>I have since located only one BRAY household living in Essex County, >VA, in 1790. That was Charles BRAY, and in 1850, there is a Charles and >Susan BRAY living in Essex County, VA . They had a son John who is listed >as 28 yrs old. > >Does anyone have any additional information on this Charles, Susan, or >John BRAY? David - Here is some information I have on a BRAY family of Virginia: James BRAY married Mary STAPLES. They had: Ann m. George W. SMITH (Henrico County, VA) 10 children (Mary V., Henrietta A., Wirt W., Sallie, Amelia, George, Harvey, Harry, Robert, Rufus) Mary m. __ HARWOOD Robert (fought under Davy Crockett) George (drowned) James m. ? Charles (lived in Harrisonburg, VA) James BRAY and Mary STAPLES had an estate in New Bern, NC and are buried in Williamsburg Cemetery, Williamsburg, VA. [I also received this information from a very kind person - it has a wealth of info on the BRAYs of VA.] Nan The JSTOR site is a 'huge' site that was set up by a company for one of the large universities back east. They have scanned in the complete first series of the William and Mary Quarterly and have a name search machine that makes it just wonderful to try to find families and lines. I 'believe' the address would be www.jstor.search This should get you to the 'free demonstration' spot. Just click on the DEMO button and then go ahead and do a search on the William and Mary Quarterly. Let me know if you find your line and if it gets you back to join into the early branch that was there in Virginia. Good luck and I hope that we find we are cousins even though it might be waaaayyyy back. If you have any troubles at all, don't hesitate to holler back at me. This is kind of a tricky site, but there is so much good data there to be found that anybody searching out VA roots needs to have a chance to have some fun with it ;) Terri David - Good luck with your search! Nan Krushinski [email protected]