I'm just making some observations on the little map Marm did of the public square around the courthouse: He shows a Henry Coate, Esq. as owning land and a Henry Coates with land...the significance here could be that there are two Henry's owning land here....one spelled Coate and an Esq. and the other spelling is Coates...Marmaduke has spelled his own name Coate....as a surveyor and a member of the Coate family, he would know the significance of detail....and this could show that these two Henry's are from different families but they certainly knew each other... Char ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com