Some of you may have gotten questions about counties in KY with the same name as VA counties. I've now linked those counties on the state page to a page that describes the sequence of those county's formation and the re-use of their names for later VA counties. Six of the nine VA counties which went to make up the fledgling state of KY, had the names re-used. four of the six "new" counties wound up in WV. A seventh KY county (Lincoln) had the name re-used in WV, but I'd guess the namesake was a different person. ... 8^) http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb/kentucky.htm There've been a number of questions in the past about VA's western lands, so I posted excerpts from two books that describe the ceding of these lands to Congress, and the formation of the various "Territories" and the eventual rise to statehood (IN, IL, MI, OH, WI). http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb/illinois.htm Regards, Freddie S.