Bud, I want to tell you my experience in response to your questions: There are nearly no records remaining of old Kentucky Co, VA. What few documents citing that county are found in the first (1781) Lincoln Co deed books and the old Fincastle County documents (1773-76). Early on, "A Bibliography of Kentucky Co VA" was published about 1920s, stating which records purporting to be Kentucky Co VA were actual, and which were not but had been referred to as such by other old writers. I think this was written by Jillson, maybe Rouse. Since old Augusta Co VA contained an area as far west as Mississippi River and north up to Lakes Michigan and Erie, when created in 1738, and surveying began in 1745, probably most of the explorers and adventurers into the wilderness were Virginians. There are land documents of Col Thomas Walker's surveys in the area of Cumberland Gap in 1740s, 50s. Daniel Boone and family were Virginians before they were Carolinians. Which brings up another consideration; the actual boundary between Virginia and North Carolina was not finally pinpointed until 1813!! In old Washington Co VA court orders books (1776-77), instances of people not knowing whether they lived in Virginia or North Carolina were documented over periods of several years. These books also contained references to people living in "Cain-tuc-ee" - they had to travel for days to get to county court! It is a wonder ANY of these records still exist, isn't it? Certainly other researchers have found similar interesting documents. Mary Alice ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com