This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burton, Adams, Berry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AC.2ACE/1370.1 Message Board Post: You mention that you are interested in the Burton family during the 1700's. I really don't have any information on them, only questions. Perhaps you can help, and will be kind enough to do so. In trying to find the parents of an early Lawrence County, Kentucky family, Arthur ADAMS and his wife "Peggy" Frances HORN, I found an Isaac ADAMS who may have been Arthur's father. Isaac is reported to have had a daughter Nellie, b. 1797 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, who married September 24, 1816 in Scott County, Virginia to Jacob BURTON. Would you know if this couple came to Kentucky? In the 1850 Census of Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the household of Henderson BURTON (b. ca 1819 in Virginia) there is listed a Nellie BURTON, age 50 born in Virginia. This is possibly Henderson's mother, and possibly the widow of Jacob BURTON. Also listed in the household, in addition to Henderson's wife and child, are three BURTON males: Ira 17, Benjamin 14, Fletcher 24, all born in Kentucky. These males are possibly the children of Nellie, seeming to indicate that she came to KY (with her now deceased husband) between 1819 and 1826. In searching the Tax records, the only Burton in Lawence on the tax records until 1838 was "George L. Burton". In 1838, George L., Jarred, and Detroit are the Burton names listed. There was a JACOB L. BURTON, b. ca 1780 in Virginia; d. ca 1846 in Russell County, Virginia; m. REBECCA BERRY, b. 1785 in Virginia; d. 1860 in Lawrence County, Kentucky. I found no listing of Jacob L. Burton on the tax lists, but did find Rebecca BURTON on the 1846 list and in the 1850 Lawrence County Census. Do you know anything about 1) Jacob Burton who married Nellie Adams in 1816? 2) Nellie Burton listed in the 1850 Census of Lawrence County, Kentucky? 3) Any relationship between Jacob Burton and Jacob L. Burton? 4) Who the George L. Burton was listed in the Lawrence County, Kentucky Tax lists? Any help would be appreciated!