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