This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: denisglover Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.northumberland/3727.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Many thanks for your response. This pursuit can get complicated, but DNA indicates that my Glovers were from Ireland and came to America in the early part of the 18th c., but probably were Scots-Irish. I would have thought they were Presbyterian at the time, but many later became Methodist. Sometimes religious affiliation is a help. Some reports say the early Glovers might have been Quakers, but I have no indication of that. Also, there's a record that they settled briefly first in Bucks County PA, but then migrated elsewhere. Do you have any proof of either of these thoughts from your research? It's amazing to me how some colonists, even in the same family, moved around so much, but some stayed in the same location. Of course, families tended to be large, and some members had to move on. An important issue: Did your John Richard Glover have sons or nephews who might have remained in Virginia? I'm told that some of the Pennsylvanians who fled to Virginia in the Great Runaway! did remain or migrate farther south. Once I can make this connection, I have a lot of confirmed information for those who remained. By the way, my ggg-grandfather was a Richard Glover (of Scots-Irish descent), who lived in northern Virginia at the end of the 18th c. He may have been born in Pennysylvania or Frederick County VA, and may have married for the first time in the latter. At this point, about the most helpful thing for a male with the last name "Glover" to do is take the familytreedna.com DNA test, which doesn't include any blood, just a swab. It costs something, but in the long run I feel it saves time and money. The male's last name for this test has to be "Glover," however. There was a Richard Glover from your area at Fort August in the 18th c. I'm wondering if your John Richard Glover, however, went at times by the name of Richard? I kind of doubt it. Does any of this make sense to you? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.