This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bishop/Clark/Clouse/Cole/Hopkins/Weaver Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/401 Message Board Post: My sister and I will be in Washington County this coming weekend to do some family tree research. We will be researching the BISHOP, HOPKINS, CLOUSE, and COLE families, all of whom we believe arrived in this area in the early 1770s. Our 5g-grandparents include Joseph Bishop/Sarah Bouton, James Weaver/Nancy Smith, Francis Clark/Nancy Walker, Nehemiah Hopkins/Elizabeth Cole, and George W. Clouse/Elizabeth Jarvis. Our direct ancestors moved on to Claiborne TN in the early 1800s, then to Iowa around 1850 Any suggestions for local resources we should be sure to take advantage of? Anybody in the area familar with (or better yet, related to!) these families?