I have been following the Shannon Digest for awhile now. I still do not understand the connection. The "Reid" Shannons and then the Joseph Shannon son of Thomas are two separate lines...different families? Is this the same Joseph that my David Armstrong Shannon belongs too? Where did my David Shannon get the "Armstrong". Can anyone out there help me out? Didn't they all originate in PA or KY or even VA?. Wasn't this area in the part of the country that was one state one year, another state the next year? I have had a time trying to figure out what state to search during a time period. I attached the following message because this is what is confusing me. Thanks for all your interesting stories and genealogy Linda Shannon Widau, KCMO From: "Bobbie Reihsen" <[email protected]> > >>Reply-To: [email protected] > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: Re: [SHANNON-L] Pictures > >>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 05:21:53 PDT > >> > >>Widget, We have Thomas and Mary Shannon (don't know her surname) in York > >>Co. > >>PA. and think there may be some connection to the Shannons you mention. > >>Could you help me discover if there could be a connection? I will be back > >>home in Missouri on Aug. 14 and will check all my dates and places. The > >>land > >>records have our Thomas Shannon buying 300 acres of land in Adams Co. and > >>eventually it was transferred to his son, Joseph Shannon. Thomas Shannon > >>has > >>a will in York Co. PA in 1797. I guess that is not necessarily his death > >>date, as some people wrote wills a while before they died. Thank you so > >>much. Bobbie