Gary, Not sure if this will help you or not but somewhere I read that a wagon train left Hardy Co in late 1790's with many families bound for Keokuk County, Iowa. This is across the Mississippi River (I think) from Illinois. There is a history book written about Keokuk and Hardy County settlers were said to be industrious, hard working, etc. I'm sorry this is so vague. BTW, I could not get into the web site. I got to Edward Radcliff but couldn't find the link to the colony. Do you have any more specifics? Joyce ---------- > From: GLRadcliffe@aol.com > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] Hardy,1797 to w Illinois,Baptist colony > Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 5:20 PM > > My Edward RADCLIFF left Hardy Co., (W)VA in 1797 for Illinois > with a religious group. There is a site on the Net describing this > colony. You can find it by entering either "Edward Radcliff" or > "Jeff Radcliff" in www.google.com > > It is all text. Abd BTW, don't use the quotation marks. > > Gary Radcliffe > glradcliffe@aol.com