Dear Beej, and Cousins, Aw shucks! Thanks, Beej. I find it all so fascinating, you see. I start investigating one thing and it leads to 500 others. Could be why I never get anything finished. I tried a search for you on Google.com using John Burton Maryland Delaware Virginia. It is just amazing what you find. Try it, you'll like it! One very special reminiscence from the early 1900's on the Virginia Eastern Shore is just wonderful to read, and like our Cousin Dick Matteson's quotes from his father-in-law's journal, is the stuff of real history. GHOTES (Genealogy and History of the Eastern Shore site: http://www.esva.net/ghotes/lifeonfarm.htm Also I like to go back to special websites or information in books after I've been away for awhile and have gained new insight in the interim. The new information I've been investigating about the Maryland Puritans in Anne Arundel County has given me a whole new slant on the way I'm thinking about the early Maryland settlers. Also I delight in finding things that others have missed! While browsing the internet this morning, as I do daily, I came across some Loftin / Teague / Pennington pages. Several gave the standard misinformation that William Teague married Isabella Pennington. Some gave the also standard misinformation that William Teague married Isabella Loftin! Some gave Isabella E. Pennington and some gave Isabella E. Loftin. No explanation of where the "E." came from. Same place as the Loftin and the Pennington surnames, one imagines. Some gave dates of birth for the entries, although they had no way of knowing whether that was accurate or not. One page, a Teague Resource Page, http://www.teagueonline.freeserve.co.uk/R&B/MD1001.html under the heading of "William Teague & Isabella E. Pennington, Maryland" is the following statement: Steve Connolly (connolly@twics.com) writes: "Occasionally, the following is published on various genealogy sites as fact: William Teague b. ca 1693, Cecil County, MD, wife Isabella Loftin b. 19 Dec 1693. However, several very assiduous researchers have been UNABLE to verify that. It is also possible that the wife referred to was Isabella Pennington (ca 1697, Cecil County, MD). One of those researchers, Ashley Loftin, was kind enough to send me photocopies of records that he had examined during his years of hands-on research. Indeed, there is no reference to anyone but an Isabell/Isabella. This is an on-going unsolved gap in our information. Unless solid evidence has come to light (evidence many of us would love to examine), please be advised that this controversy exists for both the Loftin/Lofton researchers and the Pennington researchers. We all have to remain vigilant about publishing conjecture as fact." This is a very commendable attitude, but unfortunately the pages that follow do not observe it. It is a pity, because this is a surname organization where the information is lively, nicely presented, and well indexed. The lively part contains a ca. 1924 newspaper article on "Harmless Joe Teague," which is absolutely priceless writing: http://www.teagueonline.freeserve.co.uk/default1.html The Teagues have a great deal to do with both the Loftins and the Penningtons. Other surnames: (Van) Swearingen, Brown, Barnes, Sheppard, Boring / Boren, Ray, Brock, Watts, McDaniel, Coffey, Davis, etc. and m-m-m. (I even found a previously unknown Teague / Brock connection that ties into my mother's side of my family with the Smiths and Watts in Van Buren (Cass) County, Missouri.) The Teagues were in proximity to both Pennington and Loftin families along the Susquehanna River where Abraham Pennington first took up his property Greenberry / Greenbury ca. 1695. And they were there again in the Frederick County, VA locations and on into the Carolinas as well. An old Teague newsletter published in the 1970's is given as the reference for the information on Edward Teague's family. Folks! That is not a reference! Ancestral File is not a reference! WFT #0000 is not a reference! A reference is a citation for an original document. HOWEVER, in the newsletter, there IS a reference to documents in the Maryland Archives containing an 1675 immigration record for Edward Teague, who was imported by Thomas Jones of Somerset County, MD. They go on to say that nothing further has been found, they estimate Edward Teague's birthdate at 1660. The record is: "June 8, 1675 "'Eodem Die (this day) Thomas Jones proved his right to two hundred and fifty acres of land for transporting himself, Edward Teage, John Edmonds,Sr., Rebecca Edmonds, John Edmonds, Jr. into this Province to inhabit." I looked at the online Maryland Archives and found in Volume 87, the Somerset County Court (Judicial Record) October 25, 1671 - October 20, 1675, that later that year in October 1675, Thomas Jones went before the Somerset county Court, taking his servant, Edward Teague: "Thomas Jones brings his servant Edward Teage before the Cort: & Prayes the worpll: Cort: to Judge of his age he y sd: Edward Teage Comeing into this Province without Indentures; After A full veiwe had by the Justices setting in Cort: of the said servant Edward Teage This Cort: Doe adjudge him the sd: Edward Teage ffoureteene years of age" On the same page is a reference to Ambrose DIxon, who has been identified as a Quaker who came up from Virginia, who was the step-father of a Henry Pennington. (NOT Henry of St. Mary's and Cecil Counties.) I wonder if anyone has ever investigated the possibility of this Henry Penington's sisters, or daughters being the Pennington connection to the Teagues, et all. Henry Pennington of Somerset county married Margaret who is also referred to in the Maryland Archives as having a bastard child before she married Henry. The archives contain more information about Ambrose Dixon and Henry. Our history is even better than Days of our Lives, isn't it? Love, your Cousin, Carolyn