In a message dated 9/1/2006 11:17:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, chender2@sbcglobal.net writes: The Mathenys Shanks Grooms Satterfields, et. al, by the time of the Revolution were living on a 30,000 acre patch of Fairfax land called Shannondale, lying along the east side of the Senandoah river. Their next generations split into WV/PA, S. OH, and N. KY families. So far as I know, they met the McKees in KY, but it could have been Adams Oh. My Adams Co ancester, Daniel Matheny, was there before Statehood in 1803. This is why I read posts even when the name has nothing to do with the ones I am researching, you never know when those names will show up connected to your own. I am descended from the Grooms and Freelands but the Shanks and Satterfields are collateral lines to the Grooms. This gives me another place to start looking. Sandy