>Hi Everyone, we now have 131 Vance researchers subscribed to the Vance >email list. If anyone would like to post their line for the new >subscribers now is a good time. > Sonya and all, Again, here is my my VANCE connections. Please help. I am looking for the family of Virginia (Jinny) VANCE GILLESPIE. She was from either Mecklenburg County, NC or Guilford County, NC. She is my gggggrandmother. She was married to (Capt.) Thomas GILLESPIE, possibly of Mecklenburg, NC, who was born abt. 1754. They were married about 1790. They moved to East Tennessee and were part of the founding families of the Lebanon-in-the-Forks Presbyterian Church in Knox Co., TN. The following are their children: Sally married a Brock, Jinny married William Craighead, Ann married a Callison and Margaret (Peggy) Vance married William Black McNutt (this is my line). Thomas Gillespie Samuel Gillespie Early deed records show that Thomas sold property to a John Vance. Also, Thomas Gillespie and John Vance sold property to Jacob Yocum. Can anyone make a connection? Glenda Cook Melson Lebanon, MO