Joe, In addition to the various county historical and genealogical society libraries, you should probably plan to spend some time at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis; and since your ancestors arrived here so early, you might find information at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore. Below are the URLs for these organizations' Web sites, The catalogs of both are searchable, but only some indexes are online. (Some of the Archives' files are huge, so they take a long time to load with a dial-up modem.) Maryland State Archives Home Page http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/homepage/html/homepage.html I ran a quick search for "Deaver OR Deavour" (without the quotes) at the Archives site and turned up 44 hits, some of them Interesting. Look here for some Deaver marriages at the Archives: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1500/s1527/html/ssi1527d.html This page is a list of photoduplication orders at the Archives from 1986 to 1994, with all of the necessary call information shown. Use your browser's "Find" function to search for "deav". You will see lots of Deaver(s)/Deavour(s). http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/quickref/html/photodup.html Look here for a Deaver bible record at the Archives: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/000500/html/sc503.html Maryland Historical Society Home Page http://www.mdhs.org/ Betty