Rosanna, That is a small world indeed as the PARRISHs and the BASKETT married into the KENT lines--the PARRISHs and the BASKETTs several times. I will have to look up that book. Heather I seem to recall a side-ways connection to Milly Pace Baskett (a distant cousin to my Benjamin Pace), . And, while I'm not related by blood to Rev. Baskett, one of my PARRISH relatives was the second husband to one of his daughters. Can't recall which relative or daughter right off (it's too late for heavy thinking tonight), just that the offspring were from another marriage, so I'm not related to the good Reverend. > > There's a wonderful footnote about Rev. and Mrs. Baskett in "The History of the Virginia Baptists." The footnote from the second edition tells of their passing, a few days apart, and the large memorial service. > My Italian immigrant, Antonio Giannini (later Anthony Gianniny), became an apparently itenerent Baptist minister in his 50s, and performed many marriages in the Albemarle/Nelson/Fluvanna area. > We've found a description of his preaching as a guest at a service in Lynchburg, but so far haven't turned up any of his church records. > > best, > Rosanna Bencoach