Forgot one! I am also looking for GORSUCH and possibly BURKHEAD/BIRKHEAD. Donna M Meyer Bowie, MD -------------- Original message -------------- From: Tmollaun@aol.com > These are my family surnames in > Carroll Co., MD until after the Rev. > War: > CRISWELL/CRESWELL (etc. on spelling), > DAVIS, GARDINER, GORSUCH/GOSSAGE, > LANE, OGG > > These are my family surnames in > Baltimore, Baltimore Co., MD in the late > 1700s: > CRISWELL/CRESWELL (etc. on spelling), > DAVIS, GARDINER, GORSUCH/GOSSAGE, > LANE, OGG, WOODEN > > GARDINER, GOSSAGE & OGG may or may > not be related by blood, but they did > stick together. > > Some of the CRISWELLs & GOSSAGEs > moved to the VA Northwest panhandle > after the Revolution. They occupied the > VA counties of: > Brooke Co., VA (now Brooke Co., WV) > Ohio Co., VA (now Ohio Co. & Marshall > Co., WV). > > Some also drifted across from the Ohio > River from those counties into Ohio: > Belmont Co., OH > Jefferson Co., OH > > A few were in bordering Washington Co. > southwest PA. > > The Rev. War Patriot from what is now > Carroll Co., OH, applied for his RW pension > in Brooke Co., VA. His name was Richard > CRISWELL, but that surname is spelled > differently in many documents. He may > have married an unknown DAVIS. > > His son, Richard CRISWELL, also moved to > the Northwest VA pan handle. He married > Elizabeth LANE. This Richard is the first > name on an old bible entry. You can find > this bible on the Marshall Co., WV web site. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmarsha/criswellbible.htm > > Hope to connect with someone out there! > > Best Wishes, > Donna Criswell Mollaun > in Cincinnati where we are expecting a nasty ice > storm in about four hours. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDCARROL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message