Hello Roy and all!! Just going to chime in here with my Malinda/Verlinda Carrico b. May 12, 1777 Md. (various counties have been mentioned). Judy Jennings did find a death record at Richmond, Va. which stated Malinda's parents to be Peter and Catherine Carrico. You, also, ref. it in your letter i.e.: "Virlinda Wotring, white, female,---dgtr of Peter and Catherine Carrico----" (some believe death records and some not---I am prone to do so because, in 30-some years of searching, I have not come up with a Francis <g> --ref. info in Morton book ) I think John Sissom (this list) can also relate another "question" of Morton's book; same family/generation. Carol Mitchell, I recall, had some information on Monica several month's ago.(personal letter -not on this List). Hope she will share it with us all. Back to Peter Carrico b. 1722 Md.----there lies my problem. Your census of 1810 has "P. Carrico with l male 16-26 and l female (assume you meant female) 10-16 and 2 females under 10 ". If this is Peter b. 1722, it is unlikely (not impossible) that this Peter would be about 78 years old and fathering children-----this might mean that there was another Peter between the Md. Peter and my Melinda. Does this make sense??? I have the book Aurora Documents by (he preferred "translated") Carl Gower/Gauer? Ana Elisa Carrico's baptism is in the book. (Lutheran Church Records of Aurora, Preston Co., WVa.) I decend from Malinda/Virlinda Carrico and her husband Daniel Wotring whose family came from Whitehall, Pa. to Hagerstown, Md., for a few years, and finally settled in what is now Aurora, Preston Co., WVa. abt. 1790. They were Reformed, then Lutheran's. Wotring's were originally French in the 1500's-- then went to Switz. then to Germany and finally to U.S. early 1700's Have fun all!!! Carolyn