Hello, Searching the web I found: A Jacob NORTON was a witness to the will of Dr. John GRAHAM of Williamsburg Co. on 19 Feb 1813. >From the census index: year 1790 Norton, Jacob GEORGETOWN DIST. page 055 02-00-03-00-00 Norton, James GEORGETOWN DIST. page 055 01-00-00-00-00 Norton, Samuel GEORGETOWN DIST. page 055 01-01-02-00-00 Norton, William GEORGETOWN DIST. page 055 01-04-04-00-00 year 1810 Norton, Jacob WILLIAMSBURG DIST. page 253 year 1820 Norton, Jacob WILLIAMSBURG DIST.page 303 001201-11110 Norton, Josiah WILLIAMSBURG DIST.page 303 200100-00010 Craig Smith database at: http://www.cityathletics.com/genweb/FamilyTies/FamilyTies4.html lists both ALSTON's and NORTON's. He lists a William NORTON as being born ABT. 1739 in New Hanover Co., NC and dying 1 Aug 1806 in Horry Co, SC. In "A History of Marion County, South Carolina From the earliest times to the present, 1901. By W.W. Sellers" "The first of this family came from England to New England, at a very remote period in the past, about the first of the seventeenth century; that his name was John; that he or one of his descendants, named John, afterwards came down to Virginia and settled near what is now Alexandria, VA. This Virginia John had five sons, all of whom were soldiers in the Revolutionary War; one of them, James, served in Washington's guard as a Sergeant; another one of them was taken prisoner and died in a prison ship in Charleston harbor, in 1780 or 1781. Their names were William, James, John, David and Solomon. After the Revolution, the old man and two of his sons James and John went to Kentucky; two others of them came to South Carolina; one, William, went to Georgetown, and the other went to Beaufort." Several excellent sites that mentions this NORTON family can be found at: http://www.nortonfamily.net/Bourbon.htm Norton Family History, Descendants of William Norton,Horry Co., SC http://members.tripod.com/~RobertStapleton/staplenorton.html Hope this helps. Donna