This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barton, Congrove, Sheets Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DFC.2ACI/1006.1475.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Lisa & Theresa, Thank you for responding to my original posting. I have been traveling & just now getting caught up. I have not seen a connection of Bennet Barton to a PA Bennet family and this doesn't seem likely if the 'accepted' descendancy from Robert Carver Barton & Rachel Lower's is accepted. (However, nothing seems to be known for sure of Rachel's ancestry so there could be a like there). Since no one seems to have any proof that Bennet is a son of Robert I am somewhat of a heretic in the sense that I think that it is possible that Bennet instead comes from one of the VA Barton lines. I am holding for proof one way or the other. One thing that leads me to question the Rhode Island ancestry is the Margaret Barton (born 1780 - 1790) enumerated next to Bennet & Mary Ann in 1830 census. She is old enough to be a widowed mother and young enough to be an older sister to Bennet. Both of those scenarios cause problems to a RI ancestry. If Margaret was Bennet's mother, then we have to squeeze in another wife for Robert or assume that Margaret = Rachel. If Margaret is Bennet's sister then Robert fathered her by age 10. If Margaret was instead Robert's sister, then we have two mystery Bartons that do not appear in the records of RI rather than one. The Congroves came out of the Faquier & Prince William Counties VA through Harrison Co. before going to Wood County in the 1810s. Susan married John Sheets in Harrison Co. in 1806, two of her relatives also married there the following year. Her apparant father (William) seems to be on the Faquier tax rolls in 1790, so that region is her most likely birthplace. Ken Congrove has done a lot of good research in this area, he can be contacted through the various Congrove boards. John Sheets was born in PA, probably in Franklin County and then his family came into Harrison County, possibly by way of Hampshire Co., VA. {They might have been related to the Sheets / Sheetz families already on the Patterson Creek in that county}. Please let me know your thoughts. Mark Moeser