List, I mistyped the email contact and it bounced back. So here is next part. I don't wish to violate any copyright laws and this little publication has "Copyright James J. Durnan, Jr. 1970". Does anyone have line of Durnan? Is it o.k. for me to quote information from certain pages of this publication? It's not even a book. It's pages in a notebook. There is no publishing company. I think I'm o.k. to do this but if somebody sees that I'm doing something wrong, please give a shout. Page 1 OVJ simply gives background on the "little village of Sumerduck in Fauquier County, Virginia..." "Sumerduck as orginially Summerduck, having derived its name from Summerduck Run which in turn was so called because of the many wild duck which in the summer thereon or lay upon its banks or based upon the sand."....."The RUN flowed about half a mile where Sumerduck is located on the main road leading to Remington and the Morrisville Road. The RUN flowed across the Morrisville Road, which was known to us as the Church Road, because the Primitive Baptish Church stood beside the road in Sumerduck and is till standing there today pratically the same. The front of the Church faces the main road, the east side faces the Church Road." Page after 31 "ABOUT THE AUTHOR" She was Miss Olive Jones and she had a twin brother Ottaway Chester Jones. Both born April 2, 1906 "in the home then occupied by her beloved parents, and today knows as AUNT SALLIE'S HOUSE." Page 3 OVJ says "my grandfather William Holmes". She was talking about the long and difficult trip made from Sumerduck to Fredericksburg at Christmas when the roads where so deep in mud that it was an overnight trip for mules and horses to pull buggies or wagons. "Speaking of the families which mainly made up the village of Sumerduck, for years they were the JONES, MILLS, McCONCHIES, and SMITHS. Surrounding were families of EMBREYS, CURTIS, BROOKS, HOLMES, JACOBS, and others scattered here and there". "HENRY BROADUS JONES, who was my grandfather, lived in the house called the SANTA CLAUS HOUSE and which later also bore the name of the HOUSE of SEVEN GABLES. He married the former MARGARET ALLEN who was a daughter of CAPT. JOHN FIELD ALLEN, of Fauquier Co. VA.. They had a family of nine boys and one little girl who died at the age of three years. There were three sets of twins in the family. Romulus and Remus, James and Henry, Daisy and Dahlia were the names of the twins." I believe CAPT. JOHN FIELD ALLEN married ELEANOR STIGLER who was sister of ELIZABETH BETSY STIGLER m ROBERT KING McCONCHIE, my direct line. And I also think John Field Allen was son of a JAMES ALLEN who was possibly a BROTHER of THOMAS ALLEN who married ESTHER FIELD. THOMAS ALLEN and ESTHER FIELD had son HENRY ALLEN m. CATHERINE McCONCHIE, d/o ALEXANDER McCONCHIE. CATHERINE [McCONCHIE] FIELD would have have been an AUNT of Robert King McConchie. THOUGHT: JAMES ALLEN might also be the name with LOTT HACKLEY and ALEXANDER McCONCHIE who did the 1785 estate inventory of ROBERT KNOX. To be continued...Amanda