This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nelson, Ford, Woodward, Hampton, Smith, Jones, Merritt, Hampton, Ramsey, Queen, Free, Ault Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFB.2ACI/4234.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I haven't seen anything on Benjamin and Rachel yet, but I will be looking. I need to get access to the early Washington County tax lists again to go over more in detail who was on what year and where. When I mentioned John Tipton Ford it wasn't because I thought he might be related. My John Ford's birth date does seem to fit better to the ages of Benjamin and Rachel. And yes, my John Ford had a son John Ford Jr. born about 1796. He is accounted for however in Washington County TN where he lived and died about 1828 leaving his widow Ann and at least 2 children - Looney T. and Isaac. (Does the name Looney fit anywhere?). I compiled a list of Ford marriages from the posted Washington County Marriages (the early ones) - there is a Benjamin Ford that married in 1828. Not sure who he belongs to; he doesn't seem to fit in the other Ford families that I know are related to Lloyd Ford unless he was the son born in 1808 to Lloyd II. If so, he married at age 16; pretty young for a man even back then. Ford, Benjamin Ford, Polly 3 Sep 1824 Ford, Boyer Chapman, Sally 15 May 1831 Ford, Grant Ford, Nacky 28 Feb 1811 Ford, Horation Fr. Careathers, Jane 27 Oct 1810 Ford, Jonathan Stone, Jane 18 Mar 1838 Ford, Lesley Jackson, Sarah 25 Nov 1822 Ford, Loid Jackson, Matilda 17 Nov 1825 Ford, Micajah Briant, Ann 14 Apr 1812 Ford, Mordicai Hyte, Nancy 28 Sep 1824 Ford, Thomas Carethers, Isabel 29 Feb 1812 Ford, Thomas Chapman, Margaret 18 Sep 1812 Ford, Thomas Chandley, Elizabeth 24 Aug 1828 Ford, Thomas Fine, Mahala 11 Sep 1834 Ford, Tipton Murry, Mary Ann 22 Apr 1835 Ford, William Ford, Achaash 14 Dec 1822 Crawford, William Ford, Martha 10 Sep 1811 Crow, Thomas Ford, Sarah 2 Mar 1834 Morrison, Horatio Ford, Ruth 18 Feb 1826 Britt, James Ford, Nancy 27 Dec 1832 Murray, Morgan Ford, Sarah 9 Jun 1812 Summers, Allen Ford, Sarah 22 Sep 1831 As you can see a lot of names from the Maryland family. None of these have been identified as belonging to my John Ford family. however, we know we have not identified all his children. We know that two of his daughters married into the Murray family and the Crawford family so those marriages of Ford women to men bearing those surnames could possibly be older daughters of his. However, for the most part the children we know about of his started marrying around 1816-1818 until about 1824. The marriage of Benjamin falls in that time frame so its possible there could be a link but so far nothing points to it. All for now.