Harold, This is in response to your post of June 4, 1999. First, it is an excellent post as I am a timeline freak myself. You asked about the year of the French and Indian Wars. I thought that I knew the answer to that question but I looked at a source that I had on the book shelf and found that there does not seem to be a precise beginning and end of the war. First, there was an early campaign involving the French and Enlish in a frontier dispute called King Georges War that involved several skirmishes in 1744. There was a second phase of shirmishes that were fought between the English and the French and Indian alliance in 1752. In December of 1753, a young Major George Washington was sent by VA governor Dinwiddie to negotiate peace settlements with several French forts on the frontier (the frontier being western PA and western NY). Washington was unsuccessful in negotiations and barely escaped with his life as a result of wintertime frontier hazards. In 1754, Washington was appointed a LT Colonel in the VA Milita and was sent to establish a fort at the Confluence of the Allegeny and Monongahela Rivers in PA. Prior to Washingtons arrival, the French took the fort from English workers without hostilities. The English left and the French took over construction of the new fort which they named Fort ?Duquene. In May 1754, Washington attacked a small troop from Fort Duquene and inflicted casualities and captured 21 prisoners. Approximately 1000 French and Indian troops surrounded the roughly 500 troops under Washington's command and inflicted significant casualities. Washington was forced to surrender but he and his men were allowed to return to VA. The French surmised that the Frontier war was over at this point but it was actually the unofficial beginning of Nine years of warfare from 1754 to 1763. The war with the French was essentially over in 1760 when the French were forced to surrender Canada but skirmishes with the Indian Faction continued on until about 1763 when most of the Indian resistance had moved west of the Ohio River. You stated that no George or Peter appeared in the 1790 VA census which is correct. However, the 1790 federal census for all counties was lost. Where possible, the census was reconstructed from county records. It has been estimated that approximately half of the heads of households were accounted for in the reconstructed 1790 census. The counties with 1790 VA census data are Prince Anne, Norfork, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Warwick, Surry, Sussex, New Kent, Hanover, Gloucester, Middlesex, Essex, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Hampshire, Frederick, Shenandoah, Rockingham, Orange, Stafford, Albermarle, Amherst, Fluvanna, Cumberland Powhatan, Prince Edward, Amelia Chesterfield, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Greenville, and Greenbrier. In 1790, VA included West Virginia and most of what is now Kentucky. Greenbrier was the only frontier county west of the mountains whose 1790 census survived. Only about one third of the land area of VA is covered by the 1790 census but again the estimate is that approximately half of the population was covered by the 1790 census. George and possibly even Peter may have been in VA in 1790 but were in that portion for which there is no 1790 census. Again, a very good post and keep up the good work. Ray