This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ihB.2ACI/4131.4.1.1 Message Board Post: Be aware there were two Abraham Byrd/Bird in Shenandoah County Virginia at the same time. The one living next to my Turneys was in the location of North Branch of Shenandoah river near Edinburg, VA.... >From Dr. Wayland's book....this is the other Abraham Bird. Colonel Abraham Byrd (Bird) lived on Smith's Creek in then Augusta County until 1773 when he bought 550 acres on North River and Jumping Run in Shenandoah County a part of which is now the "Red Banks" estate. Here he lived until 1803 when he sold his estate to Lawrence Pitman and Edward Walton and removed to Fayette County, Kentucky, where he died in 1820......(there is a lot more) Mary