Hi, Last week when I did my stint at the genealogy I was not able to get back to look at censuses and this week I am not able to go since we are getting ready to go away for a few days which is very sad since I have interesting new information... Since I was keeping the desk I just piled up whatever Tennessee periodicals we had and aimlessly looked for "stuff". I found the following in Ansearchin News Fall 1985 Volume 32 No. 3 pg. 106. For those of you who get to go hang out at places like the Tennessee Library and Archives it was transcribed from Microfilm Roll No. 3 Legislative petitions In 1806 the citizens of Grainger and Claiborne Counties submitted a petition to change the road to the Tennessee legislature to change the road to Kentucky... Benjamin Ivey's name appeared on the petition. AFAIK Benjamin was the only Benjamin in Grainger County at this time. Furthermore others of the list were Moses Hodge (Delilah Ivey's husband, Dudley Mayes (son of Sherrod and Benjamin's BIL although Jane and Benjamin weren't married yet) Joseph Dania/Davis (most likely Joseph Daniels), John Howell, Henry Ivey (my fourth great grandfather), Henry's other sons Phillip and Thomas. In other words they were passing it around the neighborhood. My question is how old did you have to be to sign a petition to the legislature? I would have thought you would be twenty-one? The date usually given for Henry's birth is 1787. The 1850 Grainger County census lists Henry's age as 60. <smile> BTW the way Benjamin's name doesn't appear on the 1805 tax list. Gail