Hi, All, Was this LEMMONS actually a LEVENS, transcribed incorrectly, misheard, or perhaps a name from a faulty memory ? I would welcome any comments or information that would support one side or the other. In researching LEMMON(S) and MARSH in north central Kentucky I have run into several references to the marriage of Patience LEMMONS to William MARSH. In Bourbon County, KY Wills, Bk A, p. 169, dated 24 Dec. 1793, is the will of Ann LEVENS. She names a daughter, Patience MASH (a var. of MARSH). William and Patience MARSH are said to have come from Baltimore Co., MD. There was a LEMMON family living there. Robert Barnes' <Baltimore County Families> speculates that Patience could be the daughter of this family. I have not yet seen evidence that the LEMMON family in Baltimore Co., MD had a daughter Patience. Also, I do not know what original document the name "Patience LEMMONS" was taken from and so I cannot go back and check. I do find a LEVENS/LEVINS family in Baltimore Co. in the 1740's. Thomas LEVENS and wife Ann transfered land there in 1746 and Thomas LEVENS is mentioned with land in Balt. Co. again in 1754. Of course the name Ann LEVENS is the name on the Bourbon Co. will on the enclosed with the daughter, Patience MASH. <Marylanders to Kentucky>, by Henry C. Peden, Jr.: p. 108 "Prior to 1797 Nicholas NAYLOR was the guardian of the children of Thomas LEVENS of Washington Co., PA. Ann LEVENS was the niece of Thomas SELBY, and Mary SELBY, wife of Nicholas NAYLOR, has a brother Thomas SELBY. In Green County in 1797, Thomas and Rebecca SELBY granted power of attorney to Richard LEVENS of Bullitt Co., KY to represent their interests in the estate of Thomas LEVENS of Washington Co., PA." Several of the names here mirror the names in the will of Ann LEVENS: dau. Rebecca SELVY, son Richard LEVENS, son Nicholas LEVENS. Fred Westcott fredwes@planet.net