Hi, As a "cousin", would you please identify yourself and where you are from. You may have done that on an earlier post, but I missed that. Your "Media Research Bureau" seems to have taken a lot of old research on the family and sold someone a bill of goods. I have ranted on this list before - and will do so again at the risk of alienating some people - that there have been a number of people and organizations who have written genealogies for people that were hardly worth the paper they were printed on. The goal seems to have been to provide a feelgood genealogy for a "rich" person to show they were descended from famous or important people. I have seen no credible information to tell what John's wife Jane's birth surname was, but we do know from Augusta County records that she was young enough to have given birth to their last child John "one eye" Davidson in 1744. After John died in 1749, she - a widow with young children - married a William Morrison. She had at least one child with Morrison; he was believed to be named William also. As we can find little about William Morrison afterwards, I suspect that he also died before too long and she became the Widow Morrison. By this time, her oldest son George Davidson had become established in NC, and there is no evidence of another marriage and, unfortunately, there is no information on her death. But, we do know that the younger half-brother of our Davidson clan named Morrison was raised with the family but seems to have been somewhat of an outsider. Probably because he was not getting any of the Davidson estate. By the time of the Revolution, he became a sympathizer with the British and somewhat acted as spy for them among the patriots. It is believed that he exposed the family to loss of property and probably loss of life at the hands of the British. It is suspected that he gave the British information that helped lead to the death of Gen. Wm. Davidson at the Battle of Cowan's Ford in 1781. After the war, he fled the area and tracing him has been impossible. All family references to him have been negative. There is a story that he went to Tennessee and was living there comfortably but was eventually recognized by a Davidson family member and he ended up fleeing again. You can find much of this information in a generally excellent genealogy of the family done by the late Robert Stephens Hand in the early 1990s. It was still available as of a year ago from his widow. I do not have the address right at hand. (It has been mentioned on these lists many times so you might check the archives. Let me address your lineage: (1) the twins were Samuel and William born 10 oct 1736 in Ireland. Samuel is a problem in that there is some history published that confuses him with another Samuel Davidson. I am not aware of him having special Rev War fame nor being a Capt. I do know now - and Hand got this wrong - that he did NOT marry an Ann Dunlop. He did marry a Mary Smith and had a daughter Mary who married a Gabriel Ragsdale. (2) On the other hand, twin William was always known as Maj. William Davidson and did figure prominently in several battles, in particular Kings Mountain. He did have a son George who was a twin with Hugh Lawson Davidson. (3) I have no evidence that George, s/o William, who married Sallie McWhorter, had a son named William. (4) However, Hand briefly documents another unrelated Davidson family that was in NC at this time and was often confused with the Iredell family. In this family there was a Richmond Davidson, b. 1830, who was the son of George Davidson, b. 1798. George was s/o John Davidson (1778-1859). John was son of Col. George W. Davidson of Anson County, NC. (1740-1811) "the other Col. George Davidson". George was a son of a John Davidson and Ann Sons who married about 1738 in Cecil Co., MD. I believe that someone on this list has an extensive genealogy of this family. And it may be on the Davidson research pages: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genea/davidson.html It is quite likely that your aunt's research on the later history of your family is valuable in that it uses family data. It would be helpful if you could share that as it may help others on this list. We are all glad to help you sort out this very confusing family where it seems that every generation of every Davidson family there is a John, a William, a George and a Samuel. best regards, john. At 01:14 AM 2001-08-05 -0400, you wrote: >I've got to quit doing this at night after a long day! Wrong family...not >Davidsons... moved to NY and I am VERY sorry. Back in the 60s my aunt Helen >Davidson Taylor did a lot of research. She sent me a copy of work done by >Sarah Ragsdale Casey, with info from a Kay Dixon of N.C. whose father W.B. >Williamson compiled a history of the N.C. Davidsons. by the Media Research >Bureau of Washington DC. Mrs. Casey was from Texas, I believe, and was a >descendant of Capt. Samuel Davidson of Rev. War fame." I never did anything >with it til recently. This work was finished in 1958. John was m. to Mrs. >Mary Morrison and the twins were born in Lancaster Co. PA. and moved in 1748 >to Old Fort Rowan Co. (later Iredell Co.) N.C. I supposedly come from the >twin Wm., his son John, his son George, his son Wm. , his son Richmon(d) >James, my ggf. I am also a Davidson on my grandfather's side. Sometimes this >gets a bit too much!!! I really appreciate your info. > > >==== DAVIDSON Mailing List ==== >DAVIDSON - DAVISON - DAVISSON Web Page >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genea/davidson.html