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I am looking for parents of my ancestor, Isaac Cox, who married Mary Wise.  Isaac & Mary moved from Greene Co, PA to WV (then VA) sometime around the mid-1800's.  If you have any info on this line of the Cox family, please let me know.  Thank you.

Hi, Am looking for parents of Charles Wesley Murray, my Great-grandfather. He has had 4 wives,  Lora Story, my great-grandmother. They had that I know of at least 5 children. Bessie M. Murray, my grandmother, Denzell, Lucille, harry and Charles. Any info on his parents and siblins would be appreacaited. Thank you for your time, Gail

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I am the ggranddaughter of  Clara A Phelps Parrish and was wondering if some one would happen to have a picture of her they would not mind sharing.

Thanks so much.

Tracy

Harriet Cynthia LEWIS SCOTT  b 1 May 1798 VA/NC border region? marries in 1815 in KY, to Shadrack SCOTT, b 22 Feb 1790 Pittsylvania, VA, dcd 11 Nov 1850 Henry Co. IA.

She passes 4 May 1887, Marion, Henry, IA, USA.

I would like to contact anyone related to J Nelson Truitt.

Wes Truitt may be my first cousin but I cannot find him.

Also would like to talk with Barbara Truitt.

Thank you and aloha!

David

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The Milford church, called the meeting house, were my ancestor Thomas Baker worshiped had a “gallery” where slaves presumably stood during the service. Native Americans had been enslaved following the Pequot War in the 1630s.  The gallery was probably for slaves of this origin.  In Connecticut and throughout New England, where, 350 years later, descendants of Indians and Europeans still have an uneasy relationship, Indian slavery remains a rarely recited part of our history. 

 

 VIRGINIA TIMELINE - Key dates to recall

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Map of 1617 of Virginia--- ten years after the first permanent settlement at Jamestowne

They had been in and out of area for almost 50 years already.

Augusta and Frederick Counties formed, what will become West Virginia 1783.

A Nation Born  - Ohio and Monongalia Co.'s formed 1776

Counties start shifting and sharing with new counties  1778.

Kentucky counties w

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I was raised in the Alexandria District by a mother who was a keen genealogist and her side of the family was well documented however my father's side were not really interested in the history of where they came from etc. As the eldest daughter who has married and had three sons, all of whom are now scattered on three separate continents I am keen to locate family members.

My grandfather was the eldest son who was something of a tyrant whom his mother found difficult to handle. A relation by the

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