This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFB.2ACI/4234.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: There are more clues that prove the Maryland connection, even if we still can't identify your John FORD. Robert BARNES' Baltimore Co. Families, 1659 - 1759, also has two pages on the TIPTON family. As references, he lists Chas. B. HEINEMANN's "Tipton Family of MD, VA, TN, KY, OH, IL, & IN," at MD Historical Society, compiled 1942. Also, "We Tiptons & Our Kin," by E. Chas. TIPTON, San Rafael, CA, 1975. The obituary of the first proven TIPTON of MD, Jonathan, said he was b. Kingston, Jamaica {Port Royal area that became Kingston?}, and died 21 Jan. 1757, Balto. Co., aged 118. {Take that with about a bushel of salt.} In June 1731, he petitioned the court to be made tax free, as he was over seventy, which would mean born ca. 1660. His known children were b. 1693+. Son Wm. TIPTON (27 July 1696, St. Jas., AA - will pr. 2 Aug. 1726, bond by Thos. FORD & Jonathan & Thos. TIPTON) m. 1720, Hannah PRICE, d/o Mary PARSONS & Mordecai PRICE. John TIPTON, b. ca. 1702, {youngest?} s/o Jonathan, died bef. 13 N 1775, when dau. Rachel, wf/o Benj. FORD, sold her share of "Benjamin's Beginning," to her sister Mary, now wf/o Jas. CHAMBERS [two daus. were only ch. listed]. That agrees with your reference of Rachel TIPTON marrying Benj. FORD. Do you have any time clues that might indicate that Benj. FORD & Rachel moved to Tennessee when Rachel sold her land in Maryland? Have you found anything definitive about the age of John Tipton FORD? I did a Google search for him. One reference is on GenForum > MD #12239 by Jane Ford Taylor. The problems seem to be that Benjamin FORD was b. 18 Dec. 1723, but the children of John Tipton FORD seem to have been b. ca. 1800+. If Rachel was b. 1730, as some researchers say, she would have been pretty old for John Tipton FORD's estimated birth year, as late as 1780. However, they could have had a John, b. ca. 1759, that could have had a son John, b. ca. 1780, m. ca. 1800. One piece of the puzzle at a time!