Hi Marianne, > Francis Wideman >From Abbeville Dist., (now McCormick Co.) SC. See my site at http://pweb.netcom.com/~fzsaund/wideman.html > Hildebrands >From PA to the falls of the OH > James Head ?? > Adam House I recall an Adam HOUSE in tax lists in one of the KY counties (Campbell?) in which my Bartholomew HERRINGTON appeared http://pweb.netcom.com/~fzsaund/herrington.html > David Delauny >From SC with WIDEMAN???? No known relation. Jacob Collins I believe from SC with the WIDEMAN family. No known relation. Charles Prewitt >From SC, brother-in-law to Francis WIDEMAN. > James/Elijah Benton >From SC, brother-in-law to Francis WIDEMAN. > William Estepps >From SC with WIDEMAN??? No known relation. > James Green ?? > Jacob/Christopher Shults ?? > John Bittick ?? > John Stuart >From KY, son-in-law of Georg SMIRL. http://pweb.netcom.com/~fzsaund/smirl.html In general, I find many of the early (ca. 1800 or before) settlers were from one of two areas, either immediately from KY, with earlier origins in western PA or VA. Perhaps also a stop at Kaskaskia, IL. The other, was the SC group with the WIDEMANs, although I think some of those listed as going with him may have been from TN, and did not actually meet WIDEMAN until what was later MO. >Also, someone quoted me a lengthy and gruesome account of the murder >of Adam House but, didn't not know what book they read it in. Anyone have >that reference? Frederic L. Billon, "Annals of St. Louis in its Early Days Under the French and Spanish Dominations, 1764-1804" (St. Louis: by author, 1888), 298. Rick Saunders