Jeanette, THEN is your RICHARD RANSOM the son of GEORGE RANSOM and DOROTHY?...ie brother of my ancestor JAMES 1 RANSOM and GEORGE 2 RANSOM? I am thinking that CAPT RICHARD RANSOM, two generations later, may have been named for that RICHARD. Could you send me your line with dates? I have a large RANSOM database and would like to include your Sheriff Thomas James Ransom and his line. Do you have FTM or FO..ie can you make a gedcom? I would be glad to do the same for you. AND NOW as you asked: Children of JOSEPH JOHN ALSTON & second wife, EUPHAN WILSON dtr of WILLIS WILSON of the Va House of Burgesses COL WILLIS ALSTON (my line) & ELIZABETH WRIGHT HENRY ALSTON MARY ALSTON EUPHAN WILSON ALSTON JOSEPH JOHN 4?ALSTON (aka "Chatham Jack") m MARTHA KEARNEY Now, how about let's put the RANSOMS together... Happy hunting, Carole Caroline Burnett Cook <<JKHowell@digitalexp.com writes: Hi Kathleen! No, my Thomas James Ransom who m. Priscilla Jones was a son of Richard Ransom b. abt 1700 and Frances Hicks, daughter of Robert Hicks, Jr. and Frances ___. Thomas James Ransom, Sheriff b. 1744 Brunswick Co., VA or Warren Co., NC d. 1781/1782 m. on 9 Feb 1763 in Granville Co., NC Priscilla Jones (Widow of Gideon Hunt Macon) b. 1729 VA d. 9 Mar 1802, Warren Co., NC Children of Thomas James Ransom and Priscilla Jones were: 1.William Ransom 1760 2.Abigail Sugars Ransom 3.Hixie Ransom 4.Elizabeth Jones Ransom ["Betsy"] 1766 5.Seymour Ransom 1769 6.Drucilla Jones Ransom 1772 Are you related to the House/Howze line? Yarbrough? I know you and I used to talk a lot but I cannot remember who were discussing. How about the Hodges in SC and Sumter Co., AL? Jeanette Who were the children of JOSEPH JOHN ALSTON and his second wife EUPHAN WILSON? >>