John: Wow, what a history lesson you have provided me. Yokoke for this massive amount of information. I will try to get "The Buccaneer" starring Yul Brynner and Charlton Heston at the video store to get an understanding of the time. You are probably correct about the term "Captain" because my great great grandmother commented in her testimony before the Commission on the Five Civilized Tribes that her mother and the white man told her that her father was "Captain John." She was 74 at that time (1901), Now I'll try to find something on Captain John to further my research. I'm sure it will be difficult, but I like challenges. Again, yokoke! Lori