"If' you are hunting an ancestor in s Clermont,Adams,and Brown Co Oh 1810,or earlier,I just mentioned many spent a few [10 or less] years in northern Ky. "If ' there is one single place to look where they lived 10-30 years, it was the "RED STONE" country of sw Pa-WV. I'LL make my own defination of 'RED STONE" ,though the town was Brownsville,Pa. Modern Washington Co,Pa, and those modern counties which adjoin it. Washington,Allegany,Westmoreland,Fayette,and Greene Co,Pa. Ohio,Brooke,and Hancock Co,WV. This area was mostly Bedford Co,Pa,but DEC ,1774-1781, it was not Pa ,buT Va. 3 Va counties cornered in modern Washington Co Pa- [1] Ohio Co,Va [now WV] [2] mONOGHALIA sp Cp Va [some remains in modern WV co-courthouse fire 1796, and [3] YOGOHANY Co,Va [now n Washington Co-Pittsburg,etc. 'Virginia Court records in Southwestern Pa" and "History of Washington Co,Pa by Crumrine, and HOWARD LECKEY'S 'The 10 mile [creek] country and it's pioneers, and ELLIS' FAYETTE CO PA 'cover some of the area. 2nd choice was the Upper Potomac River's drainage. Washington DC north and west. 1812 brought people escaping the War of 1812. Nantucket and down east Maine,for example ___________________________________________________________________ Why pay more to get Web access? Try Juno for FREE -- then it's just $9.95/month if you act NOW! Get your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.