of ages. > >In a article on the settlement of the Northeast Township which is now in >Orange County.Prior to 1813 the land entries were made in this township as >follows (not giving all the data but available) Joseph Maxwell, Jan 16 1811, >Joshua Carter, Jan 29,1811, David Findley, Dec 19 1811, Frederick Phillips, >Jan 3 1811, Uriah Glover Feb 8 1812, Jacob Marty, William Reed, David >McKinney in 1814, John Glover, Stephen Glover, 1815 David Reed, Romas >Phillips, Samual G. Gallovway 1816, Martin Cutainger in 1817, Joh Gray, Jonah >Combs, William Kidd, Joseph Pound, Alenander McKinnery, J. Neidiffrer, John >Lee, 1818, James Clayton, Cady Lee, samual Hutcheson, Hugh Mcphuteers, John >White, J. Ellison, Jacob Miller and John Alanthy in 1819. > >The article indicates that most came from Washington Co. Regretably it does >not indicate which state. Next time I am at Fort Wayne I will copy more of >the book. I choose to believe that the article means Washington Co, Pa which >is a county that spun off of Westmoreland Co Pa. > >Redstone was subsumed I believe by Brownsville on the Mongolla River which >feeds into the Ohio. There is a Redstone Twnship on Hwy 40 but it is not the >original. There is a Redstone Creek or River that feeds into the Mongolla >River. Sorry the spellings are probably not accurate. I visited this area >this summer. > >Brock > > >