Susan, I have a lot of information concerning Jesse Chandler and his descendants to include wills and other documents. I also can track some of his descendants - particularly his son Moses. I have been trying to get past my stone wall which is a Thompson Chandler b. Feb. 11, 1811 somewhere in the area of SW VA around Patrick/Henry/Franklin Co. along the NC border. Thompson was married in Giles Co in 1831 and I have almost complete information on him and his descendants. I have strong indicators that he was the son of a William Chandler married in Patrick Co. in 1809. This William was probably the son of a William from Surry Co. NC. Now to Jesse- The reason I have a great amount of material is that in my efforts to find Thompson's ancestors, I analylized the census reports for all Chandlers in SW VA who were in a distance of Giles Co. (I originally thought Thompson was born there) to possibly have been his parents. Since he was born in 1811 I concentrated on the 1810 census and found there were only three possibilities and two of them were only remote possibilities. The Main possibility was Jesse Chandler of Franklin Co. I was lucky to find an excellent genealogist in Franklin Co and I paid her to research Jesse and family. I have a lot of material she uncovered - BUT - it served to prove that Jesse was not Thompson's father - even though Jesse's son Moses was living in Giles Co. during a number of years that Thompson was there. They were the only Chandlers in that Co. at that time and both were of an age to have been brothers. The information I have on Jesse is at variance with the information published by the Chandler Family Association. There notes have him living in that area and then moving to SC. This move did not happen, he can be tracked in Franklin Co for many years. Unless there were two Jesse's in the area (and that is possible, but no record of two being there at the same time has been found), then the SC Jesse could not be the same one as the Henry/Franklin Co. Jesse. This is all the time that I have to respond this morning. I will be happy to provide the data I have (at least part of it, there may be over 100 pages and some is not relevant). I will abstract this info and send it in a later message and if you want hard copy, please send your address. DO ANY OF YOU CHANDLERS on [email protected] web.com WANT THIS INFORMATION? If so send me an e-mail request. If there are enough of you, I will put it on roots web, otherwise I hate to clutter up the web and will send it individually. One more item, I think Jesse was 90 to 100 years old when he died. Tom Dr. H. Thomas Chandler 1714 Besley Road Vienna, Virginia 22182 Phone 703-281-6137 FAX 703-281-3040 E-Mail [email protected] Web page address: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/h/a/Hubert-T-Chandler/