I've added that 1752 map of SC to the SC Maps pages in the Coats Archive and it appears from this map in the SCGW that the counties in which that Fredericksburgh would be is Fairfield or Richland...so we might be looking for William Coate, the early one in the wrong county...most have thought Camden.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sc/sca_maps.html ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com