MNBKahn@aol.com wrote: > Robert Breedlove first appears on a Lunenburg County, VA Tithe List with James Breedlove in 1751. If a male is tithable when he is 16, this would mean that Robert was born in about 1735. It would also mean that Robert was 29 in 1764 when James died. I have never understood why he was not mentioned in any way when his father's estate was settled. I do not want to get into this mess. Though I have a lot of data on this line of James I have not studied it in depth to pass on any judgements. It strikes me that since Robert had to be 21 to be tithed, he would have to have been born before 1730. This places him back in the family of Charles and Mary Parr, actually a younger brother of James rather than a son. This whole discussion seems to be pushing back the dates of James's birth and therefore the whole family makeup of Charles and Mary Parr Breedlove's family and the accepted births for Charles and Mary of 1688 to 1690. If Robert is a son of James, then James must have been born about 1705-1710, barely in the scheme of things only if Mary had children in her teens. >Why was James' estate settled in Essex County when he lived in Lunenburg County? Is it really the same James? I think there are really four different James Breedlove's in this time period, 2 in Lunenburg, 1 in Essex and 1 in King William. To throw another wrinkle into the fray, Kindness Shorter was married 1st to John Shorter who died in 1758. Their son James Shorter married a Lucy Woodson or Childry. Their son Berry born c1779 married Sina Stembridge in Charlotte Co., VA on 2 Aug 1802. Sina was the dau of John & Mary Stembridge and this John was the brother of William Stembridge who married Kindness Breedlove. Tom