The Hampshire County, WV, Tax list for 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, and 1798 had all of Hampshire County grouped together as far as I can tell (Working with a book I found in SLC). In 1800, the tax list split into Upper/Western District and Lower/Eastern District. This lasted for at least half a dozen years. Does anyone know what area the Upper District held? I'm wondering, since other counties split off from Hampshire, if those areas are now in other counties. Knowledge of where the Upper and Lower dividing line would help. I'm searching for an ancestor that was listed in early tax records and was on the Upper District tax records until at least 1805. From there the John Wolford family moved to Randolph (later Tucker County), WV. The other John Wolford, of Maryland, is listed in the Lower District. That is the John Wolford that stayed and died in Hampshire County. That John Wolford family entered the county about July 1798. The original one, the John Wolford that moved to Randolph/Tucker, moved to Hampshire before 1791 from New Jersey. From his pension records, he probably moved there about 1788. Affiliated families: Asbury, Ayres, Barker, Barnum, Bates, Bauder, Bowling, Briggs, Burton, Clark/Clarke, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Gardner, Geary, Goodale, Grim, Hall, Hardendorf, Harman, Harper, Hayes, Hurless, Keith, Marcy, Pier, Raney, Sawyer, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Summerfield, Tinkham, Vansant, Whitlam, Wilks, Wolford, Wood, Woolever Regards, Diane Wolford http://www.treelines.com