Herman, what I was saying, is that it is impossible to pin the culture down. That they were comprised from many backgrounds and areas of the Old World -- and that when they started migrating, they went to Virginia from a complex area, that they had been moving back and forth and around within a large perimeter whose boundaries were not confined with states and counties as we see them now. The boundaries were disputed and it was hard to tell where they were even when they stayed put, which they didn't! As Quakers, (called non-conformists and recuscants) in England, as Church of England, as Catholics, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and "heathens" they didn't fit into a mold either. I was not trying to make O'Dell seem error-ridden, for I believe that he (as I said) did an excellent job. I miscopied Largent myself from the MD archives, and I don't think that is a mistake, but a mis-interpretation of a letter that is written in a way that it can go either way. With Largent, it simply means that the name has been misinterpreted according to whomever has done the most research on it, and knows it. If it was further north in New England, for example, I would have been hard pressed to write it Largent, but now that we know better, we want to correct it. You may have hit on the key to the whole Pennington thing in that Graham-Stephenson marriage. But I'm too tired to dwell on it now. It's 3:30 in the AM and something woke me up. Love, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads