This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morrison McGarrah Sphar Young Dunkin Marvin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.families.aol.com/mbexec/msg/4300/YYB.2ACI/1647 Message Board Post: I wanted to share some Adams Co-related info on McGarrah & Morrison families I found recently and invite others to do likewise. In Jefferson Co. OH Record of Wills Book #1, pp. 48-49, I found the will of Henry McGarrah, recorded in 1807. I'm sure this is the Henry McGarrah who was paying taxes just across the Ohio River in Washington Co. PA in the 1780's. In it, he leaves $100 ($1538 in 2003 dollars) to his son James McGary, $20 ($308 in 2003 dollars) to each of two named grandsons, and the rest to be divided between his sons and daughters -- William McGary, John McGary, Mary Ramsy, and Jane Morrison. The two named grandsons are Henry McGary son of William and Henry Morrison son of Jane. He then adds another bequest of $20 to a grandson Henry McGary son of James. He also allots money for a headstone, but I haven't located it yet. In the text he uses the spelling "McGary", but the title of the will and an attestation at the bottom use "McGarah". I'm pretty certain that his son William was the Revolutionary War vet William McGarrah who resided on a tract of land on Cross Creek in Washington Co. PA next to John Morrison the Elder in the 1780's and helped settle Adams County, Ohio, in 1795, and his daughter Jane married John Morrison, Jr., who moved from Cross Creek to Fleming Co. KY in 1790 and then to Adams Co. about 1801 (this John is my ggggrandfather). Both McGarrah and Morrison lived in Tiffin Twp and had sons named Henry. - Bill (William Morrison) Fisher