VIC, I could not get a reply thru to you, so I am sending it thru the list for you to read! VIC, We may unravel this puzzle yet! If the information below is = true, which is what I am trying to verify, then the Robert Carter you = speak of might be the one below or the son of the one below, who is = brother to the Bailey in question. Mary Margaret (Taliaferro) married Richard Franklin Simpson, was the = third daughter of Zachariah Taliaferro, who was a soldier in the = Revolutionary War. After the war he studied law and removed from = Carolina County, Va., to Columbia, S.C. After some years he returned to = Virginia and married Margaret Chew Carter, a daughter of JOHN CARTER and = his wife Hannah (Chew) Carter, who had the following children: Children of John Carter & Hannah Chew(according to this book but his = will names more children) =20 1.. Mary Carter, who married Maj. Stephens=20 2.. Lucy Carter, who married Benton Taliaferro=20 3.. Judith Carter, married Joseph SUTTON (note this Sutton) 4.. Robert Carter, who never married (Possibly author didn't know if = he married) 5.. **BAILEY CARTER, who never married (Our Bailey Carter did marry) 6.. Margaret Chew Carter, who married Zachariah Taliaferro Daughter Mary Margaret Talliaferro married Richard = Franklin Simpson b.1798 I really can't answer your question, but the Simpson book is possibly = completely available to see at the following URL: http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4492/simpson.htm Good Luck, Kathy Wells. Kathy & David Wells 425 Evergreen Dr., Hurst, Texas 76054 rebeltrumpet@sbcglobal.net Successful Participant in the Carter DNA Project http://www.carter-cousins.org. My Homepage http://www.geocities.com/kathywells2002/index.html Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Tent #1, Texas (President & Past Registrar) http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/7706/DUV.html Member of Mayflower Society http://geocities.com/texasmayflower/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------ "History is the essence of innumerable biographies" - Carlyle