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/gAC.2ACE/2558.1 Message Board Post: There could be so many "Wright' families in VA - I'd check on the census around where Alpheus lived in Indiana for other surnames and look for a county in VA where those occur together to try to narrow it down. I have one possible clue - but it's probably needle in a haystack: Isabella Wright b. 1738 in Burlington NJ married Thomas Herbert/Harbert in 1758 in Monmouth Co NJ and then they moved to Loudoun/Berkeley Co area of VA in 1760's. They established Harbert Fort in Harrison Co. VA (now W VA). Isabella was the daughter of Edward Wright and Mary ?. There were a number of NJ families, mostly Baptist, who moved from NJ to VA just before the Rev. War - most in Shenandoah Valley or on the frontier. It appears that Isabella Wright had siblings named William, Ann, Increase, Mary, Edward and Abigail as baptismal records exist for these. Edward Wright bb 1712 d. 1746. He is likely related to the Robert Wright who bought land on Staten Island in 1683, and/or the Thomas, Josua and Samuel Wright who were among the early freeholders in Burlington area of NJ in 1670's 1680's etc.