In a message dated 8/12/00 10:45:58 PM Central Daylight Time, jlewis15@email.msn.com writes: << Well at the risk of stirring up those people that may take things a little to seriously, I offer the following simple look-up...I have the document or book, it is not copyrighted that I can find, it was written in 1834, so should offend nobody......It is a list of Citizens of Belmont County, 1833.....I don't believe it is every citizen, but most of them.....I you need a name, let me know, and you got it !! It gives no other information, other than their name.....It was evidently a petition that they had signed concerning the way the Govt. was spending their money..Sound Familiar?? John John, Are there any Becketts, Dudleys, Matheneys (aka Mathany, Matheny) or Hendrys listed? Thanks for the offer of the lookup. Regards, Bill Beckett A man that boasts only of his roots is conceding that he belongs to a family that's better dead than alive. -- Anonymous