You all are WONDERFUL! Great response to #1 query. What I have is that John Jones of Edgecomb District, SC, obtained land in the Mississippi Territory @ 1818. This appears to be the John A. Jones who married Betsey Slaughter in Madison County, AL, in 1816. This John A. Jones says, in the census, his father was from PA. This is absolutely ALL we know about him, so I'm trying to look at all the John Joneses in Edgecomb District, SC. I immediately, by a stroke of luck (?) came across a will for a John Jones of Edgefield who died and 1797 and left a will. I can't find anything about John Jones, but the man he named as executor, Daniel Williams of Wrightsborough, GA, appears to have been an important Quaker member of the Wrightsborough community, and records in Wrightsborough show that he came from Chester Co., PA. Looking at Chester County, there is a John Jones in W. Nantmeal and a Daniel Williams in E. Nantmeal. Both are gone from Nantmeal by 1775. Looking at the family history of Daniel Williams, his grandmother was named Jane JONES. Now, I've been down the road for a while, and I know that names in genealogy mean little or nothing, but without any real information about my John A. Jones in AL and later in McNairy County, TN, I'm wondering if Daniel Williams might be a distant relative of the above mentioned John Jones of Edgecomb, Co., (who had 7 children when he died and didn't give the names of but one of them). The prominent name in my family is John A. Jones; unusual names are Parminus Jones and Govenor R. Jones. Not that these names mean anything. But every generation seems to have a John A. Jones. I'm fishing. I just don't know how to go about my problem except to look at every single John Jones in Edgecomb County, SC, who came from PA. This is my first encounter and it seems possible that John Jones who died in 1797, and named Daniel Williams as his executor, could be mine. Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks, Jan Brown