[email protected] wrote: I will ask one of my cousens who lives at Warsaw to see if he can find those two graves of Samuel West Jones and Annie Smith Jones. David, thank you very much for the family information. It helps! I am searching for WEST families of Duplin that are descended from James born ca 1785 and Daniel born ca 1787. Since you and your wife were visiting Magnolia, I strongly suspect Samuel West JONES was descended from one of them. Thanks so much for taking time to write. I will keep a lookout to see if Diane posts the grave/cemetery info. Fran

In the latest New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register: In Nov 1734 Mary Studley of Newport, widow, filed a complaint agt. Thomas Hicks of Newport, yeoman, for money owed & goods del. to his wife in Nov. 1730. At the same court, Thomas Hix of Blufield in the County of Blufield in NC sued Mary Studley... Can anyone i.d. Thomas?

I can't tell you anything about Thomas, but I can tell you that the account could not be accurate as stated. There is no Blufield County in NC, and I'm almost certain there never has been a county by that name. At http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/county.html you find some information about when each county was formed and when some were dissolved. There is no Blufield. I wonder if it could have been Beaufort? Lura ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doris R. Ryan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Hicks/Hix : In the latest New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register: : In Nov 1734 Mary Studley of Newport, widow, filed a complaint agt. Thomas : Hicks of Newport, yeoman, for money owed & goods del. to his wife in Nov. : 1730. : At the same court, Thomas Hix of Blufield in the County of Blufield in NC : sued Mary Studley... : Can anyone i.d. Thomas? :