Dear HERMAN! and Cousins on the List: Those traders were fabulous. I had read the Lancaster stuff re Cresap, and incorporated it in the Cresap part of my Cecil county essay I had originally written. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Homecoming/cecil.html Continuing along the Potomac, (aren't we?) this time on the Maryland side, I am doing some similar things with Christopher Gist and the Ohio Company. I have documents from the book "George Mercer Papers Relating to the Ohio Company," which gives the original source for Christopher Gist's date of death. p. 611 Annotation #513 "Christopher Gist died of smallpox 'on the road from Williamsburg' to Winchester, on July 25, 1759 -- Captain James Gunn to John Tulleken, July 31, 1759, British Museum Additional Manuscripts, 21644, f. 266; printed in the Bouquet "Papers," 21644, pt I, pp 216-17. A terribly irony to die of smallpox, which as I remember he got from the Indians he was assisting. Also I looked at some webpages some time ago on Early Settlers of Washington County, (MD) and tried to refind them a couple of days ago: many of you will find them interesting. Charles Friend, two Bealls, Robert Wells ---- and Larkin Pierpont for you two Maineacs! This page contains a HUGE plat map, and 10 indices of early deeds. http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/washington/plats/platmap.html One of George Beall's properties, "Beall's Chance" was purchased by William Boone, the founder of Boonesboro, MD, along with his brother George Boone. William Boone was the son of William Boone and Sarah Lincoln, and was married to Susanna Parks, another surname I search in conjunction with Smith. (The Smiths were connected to the Ohio Company, and the Patton/Preston family of Augusta County, VA.) Arthur Hopkins has put up a page about his kith and kin, and includes these pages on William Boone. http://www.coinet.com/~arthopkins/wboone.htm You might want to take a look at the American Crossroads page on the Boones, created (with permission) from the information Bill Scroggins submitted to the USgenweb on this family. It also takes a long time to download (mea culpa!). I need to rework it to make it load faster. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/%7eamxroads/Boone/index.html Happy Trails! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads --- Visit Backcountry Crossroads --- http://www.backcountrycrossroads.com