Greetings, I apologize for the intrusion but am wondering if someone might be point me in the right direction. I'm trying to determine if Revolutionary War veteran William Spicer (b abt 1754 in Virginia) had a son named John or Jonathan in Wilkes County (where he seems to have settled after the war), and if so whether is some record of John Spicer marrying a woman named Lucinda Barnett. Here's the mystery: my ancestor Jonathan T Jones (b in the late 1700s or early 1800s) settled on Troublesome Creek in Perry County, Kentucky with his wife Lucinda during the 1830s; he first appears there in the 1840 census. But despite numerous attempts to locate the parentage of Jonathan T Jones no effort has been successful. And according to Jones family tradition Jonathan T Jones was actually an early Kentucky settler (from Virginia or North Carolina) named John or Jonathan Spicer who killed a man in Louisiana and married an indian girl named Lucinda (Barnett?). At some point he apparently changed his name to Jones. What we know for sure is that Jonathan T Jones had children Elizabeth, Andrew Borkin, Samantha, Dilitha, and William. He is said to have been a prosperous owner and operator of grist mills. He is also said to have fathered multiple children out of wedlock with more than one woman. For some time I have proceeded under the assumption that Jonathan came into Perry County directly from Virginia or North Carolina, but while perusing census data in recent days on ancestry.com I realized there was a john Spicer listed in the 1820 and 1830 Clay County, Kentucky censuses (but not as far as I can tell before or after that). There is also a Samuel Spicer in Clay County during the 1820s and 1830s and he is known to have been the son of William Spicer and Jemima Haines of Wilkes County, NC. This is speculative but my thinking is that *maybe* the John Spicer listed in the 1820 and 1830 Clay County census is our John T Jones, and that he is the brother of Samuel Spicer (as well as the son of William Spicer and either Jemima Haines or William Spicer's second wife). I'm just wondering if someone might be able to point me to someone with access to the vital records in Wilkes County that could help me confirm or disprove this theory. Best regards, Kenneth Hempel ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC