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/EGI.2ACEB/336.3 Message Board Post: Is the John Cave you refer to as married to Elizabeth Travers the one in the following land transaction in Stafford Co VA? If not the same, what relation if any? There is a chance worth pursuing, that I am descended from the one of this record. He is more likely to be a brother, not father, of Mary Echols. Stafford Co. Deed Book Z, p384 Darrell release to Cave recorded 8 Oct 1707. John Cave of King and Queen Co., a carpenter of King and Queen County, buys from Sampson Darrell, of Glocester Co., 300 acres of land in Stafford Co. lying and being on the south side of Potomack Creek and bounded as follows: Northerly in Potomack Creek, Easterly with the lands of John Gorvey, Thomas Gregg, Wm. Waught, Southerly and westerly with the lands of Giles Travers; the said 300 acres of land being the one half of 600 acres sold by Capt. Wm Heaberd to Capt. John Norgrove by deed dated the 6th day of March 1667. I am of the opinion (tentative) that this John Cave (d. 1720) was first married to a daughter of George Andrews and then second to much younger Elizabeth Travers. There was another John Cave (say John Jr.) in the area who inherited lots in Marlboroughtown from his grandfather George Andrews and later sold them to John Mercer. This grandfather relationship and sale to John Mercer are recorded. There is another land transaction recorded where 200 acres of land owned by John Jr said to be inherited from his father John Cave reverted to David Cave of Orange. I think this John Jr. and David of Orange were oldest and second oldest sons of John Cave (d.1720) and first wife (--?--) Andrews. Have you any information or opinion on this?