This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vansant, Vanzant, Vinzant, Venzant, Vanzandt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DaB.2ACE/851.939.1 Message Board Post: I'm also researching Capt. John. I'm trying to learn as much as possible about his first marriage and any children he may have had with that wife, who I believe was Polly Bowen. Linda says that Capt. John had a child Joel Vansant born 1776 and that "Polly may have died because John left PA after Joel was born and moved to NJ. It is said John B. originally came from Middlesex Co. before moving to Bucks." I looking for the parents of four siblings born between 1752 and 1766 who moved to KY from PA about 1789. Two of them mention being from Bucks Co. and one mentions being born in Philadephia (Co. or City?). What is interesting is that the three boys (John, James, and George) appear suddenly about 1775 or 1776 in Bedford Co., PA--without parents. They entered Rev. War service there and served together for many years. There was also a Peter Vansant in the same unit who might have been a fourth brother or a first cousin. After the War, the three brothers lived together in Huntingdon Co., PA (formed from Bedford Co.) About 1789, two brothers (John and James) moved to KY with at least seven other Vansant family members--including John's sister Susan, John's daughters Nancy and Elizabeth and an older adult named Mary Vansant who had three young girls with her. My theory is that the four siblings might all be children of Capt. John and Polly Bowen. I'd particularly like to know if they got married before 1752 when John said he was born.