This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carter and Thornton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1221 Message Board Post: Looking for anyone also looking into the following African- American or Native American families or any one with slave ownership info. Not interested in reparation nor retributuion, just genealogy. I have Stephen Carter 1815-1896 and his wife Judy B Unknown,born 1823 both in Middlesex Co.. Their two children were John Henry Carter born 1856 and Lucy Carter 1849. I am also looking for Rivan and Rosa Thornton, dates unknown, of Gloucester Co. and their daughter Maria or Mariah Thornton 1850-1915 who married the above mentioned John Henry Carter.