John Archard lived on rim of Boat Run valley 1811-1838. Two of his sons, John M. and Nelson, found their way to an area called the Macedonia Community on the border of Amite and Wilkinson Counties of Mississippi. Nelson "ran away" from a Clermont County apprenticeship in about 1827. He married, in 1833, Elizabeth McCrae Archerd, in Wilkinson County. She was the wife of John M. Archard, Nelson's brother. John M. had died in 1832. John's marriage to Elizabeth was in 1830 in Wilkinson County. What led these two young men to Mississippi? Did John move first, taking a flatboat down the Ohio & Miss. rivers and then decide not to return up the Natchez Trace? Did he move with others from Clermont County? In Amite and Wilkinson counties there are a number of Mays, Dunhams, Andersons. In Amite is the Bethany Presbyterian Church with Rev. Smylie. And the Methodist Choctaw preacher William Winans. Many of the folks in Amite and Wilkinson seems to be slave-owning plantation owners who moved to the area from South Carolina in the 1810s. I am looking for anyone who also has ancestors who left Clermont before and up to 1833 bound for Amite or Wilkinson counties in Miss. Bill