Thanks for your interest! My John Bland was born 15 Jan 1791 -- I'm fairly sure of that date because it came from a family bible record, and I've found him on the 1850 census in Seneca Co, Ohio. He married first a Nancy (?) b. 6 Dec 1792, with whom he had eight children, including Mary Ann Bland, who married John Pecher in Ohio. Mary Ann and John moved to St. Joseph Co, IN ca 1852; she was my husband's gggrandmother. Nancy died in 1853 and John married someone named Mary McKinley. I don't know if he had further children with her. About John's parents and siblings, I have recently turned up a number of clues through the internet (including what seems to be John's line going back to the 1500s in England) but none of these sources quoted any of their sources other than published articles, so I take the whole thing with a grain of salt. It does seem possible that John's father was Henry Bland -- at least Henry appears in the 1810 Pendleton Co census with children of the right ages. If I'm interpreting things correctly, my internet sources would indicate that this Henry (b. 1770) would be a brother of the John you mentioned in your post (?). I'm planning to take a couple of days off in early September and hope to trace down some of the "clues" in our local genealogy library (at *last* I have a Virginia ancestor!). -- Julia Nedra Dickman Brill wrote: > > Julia, > > Tell us a little more about the specific Blands you are seeking. Wife? > Where in Ohio? Each generation seemed to have Johns. The earliest was John > Bland, son of Thomas who went to Muskingham County, Ohio, ca. 1798. He > married Nancy Cunningham, daughter of James and Agnes.