Hi List, I have recently re-subscribed after being off the list for a few years. I'm going to post my Shen. Co. brick walls one at a time to see if there are any new ideas. In Wayland's Shen. Co. Hist. a marriage is listed that could be very important to my research. Aug 16 1785 Casper Hemp to Magdalene Spore Simon Harr, minister I would like to have a copy of the original record to see if any other names are mentioned, as witnesses, etc. I have submitted a request to the Shen. Co. Library, where the archives are supposed to be, but they can not find the record. It is on page 746 of Wayland's book. Does anyone have any ideas where these records could be? Has anyone else had this experience with early Shen. marriage records? In 1792, my g-g-grandparents, Jacob Spore and Maria Magdelina Dressler were married in Shen. Co., and their marriage record is available. I would like to know if Jacob was a brother, or other relative, of Magdeline Spore Hemp. Casper (or Gasper) Hemp appears in several tax lists between 1783 and 1795, sometimes alone, and sometimes with Phillip Snapp or Jacob Spore/Spoar. After several of the Maucks and Spores moved to Washington Co. TN, from 1790 to 1806, my Mauck g-g-grandparents, Jacob Mauck and Margaret Hemp, were married there in 1811. Soon afterward, several of these Maucks moved to Harrison Co. IN. I am trying to determine Margaret Hemp Mauck's parents. Gerald L (Jerry) Spore (Spore,Fravel,Hottell,Keller,Mauck,Hemp,Dressler)