This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UFH.2ACEB/444.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: According to the bastardly bond in NC Margaret Byers was the daughter of John Byers. I have never seen anything suggesting otherwise and am wondering who you obtained that information from? Bastardly bonds were the counties attempt to prevent having to support illegimate children. I do not know how many of these children were indentured once there was a hearing and payment was made to the unwed mother. What I am saying is that someone needs to go through the Lincoln County records beyond that bond and see if the child was indentured. I have seen two birth dates for Moses, one in March of 1790 and the second in November of 1790. His age in census records never matches the March date. He lists his birth place as NC. In the year he was born middle Tennessee was considered the state of NC. So, was he born in NC or Tennessee? Does he really know where he was born? Some really didn't know if their parents died when they were young. Has anyone thought he may be Indian? I have heard he looks like he is in photos which were at one time circulated in TN. Three (I said two earlier and I was wrong) of his children married people of native american descent. So, should I assume early Tennessee was over run with native american's that everyone married or should I assume we may be part native american and do not know it? If we are Native American, there will be no records prior to living in the state of Tennessee. Of his children Alexander Byers married first Leitha Grimes. Leitha has Cherokee in her backround. William Jasper Byers married Marlisa Bradford whose Cherokee name is listed in his family bible. I have not been able to get a copy of this from his descendent Danette Oliver. Last but not least, Amanda Byers Kinslow's entire line appears to be native american. It is rumored her older children's families had whisperings of being native american and their half siblings of James Kinslows second marriage are tribal members today. I am not suggesting anything at this point, I am just saying that none of this has been well enough researched to prove anything. Maybe Moses Byers is that illegimate child, I am not willing to rule that out, however I will not buy it until the research is complete. I am hoping by following his children's lines out that I will gain more information as I go. Hopefully the Florence H. Byers that Osborn Byers adopted was a relative that we can trace back to the Byers family we really belong to. But I won't hold my breath looking for an easy answer, because I do not think there is one.