Pat, I had saved this e-mail from you from long ago. Will you please tell me what you know about this couple and where they were living in Montgomery County? I have a Jacob Elliott and family who were living in Rowan County then when county lines changed, Randolph County, NC in the late 1700's. Near the end of the Revolutionary War, Jacob (who was a Quaker and pacifist) had a close call and seems to have moved his family to Montgomery County, VA for safety. My gut feeling is that he would have moved to an area that had Quakers living in it. I know that there were Quakers near Lynchburg....but I believe that Lynchburg would have been too far east to have been in Montgomery County. In this time period, Montgomery would have been quite large and extended north all the way to Kanawha and adjoined Greenbrier County in what is now WV..... I have been told that there were Quakers near what is now Wytheville, VA. I have not yet done enough research to verify this information. Perhaps it is a coincidence that the man that you mention below carries the name Alexander Ross....and that this man was not descended from the Alexander Ross who had helped to form Hopewell MM in northern VA in the early 1700's....but when I saw his name that is what jumped into my mind......Is there a chance that this couple was living near Quakers or ex-Quakers? Marsha in wV Pat Ross wrote: >Sandy, > >I am looking for a marriage record for > >Name: Alexander Ross and Jane Davidson (or Drake) >Time: circa. 1800. >Place: They were both from Montgomery county Virginia before they moved to >Kentucky. > >Birth records for them would also be greatly appreciated. >Time: circa 1780 > >No snail mail required. > >Thanks, > >Pat Ross > > >