Robert, Payne, John, and all interested, Go to the Library of Congress website, then to American Memory to search collections. I put "Washington Manuscripts" in the search window. There are just a few, and some have images, mainly letters. After these, there will be a list of all the manuscripts that are online in the Library. There are some 500 documents online, but just a few of George Washington's. I went back to my notes and looked again at the Genealogy.com source. This is a subscription site, as you probably know, but it has an excellent collection of early sources. On the Genealogy site, there is Colonial America 1607-1789, tax lists and state censuses. Also a collection called Colonial Virginia Source Records 1600s-1800s. Another is a list of Virginia tax payers 1782-1787 that gives county, number of polls and slaves. Another set is Virginia Colonial Soldiers. This is where I found the references to John Daniel in the Washington mss. No actual quotes here, but two numbers that don't help much..just 112, 86, probably volume and page numbers. The reference to Samuel Daniel is this: "Sam. Daniel, soldier in 1758 till properly discharged, in a regiment raised for the defense of this state. Caroline Co., VA. Cert. date April 1780." An index also gives this F. I.B.W. (French and Indian Bounty Warrant). This is from Virginia Colonial Militia records. In the section on bounty land applications, there are names of all applicants from each county in Virginia and some information on each. The Caroline County portion says that Samuel Daniel and Michael Brown Roberts were soldiers until discharged in 1758. Application date was 14 April 1780. These paid sites are expensive, but there is a lot of information. Ancestry also has good but expensive sources. I just grit my teeth and pay. Martha