-- [ From: Jackson H. Day * EMC.Ver #3.1a INTERNATIONAL ] -- Diane, several days ago you posted a note about an Elizabeth Beall, daughter of Alexander, who married Michael Ashford Dowden, who in turn was b. 3 Sept 1737. Here is an Elizabeth who would fit. B-ALEX-211-7 Elizabeth Beall, b. 1744 of Captain Alexander Beall [c. 1712] inherits �20 in her father's will of 1759. This was of course a Maryland family. Dowden would have been 21 in 1758 . Elizabeth would have been 15 in 1759 when her father's will was written. Maybe he married her for her �20 when she was 16 in 1760? Jack Day