I found today 2 maps Marilyn sent me 10+ years ago of the Roanoak - Blacksburg,Va area. I was remembering,and wanting these 2 maps 3 weeks ago when researching Pvt Low Brown,said by something Bob Orr found in the DNA, as being Thomas Brown's nephew. Since then,I lost that computer,and thus my ability to recall Low's father's name. But,while I can't remember 3 weeks ago,I think I CAN REMEMBER 10+ years ago, and the Thomas Brown,with 2 tracts near Salem,Va was then said to be a run-a-way apprentice from Salem Co,sw NJ. [or no great distance from w New Castle Co,Del]. I suppose these maps are from Kegley's,or similar mid Va Valley history. "Map of the Roanoak e Community, 1740-60 " HBF COALLA is one. Map showing the original LAND GRAnts OF THE SALEM,and Mason Creek Community" HBF COALLA 2ND has 2 tracts of Capt Ephriam Vause,father-in-law of Jacob Sadowski. Adjoining 1 tract is Henry Brown [Samuel Brown] and another,Thomas Brown. There is a 2nd Thomas Brown tract near the Presbyterian Meeting house,west 2-3 miles of the 1st group.Samuel Brown's tract is over a hill . Salem Va area John Cole joins the 2nd Ephriam Vause tract,while Samuel Cole adjoins the 2nd Thomas Brown tract.[ This am,while researching Jeremiah Brown,of James and Honor Clayton Brown,his wife,Mary Royale's father was given as a Coale- www.familysearch.org]. Several tracts are owned by General Andrew Lewis,or 1 is Fort Lewis . Arthur's Bottom is on the Roanoake River,just north of FORT LEWIS, AND across the river from Ephriam Vause's 2nd. I see some Welsh. And a James Patton small tract. Also Mathais Yoakum near Fort Lewis 2ND map extends sw past FORT LEWIS Mt, and Pearis Mt,to the Blacksburg,Va area. [Va Tech]. Draper's Meadows,and Low[e] Brown m Wm Draper's daughter. Wm Ingles [Prof Thom's "Follow the River",Tobias and Erick Bright, ,and to the east, south of Ephriam Vause's fort,is Col Joseph Crockett, of the Illinois Regiment of 1778-79. Anthony Crockett was privatre in Low[e] Brown's company to serve under George Rogers Clark,in Illinois. I have just found Crockett Marriages in I mmanual Episcopalian,in n Delaware. James Robinson's just north of Vause's Fort. Salem Co,very sw NJ IS JUST ACROSS THE DELAWARE from the Pa-Del line,or Marcus Hook-Chichester,of Jeremiah Brown's wife's Coale's. New Castle Co,n Delaware will abstracts have the wills,or witnesses,of several of these people like James Patton,Andrew Lewis,James Robinson, Some of you have read Prof Thom's "Follow the River" of the 1756 capture of the Ingles gal,and her later escape from west of Cincinnati witrh a German woman. You will not know what Sandusky-l researchers know of ePHRIAM Vause,who m the once Evesham Quaker Theodesia Hewlings at Philadelphia. Presbyterian . >From the 1756-57 attact and defeat of Vause's fort at Salem,mid Va valley, the Vause girl who would marry Jacob Sadowski, was scalped,and had an open tomahawk wound to her sinus. She survivied many years, but kept cotton in that sinus wound. Capt Wm Vause also survivied,to live in w Hampshire Co,Va and own a big tract in Brown Co,Ohio for his Va Rev War service. Jacob Sadowski,and son,Ephriam,"the infidel" Sadowski married EVANS from an adjoining Brown Co,Ohio tract . Meanwhile,back in s Burlington NJ ,the ld Quaker Hewlings [Hulings] widow wrote her will leaving something to Theodesia Hewlings Vause, 'if" she returned from captivity. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!