In a message dated 12/30/03 8:59:33 AM US Mountain Standard Time, VAROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: How much do you know about your Burtons? As it happens, "Burton" as a given name appears in 1788 in my Palmer line in Mercer County Virginia, which became Garrard County, Kentucky. Pat (in Tucson) My research shows there was a BURTON on the Second Supply with Smith 16(?). There was a Col. BURTON m. into the Bolling Family of the Poca line. A Mary BURTON that m. Robert Bolling of the Poca line late 16(?). I will have to look up the exact dates, they are around close but not just now. My son was here working on my computer and has moved several of my papers and I will have to look for them. He did not tell me he was moving papers or where he put them so my research is not where is suposed to be. Sorry. I have several BURTON names that were aprenticed into the colonies in the 1600/1700s. BURTON is derived several ways. By farm, local, business and eventually family all from England before the colonies. There is a Chronical out of Colonial VA Burtons and I did not find my Burton's listed as I preceive them. BURTON is a surname that was in the colonies since the Second Supply to the first colonist. There is a BURTON Castle in England as I know of that line and correspond with them, they live in CA so far not connected. This man had his line done by a professional genealogist. I have not tried to cross the pond as I want to connect with the Burton name in the colonies before I can do that. I am assuming my Geo. Burton was with the 3rd Continental line of VA and listed as being in the 7th also. I have a group sheet to that effect of his Rev War enlistment. When one elistment was over he evidentailly enlisted again and put in another CL for VA. He became friends with a Gresham Lee of NJ and family and when enlistments were over he traveled with the Lee family into Woodford Co, KY. Then to First Shelby Co., KY where Geo. m. Rebecka Lee, Gresham's dau. in May of 1798. Then I find Geo and Rebecka in Jefferson Co., IN in 1811. I presume that their older children were born in KY and the rest in Jefferson Co.,IN. I have not found where older children were born in KY as yet. Geo and Rebecka were m. by bond in KY and I have a copy of that. Geo had Rev War land Grant in KY which was awarded to a dau in his will, he died in Jefferson Co., IN in 1845 will probated and children all listed. I have traced the family from his son Henry B. BURTON down to me or vice versa. I have not been able to find Geo's birth pl or parents names. Geo. Burton was in Valley Forge with Geo Washington in 1777 I think is the date. There is a George Burton in the Valley Forge Militia list online. I am assuming this is my Geo. Burton. I have been in contact with several decendants of this 1811 Goe Burton of Jefferson Co., IN and they all are having the same trouble in finding parents of this ggg grandfather of ours. There are 4 decendants so far that have contacted me and all have a brother or sister to my Henry B Burton. Henry B. was in the Civil War and is buried in KY somewhere. I think I have found him but have not heard back from the cemetery as yet. In May 1782 the Commonwealth of VA passed a law which made three counties become the District of Ky as of August 1st. This allowed for their own district court and the lettling of cases in KY without having to make the long trips back to VA courts. Those first counties in the District of KY were Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln, this was June 30, 1780 The county of Fincastle,VA in 1776 was where the KY county was boundried off of in the maps from Gold Bug. I find no Mercer Co. VA listed at this early time.. If I am wrong please corrct me but I am going by maps that I have printed out in notebooks. I have URLs with these maps and can send them along if you would like to have them. No problem in ssending them. In 1792 Woodford county was split and east potion was Scott county and Jefferson County was split to make Shelby county which put Shelby Co. inbetween Woodford and Jefferson counties. Then in 1797 Bracken, Bulitt, Christian, Gerrard, Montgomery,Warren counties were effective all from the lower portions of Woodford and Shelby counties. This cluster of counties were then divided more as were the rest of the state into smaller counties. So it stands to reason that Burtons in this area can well be related because of the county boundries moving so much and often. I stronly believe that someof Geo Burtons relation migrated west as he did, but it is to be proved yet. I do hope I have not mixed you up in my discussion of this matter. Any questions and I will try to answer them to my best ability. I am by no means a proffessional and can make mistakes, if I have in the case of Mercer Co please advise. I have the CD of the Compendium of American Genealogy 1600 - 1800 and if you will send me you ancestors name/s I will see if they are listed there. It is time for me to recheck that CD anyway as to check on my recent findings on Burtons of recent wks. Beej (in Apache Junction) ;-) a long distance researcher also

Thanks for the information. "Naturally" much of this crosses with "mine" but, not with my Palmers. <dang> When the families go back this far, seems we are all related to someone else! My Thomas Graves was also in the second supply. My husband's John Rolfe should have been, I guess, but his ship got caught in a storm and landed in Barbados. So, he was a couple of years late with his tobacco. However, as my husband likes to point out, John's to-be-bride, Pocahontas met the boats! However, I won't give up yet. As to the Garrard from Mercer citation, here is the derivation: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/Census/VAcounty.htm has: 1785 12 15 Mercer County, Virginia formed from Lincoln County. Legislative enactment in 1785. Organized in 1786. Now part of Kentucky. [Virginia Counties: Those Resulting from Virginia Legislation, by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson, originally published as Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, Volume 9, January, April, July 1916, reprinted 1992 by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD.] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/Census/kycounty.htm has: 1797 6 1 Garrard County, Kentucky was formed from Lincoln, Madison, and Mercer Counties. It was created on 17 Dec 1796. Page 364. Here is a map that shows the locations of the KY counties while still part of Virginia, prior to 1792. It is interesting that you asked the question, because in looking more closely at the maps, the part of Garrard where this family lived was either in Lincoln or Madison. Mercer gave the top part of Garrard, Madison and Lincoln the lower two-thirds. Guess I'd better research that source. Someone may have been "guessing". http://www.segenealogy.com/kentucky/ky_maps/ky_cf.htm I think the discrepancy is that there were continued splitting of counties, year by year, without much gap, from the Revolution on. It took me some time to figure this out. Thank goodness for those folks who help us out by posting the maps on the internet! If I find references to the Burtons in Kentucky, I'll let you know. Thanks for your help. Pat In May 1782 the Commonwealth of VA passed a law which made three counties become the District of Ky as of August 1st. This allowed for their own district court and the lettling of cases in KY without having to make the long trips back to VA courts. Those first counties in the District of KY were Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln, this was June 30, 1780 The county of Fincastle,VA in 1776 was where the KY county was boundried off of in the maps from Gold Bug. I find no Mercer Co. VA listed at this early time.. If I am wrong please corrct me but I am going by maps that I have printed out in notebooks. I have URLs with these maps and can send them along if you would like to have them. No problem in ssending them. In 1792 Woodford county was split and east potion was Scott county and Jefferson County was split to make Shelby county which put Shelby Co. inbetween Woodford and Jefferson counties. Then in 1797 Bracken, Bulitt, Christian, Gerrard, Montgomery,Warren counties were effective all from the lower portions of Woodford and Shelby counties. This cluster of counties were then divided more as were the rest of the state into smaller counties. So it stands to reason that Burtons in this area can well be related because of the county boundries moving so much and often. I stronly believe that someof Geo Burtons relation migrated west as he did, but it is to be proved yet. I do hope I have not mixed you up in my discussion of this matter. Any questions and I will try to answer them to my best ability. I am by no means a proffessional and can make mistakes, if I have in the case of Mercer Co please advise. I have the CD of the Compendium of American Genealogy 1600 - 1800 and if you will send me you ancestors name/s I will see if they are listed there. It is time for me to recheck that CD anyway as to check on my recent findings on Burtons of recent wks. Beej (in Apache Junction) ;-) a long distance researcher also ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237